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Subsets (YC S23) — AI-driven retention automation for subscription media businesses

Subsets is the leading lifecycle growth platform for consumer subscription teams. We are building the AI decisioning layer that unifies and powers the existing growth stack, enabling teams to automate and scale lifecycle experimentation, orchestrate personalized user journeys, and measure impact across retention, engagement, and LTV without engineering support.

Subsets is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI-driven Retention Automation for subscription media businesses. The founders listed are Martin Johnsen (Founder), Oliver Brandt (Founder), Nikolai Skelbo (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 17, 2023).

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Subsets

New accelerator entry · 2023-07-17 · the record

Summer 2023
batch
7
people
Early
stage
Denmark
region
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BatchSummer 2023
Announced2023-07-17
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size7
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B
SectorsMachine Learning, B2B, Enterprise Software, AI
RegionsDenmark, Europe
BasedCopenhagen, Denmark
HiringYes
Sitehttps://www.subsets.com

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Subsets is the leading lifecycle growth platform for consumer subscription teams. We are building the AI decisioning layer that unifies and powers the existing growth stack, enabling teams to automate and scale lifecycle experimentation, orchestrate personalized user journeys, and measure impact across retention, engagement, and LTV without engineering support. Trusted by consumer subscription businesses like The Atlantic, NBCUniversal, Daily Mail, Matas Group, and Hearst. Subsets has raised $6.1m and launched out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch in San Francisco, and is now based in Copenhagen.

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