Top Marketing Startups 2023

December 2023

Browse 97 of the top Marketing startups funded by Y Combinator.

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  • Apollo.io
    Apollo.io (W16)Active • 40 employees • San Francisco
    Founded in 2015, Apollo.io is a lead intelligence and sales engagement platform trusted by nearly 9,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to some of the largest global enterprises. Our community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy. Our advanced algorithms and unique data acquisition methods help over 500,000 sales professionals enrich and analyze prospects' data to increase quality conversations and opportunities. We have notable investors: Y Combinator and Nexus Venture Partners. We recently completed a Series B financing to fuel our next growth phase. We have reached and maintained profitability for the last 18 months. Our growth and customer feedback set us apart from competitors. Apollo had over one million sign-ups for its platform in the past year, and the number of weekly active users increased by over 400%. We are a top-ranking G2 Crowd vendor in the Sales Intelligence, Lead Intelligence, Marketing Account Intelligence, and Sales Engagement categories. Our highest scores are in the B2B data space for accuracy and ROI based on customer reviews.
    sales
    marketing
  • Substack
    Substack (W18)Active • 90 employees • San Francisco
    Start a newsletter. Build your community. Make money from subscriptions. Publishing is free, with no limits. We only make money when you do.
    marketplace
  • Postscript
    Postscript (W19)Active • 180 employees • Phoenix, AZ
    We are building the #1 revenue channel for ecommerce. Top customers include Ruggable, Dr. Squatch, Thrive Cosmetics, and 10,000 more. Postscript generates more than $2B/yr in e-commerce revenue for our merchants, growing ~2x per year. Our goal is to generate $1T+ per year in e-commerce revenue. Interesting challenges: - Massive Scale - Real-time conversations across 100M phones
    saas
    e-commerce
  • Mutiny
    Mutiny (S18)Active • 81 employees • San Francisco
    Today companies spend over $1T to bring customers to the door, but $19 of every $20 they spend does not convert to revenue. Companies have no choice other than to dedicate large engineering and data science teams to manually build more relevant, higher converting experiences for different customer segments. Mutiny is a no-code AI platform that helps marketers convert their top of funnel demand into revenue, without engineers. Mutiny gives marketers everything they need to drive revenue and prove it — from data and analytics to AI-powered recommendations and content writing. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Y Combinator and CMOs from some of today’s fastest-growing tech companies including AngelList, Carta, Gong, Salesforce and Snowflake.
    saas
    b2b
  • Lob
    Lob (S13)Active • 150 employees • San Francisco
    Lob provides the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. We provide insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and utilize our proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Lob is venture backed by Y Combinator, Polaris Partners, Floodgate, and First Round Capital. Find out more about Lob and what we’re up to by following our blog: https://lob.com/blog or visiting our website: https://lob.com.
    automation
  • Permutive
    Permutive (S14)Active • 205 employees • London, United Kingdom
    As third-party identifiers like the cookie disappear, ad-tech breaks—targeting, frequency capping and measurement disappear. We're rebuilding data infrastructure in advertising to work with cohorts—privacy safe descriptions of users—which enable advertising use cases without the need for sharing personal identifiers. We do this by moving data processing and management out of the cloud, and on to the user's device.
    privacy
    advertising
  • Weebly
    Weebly (W07)Acquired • 201 employees • San Francisco
    Company Information Weebly is a consumer service that gives people a surprisingly easy and affordable way to create a site that is as unique as they are. Weebly lets entrepreneurs start something and showcase their work. With a Weebly site, people can communicate with their clients, promote their works to potential buyers, share their story with like-minded people, and be an authority on personal and professional interests. Weebly offers a range of pricing options, including a free plan and premium plans starting at $4/month. Weebly sites are optimized to work brilliantly across computers, phones and tablets. Global Growth Over 20million people around the world have started a site on Weebly Weebly sites receive over 100,000,000 unique visitors each month Weebly is offered in 11 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, JPese, Russian and Turkish Weebly is privately funded by Sequoia Capital, Baseline Ventures, Ron Conway, and Y Combinator.
  • Netomi
    Netomi (W16)Active • 104 employees • San Mateo, CA
    Netomi is a provider of AI-first customer experience designed for the Relationship Economy. Netomi's AI-powered virtual agents automatically resolve 80% of routine customer service inquiries, decreasing resolution time, increasing customer satisfaction and support quality, while reducing costs. The patented, no-code platform works acrossmessaging, chat, email and voice, and understands 100+ languages. Netomi is based in San Mateo and has offices in New York, Toronto and India.
    artificial-intelligence
    deep-learning
    customer-service
  • treble.ai
    treble.ai (S19)Active • 38 employees • São Paulo, Brazil
    We help companies build and scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp, reaching their customers anywhere in the world with engaging conversations. With our platform, businesses can create and send conversations massively to users and get analytics to improve their campaign performance over time, increasing conversion in every stage of the funnel.
    messaging
    marketing
    automation
  • AgendaPro
    AgendaPro (W21)Active • 50 employees • Santiago, Chile
    AgendaPro is building Shopify for Beauty and Wellness businesses in Latam. We allow business owners to charge their customers online and easily schedule appointments.
