Veriad (YC W26) — AI operating system for advertising
Veriad is building marketing agents for enterprises to run advertising campaigns end-to-end in-house.
Veriad is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI operating system for advertising. The founders listed are Rohan Mahendraker (Founder/CEO), Anton Muratov (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 3, 2026).
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Connect strategy, planning, creative, campaigns, optimization, measurement, and reporting in one AI operating system for advertising.
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Rohan Mahendraker
Founder/CEO
Rohan is the co-founder and CEO of Veriad. He is a self-taught software engineer and has built and sold compliance software to Fortune 500s. Before Veriad, Rohan was a founding engineer at CoLoop (YC S21), where he built their eval suite and AI agent.
Anton Muratov
Founder
Anton is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Veriad. He previously closed 7-figure deals with the largest bank in the US, the largest fashion group in the world, and advised Fortune 500s on regulatory policy. Before Veriad he advised YC startups and 9-figure scale-ups on GTM. In a previous life he was a competitive long-distance runner.
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