Y Combinator Marketing Startups

168 Y Combinator-backed Marketing companies across 44 batches — with batch, status, and location for every startup.

Total
168
Active
101
Acquired
38
Public
0
Shut down
29

Y Combinator has backed 168 Marketing companies across 44 batches. Of these, 101 are still active, 38 have been acquired, 0 have gone public, and 29 have shut down. Below is every YC-backed Marketing startup grouped by batch, with links to each company profile.

YC Spring 2026 — 8 Marketing startups

  • InstaAgent — Scale marketing campaigns across hundreds of personas
  • Memoir — Marketing campaigns from everything your team ships
  • Kuli — AI coworker for marketing teams at the largest consumer brands
  • CharacterQuilt — Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns
  • Revnu — The growth infrastructure for the autonomous business
  • Manicule — AgentRel — Devrel For Agents
  • tday.com — AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content
  • Pavoot — AI Event Manager for in-person events

YC Winter 2026 — 1 Marketing startups

  • Sitefire — Marketing suite for the agentic web

YC Fall 2025 — 7 Marketing startups

  • Tell if AI — AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform.
  • Lapis — AI that creates and runs ads, end-end
  • Uplane — Replace marketing agencies with AI
  • Narrative — AI-Powered Sports Highlights
  • Absurd — The Creative OS for AI video
  • The Hog — Real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and GTM teams
  • Bluma — Canva for short-form video ads

YC Summer 2025 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Bizzy AI — Bizzy works 24/7 so you never miss a lead.
  • The Prompting Company — We help products get discovered & used by AI agents.
  • Motives — Consumer focus groups run by AI
  • Stormy — Al platform that makes social marketing as easy as running a Google…

YC Spring 2025 — 1 Marketing startups

  • Beluga — Creator marketing that scales like paid ads

YC Winter 2025 — 1 Marketing startups

  • AthenaHQ — Be the Answer in AI Search - AI SEO across SEO, GEO & AEO

YC Summer 2024 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Apten — Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email
  • Gauge — Your marketing agent for organic, paid, and AI search.
  • Typa — The content engine that wins attention and drives growth.
  • Affil.ai — AI Affiliate Network For Financial Companies

YC Winter 2024 — 3 Marketing startups

  • Resonance — Self-improving content bank for marketing
  • JustAI — Agentic Marketing Platform
  • Zaymo — Interactive email builder for ecommerce brands

YC Fall 2024 — 1 Marketing startups

YC Winter 2023 — 5 Marketing startups

  • Syncly — Social listening for the video era
  • Gooseworks — Self-Improving Ad Creative Engines
  • 1stCollab — Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale
  • Gluetrail — Create step by step articles with screenshots and videos 10x faster
  • Vector — Advertising for the new internet

YC Summer 2023 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Surface Labs — Building the AI-powered marketing ops platform that turns website…
  • Kite — Screen recorder for stunning product demo videos
  • Rankai — RankAI grows your website on autopilot
  • Smobi — Send texts your customers actually want over RCS

YC Summer 2022 — 7 Marketing startups

  • Wondercraft — Create video by chatting to AI
  • Banabo — ML Marketing Infrastructure
  • Truva — Sell more. Grind less with AI agents.
  • Dittofeed — Open-source customer engagement & messaging automation
  • Popsy — AI tool that finds you leads on Reddit and sends them hyper…
  • Boostly — Premier growth platform for restaurants
  • Superbar — Sales AI for your Website

YC Winter 2022 — 13 Marketing startups

  • Uberduck — Fast, professional content creation with AI audio, image, and video.
  • Reforged Labs — Turn intuition into insights, in minutes
  • SuperSend — Super Send automates personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn,…
  • Instant Labs — Instant Labs builds modern tools to help you find and buy domain…
  • Bobidi — Restaurant Loyalty Using Quiz
  • Rehook.ai — Run, Track and manage any and all user incentive campaigns.
  • Loops — Email sending for startups
  • Sprites — The AI performance marketing agent for entrepreneurs and growth teams
  • Castled.io — Customer Engagement software on top of BigQuery/Snowflake
  • Lovage — Automatically fill empty appointment slots for beauty professionals
  • ngrow.ai — Low-code SaaS for marketing in push notifications
  • Mindbase — Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans…
  • HOKALI — After School & Enrichment Activities Marketplace