    saas
    e-commerce
  • RankScience
    RankScience (W17)Active • 16 employees • New York
    RankScience improves website SEO through automatic A/B testing and data science. We help grow search traffic for venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 companies. We have two product offerings: (1) Managed SEO services for startups (e-mail ryan@rankscience.com for a free SEO strategy session) and (2) AI copywriting software for SEO, called Contentedge: https://www.contentedge.com.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
    nlp
  • Hive
    Hive (S14)Active • 18 employees • Kitchener, Canada
    Hive is an email & SMS marketing CRM used by brands to personalize and automate their campaigns. We pride ourselves on helping brands understand their email marketing, all while selling more and keeping their customers engaged. We integrate with tech partners like Shopify and Eventbrite to let brands act on all their data, so they can easily segment their list in thousands of ways, and send more customized, timely email campaigns that land in inboxes.
    saas
    sms
    email
  • DemandSphere
    DemandSphere (S10)Active • 40 employees • Columbus, OH
    DemandSphere, formerly GinzaMetrics, is an enterprise SEO and marketing intelligence platform for brands, organizations, and agencies.
    marketing
    seo
  • Taiv
    Taiv (W20)Active • 19 employees • Winnipeg, Canada
    Taiv's proprietary TV box sits between the cable box and TV in sports bars and restaurants. We analyze the feed and use real-time AI to detect what the bar is showing and provide interactive content to enhance the experience. We're able to control their TVs and automatically switch between live sports, licensed content, and games. We offer this for free to venues and make money by selling ads, which we rev-share back with the venue. We also give them the ability to promote their own drink specials and events on their TVs.
    marketplace
    computer-vision
    b2b
  • Swayable
    Swayable (W18)Active • 30 employees • New York
    Swayable partners with the world's leading brands and advocacy groups to change minds, behaviors and attitudes. We are hiring in data science, full stack engineering, data visualization, design, and operations. We welcome unsolicited CVs from anyone, and especially encourage women and people from under-represented groups to talk to us.
    machine-learning
  • Sentiyen
    Sentiyen (S21)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco
    At Sentiyen, we build GPT-based AI assistants that are trained on your content and enable your audience to get the answers they need 24 hours a day. We allow creators and businesses scale themselves to unlimited 1:1 conversations with potential customers, which helps increase revenue, reduce spend, and improve customer satisfaction.
    ai-enhanced-learning
    artificial-intelligence
    ai-assistant
  • Inboxbooster
    Inboxbooster (W17)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco
    We fix and monitor emails in spam. We monitor automatically where your emails is going, we alert you when it's going in spam and we fix it with you. Best of all, the monitoring is free!
    marketing
    email
  • ngrow.ai
    ngrow.ai (W22)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco
    AI-driven push marketing tool for mobile apps, that can be integrated in hours, without any code writing. nGrow connects to behavioral data from analytical systems like Amplitude, Google Firebase, Mixpanel etc. and allows to setup auto push campaigns with an hours. It's as simple as running Google or Facebook but in push notifications channel. nGrow.ai customers usually got their up to 30% incremental Revenue lift. We got Amplitude COO and ex-Google advisors on board
    saas
  • Rehook.ai
    Rehook.ai (W22)Active • 12 employees • Bengaluru, India
    rehook.ai is an all-in-one promotion engine. A complete stack which lets you run referral, loyalty, rewards, discounts, coupons, leaderboards, streaks, tiers etc and is flexible, trackable, scalable and secure. With an intuitive rule engine, marketers can simply add/edit/change rules to generate coupons/rewards/cashbacks or any other incentives. rehook.ai lets you experiment and personalize campaigns around user segments, geographies, demographics, journeys and any other attribute- without ever going back to tech.
    saas
    b2b
    marketing
  • Penguin AI
    Penguin AI (S22)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco
    Our sidekick guides buyers on your site with AI nudges+chat to drive conversion.
    generative-ai
    saas
    b2b
    design-tools
    marketing
  • InEvent
    InEvent (S19)Active • 115 employees • Atlanta, GA
    InEvent is an all in one platform that allows you to use multiple solutions (website, registration, mobile app, hospitality, check-in, badge printing, budgeting, etc) altogether, without having to upload data 3-4x times on different pages. Everything is available on the cloud, 24x7, for you and your attendees. Most of our competitors have modules that don't talk with each other, we solved this by creating a solid foundation that all of our solutions are built upon. We have already successfully improved more than 12,400 events, boosting more than 2,390,000 registrations so far. We have integrations with Salesforce, Marketo, Oracle, Microsoft and other vendors to create a simple, easy-to-use marketing ecosystem for all our customers. Discover the InEvent Virtual Lobby, the top event marketing solution in the world today: https://inevent.com/en/virtual-online-streaming-events-room-events-innovative.php
    saas
    govtech
    b2b
  • Boostly
    Boostly (S22)Active • 15 employees • Lehi, UT
    Boostly is an all-in-one SMS marketing and communications hub for restaurants. For example, restaurants use Boostly to build a CRM for their in-store, online, and call-in customers, and then we use SMS marketing to automatically market to customers based on their engagement with the brand. Boostly also provides an AI-powered phone assistant which handles call-in orders without staff intervention, improving efficiency and maximizing revenue, and then automatically engages the restaurant’s customers through SMS marketing to drive additional future orders. Boostly also collects feedback on the guest experience, enabling the restaurant to resolve issues in real-time and generate reviews.
    saas
    b2b
    messaging
    food-tech
    ai
  • Caddie AI
    Caddie AI (S22)Active • 4 employees • Toronto, Canada
    Caddie AI is building the future of email for sales ⚡️
    saas
    b2b
    sales
    marketing
    enterprise
  • SpeedyBrand
    SpeedyBrand (W23)Active • 3 employees
    SpeedyBrand provides SMBs with generative-AI powered marketing content that is effective and affordable. We achieve this by training custom AI models for individual businesses to create hyper-personalized marketing content that gets them more business leads. We are 3 AI engineers who've shipped AI products at companies like Apple, Microsoft and Nextdoor. We previously founded Vetan — an SMB payroll company where we served over 30k SMBs.
