After a Y Combinator rejection, this founder raised $15 million for his AI search startup. Read the pitch deck.
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After a Y Combinator rejection, this founder raised $15 million for his AI search startup. Read the pitch deck.
"Daydream combines AI agents that handle SEO work such as keyword strategy, content creation, and technical audits with humans who oversee strategy and execution. The work of optimization in AI search is about 90% of what you would do for SEO anyway, relying on relevant content, backlinks, mentions, and crawlability."
"CEO Thenuka Karunaratne got his start in SEO by building affiliate websites in high school. He reframed the process of raising funds as a learning experience rather than a win-or-lose outcome, which helped him pick up customer leads from investors who passed."
"Funding will help scale Daydream's product and engineering teams, as well as expand the number of growth leads, the human SEO employees who guide its AI agents. Daydream's customers include marketing and SEO heads at companies with 20 to 1,000 employees."
Daydream, an SEO agency, has secured $15 million in funding to integrate AI agents with human oversight for SEO tasks like keyword strategy and content creation. The Series A round was led by WndrCo, with participation from First Round Capital and Basis Set Ventures. CEO Thenuka Karunaratne emphasized that generative AI's role in search optimization closely mirrors traditional SEO practices. Daydream aims to scale its product and engineering teams while expanding its human SEO workforce to better serve clients, which include various startups and companies of different sizes.
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