Hunch is a creative performance platform that unifies creative, media, and insights so paid-social teams can build, launch, and learn faster across Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok. Founded in Belgrade in 2018, it automates dynamic product ads, catalog product video, and hyper-local campaigns at scale, using AI to turn performance data into better creative. Its customers are mid-market and growth-stage e-commerce, retail, travel, and betting brands that want the automation power of enterprise tools like Smartly without the enterprise overhead.
SelfMade is a New York-based AI creative company behind Skipper, a creative intelligence platform that scrapes customer reviews, Reddit threads, Amazon feedback and social comments to build audience personas and generate on-brand performance ads at scale. Originally founded in 2015 as an Instagram commerce app, the company pivoted through agency work before rebuilding around AI-driven creative production for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands.
Genus AI is a generative-AI marketing platform for direct-to-consumer and e-commerce brands. It turns a product catalog into thousands of on-brand ad creatives, videos, seed audiences and copy, then distributes and optimizes them across Meta, TikTok, Google, Pinterest and other channels. Founded in 2017 by brothers Tadas and Viktoras Jucikas, the company pairs a Nashville headquarters with a machine-learning hub in Vilnius, Lithuania, and generates tens of millions of catalog images and videos each month.
Creatify AI is a Mountain View startup building an end-to-end AI ad platform that turns a product URL into ready-to-run, UGC-style video ads. Founded by former Meta and Snap AI leaders, it generates scripts, voiceovers, and lifelike avatars, then tests and optimizes ads across TikTok, Meta, YouTube and more. The company crossed $9M in ARR within roughly 18 months and raised a $15.5M Series A in May 2025 co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures.
Scalify is an AI-powered ad management and automation platform that lets businesses launch, analyze, optimize, and scale Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Google ads from a single dashboard. Built originally as a Shopify app for e-commerce and dropshipping store owners, it automates the grunt work of media buying - building hundreds of custom and lookalike audiences in seconds, generating ad creatives and copy with AI, running 24/7 rule-based optimization, and shifting budget toward winning ads - so smaller brands can advertise like they have an in-house agency without the agency price tag.