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YC Marketing startups

174 Y Combinator companies in Marketing, 15 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 1.9%, up from 1.9% in the four batches before. About 35% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

Signal
Active
Since 2025
27 vs 18 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
33%
Listed as inactive
25%

Share of each batch

Marketing companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.

Newest entrants

Of 109 Marketing companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 36 as acquired, 0 as public, 46 as active and 27 as inactive.

  • Adside.ai F26 · AI agency that manages paid ads on Meta, Google, LinkedIn, etc.
  • Native F26 · Artificial Intuition for marketing
  • OpenSEO F26 · Open source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs

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174 companies

  • Adside.ai

    AI agency that manages paid ads on Meta, Google, LinkedIn, etc.

    AI
    Fall 2026Marketing2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Native

    Artificial Intuition for marketing

    AI
    Fall 2026Marketing6San Francisco, CA, USA
  • OpenSEO

    Open source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs

    Fall 2026Marketing2Boston, MA, USA
  • Theo

    The site-builder and engine that gets your business found.

    AI
    Fall 2026MarketingNew York City, NY, USA
  • Voyager

    Open harness for video and other creative work.

    Fall 2026Marketing6New York City, NY, USA
  • TryNearby

    Local creators for local businesses

    Summer 2026Marketing5Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • CharacterQuilt

    Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns

    Spring 2026Marketing4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • InstaAgent

    Scale marketing campaigns across hundreds of personas

    Spring 2026Marketing10San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Kuli

    AI coworker for marketing teams at the largest consumer brands

    Spring 2026Marketing1Paris, Île-de-France, France
  • Manicule

    AgentRel — Devrel For Agents

    Spring 2026Marketing8San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Pavoot

    AI Event Manager for in-person events

    Spring 2026MarketingSan Francisco, CA, USA
  • PumpGTM

    Find and engage with desperate buyers across LinkedIn, Email, and X

    Spring 2026Marketing5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Revnu

    Your AI growth hire.

    AI
    Spring 2026Marketing3Manchester, England, United Kingdom
  • tday.com

    AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content

    Spring 2026Marketing2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Sitefire

    Marketing suite for the agentic web

    AI
    Winter 2026Marketing2BY, Germany
  • Absurd

    The production canvas for AI film teams

    AI
    Fall 2025Marketing10Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Bluma

    Canva for short-form video ads

    Fall 2025Marketing2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Lapis

    AI that creates and runs ads, end-end

    AI
    Fall 2025Marketing5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Tell if AI

    AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform.

    AI
    Fall 2025Marketing2Austin, TX, USA
  • The Hog

    Real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and GTM teams

    Fall 2025Marketing2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Uplane

    Replace marketing agencies with AI

    AI
    Fall 2025Marketing26San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Bizzy AI

    Bizzy works 24/7 so you never miss a lead.

    AI
    Summer 2025MarketingNew York City, NY, USA
  • Knowlify

    Done-for-you AI video ads and Meta campaign management

    Summer 2025Marketing6San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Motives

    Consumer focus groups run by AI

    AI
    Summer 2025MarketingLondon, England, United Kingdom

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