YC Winter 2021 — 8 Marketing startups

  • AgendaPro — Shopify for Beauty and Wellness businesses in Latam
  • Per Diem — The AI operating system for restaurants
  • Resquared — Marketing automation platform for selling to local businesses.
  • Rethoric — LinkedIn content consultancy and scheduling platform for busy founders
  • Navattic — Interactive product demos
  • Laudspeaker — Open source mobile marketing platform. Alternative to appcues /…
  • Huddlefire — Turbocharge customer acquisition through exclusive SaaS partnerships
  • Milk Video — Create video testimonials with a link

YC Summer 2021 — 12 Marketing startups

  • Hilos — Close and activate your customers on WhatsApp
  • Ahazou — Podium for local businesses in Latam
  • Rivia.AI — Interactive Product Demos
  • AlgoViral — We help high-growth startups go viral on autopilot
  • Laudable — App for B2B companies to find customer stories and advocates
  • Writesonic — Track & Boost Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search
  • Plai — Create, launch, and optimize Facebook ads and ads on 10+ platforms
  • Positional — A modern platform for content marketing & SEO.
  • Mailmodo — No-code email marketing platform to send forms & widgets within emails
  • Whalesync — Manage your website from your favorite tools like Airtable and Notion
  • Sentiyen — Conversational AI assistants using your knowledge
  • Kaya — Marketing agency for startups: 10x cheaper, better and faster

YC Winter 2020 — 3 Marketing startups

  • Taiv — AI-powered tech that makes business TV smarter, engaging, and…
  • Oda — AI Agent for Home Design
  • Phonic — The best way to collect and analyze voice and video feedback

YC Summer 2020 — 7 Marketing startups

  • Skio — Subscriptions for Shopify
  • ClearMix — On-Demand, Fully-Remote Marketing and Sales Video Production Platform
  • Depict — GPT Search & Merchandising for fashion e-commerce
  • Laylo — The CRM powering iconic musicians and events
  • Nextstore — Mobile optimized storefronts for Shopify
  • AI.Fashion — AI.Fashion is the AI creative suite for the fashion industry.
  • Brevy — Empower your customer service team through AI & automation.

YC Winter 2019 — 2 Marketing startups

  • Avalanche — Referral program SDK for startups
  • Postscript — The SMS revenue platform for e-commerce merchants

YC Summer 2019 — 4 Marketing startups

  • treble.ai — We help companies scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp
  • Hightouch — The leading Composable CDP and AI Decisioning platform
  • InEvent — In-Person, Hybrid and Virtual Event Management Software
  • Jupiter — AppLovin for the food community

YC Winter 2018 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Swayable — Swayable predicts consumer opinion and the impact of content
  • ClearBrain — Causal Analytics for Growth Teams
  • Substack — A place for independent writing.
  • Zyper — Recreating social networks for brands.

YC Summer 2018 — 2 Marketing startups

  • ShopWith — ShopWith is mobile QVC for GenZ.
  • Grabb-It — Grabb-It is a location based Dynamic Digital - OOH advertising…

YC Winter 2017 — 3 Marketing startups

  • Marketfox — Marketing automation platform optimized for mobile and web.
  • FastJVM — Making the JVM faster
  • RankScience — Automated SEO for Startups

YC Summer 2017 — 1 Marketing startups

  • Indivio — Customize videos to be more relevant and improve business outcomes.

