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Gradial raises $65M for agentic enterprise marketing
Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money is in the gaps between them.
TL;DR
- Gradial, a Seattle startup, raised $65 million in Series C funding to build an AI layer for marketing.
- The company aims to create an 'operating system for marketing' by developing AI agents that work across multiple existing tools.
- This approach focuses on agent orchestration between software products, not within them.
- Gradial's agents can automate tasks such as content creation, quality assurance, brand compliance, and routing updates through approval chains.
- The company's clients include AWS, Prudential, T-Mobile, Vanguard, Kaiser Permanente, and US Bank.
- T-Mobile reportedly cut campaign execution time by 80-90% using Gradial's platform.