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Top Marketing Startups in 2026

Growth, SEO, content, and customer acquisition tools

Last updated

2026-07-17

The Marketing category collects 172 tech startups indexed on techstartupslist.com. Growth, SEO, content, and customer acquisition tools. Notable companies in this space include 1stCollab, 500Friends, A Thinking Ape, Absurd, and AdGrok — each profile links to the company's own site, lists open roles when their careers page is scrapable, and surfaces team size, founding year, and category tags. Common themes across these Marketing startups: Marketing, B2B, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising. Filtering by any of these tags in the directory narrows the list further. Geographically, the Marketing index leans toward San Francisco, New York and London, with the rest spread across remote-first teams and other hubs. Many of these companies came in through the Y Combinator scrape (batches F24, F25, S08, S10); 2 are currently flagged as trending based on recent momentum signals; and the index refreshes daily so this page stays current as funding rounds close, jobs open, and new entrants ship. For a broader view, see the full directory or jump to Marketing jobs to apply directly — every outbound link goes to the company's own site, not a paywalled middleman.

Open-source link attribution platform.

Open SourceAnalyticsMarketing

Digital Analytics Platform

Developer ToolsB2BAnalytics

The leading Composable CDP and AI Decisioning platform

MarketingEnterprise SoftwareAI

Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningMarketing

the best loyalty and retention marketing partner for CMOs.

We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games

The Creative OS for AI video

Generative AIVideoMedia

Easy SEM software. Acquired by Twitter in 2011.

AnalyticsAdvertising

AI Affiliate Network For Financial Companies

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2B

Shopify for Beauty and Wellness businesses in Latam

Podium for local businesses in Latam

We help high-growth startups go viral on autopilot

Connecting users with engaging video content across the web.…

Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy.

Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email

SalesMarketingSMS

Be the Answer in AI Search - AI SEO across SEO, GEO & AEO

Simulations of real people for market research

Artificial IntelligenceB2BMarketing

GTM signals engine for sales teams. Automate warm outbound with AI.

B2BSalesMarketing

BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011

SaaSData Engineering

ML Marketing Infrastructure

SaaSB2BAnalytics

Creator marketing that scales like paid ads

MarketingAdvertisingCreator Economy

Digital AI humans that model clothes for e-commerce brands.

Generative AIMachine LearningMarketing

Bizzy is omni-channel marketing for ecommerce businesses.

E-CommerceMarketing

Bizzy works 24/7 so you never miss a lead.

Workflow AutomationSalesMarketing

Marketing automation for the modern world

The brand layer for agents.

MarketingInfrastructureAI

Canva for short-form video ads

B2BSocial MediaVideo

Advertising platform tools for marketplace sellers.

MarketplaceAdvertising

Premier growth platform for restaurants

SaaSB2BMessaging

Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIE-commerce

Empower your customer service team through AI & automation.

Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns

Artificial IntelligenceMarketingEnterprise Software

Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or…

Social MediaMarketingAutomation

Event marketing CRM

Sales Enablement

Build governed AI agents on your own data, without code

Artificial IntelligenceSalesMarketing

Causal Analytics for Growth Teams

All-in-one marketing measurement for B2C

SaaSAnalyticsE-commerce

The fastest way to build an AI agent

Artificial IntelligenceAnalyticsMarketing

Real-time AI translator for global sales and marketing

Artificial IntelligenceB2BSales

Making sense of social data. (Acquired by SimplyMeasured.)

AnalyticsSocial

Learn how to build a scalable growth engine

EducationB2BMedia

SEO & Content Marketing Intelligence

GPT Search & Merchandising for fashion e-commerce

PersonalizationE-commerceFashion

Open-source customer engagement & messaging automation

B2BMessagingOpen Source

AI Email Production - Emails on brand, guaranteed to work, fast.

Google AdWords for music. Allowing bands and labels to bid for…

AdvertisingMusic

Real-time Nielsen ratings for Brands.Accelerate marketing and product…

AnalyticsSocial

One stop shop for creators to launch, manage & grow their knowledge…

SaaSProductivityMarketing

Making the JVM faster

DevOpsCloud Computing

Your marketing agent for organic, paid, and AI search.