  • Writesonic
    Writesonic (S21)Active • 30 employees • San Francisco
    Writesonic is an AI writing and image generation platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to create any form of content 10X faster. It's like Canva for writing, with tools that simplify the process of creating, editing, and publishing SEO-optimized articles, blog posts, ads, landing pages, eCommerce product descriptions, social media posts, and many other forms of content. Our customers love us, as evidenced by the 10,000+ 5-star reviews on G2, TrustPilot, and Capterra. Backed by Y Combinator, HOF Capital (investors in Uber, Stripe, Alibaba, UiPath, Klarna), Rebel Fund (team includes founders of Instacart, Reddit, and Cruise), Soma Capital (investors in Deel, Rippling, Razorpay, Lattice, coda, Rappi), Broom Ventures, Amino Capital (investors in Zoom, Webflow, Rippling) and some of the best angels from different industries.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
    saas
    b2b
  • Milk Video
    Milk Video (W21)Active • 2 employees • New York
    Milk Video is a video marketing platform that simplifies short-form video creation for marketers. Anyone can collect, clip, and ship video content such as customer testimonials, employee testimonials, and thought pieces in minutes.
    machine-learning
    design-tools
    video
  • Tenjin
    Tenjin (S14)Active • 30 employees • San Francisco
    We're a mobile attribution and analytics provider, focused on helping app developers, marketers, and publishers find and grow their users. We track a bunch of metrics such as ad spend, ad revenue, in-app purchase revenue, subscription revenue, retention, etc. We also have a data warehousing product that lets our customers directly query the data we've collected. Experts at mobile advertising, need help with handling all of this data and making a very technical front-end more user-friendly.
    analytics
  • Skio
    Skio (S20)Active • 38 employees • New York
    Skio (skio.com) helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out. Brands using Skio include Liquid I.V., Bulletproof, Milk Bar, Barstool Sports, Unilever, 100 Thieves, Vega, KOS, KITSCH, True Botanicals, Wild One, GHOST, Raw Nutrition, RYSE Supplements, OpenStore, The Nue Co., Immi, DRMTLGY, KraveBeauty, Glamnetic, Doe Lashes, Magic Mind, Remedy Organics, & Siete Foods. Our team (skio.com/team) brings experience from Shopify, Recharge, Klaviyo, Attentive, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Pinterest, Hulu, Twitch, Nacelle, Smile.io, Groupon, Databricks, & Y Combinator. Investors ($8.4M raised, skio.com/investors) include Y Combinator, Adjacent, Jason Wong, Shaan Puri, Julian Shapiro, Geoff Woo, & Sahil Bloom, as well as founders and executives of companies like Italic, Magic Mind, Immi, Bev, Smile.io, Okendo, Wonderment, Archive, Parker, HVMN, & MuteSix.
    fintech
    b2b
    e-commerce
    subscriptions
    food-tech
  • eBrandvalue
    eBrandvalue (W15)Active • 10 employees • Mountain View
    eBrandValue, Inc. is a Mountain View, CA-based company that acts as a BI platform for brands and leverages social data to forecast sales and provide competitive intelligence. Its unique proprietary algorithm essentially captures consumer behaviour and brand affinities using social data to identify the most effective profile changing events. 

 eBrandValue has become a de facto forecaster of sales in many industries by accurately predicting and reporting the real-time sales, ROI, brand performance and market share-impact of brands in comparison to all of their competitors. These predictions are confirmed by Nielsen’s ScanTrack, which once again emphasises the catalytic impact of next-stage intelligent social media analysis to sales strategy.
 eBrandValue enables brands to measure the efficacy and ROI of their events and campaigns, and to track and analyse influencers within their industry. It also provides Meme-Based Netnographic Segmentation which reveals the dimensions that define a brand and encapsulate the nature of social media postings in the sector, thus allowing brands to track their positioning vis-à-vis competition in real-time.
 eBrandValue recently graduated from Y Combinator’s Winter’15 batch, and received press coverage at VentureBeat. Additionally, eBrandValue was also showcased as part of the Start Up Academy during Cannes Lions as one of the ten globally selected startups that are currently disrupting the marketing/agency business.

    analytics
    social
  • Loops
    Loops (W22)Active • 5 employees • Washington, DC
    Loops is a simple and beautiful email sending platform for SaaS companies. We have a Notion-style block editor for email creation, excellent deliverability for transactional mail and pre-built loops for SaaS companies to snap-in to increase their revenue and user engagement.
    email
  • Rivia.AI
    Rivia.AI (S21)Active • 5 employees • Bengaluru, India
    Rivia.ai empowers marketing, sales, and demand generation teams to effortlessly generate and distribute interactive product demos within 10 minutes. Potential customers of SaaS brands can now personally engage with these self-guided product stories without direct sales interactions. With our user-friendly platform and intuitive dashboards, teams can effortlessly capture, customize, enhance, and share their demos without sound technical expertise. These interactive demos can seamlessly integrate into applications, websites, email campaigns, or ad campaigns.
