Vector (YC W23) — Advertising for the new internet
B2B advertising is broken: poor targeting, wasted ad spend, bot traffic, and 3rd party-cookies. Vector helps marketers drive pipeline with contact-level targeting and revealing who's seeing your ads (even if they never convert).
Vector is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Advertising for the new internet. The founders listed are Joshua Perk (Founder), Nick Masters (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 6, 2023).
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B2B advertising is broken: poor targeting, wasted ad spend, bot traffic, and 3rd party-cookies. Vector helps marketers drive pipeline with contact-level targeting and revealing who's seeing your ads (even if they never convert).
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Vector — ABM finally works the way you thought it would
Vector blends contact-level signals, transparently scores every account, puts your ads in front of the buying committee, and proves they moved pipeline.
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Joshua Perk
Founder
Hi 👋🏼 I'm Josh. Building, Vector to help founders find, prioritize, and track the accounts they're most likely to turn into their customers!
Previously:
- Built the SC team @ Drift from Series B - Vista acquisition 🦄
- Exited GrowthStack - A hybrid RevOps agency + SaaS company 🎉
- Exited GoCable - A rapid prototyping SaaS for subsea cables 🐙
- Served as an intel analyst in the USAF ✈️
Nick Masters
Founder
Co-founder and COO of Vector, on a mission to revolutionize how marketing builds a contact based strategy. A US Air Force Veteran and former Instructor Pilot with over 15 years of leadership experience building and training sales teams. Previous to Vector, Co-founder and CEO Josh Perk and I served as executives in charge of Sales Engineering at Drift helping drive a $1.3B acquisition.
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