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2B

AI Creative Strategist

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSAnalytics

Create step by step articles with screenshots and videos 10x faster

Artificial IntelligenceProductivitySales Enablement

Create Whiteboard Explainer Videos with AI from a Prompt or Document

EducationeLearningVideo

OpenClaw-style AI coworkers for GTM teams

Artificial IntelligenceVideoMarketing

Close and activate your customers on WhatsApp

SaaSB2BProductivity

Marketing automation for event promoters (email, sms, ads, CRM)

The operating system for inbound B2B revenue

SaaSB2BAnalytics

After School & Enrichment Activities Marketplace

MarketplaceEdtech

Real-time analytics (acq by TWTR, 2012)

Hublo is making data-driven marketing simpler. It's a super simple…

AnalyticsMarketing

We reverse engineer B2B growth, starting with LinkedIn.

Artificial IntelligenceB2BSales

Customize videos to be more relevant and improve business outcomes.

AnalyticsVideoPersonalization

In-Person, Hybrid and Virtual Event Management Software

Scale marketing campaigns across hundreds of personas

Artificial IntelligenceB2BSocial Media

Instant Labs builds modern tools to help you find and buy domain…

SaaSB2BMarketing

AI that creates & tests 100s of landing pages for your product

Design ToolsMarketingAI

AppLovin for the food community

GroceryMarketplaceE-commerce

Agentic Marketing Platform

Reinforcement LearningWorkflow AutomationPersonalization

Marketing agency for startups: 10x cheaper, better and faster

SaaSB2BAnalytics

Screen recorder for stunning product demo videos

VideoMediaMarketing

AI Lead Generator

SaaSB2BMarketing

AI coworker for marketing teams at the largest consumer brands

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2B

AI that creates and runs ads, end-end

Artificial IntelligenceB2BMarketing

A Unified Editor For AI Video

B2BVideoMarketing

App for B2B companies to find customer stories and advocates

Open source mobile marketing platform. Alternative to appcues /…

SaaSB2BOpen Source

The CRM powering iconic musicians and events

SaaSMessagingEnterprise

LeadGenius is an account-based marketing and lead generation…

B2BSalesMarketing

Book more meetings with conversational intent

Generative AISalesMarketing

Machine Learning personalization for dynamic digital properties -…

Machine LearningPersonalization

Lob is the only automation platform that transforms direct mail into…

Email sending for startups

Automatically fill empty appointment slots for beauty professionals

SaaSB2BMarketing

Real-time governance for enterprise communications

B2BComplianceMarketing

No-code email marketing platform to send forms & widgets within emails

Prevents your emails from landing in spam.

SaaSB2BMarketing

Drive leads with SEO and AEO.

Scale new user acquisition with YouTube Creators

MarketplaceB2BSocial Media

AgentRel — Devrel For Agents

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsB2B

Empowering local retailers with tech that works for them.

MarketplaceMarketingRetail Tech

Marketing campaigns from everything your team ships

Developer ToolsAnalyticsMarketing

Turn product features into launch videos

DesignDesign ToolsVideo

Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans…

ConsumerGamingSocial

Animated mobile ads.

Consumer focus groups run by AI

Artificial IntelligenceB2BMarketing

We're a mobile on-device profiling and ad-serving platform initially…

PrivacyAdvertising

Interactive product demos

Low-code SaaS for marketing in push notifications

AI-native platform for corporate meetings and events

Artificial IntelligenceB2BLogistics

OmniVirt is the leading VR Advertising platform for brands and…

Engage customers through personalized omni-channel messaging

Developer ToolsSaaSB2B

The first all-in-one operating system for marketing

Create automated messages -- email, iOS/Android push, SMS and web…

MessagingAnalyticsNotifications

OwnLocal automates marketing for over 129,000 SMBs through 3,300…

PartnerStack is a full stack solution for partnerships.

MarketplaceSaaSB2B

AI Event Manager for in-person events

SaaSB2BMarketing

The AI operating system for restaurants

PaymentsConsumerB2B

Perfect Audience

Self-service display advertising for SaaS and online retail.

SaaSAdvertising

Rebuilding data in advertising to protect privacy

PrivacyAdvertising

Create, launch, and optimize Facebook ads and ads on 10+ platforms

MarketingAdvertising

Ploy turns your website into your company's growth engine.

Artificial IntelligenceMarketingEnterprise Software

AI tool that finds you leads on Reddit and sends them hyper…

SaaSB2BMarketing

Software for collaborating with content creators and influencers

A modern platform for content marketing & SEO.