YC Winter 2016 — 5 Marketing startups

  • Netomi — Self-Driving Customer Care
  • Pulpix — Binge-watching technology for video platforms.
  • Revl — AI edited video souvenirs as a service
  • Apollo.io — Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy.
  • Thunkable — Thunkable is the no-code platform to build powerful native mobile apps

YC Summer 2016 — 2 Marketing startups

  • CoinTent — Recover revenue lost to ad blockers
  • Circa — Event marketing CRM

YC Winter 2015 — 8 Marketing startups

  • Popular Pays — Software for collaborating with content creators and influencers
  • Outbound — Create automated messages -- email, iOS/Android push, SMS and web…
  • eBrandvalue — Real-time Nielsen ratings for Brands.Accelerate marketing and product…
  • Booktrope — Booktrope provides a software platform that makes it easy for…
  • Makrwatch — Scale new user acquisition with YouTube Creators
  • Dabble — A synthetic photo studio for e-commerce
  • Automate Ads — On a mission to programmatically automate, optimize, and unify your…
  • YesGraph — YesGraph recommends exactly who a user should invite to an app. Our…

YC Summer 2015 — 2 Marketing startups

  • PartnerStack — PartnerStack is a full stack solution for partnerships.
  • Locent — Locent is an automated messaging platform for companies

YC Winter 2014 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Motionlead — Animated mobile ads.
  • Liftigniter — Machine Learning personalization for dynamic digital properties -…
  • Dyspatch — AI Email Production - Emails on brand, guaranteed to work, fast.
  • Boostable — Advertising platform tools for marketplace sellers.

YC Summer 2014 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Permutive — Rebuilding data in advertising to protect privacy
  • Tenjin — Mobile marketing analytics and infrastructure
  • Think Gaming — We provide market data on the mobile games business to developers,…
  • Hive — Marketing automation for event promoters (email, sms, ads, CRM)

YC Summer 2013 — 3 Marketing startups

  • Datarank — Making sense of social data. (Acquired by SimplyMeasured.)
  • Lob — Lob is the only automation platform that transforms direct mail into…
  • Webflow — Professional website design and publishing platform.

YC Winter 2013 — 1 Marketing startups

  • Strikingly — The easiest way to create a beautiful, mobile optimized website.

YC Winter 2012 — 4 Marketing startups

  • GiveSpark — Givespark was a celebrity charity fundraising platform
  • Optilly/Installmonetizer — Fb ad optimization platform
  • Chute — Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or…
  • Priceonomics — We help companies turn their data into great stories.

YC Summer 2012 — 4 Marketing startups

  • Mth Sense — We're a mobile on-device profiling and ad-serving platform initially…
  • Virool — Virool provides native video advertising experience for the biggest…
  • LeanMarket — Mobile advertising
  • OmniVirt — OmniVirt is the leading VR Advertising platform for brands and…

YC Summer 2011 — 6 Marketing startups

  • Vidyard — Video for business.
  • OneSignal — Engage customers through personalized omni-channel messaging
  • Perfect Audience — Self-service display advertising for SaaS and online retail.
  • Dubjoy — Dubjoy translates and voice-overs your video to any language
  • Videopixie — Marketplace for Video Production Services. We help you hire the best…
  • TapEngage — Touch-friendly marketing, acquired by Dropbox

YC Winter 2011 — 3 Marketing startups

  • Earbits — Google AdWords for music. Allowing bands and labels to bid for…
  • Hotspots — Real-time analytics (acq by TWTR, 2012)
  • Userfox — User retention as a service. Drip email

YC Summer 2010 — 3 Marketing startups

  • Tapzilla — Woot for iOS apps.
  • DemandSphere — SEO & Content Marketing Intelligence
  • AdGrok — Easy SEM software. Acquired by Twitter in 2011.

YC Winter 2010 — 3 Marketing startups

  • OwnLocal — OwnLocal automates marketing for over 129,000 SMBs through 3,300…
  • All Screen — Connecting users with engaging video content across the web.…
  • Infoharmoni

YC Winter 2009 — 2 Marketing startups

  • Volantio — Post-booking revenue and capacity optimization for airlines…
  • PetaSales

YC Summer 2009 — 2 Marketing startups

  • Fanchatter — FanChatter aggregates, amplifies and empowers fan content on every…
  • AdThrow

YC Winter 2008 — 1 Marketing startups

  • A Thinking Ape — We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games

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