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YC Marketing Companies

143 Y Combinator marketing startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
CharacterQuilt	X26	Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Clint Burgess, Bhairav Mehta	Reveal
InstaAgent	X26	Scale marketing campaigns across hundreds of personas	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	10	Kyle Wong, Colin Tseung	Reveal
Kuli	X26	AI coworker for marketing teams at the largest consumer brands	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	1	Michael Hodara, Jonathan Hassan	Reveal
Pavoot	X26	AI Event Manager for in-person events	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	—	Gohar Tamrazyan, Ana Yoon Faria de Lima, Ana Yoon Faria de Lima	Reveal
Revnu	X26	The growth infrastructure for the autonomous business	Active	Manchester, England, United Kingdom	2	George Jefferson, art freebrey, Art Freebrey	Reveal
tday.com	X26	AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Cyrus Kelly, David McDonough, Shyamsundar Shrestha	Reveal
Beluga	X25	Creator marketing that scales like paid ads	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Fernando Young, Jack Swisher	Reveal
Sitefire	W26	Marketing suite for the agentic web	Active	BY, Germany	2	Jochen Madler, Vincent Jeltsch	Reveal
AthenaHQ	W25	Get Your Brand Discovered on AI Search.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	12	Andrew Yan, Alan Yao	Reveal
AthenaHQ	W25	Be the Answer in AI Search - AI SEO across SEO, GEO & AEO	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	12	Andrew Yan, Alan Yao	Reveal
JustAI	W24	Agentic Marketing Platform	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Neha Mittal	Reveal
Resonance	W24	Self-improving content bank for marketing	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Jonathan Ou	Reveal
Resonance	W24	Self-improving content bank for marketing	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Jonathan Ou	Reveal
Zaymo	W24	Interactive email builder for ecommerce brands	Active	Lehi, UT, USA	13	Brice Douglas, Daniel Jones	Reveal
1stCollab	W23	Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Leon Lin, Varun Bansal, Andrew Liu, Carina Cater	Reveal
Gluetrail	W23	Create step by step articles with screenshots and videos 10x faster	Inactive	Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote	2	Anne-Charlotte Chauvet, Baptiste Coquelle	Reveal
Gluetrail	W23	Create step by step articles with screenshots and videos 10x faster	Active	Paris, France	2	Anne-Charlotte Chauvet, Baptiste Coquelle	Reveal
Syncly	W23	Social listening for the video era	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	15	Joseph Lee, Jongsoo Keum, Kwan Yoon	Reveal
Vector	W23	Advertising for the new internet	Active	Boston, MA, USA	20	Joshua Perk, Nick Masters	Reveal
Bobidi	W22	Restaurant Loyalty Using Quiz	Active	Los Gatos, CA, USA	7	Jeong-Suh Choi	Reveal
Castled.io	W22	Customer Engagement software on top of BigQuery/Snowflake	Inactive	Bengaluru, KA, India	8	Manish Singh, Franklin George, Abhilash Thulaseedharan, Arun Thulasidharan	Reveal
HOKALI	W22	After School & Enrichment Activities Marketplace	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	12	Ignacio Viau, Tomas Bisi	Reveal
HOKALI	W22	After School & Enrichment Activities Marketplace	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	12	Ignacio Viau, Tomas Bisi	Reveal
Instant Labs	W22	Instant Labs builds modern tools to help you find and buy domain…	Active	Victoria, BC, Canada	1	Beau Hartshorne, Dirkjan Ochtman	Reveal
Loops	W22	Email sending for software companies	Active	Washington, DC, USA; Remote	10	Chris Frantz, Adam Kaczmarek	Reveal
Lovage	W22	Automatically fill empty appointment slots for beauty professionals	Active	Orem, UT, USA	3	Austin Petersen, Robert Hinckley, Alexander Steffen, Alex Steffen	Reveal
Bizzy AI	S25	Bizzy works 24/7 so you never miss a lead.	Active	New York City, NY, USA	—	Rithvik Gabri, Ansh Sheth	Reveal
Bizzy AI	S25	Bizzy works 24/7 so you never miss a lead.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	—	Rithvik Gabri, Ansh Sheth	Reveal
Motives	S25	Consumer focus groups run by AI	Active	London, England, United Kingdom	—	Sean Conley, Sam Stoll	Reveal
The Prompting Company	S25	We help products get discovered & used by AI agents.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Kevin Chandra, Michelle Marcelline, Albert Purnama, Albert Putra Purnama	Reveal
The Prompting Company	S25	We help products get mentioned in ChatGPT.	Active	—	4	Kevin Chandra, Michelle Marcelline, Albert Purnama	Reveal
Affil.ai	S24	AI Affiliate Network For Financial Companies	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	John Ta, Vivek Olumbe	Reveal
Apten	S24	Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	Daniel Ho, Roshan Kumaraswamy	Reveal
Apten	S24	Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Daniel Ho, Roshan Kumaraswamy	Reveal
Gauge	S24	Gauge helps you get recommended and implemented by agents.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Caelean Barnes, Evan Doyle	Reveal
Typa	S24	The content engine that wins attention and drives growth.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Andrew Chung, Junyoung Park	Reveal
Kite	S23	Screen recorder for stunning product demo videos	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Derek Feehrer, Todd Ashley	Reveal
Rankai	S23	AI-Native Agency for Organic Growth (SEO & GEO)	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Dyllan Liu, Hugo (Kanghong) Zhan	Reveal
Smobi	S23	Send texts your customers actually want over RCS	Active	New York City, NY, USA	4	Kunal Puri	Reveal
Surface Labs	S23	Building the AI-powered marketing ops platform that turns website…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	Saharsh Agrawal, Arjun Sahai	Reveal
Absurd	F25	The Creative OS for AI video	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	6	Philip Ho, Damian Chng, Daniel Kathein	Reveal
Bear	F25	Marketing Stack for AI Agents	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Janak Sunil, Siddhant Paliwal	Reveal
Bluma	F25	AI short form content engine	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Alisa Wu, Stephen Ni	Reveal
Bluma	F25	Canva for short-form video ads	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Alisa Wu, Stephen Ni	Reveal
Claybird	F25	The full-stack AI ad company	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Saad Jamal, Abdullah Nauman	Reveal
Tell if AI	F25	AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform.	Active	Austin, TX, USA	2	Austin Stone, Ilariia Belova	Reveal
The Hog	F25	Real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and GTM teams	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Hudson Liao, Paulo Nascimento	Reveal
Uplane	F25	Replace marketing agencies with AI	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	22	Julius Körfgen, Marvin Abdel-Massih, Lukas Vollmer, Julius Korfgen	Reveal
Openbenchmarks	F24	Openbenchmarks helps you pick vendors for your use-case via Benchmarks	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Fenil Suchak, Aditya Lahiri	Reveal
Unusual	F24	Market to AI agents	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Will Jack, Keller Maloney	Reveal

Batch Distribution

XX266 XX251 WW261 WW252 WW244 WW235

Status Breakdown

Active113 Acquired20 Inactive10

Top Locations

San Francisco66 New York City8 Los Angeles8 New York5 London3 Bengaluru3

About YC Marketing Companies

Y Combinator has funded 143 marketing companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of marketing innovation globally.

113 of these companies are currently active. 20 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC marketing startup.

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