SaaSMarketingSEO

The SMS revenue platform for e-commerce merchants

We help companies turn their data into great stories.

RankAI grows your website on autopilot

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2B

Turn intuition into insights, in minutes

Artificial IntelligenceB2BGaming

Run, Track and manage any and all user incentive campaigns.

SaaSB2BMarketing

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsMarketing

Self-improving content bank for marketing

Artificial IntelligenceReinforcement LearningSaaS

Marketing automation platform for selling to local businesses.

LinkedIn content consultancy and scheduling platform for busy founders

B2BSocial MediaMarketing

AI edited video souvenirs as a service

Machine LearningSaaSSports Tech

Interactive Product Demos

Make websites improve themselves.

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2B

Marketing suite for the agentic web

Artificial IntelligenceAnalyticsMarketing

Subscriptions for Shopify

FintechB2BE-commerce

Send texts your customers actually want over RCS

B2BAPIMarketing

The AI performance marketing agent for entrepreneurs and growth teams

Artificial IntelligenceB2BMarketing

Al platform that makes social marketing as easy as running a Google…

SaaSB2BMarketing

Al platform that makes social marketing as easy as running a Google…

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2B

The easiest way to create a beautiful, mobile optimized website.

A place for independent writing.

Sales AI for your Website

SaaSB2BMarketing

Super Send automates personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn,…

B2BSalesSales Enablement

AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams

Artificial IntelligenceSaaSDesign Tools

Building the AI-powered marketing ops platform that turns website…

SalesMarketingAdvertising

Swayable predicts consumer opinion and the impact of content

Machine Learning

Social listening for the video era

Generative AISaaSB2B

Touch-friendly marketing, acquired by Dropbox

Woot for iOS apps.

AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content

Generative AIB2BDesign Tools

AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform.

Artificial IntelligenceTelehealthSocial Media

Drop in growth system for scaling startups

SaaSB2BMarketing

Mobile marketing analytics and infrastructure

Real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and GTM teams

The Prompting Company

We help products get discovered & used by AI agents.

The AI verification layer for trusted clinical trials in India.

MarketingMarket Research

Thunkable is the no-code platform to build powerful native mobile apps

Developer ToolsSaaSDesign Tools

AI for Underserved Industries

MarketingCustomer SupportAI

We help companies scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp

MessagingMarketingAutomation

ai revenue engine for service businesses

Artificial IntelligenceSalesSales Enablement

The content engine that wins attention and drives growth.

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISocial Media

Fast, professional content creation with AI audio, image, and video.

Market to AI agents

SalesMarketingAI

Advertising for the new internet

Generative AISaaSB2B

Meet qualified leads in person by automating conference production

Artificial IntelligenceB2BCommunity

Marketplace for Video Production Services. We help you hire the best…

MarketplaceVideo

Video for business.

Virool provides native video advertising experience for the biggest…

VideoAdvertising

Post-booking revenue and capacity optimization for airlines…

Professional website design and publishing platform.

SaaSDesignMarketing

Build a free website that grows with your business.

Manage your website from your favorite tools like Airtable and Notion

SaaSRemote WorkNo-code

AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIE-commerce

Online form builder.

SaaSProductivity

Make sales and marketing videos with AI.

YesGraph recommends exactly who a user should invite to an app. Our…

SocialReferrals

Interactive email builder for ecommerce brands

E-commerceMarketingEmail

AI copilot for real-estate sales teams, powered by proprietary data

Real EstateSalesMarketing

Recreating social networks for brands.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the top Marketing startups in 2026?

Based on our index, 1stCollab, 500Friends and A Thinking Ape are among the leading Marketing startups tracked on techstartupslist.com. The full list ranks 172 companies in this category.

How many Marketing startups are in the techstartupslist.com directory?

We currently index 172 Marketing startups. New entries are added automatically as they are discovered from Y Combinator, Greenhouse, Ashby, and other sources.

How often is the Marketing category updated?

The Marketing listing is refreshed daily by an automated scraper that pulls from Y Combinator and other public sources. The last index update for this page was 2026-07-17.

Where can I find jobs at Marketing startups?

Open roles at indexed Marketing startups are aggregated on our jobs page at https://www.techstartupslist.com/jobs. Each role links directly to the company's official application page — we don't act as a middleman.

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