    saas
    b2b
    sales
  • Circa
    Circa (S16)Active • 21 employees • Santa Fe, NM
    Circa is the event marketing platform built for demand gen and field marketing teams. We help sales and marketing teams work on events, everywhere and every way their customers gather.
    sales-enablement
  • Dittofeed
    Dittofeed (S22)Active • 2 employees • Los Angeles, CA
    Dittofeed is a developer-focused, open-source alternative to platforms like Klaviyo and Customer.io. We pair Retool-like versioning and testing tools with marketing campaign software. Our users are growth teams across industries like finance, hr, and health, who love our product because it saves them time and increases customer engagement, while also improving data compliance through self-hosting.
    developer-tools
    b2b
    open-source
  • communion
    communion (S19)Active • 8 employees • New York
    creative tools + powerful analytics
    artificial-intelligence
    marketing
    advertising
    data-engineering
    ai-assistant
  • Brevy
    Brevy (S20)Active • 8 employees • Houston, TX
    Brevy is an AI chatbot that uses large language models to resolve eCommerce support tickets with human level accuracy at a fraction of the price.
    saas
    b2b
  • Makrwatch
    Makrwatch (W15)Active • 19 employees • New York
    Makrwatch helps D2C companies scale user acquisition with YouTube creators. Our clients see us as an alternative growth channel to Google/Facebook, by reaching their audience at a more efficient cost per acquisition and obtaining high quality customers that are more engaged. Makrwatch has been growing 100%+ year over year, currently processes 2M-5M in billings and helps creators in over 60+ countries. We are reaching 20 team members in 6+ countries, have been fully remote for the past years and aim to reach 20M in billings with 10,000 sponsored videos within the next 18 months.
    marketplace
    b2b
    social-media
    advertising
    creator-economy
  • Kite
    Kite (S23)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco
    Kite helps software companies create Apple-style product videos. We turn a screen recording of your app into a stunning polished, professional video—no expensive agencies or complicated tools required. Video marketing is a massive, $104B industry, but the workflow for creating professional product videos hasn't changed in decades. Kite uses WebGL and AI to dramatically lower the cost of professional-grade video production.
    video
    media
    marketing
    advertising
    ai
  • Castled.io
    Castled.io (W22)Active • 8 employees • Bengaluru, India
    Castled.io is a Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) that brings the power of data in the warehouse to the marketer. Essentially, Castled.io is similar in feature set to Braze, CustomerIO or MoEngage with a major difference - We don't store your customer data. Instead Castled sits on top of your cloud data warehouse to create segments and engage them across channels.
    saas
  • Vidyard
    Vidyard (S11)Active • 201 employees • Kitchener, Canada
    Vidyard is The Video Platform for Marketing, Sales & Secure Communications. Vidyard is the easiest way to create, host, and share videos so businesses can keep connected with customers and colleagues. Want to learn more? Visit our website, and check out our 6-minute demo: http://ow.ly/q7hz30jMDd6
  • Laudable
    Laudable (S21)Active • 5 employees
    Laudable finds happy customers and their success stories hiding in your existing data - like call recordings, NPS, salesforce logs - and auto-generates case study content.
    saas
    b2b
    video
  • Zaymo
    Zaymo (W24)Active • 3 employees • Orem, UT
    Zaymo is a tool that increases email conversion rates by turning emails into mini-websites where consumers complete tasks in the inbox. Ecommerce marketers embed shopping widgets, review forms, polls, and other engaging calls to action in the email.
    b2b
    design-tools
    e-commerce
    marketing
    email
  • Ahazou
    Ahazou (S21)Active • 27 employees • São Paulo, Brazil
    Ahazou is a SaaS app that helps offline local businesses to connect online with their customers to promote their brand, to build their reputation and to sell more. We've reached USD100k MRR with 16k+ subscribers. Our vision is to build the next all-in-one platform for 50 million local businesses to grow online in Latam. The company is founded by Rui Miadaira - 10+ years building local businesses, 3x entrepreneur, tech background with a Harvard MBA - and has built a team from iFood, Movile, PicPay. Ahazou is backed by GFC, Monashees, Y Combinator (S21) and more.
    fintech
    saas
    b2b
  • Dyspatch (W14)Active • 20 employees • Victoria, Canada
    Dyspatch by Sendwithus is a powerful communications platform built around advanced email content management. Our platform simplifies transactional email creation with a robust API, an easy to use editor, and built-in device testing, allowing for truly collaborative email strategy and execution. A centralized hub for email creation, approval, and publishing, our cloud-based solution empowers Product, Marketing, CRM, and Loyalty teams to efficiently build and test meaningful, dynamic communications without involving developers or deploying code. And with built-in support for 300+ locales, your teams can seamlessly manage localized content for global communications. Easily connect your cloud email provider or customize your integration to connect to your digital messaging service. Upload your existing templates in minutes. And from there, you’re well on your way to optimizing every email you send.
    saas
    b2b
  • Videopixie (S11)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco
    Videopixie is a marketplace for video production that allows users to have great video on the website, such as promotional videos and etc. Videopixie is a marketplace where you can hire the world’s best video professionals at a range of price points, to fit any budget. Retailers use Videopixie to make weekly product videos. Game companies use Videopixie to make trailers, using in-game footage, to air on national TV. Newly-weds use Videopixie to edit their five hours of ‘big-day’ footage into a five minute keepsake for life.
    marketplace
    video
  • Huddlefire
    Huddlefire (W21)Active • 2 employees • Palo Alto
    Leverage partnerships with other SaaS companies, through Huddlefire, to accelerate your customer acquisition.
