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ClearBrain (YC W18) — Causal analytics for growth teams

ClearBrain (YC W18) is a startup building the first self-serve AI platform for growth marketing. We help companies automatically predict and retarget users when they are most likely to purchase.

ClearBrain is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Causal Analytics for Growth Teams. The founders listed are Bilal Mahmood (Founder/CEO), Eric Pollmann (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 2, 2017).

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ClearBrain

New accelerator entry · 2017-11-02 · the record

Winter 2018
batch
10
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2018
Announced2017-11-02
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size10
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Marketing
SectorsAnalytics
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://clearbrain.com/

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ClearBrain (YC W18) is a startup building the first self-serve AI platform for growth marketing. We help companies automatically predict and retarget users when they are most likely to purchase. We’re led by the founding engineers of Google Ads and Optimizely’s data infrastructure teams, and backed by investors in Dropbox, Optimizely, and AdMob. We’re a deeply technical team who value humility and customer empathy above all. As a group we’re also pretty good at bowling, D&D, and Rubik’s cubes. We are building an advanced analytics platform with the challenge of making it accessible to a smart, capable clientele of growth experts that demands ease of use, utility, high availability and good responsiveness. You’ll join a startup environment where you'll be exposed to a variety of backend, frontend, machine learning frameworks in a fast-moving company!

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