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Upwave

Upwave is the #1 marketing analytics platform for the world's biggest brand marketers. Upwave's software shows marketers the impact and effectiveness of their brand investments. We use data science and machine learning to answer an age-old question: does brand advertising work? Upwave's enterprise platform is used by the blue-chip marketers like Unilever, Clorox, Verizon, American Express, T-Mobile, Corona, State Farm, Uber, and dozens more. Upwave was launched in Y Combinator and is a fast-grow

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Y Combinator

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Upwave is the #1 marketing analytics platform for the world's biggest brand marketers. Upwave's software shows marketers the impact and effectiveness of their brand investments. We use data science and machine learning to answer an age-old question: does brand advertising work? Upwave's enterprise platform is used by the blue-chip marketers like Unilever, Clorox, Verizon, American Express, T-Mobile, Corona, State Farm, Uber, and dozens more. Upwave was launched in Y Combinator and is a fast-grow

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Upwave 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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Companies similar to Upwave

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.

Edlyft

match 71

Edlyft, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Kapor Capital, and YC, builds software that blue-chip enterprises like Google and Dropbox use to train college computer science students on essential skills required for the workforce, so they can be productive day one. It takes new grad engineers 6-12 months to ramp up and add value to their company. Instead of relying on experienced engineers and wasting salary costs, Tinder and LinkedIn use Edlyft to train college CS students before they’re hired on skills t

shared extracted concept terms: blue, chip, enterprise; shared product terms: blue, chip, enterprise, like; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Argon AI, Inc.

match 54

Argon AI is a platform where biopharma and life sciences professionals can execute complex and data driven workflows using natural language. We help professionals get thorough answers to questions about clinical trials, existing treatments, healthcare landscape, and the competitive market in minutes rather than months. Prior to starting Argon, Samy was responsible for Flatiron Health’s (Roche) first data analytics project which eventually led to the start of the Flatiron Services business unit.

shared extracted concept terms: science; shared product terms: science, answer, question, market; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Narrator

match 49

Narrator is an end-to-end platform built on top of the data standard, the Activity Schema and starting at $500/mo. Data analyst are able to build their definitions of their user journey, and use that journey to answer any question that comes up. From there, data can be visualized in a dashboard, used to build a story like analysis, exported and more. The biggest values of Narrator is Speed and Cost reduction. Small teams are able to move fast and answer questions in minutes allowing them to pref

shared product terms: answer, question, used, like; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Evidently AI

match 48

We are building an open-source standard to monitor ML models in production. The tool is used by enterprise data science teams to operate their models reliably and detect and resolve issues.

shared extracted concept terms: enterprise, science; shared product terms: used, enterprise, science; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Superside

match 46

Superside is the world's leading AI-first creative partner for enterprise teams. We help marketing and creative teams at brands like Amazon, Microsoft, Reddit, DoorDash and Intuit scale high-quality, on-brand creative without the cost or complexity of traditional agencies. We are not a traditional agency, a freelance marketplace or a standalone AI tool. Superside combines a global team of expert designers, writers, motion artists and strategists with AI-powered workflows and Superspace — our pro

shared extracted concept terms: enterprise; shared product terms: enterprise, market, brand, like; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vexrail

match 19

Analytics and Advertising for AI

shared product terms: analytic, advertis; same category: AI infrastructure