    saas
  • PartnerStack
    PartnerStack (S15)Active • 200 employees • Toronto, Canada
    PartnerStack is a full stack solution for partnerships. The platform supports partner marketing, referral, and reseller activity, and solves for partner application management, engagement, attribution, education, payouts, compliance, and additional partner channel needs. Companies using PartnerStack have their program listed in PartnerStack's marketplace, exposing their program to a growing network of +450,000 partners. These companies see a +30% revenue increase in their partner channels due to partners acquired through PartnerStack's network. The network allows partners to sell multiple SaaS applications from a single platform - a necessity for integrated SaaS solutions investing in channel. The most trusted and fastest growing SaaS companies in the world are turning to PartnerStack to support their channel growth, including Intuit, Asana, Freshworks, Zendesk, Aircall, Intercom, and more.
    marketplace
    saas
    b2b
  • Carma
    Carma (W24)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco
    We are a marketplace enabling car owners to get same-day repair services with instant transparent offers and guaranteed pricing. Every year, car owners spend $573B on auto repairs globally. Car owners send service requests through Carma to our highly-rated and vetted service center Partners, who respond with real-time offers. Car owners can compare multiple same-day service offers in 60 seconds or less. Carma handles the transaction. Car owners save upwards of 50% when they use Carma vs. the median price for the same service in their zip code. It takes 30 seconds to add a car to your profile and request service. We are currently accepting Carma for Business customers: If you own multiple commercial vehicles for your business and are interested in trusted same-day turnaround for your fleet, contact us at 314-899-2886 or at fleets@joincarma.com. If you are an owner of a highly-rated automotive service center and are interested in increasing revenue with more profitable high-ticket work, contact us at 314-899-2886 or at shops@joincarma.com.
    auto-commerce
    marketplace
    b2b
    trust-&-safety
    automotive
  • Dabble
    Dabble (W15)Active • 3 employees • Toronto, Canada
    Dabble is a virtual photo studio for e-commerce powered by hyper-realistic CGI and computer vision. The demand for content in retail is skyrocketing due to the pandemic induced surge in online shopping, but product photography is still extremely slow, tedious and expensive. We’re building a platform to scale and automate product photography for every e-commerce brand.
    artificial-intelligence
    augmented-reality
    computer-vision
  • Strikingly
    Strikingly (W13)Active • 99 employees • Shanghai, China
    Strikingly lets you build a gorgeous, mobile optimized website in minutes. For your business, organization, or personal branding, a good-looking site is necessary for your online legitimacy in the Mobile Age. With no code or design at all, you can set up a professional website in under 30 minutes, and it'll look great on your phone, tablet, and computer. Check it out at http://www.strikingly.com/. We're hiring! Please see: http://www.strikingly.com/s/careers . Our mission is to give everyone the power to turn their creative ideas into reality and build brands around them. See why: http://www.strikingly.com/s/manifesto
    e-commerce
  • Thunkable
    Thunkable (W16)Active • 40 employees • San Francisco
    From MIT's App Inventor and YCombinator's W2016 batch, Thunkable allows anyone to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, it's simple to design, and simple to code-- simply drag and drop to create fast, native, reliable apps. You don't need to download large development suites, command-line kits, or simulators. You can use the many built-in app templates as they are, or make changes. Make your changes online and see them on your device instantly with the Thunkable mobile app. Upload your apps directly to the Play Store or App Store or send them to friends!
    developer-tools
    saas
    design-tools
  • Banabo
    Banabo (S22)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco
    Banabo is the first Marketing Attribution OS with the mission of getting a company’s marketing waste to zero. We help companies achieve this goal by mapping a website visitor’s entire journey through a sale, and showcasing the true impact of each touchpoint. Accurate attribution previously wasn’t possible due to GDPR in the EU, CCPA in California, and the iOS 14 Privacy Changes. And with Google banning tracking cookies in 2023, we’ve built the first fully cookieless marketing attribution solution, using zero personal data.
    saas
    b2b
    analytics
  • Roundtable
    Roundtable (S23)Active • 2 employees • Princeton, NJ
    Roundtable has an API that automatically detects fraud and bots in survey research
    artificial-intelligence
    b2b
    market-research
  • 1stCollab
    1stCollab (W23)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco
    1stCollab is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform for helping brands optimize performance. We are the first platform that leverages ML to accurately predict a creator's performance and use those predictions to recruit the most relevant, best-performing creators for a brand’s upcoming influencer campaigns. Our founding team collectively spent 30 years at Pinterest building up most of its Discovery systems, so are experts at finding the perfect set of creators for optimizing engagement. Let us know if we can help you run an influencer marketing campaign and see how our brands have reduced their CAC by over 70%!
    machine-learning
    marketplace
    social-media
    marketing
    creator-economy
  • OwnLocal
    OwnLocal (W10)Active • 45 employees • Austin, TX
    OwnLocal works with more than 3,300+ local media companies to transform their legacy customers base into sophisticated local digital advertisers. Our technology has been designed to work seamlessly with your current sales processes and makes it simple for any newspaper, radio station, or broadcast television station to help your local customers win online.
    marketing
    smb
  • Hilos
    Hilos (S21)Active • 5 employees • Mexico City, Mexico
    Hilos allows startups and SMBs to run their entire business on WhatsApp, without code. We focus specifically on letting businesses build apps within WhatsApp that integrate with other systems (CRMs, Databases, Payment providers, etc.). Companies can use Hilos to allow their customers to run self serve processes like tracking the status of a package, generating payment links, creating an invoice on demand, or anything else you can dream up.
    saas
    b2b
    productivity
    messaging
  • Uberduck
    Uberduck (W22)Active • 3 employees • Seattle, WA
    Uberduck makes AI vocal generation tools for music professionals, hobbyists, and marketers. Vocal samples and full songs produced by our text-to-speech, text-to-singing, text-to-rapping, and voice conversion technologies power: - AI remixes and original songs for musicians ranging from hobbyists to the largest DJs in the world. - Personalized musical content in marketing campaigns. - A variety of music-related consumer experiences built on top of our APIs.
