About us

We build marketing software for Salesforce. From practitioners, for practitioners.

LightBlaze GmbH is a Salesforce ISV partner from Germany. Our first product, Campaign Audience Builder, helps teams build, activate and measure audiences on any Salesforce data. Natively, from the AppExchange.

Founded
2020
Headquarters
Germany
Experience
20+ years of Salesforce
Leadership
Founder-led & bootstrapped

Our story

The data was always there. Getting to it wasn't.

We come from the field. For years we ran Salesforce and marketing automation projects in manufacturing, software, services and for nonprofits. In almost every one of them we hit the same wall: the data for a great campaign was already in Salesforce, but turning it into the right audience took exports, spreadsheets, tickets and the same workarounds, project after project. Or it simply wasn't possible, and the campaign never happened.

We saw what that costs. Marketers waited days for a list they could have described in one sentence. Admins built helper fields and reports nobody dared to touch. And every exported list started to go stale the moment it left Salesforce. So the wrong people got the message, and the right ones didn't.

So we decided to stop patching the problem and solve it once: natively in Salesforce, instead of in yet another tool next to it. That is how LightBlaze and Campaign Audience Builder began.

One of us comes from the business side, one from the architecture side. That mix still shapes every decision: a feature has to make sense to the marketer who uses it and hold up in the org it runs in.

  1. 2020LightBlaze GmbH is founded

    A product company, not a consultancy, built around one problem: audiences in Salesforce.

  2. 2021Launch on the AppExchange

    Campaign Audience Builder goes live with its first pilot customers.

  3. 2022–2025Growing release by release

    Integrations with Account Engagement and Marketing Cloud, nonprofit support and more automation. Meanwhile, customers join from countries and continents around the world.

  4. 2026Version 2: the audience lifecycle platform

    Our biggest release: AI agents, audience outcomes and insights. From segmentation tool to audience lifecycle platform.

  5. NextEngagement in Salesforce

    A new product for engagement and marketing automation, built natively in Salesforce.

Team

The founders. Two Salesforce practitioners who got tired of workarounds.

Alexander Schares

Alexander Schares

Co-founder & CEO

Before co-founding LightBlaze, Alex spent five years as a project manager and business analyst, in projects across industries and in international rollouts. He brings the business side to LightBlaze: what marketing teams need and how projects really run.

  • 12+ years Salesforce
  • Marketing automation
  • Manufacturing to nonprofit
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Tim Mathis

Tim Mathis

Co-founder & CTO

Tim is a Salesforce architect and leads everything technical at LightBlaze: data models, automation and performance at scale. He makes sure our apps run reliably in every org, from small teams to millions of records.

  • 9+ years Salesforce
  • Salesforce architect
  • Performance at scale
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What we stand for

Our values. Six principles behind how we work: with each other, with our customers and on what we build.

01

Integrity

We say what works and what doesn't, even when it costs us a deal.

02

Craftsmanship

We build carefully and for the long run. Quality and security come before speed.

03

Simplicity

We make complex things simple: in our product, our pricing and how we work.

04

Empowerment

We help teams do it themselves instead of waiting for someone else.

05

Customer partnership

Customers are partners, not tickets. Their feedback shapes what we build next.

06

Curiosity

We question "that's how it's always done", in our own work and in the Salesforce world.

Our vision

Marketing that runs end to end in Salesforce. Managed by the people who run it.

  1. 01Lead generation
  2. 02Segmentation
  3. 03Engagement
  4. 04Analysis
  5. 05Optimization

From the first lead to the last result, every step runs on the CRM data you already have and is managed by business users instead of specialists and IT.

Trust

Built on Salesforce. Used by teams around the world.

Company

Facts at a glance. Everything procurement, legal or your admin needs to know.

Company
LightBlaze GmbH
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Johannes-Kepler-Str. 7, 54634 Bitburg, Germany
Managing directors
Alexander Schares, Tim Mathis
Product
Campaign Audience Builder