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Promoted.ai

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.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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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.

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Promoted.ai is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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AIsearchnative adsfeed rankingbuyer and selleronline marketplacesonline marketplaces and scaled e-commerce apps
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Promoted.ai

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Semantics3

match 69

Our products: - Data APIs/Feeds (Retail feeds, UPC lookups, Keyword search) - AI APIs (Categorization, Attribute extraction/NER, Matching) - Dashboards (Analytics reports, Price monitoring) We offer enterprise solutions for: - E-commerce Marketplaces (catalog generation & enrichment, seller on-boarding) - Logistics (HTS/tariff classification, attribute enrichment) - Brands (market share & trend reports, price monitoring)

shared extracted concept terms: marketplace, commerce; shared product terms: search, feed, marketplace, commerce; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Miniswap

match 58

Miniswap a marketplace for complex hobbies, starting with Warhammer. In hobbies as complex as Warhammer, finding what you want on general marketplaces is a huge pain. Filters don't work, free-form listings mean that products are regularly misidentified, and piles of counterfeit junk crowd search results. Miniswap saves hobbyists from this chaos with its catalogue of more than 20,000 unique miniatures. Sellers match their listings against Miniswap's catalogue giving buyers more information and st

shared extracted concept terms: buyer, marketplace; shared product terms: marketplace, search, seller, buyer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Clickfacts

match 58

ClickFacts is a Malware Software Solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media. Its automated plug and play malware discovery solution tests online ads (SWFs & 3rd Party Ad Tags) and web pages within websites to ensure they do not distribute malware onto users’ computers (which can lead to identity theft). Its moderation software solution monitors websites to ensure the ads running on them are free of inappropriate content (e.g., nudity, racism), and its Ad Buddy product provides to

shared extracted concept terms: online, ads; shared product terms: buyer, seller, online, ads; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Voker

match 48

Voker is the Agent Analytics Platform for monitoring and improving your AI agents. Companies like Dutch.com use our SDK to build better agents. Alex and Tyler met at a high-growth E-Commerce startup where Tyler was running Technology & Data. Together, they built AI products that bootstrapped the company profitably to $100MM in Revenue.

shared extracted concept terms: commerce; shared product terms: companie, like, commerce, revenue; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Polar Search

match 39

Search Engine For Products. Sellers can find any retail product with just an image. Better than Google, Bing and ChatGPT.

shared extracted concept terms: seller; shared product terms: search, seller, google; shared product theme: sales and marketing

Pardon

match 29

Boosting profit of Food Apps & E-Commerce Platforms with AI.

shared extracted concept terms: commerce; shared product terms: apps, commerce; same category: AI infrastructure