  • BIK
    BIK (S20)Active • 100 employees • Bengaluru, India
    BIK is an intelligent marketing platform helping brands to drive ROI with the power of conversations. Re-imagine your customer journey where you can convert your social media conversation into revenues rather than spending millions on website optimisation.
    saas
    b2b
    messaging
    social
    e-commerce
  • devmark
    devmark (S23)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco
    Devmark is an online marketplace where companies sponsor open source projects to market to developers. We bring transparency and automation into the process to help thousands of growing open source projects get funded. We provide traffic and performance data of open source projects to help companies make data-driven sponsorship decisions. We also use LLMs to automate the manual work required to generate organic contents that fit into open source readme and docs.
    artificial-intelligence
    developer-tools
    marketplace
    b2b
    marketing
  • Mailmodo
    Mailmodo (S21)Active • 15 employees • Bengaluru, India
    Mailmodo is an email marketing software that helps marketers create app-like experiences in email by adding forms, shopping cart, calendar, NPS and more widgets within the email. Our interactive emails reduce the number of steps for users, thereby increasing email conversions. You can use it to collect feedback from your users, book meetings with prospects, recover abandon carts, generate leads, and more all within emails.
    saas
  • HOKALI
    HOKALI (W22)Active • 12 employees • San Francisco
    HOKALI is the marketplace for buying after-school programs and enrichment activities with high-quality, vetted vendors in the US. We simplify the process of booking, organizing, and managing after-school programs and camps for schools.
    marketplace
    edtech
  • Navattic
    Navattic (W21)Active • 20 employees • New York
    Navattic helps sales and marketing teams instantly create interactive product demos.
    saas
    b2b
    sales
    marketing
  • Revl
    Revl (W16)Active • 22 employees • San Francisco
    Revl is an experience technology company and Y Combinator 2016 Winter Batch member launching the Revl Arc smart action camera. Designed in coordination with frogVentures, Sony, Ambarella and leading engineers with backgrounds at NASA, HP and Sikorsky Aircraft, the Revl Arc is available for preorder and will begin shipping in December. Revl was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.revl.com
    machine-learning
    saas
    sports-tech
    b2b
    video
  • Volantio
    Volantio (W09)Active • 19 employees • Atlanta, GA
    Volantio is a leader in travel technology software focused on revenue and capacity optimization for airlines. Based in Atlanta, GA, Volantio partners with major airlines globally such as Qantas, Iberia, Alaska Airlines, Volaris, Jetstar Airways, Emirates, Ethiopian Airlines, Scoot-Tigerair, and others. The company’s Yana platform enables airlines to generate incremental revenue and reduce operational costs, while putting greater predictability and control back into the hands of their customers. We are backed by institutional and strategic investors from around the world including Ingleside Investors, JetBlue Technology Ventures, International Airlines Group (IAG), and Qantas Ventures.
    airlines
  • Letterdrop
    Letterdrop (W20)Active • 9 employees • San Francisco
    Letterdrop helps B2B companies create and distribute 32% more content, faster, and without headaches. We automate and streamline workflows to make content a revenue driver for your business.
    generative-ai
    sales
    marketing
    seo
  • Wondercraft
    Wondercraft (S22)Active • 6 employees • London, United Kingdom
    Wondercraft leverages AI voices to make podcast creation simple. Instead of recording, creating a podcast becomes as simple as typing in content. News outlets (e.g. Coindesk), Creators (e.g. Accelerated) and businesses are using Wondercraft to transform their existing written content into engaging audio and video podcast in multiple languages. Check out a couple of our podcasts: Hacker News Recap: https://open.spotify.com/show/5T24sjkV7tVRNybotteILY?si=b2fb8c7b4cc64f23 PG Essays: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=9826a962342c4ecf
    artificial-intelligence
    saas
    b2b
    podcasts
    ai
  • Laylo
    Laylo (S20)Active • 12 employees • Los Angeles, CA
    Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, artists, celebrities, creators and brands with the tools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments. We're fortunate to work with some of the top musicians, sports teams, media brands and creators to offer the leading Drop CRM.
    saas
    messaging
    enterprise
    crm
    creator-economy
  • Plai
    Plai (S21)Active • 8 employees • Los Angeles, CA
    Plai is the AI advertising tool built for marketing teams and agencies. Thousands of advertisers are using Plai to create Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and TikTok Ads from a ChatGPT prompt. Plai automatically finds your target audience, generates your creative, and launches your ad campaigns like a pro in seconds, no experience required. Whether you need to acquire new leads for your startup, sales for your e-commerce store, or grow your brand, Plai is your super app for marketing.
    saas
    b2b
    e-commerce
  • Mth Sense (S12)Active • 11 employees • San Jose, CA
    mth sense focuses on finding solutions to "blind" ads. mth sense offers its users an audience library to target certain demographics and psychographics.
