# Lily AI

> Lily AI is a Mountain View-based retail AI company that translates the language of the customer into the language of the catalog. Its platform uses computer vision, NLP and large language models to enrich product data with thousands of consumer-centric attributes - powering site search, recommendations, SEO/SEM and demand forecasting for retailers like Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Gap and thredUP.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founders:** Purva Gupta (Co-founder & CEO), Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan (Co-founder & COO)
- **Team size:** ~130 employees
- **Products:** Product Attributes Platform, Lily AI for E-commerce, Lily AI for SEO/SEM & Retail Media, Product Copy Generation, Demand Forecasting & Merchandise Planning
- **Notable:** Named to CB Insights' Top 100 Retail Tech Companies (2023)., thredUP reported a 15% sell-through lift after rolling out Lily AI across categories., Customer roster includes Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Gap Inc., thredUP.

## Products & services

- **Product Attributes Platform** — AI-powered enrichment engine that adds thousands of customer-centric attributes (style, fit, occasion, trend) to every product in a retailer's catalog.
- **Lily AI for E-commerce** — Improves site search relevance, recommendations, filters and facets using enriched, consumer-language attributes.
- **Lily AI for SEO/SEM & Retail Media** — Enriches product feeds for Google Shopping, paid search and retail media networks to lift organic traffic and ad performance.
- **Product Copy Generation** — Generative AI that writes brand-aligned product descriptions optimized for click-through, conversion and search.
- **Demand Forecasting & Merchandise Planning** — Surfacing micro-trend signals and customer intent data to inform buying, planning and assortment decisions.

## Achievements

- Named to CB Insights' Top 100 Retail Tech Companies (2023).
- thredUP reported a 15% sell-through lift after rolling out Lily AI across categories.
- Customer roster includes Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Gap Inc., thredUP.
- Raised $59.5M+ total funding across Seed, Series A and two Series B tranches.
- Built one of the largest retail-specific product attribute taxonomies in the industry (15,000+ attributes).

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Closed $20M Series B-1 led by Conductive Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $59.5M+.
- **2023-03** — Named to CB Insights' Top 100 Retail Tech list.
- **2023** — Expanded deployments with Bloomingdale's and thredUP for AI-powered product attribution.
- **2022-08** — Closed $25M Series B to scale across the retail value chain.

## Links

- Website: https://lily.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lilyai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/getlilyapp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lilyai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilyai_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetLilyapp/

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Last updated: 2026-05-28