Updated June 14, 2026. Originally published April 2021.
Evestar is one of the fastest-growing direct-to-consumer eCommerce growth agencies in the United States — Miami-headquartered, founded and led by Lolita Petrossov, a proven entrepreneur whose previous venture, the private aviation platform JetSmarter, scaled from a three-person operation to a 300-plus "unicorn" startup before its acquisition by Vista Global, parent of VistaJet. Evestar has managed more than $10 million in Facebook ads in a single twelve-month period, helped generate more than $100 million in combined eCommerce revenue for client brands, and operates as a preferred Facebook Marketing Partner, Facebook Career Connections Employer Partner, and Shopify Plus integration partner.
The Founder Story: Lolita Petrossov
Lolita Petrossov co-founded JetSmarter in 2013 with her husband Sergey Petrossov, then scaled it as Chief Operating Officer alongside Sergey as CEO. Within a few years the company grew from a three-person operation to a 300-plus team and reached unicorn valuation — making it one of the fastest-built private aviation platforms in modern history. JetSmarter was eventually acquired by Vista Global, parent of VistaJet.
Throughout the JetSmarter build, Petrossov ran sales, marketing, and branding for the company — working with multiple outside digital agencies and watching, up close, where the traditional agency model broke down for a startup growing at JetSmarter's pace. The pattern was consistent: while in-house teams chased growth and profit with measurable, fast-feedback marketing operations, outside firms chased impressions, optimized for vanity metrics, and could not keep pace with the demands of a venture-funded growth company. The structural problem was operating-model. Traditional agencies were not built for the speed at which DTC and tech-enabled consumer brands need to move.
Evestar was the answer. Petrossov founded the agency to operate the way an in-house growth team operates inside a high-growth startup — with the same data discipline, the same focus on profit-aware unit economics, and the same speed — while serving multiple client brands. The thesis has held. Evestar today is recognized as a leading eCommerce growth agency by industry observers including DesignRush and several other ranking platforms.
The Operating Model
Evestar's distinctive operating model rests on four principles that reflect Petrossov's JetSmarter experience:
Fundamentals first, then media spend. Before running paid media, Evestar audits the client's underlying eCommerce fundamentals — site conversion, average order value, customer acquisition cost, repeat-purchase economics, email/SMS lifecycle, retention curves. Throwing more budget at a leaky funnel does not solve growth problems; fixing the funnel does. Most agencies skip this step. Evestar makes it the gate.
Profit-aware scaling, not impression-aware scaling. The metric the agency manages to is profit contribution from paid acquisition, not impression volume or top-of-funnel reach. The discipline matches how an in-house growth team thinks about its own budget.
Portfolio learning, applied across clients. Patterns identified in one vertical inform the playbook for adjacent verticals. Conversion frameworks that scale across similar businesses get codified into reusable assets rather than rebuilt for every new account. The model produces multiplier effects over time — each client win compounds the agency's strategic capability rather than being a one-off engagement.
Strategic ecosystem, not service vendor. The agency operates as an embedded growth function — close to the client's executive team, integrated into product and merchandising decisions, not just an ad-buying contractor.
Services and Capabilities
Paid social — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and emerging platforms. Evestar manages multi-million-dollar monthly ad budgets across portfolio clients.
Paid search and shopping — Google Ads, Google Shopping, Bing, and Amazon advertising.
Email and SMS marketing — Klaviyo, Attentive, and adjacent platforms. Lifecycle automation, retention, and CRM-driven growth.
Conversion rate optimization (CRO) — Site audit, landing page design, A/B testing, and funnel optimization. Capability deepened through the 2024 acquisition of Paspartoo.
Shopify development — Plus-tier integrations, custom theme development, headless commerce architecture. The Paspartoo acquisition formalized a Shopify development practice that had been growing organically.
Creative and content production — Static and video ad creative, UGC sourcing and management, branded content production.