    privacy
    advertising
  • Motionlead (W14)Acquired • 11 employees • Paris, France
    Motionlead empowers advertisers and publishers to reach their audience through a unique advertising experience thanks to transparent, animated and interactive ads that come on top of native and web apps without stopping user navigation
    advertising
  • Popular Pays
    Popular Pays (W15)Acquired • 37 employees • Chicago, IL
    Popular Pays is a platform connecting content Creators with Brands who want content to tell their stories. We’re tech-forward, with an in-house built iOS and web app (for creators) and dashboard (for brands) that delivers direct communication & powerful statistics to help you run a multiplatform campaign. To find out what we’re about, visit our website: www.popularpays.com.
    advertising
  • Virool (S12)Acquired • 51 employees • San Francisco
    A LITTLE ABOUT VIROOL Virool is a video distribution platform for brand marketers that leverages programmatic technology to reach key influencers, making content more engaging and the ability to share easier than ever. Having served more than 75,000 global campaigns, Virool’s robust ActivView product suite and in-article native unit, deliver fully transparent and insightful analytics that offers viewability guarantees, emotional resonance and fraud protection. Within our platform, users can leverage a proprietary DMP of 450MM unique profiles to build custom, addressable audience segments across all screens. More than 100,000 multi-channel sites have activated video content from Virool via partnerships including Rubicon Project and direct native placements. Founded in 2012, Virool has raised $18.62M in funding from a collection of top VC firms and angel investors, including $6.62M in its seed round. It is the biggest seed investment that anymore Y-Combinator graduate has ever received.
    video
    advertising
  • OmniVirt (S12)Acquired • 15 employees • San Francisco
    OmniVirt is 360° Virtual Reality advertising platform for brands and publishers. Audiences can view 360° content with just one tap of their fingertip on smartphones, tablets and websites. No app installation or VR headset required. HTML5 / VAST complaint. Our company is specialize in mobile formats, the network optimizes revenue for publishers and serves billions of ad impressions in more than 200 countries.
    advertising
  • AdGrok (S10)Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco
    AdGrok allows business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords.
    analytics
    advertising
  • Zyper
    Zyper (W18)Acquired • 35 employees • San Francisco
    Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing tool that enables brands to identify and engage with the top 1% of their social following, turning them from passive followers to active advocates. These brand fans create authentic and emotive content, scaling peer-to-peer advertising in a unique way by uplifting market voice, engagement and social conversion. Neither micro-influencers nor bloggers, brand fans are real, social-savvy consumers who influence their immediate peer group and immerse themselves in your brand ecosystem. We target them at scale to give you the equivalent reach of one influencer but with the value of repeat content, authenticity and higher engagement.
    social
    networks
  • Tapzilla (S10)Acquired • 2 employees
    TapZilla is a Y Combinator-backed company that launched October 13, 2010 and is taking the daily deal model and applying it to discounts on paid mobile apps. Through TapZilla.com and AppRebates.com, the company has given out more than 25,000 paid applications to its users and has pioneered the method of connecting developers with users by giving away paid applications for free. TapZilla has been featured by TechCrunch and Forbes. Each day, TapZilla features a paid iOS app. To get the deal, the user clicks on the “get App Now” button, which will then prompt TapZilla to ask for your email. Users receive an email with a link to the app in the App Store where they can purchase the app and a coupon code. Once the app is purchased and downloaded, users are prompted to enter the coupon code once inside the App’s interface. The app can also be prompted by shaking the phone. Once the code is entered, TapZilla automatically puts the app cost in the buyer’s PayPal account or can issue an iTunes gift card.
  • Outbound (W15)Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco
    Outbound organizes the messages you send around the actions your customers take. We allow non-technical marketers and product people to set up automated email, push notification, SMS or voice messages when you need your users to take an action, then test how well each message works.
    messaging
    analytics
    notifications
  • All Screen (W10)Acquired • 11 employees • Santa Monica, CA
    140Fire is the fastest growing online video ad network. Brands and agencies utilize 140Fire for it's suite of engagement and data tools which make media buying 10x more effective when it comes to running video ads. Backed by Y Combinator, Mark Cuban, Jonathan Kraft and Skip Paul, 140Fire is based in Santa Monica and has 15 employees.
    video
    media
  • Liftigniter (W14)Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco
    LiftIgniter uses cutting edge data science to help publishers and retailers optimize their websites and mobile apps in real-time. Machine learning personalization puts the perfect piece of "content"​ (video, article, item to buy) in front the user at the exact moment when they are most likely to engage or convert - no tags or manual work required. The machine learns and updates itself so that's it's always perfectly in sync with your users and your "content."​ We average 50% improvements in CTR, engagement and conversation - with only a day's work on your part. Imagine creating a truly dynamic, real-time digital property that enables the perfect experience for that user impression at that moment in time. That is LiftIgniter! Our team of PhDs has direct experience building state-of-the-art personalization systems at the petabyte scale for some of the largest companies on the planet. Unless you plan on hiring your own team with deep experience (not likely since very few people with that experience exist), you should contact us to talk about how we can supercharge your digital experiences.
    machine-learning
    personalization
  • Priceonomics (W12)Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco
    Priceonomics is the price guide for everything. Price guides are helpful for buying and selling used things. How much should I spend on this used bicycle on Craigslist? How much should I sell my stereo system for on eBay? Is this used Vespa a good deal, or what?
