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Promoted.ai

Promoted.ai is a YC Winter 2021 (W21) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 12.

  • Machine Learning
  • Marketplace
  • B2B
  • E-commerce

About Promoted.ai

GPAgent's own fund-neutral profile, written from public information. Updated Oct 5, 2026.

Summary

Promoted.ai builds AI-powered search, feed ranking, and native ads infrastructure for online marketplaces and large-scale e-commerce platforms. It serves publicly traded and late-stage marketplace companies, replacing in-house relevance and monetization systems built by their engineering teams. The product connects buyers and sellers by surfacing more relevant results and ads across search and feed surfaces.

Go-to-market

Promoted.ai sells directly to engineering and product teams at established marketplace companies, targeting organizations with the scale and revenue stakes to justify replacing custom-built ranking systems.

From the Y Combinator listing

How Promoted.ai describes itself in Y Combinator's public directory. Original listing (opens in a new tab)

Dramatically better search and ads for marketplaces

Promoted.ai unifies search, native ads, and feed ranking for online marketplaces and scaled e-commerce apps to dramatically improve relevance (and revenue) using AI. We are a team of ex-Google, Meta, and Pinterest ads engineers. Our customers are publicly traded and late-stage marketplace companies like Eventbrite, Upwork, and Outschool. Our mission is to connect every buyer and seller.

Facts

Industry
B2B / B2B
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size
12
Status
Acquired
Stage
Early

Founders (1)

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