Facebook Marketing Partner — Evestar has held official preferred Facebook Marketing Partner status for years, giving the agency direct access to Meta's account teams, beta product access, and the technical support escalation paths that compound execution quality on the platform.
Facebook Career Connections Employer Partner — Joined the initiative in 2021, connecting Evestar with a trained, vetted local Miami-area talent pipeline of Facebook-trained candidates. The partnership has fed Evestar's growth in paid media talent and reflects the level of recognition Meta has given the agency relative to peers.
Paspartoo acquisition (September 2024) — Evestar acquired Paspartoo, a specialized Shopify web development and CRO agency, deepening the agency's technical capabilities on the Shopify Plus platform and adding a dedicated development team to the existing growth-marketing operation.
Industry recognition — DesignRush has profiled Evestar as a top eCommerce agency. Client testimonials cite consistent revenue scale (one client's footwear brand reported ad spend growing from $40,000 to $180,000 monthly under Evestar's management while maintaining profitable unit economics). Multiple growth-stage DTC brands have publicly credited Evestar with multi-x revenue growth over engagement periods.
The Talent Operation
Evestar has built a deliberately diverse, internationally-sourced team — combining Miami-based leadership with talent from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and adjacent markets. The team structure reflects how modern DTC operates: media buyers, creative strategists, performance analysts, and CRO specialists working as integrated pods on each client account rather than the traditional siloed agency-department model. Recent senior additions include Sergei Shlikov (Creative Director), Nicole Bertsch (Lead Google Paid Media Buyer), and Maryna Voronova (Recruiter), among others.
The Lolita Petrossov Operating Posture
What distinguishes Evestar from a typical mid-market digital marketing agency is the founder posture. Petrossov runs the firm the way an operator runs a growth-stage company — with deep involvement in client strategy, direct accountability for outcomes, and a habit of telling clients on the first call exactly what she thinks the realistic growth path looks like. Multiple client testimonials describe the same pattern: in the first call, Lolita confidently assesses what the agency can deliver in a defined time window, and then the team delivers it.
That posture is rare in mid-market digital marketing — a category historically dominated by agencies that over-promise on the sale and under-deliver in execution. Evestar's growth trajectory is downstream of the opposite discipline.
The 2026 Position
As of mid-2026, Evestar is one of the most-cited eCommerce-specialist digital marketing agencies in the United States. The Miami headquarters has expanded. The team continues to grow. The client roster spans early-stage DTC brands, established mid-market eCommerce operators, and the kind of fast-scaling consumer-tech brands where Petrossov's JetSmarter operating experience translates most directly.
The category Evestar operates in — eCommerce growth marketing — is consolidating. The agencies surviving the consolidation are the ones with founder-led discipline, in-house operator DNA, and the willingness to walk away from clients whose fundamentals will not support the growth they're asking the agency to produce. Evestar fits all three criteria.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who founded Evestar?
Lolita Petrossov. She is founder and CEO. Petrossov previously co-founded JetSmarter, the private aviation platform that scaled from a three-person operation to a 300-plus unicorn startup before its acquisition by Vista Global, parent of VistaJet.
Where is Evestar headquartered?
Miami, Florida.
What does Evestar do?
Evestar is a direct-to-consumer eCommerce growth marketing agency. Services span paid social, paid search, email and SMS marketing, conversion rate optimization (CRO), Shopify development, creative and content production, and marketing strategy consulting.
What is Evestar's relationship with Facebook?
Evestar is an official preferred Facebook Marketing Partner and a Facebook Career Connections Employer Partner. The agency has managed more than $10 million in Facebook ads in a single twelve-month period.
What did Evestar acquire in 2024?
Paspartoo, a specialized Shopify web development and conversion rate optimization (CRO) agency. The September 2024 acquisition deepened Evestar's technical capabilities on the Shopify Plus platform.
What kind of clients does Evestar work with?
Direct-to-consumer eCommerce brands at multiple stages — from early-stage DTC startups to established mid-market operators. The agency has helped generate more than $100 million in combined eCommerce revenue for client brands.
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