  • YesGraph
    YesGraph (W15)Acquired • 2 employees • Palo Alto
    YesGraph helps your app grow by recommending exactly who a user should invite. We can help boost the performance of referral and invite flows in your app or web site. We use machine learning and social graph analysis -- a lot like "People You May Know" on LinkedIn!
    social
    referrals
  • ClearBrain
    ClearBrain (W18)Acquired • 10 employees • San Francisco
    ClearBrain (YC W18) is a startup building the first self-serve AI platform for growth marketing. We help companies automatically predict and retarget users when they are most likely to purchase. Fortune 1000 companies use ClearBrain’s automated machine learning platform to personalize experiences for hundreds of millions of user predictions - as effectively as Uber or Google. We’re led by the founding engineers of Google Ads and Optimizely’s data infrastructure teams, and backed by investors in Dropbox, Optimizely, and AdMob. We’re a deeply technical team who value humility and customer empathy above all. As a group we’re also pretty good at bowling, D&D, and Rubik’s cubes. We are building an advanced analytics platform with the challenge of making it accessible to a smart, capable clientele of growth experts that demands ease of use, utility, high availability and good responsiveness. You’ll join a startup environment where you'll be exposed to a variety of backend, frontend, machine learning frameworks in a fast-moving company!
    analytics
  • Hotspots (W11)Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco
    Moki.TV is a directory of all paid and free content included on Amazon's streaming service, Netlfix, Hulu, iTunes, and others.
    analytics
  • Indivio
    Indivio (S17)Acquired • 8 employees • Redwood City, CA
    Indivio's video creative automation capabilities enable modern marketing teams to more easily deliver dynamic video experiences that improve business outcomes.
    analytics
    video
    personalization
  • Earbits (W11)Acquired • 15 employees • Los Angeles, CA
    Google AdWords for music. Allowing bands and labels to bid for airtime and have their music streamed to qualified audience.
    advertising
    music
  • Pulpix (W16)Acquired • 12 employees • New York
    Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to offer personalized video experience for online video platforms.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    video
  • Boostable (W14)Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco
    Boostable makes advertising easy for sellers and brands on marketplaces. We grow marketplaces by helping their sellers advertise their listings and gather insights. Boostable is a YCombinator company based in San Francisco and funded by SVAngel, 500 Startups and others.
    marketplace
    advertising
  • Wufoo
    Wufoo (W06)Acquired • 11 employees • Tampa, FL
    Wufoo is a web application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun. No coding required! Founded in 2006, Wufoo was created by Chris Campbell, Kevin Hale and Ryan Campbell on the belief that forms were the starting point for building anything useful on the web. The problem they saw was that one of the most efficient and used interfaces for collecting data, wasn’t very efficient to create. So they decide to fix that by creating Wufoo! In 2011, Wufoo was acquired by SurveyMonkey, the leader in web-based survey solutions, to help complement their growing suite of services to offer amazing data collections tools to their customers.
    saas
    productivity
  • A Thinking Ape
    A Thinking Ape (W08)Acquired • 75 employees • Vancouver, Canada
    Proudly recognized as one of CANADA'S TOP SMALL & MEDIUM EMPLOYERS for 2018! Mission: We build communities. Surrounded by mountains and water in beautiful Vancouver, BC, we are smart people who like smart people. We create mobile games with a social core that engage players and provoke us with creative new problems. We value data, informal leadership and keeping it all balanced. When we set out to make games with massive online communities, we knew that we first had to create the ideal environment for building ambitious things: a place where brilliant and inspiring people come together to build games that make millions of players happy. We realized that we needed to find incredibly talented people and get out of their way. Since then we've paid careful attention to how we like to work together - these are some of our guiding principles: Ownership; Have Wonderful Arguments; The Best Ideas Win; Keep Growing. We are artists, designers, and engineers. We leverage our talent with small, independent teams. And we know that a happy builder is an efficient builder.
    gaming
  • Perfect Audience (S11)Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco
    Perfect Audience is a retargeting platform that lets businesses bring back lost customers and get more sales effortlessly.
    saas
    advertising
  • Chute (W12)Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco
    hute powers enterprise UGC for brands, agencies and publishers – from discovering consumer photos and videos, both with visual and text search, to the ideation, production, and amplification of compelling visual material. Chute works with some of the world’s biggest brands and publishers including Benefit Cosmetics, NBCUniversal, adidas, Brown-Forman, Condé Nast, NBA, United Nations, New York Times, and Ford. For more information, visit www.getchute.com. You can reach us anytime at hello@getchute.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
    social-media
    marketing
    automation
  • Datarank (S13)Acquired • 11 employees • Fayetteville, AR
    DataRank is a leading social analytics company. We monitor online conversation so that our customers can gather valuable comments and insights about their brand. We have demonstrated success with Fortune 100 companies who use DataRank for consumer insights. From increasing distribution and revenue to protecting their brand’s reputation, DataRank has assisted many companies with their marketing strategy. Our dedicated social analytics platform offers a variety of tools to help businesses perform competitive analysis before releasing a new product, monitor the social media conversation about their brand, track a social media campaign, and much more. DataRank is constantly looking for ways to be innovative in the industry. Most social media monitoring tools use Boolean-like languages but we have developed our own powerful matching language called Fizzle (Fast Scalable Searching Language), which more easily allows the user to search for phrases without gathering irrelevant data. We have a very active blog and social media presence where you can see our social media monitoring at work. Follow this page to see our updates! Company details
    analytics
    social