Kana is a San-Francisco startup that has built a suite of “loosely coupled” AI agents designed to plug into legacy marketing stacks and handle end-to-end tasks including data analysis, customer engagement, campaign optimization and chatbot tuning. Marketers can upload briefs, after which Kana’s agents autonomously research audiences, plan media, launch tests and iterate, all while keeping humans in the loop for approvals and feedback. The platform also generates synthetic data to supplement third-party datasets, reducing marketers’ data costs and accelerating experimentation. Flexibility and real-time configurability are positioned as Kana’s primary competitive advantages over both large incumbents and newer point-solution startups. The company was incubated for nine months inside the founders’ startup studio, super{set}, and is led by serial ad-tech entrepreneurs CEO Tom Chavez and CTO Vivek Vaidya, whose prior ventures Rapt and Krux were acquired by Microsoft and Salesforce respectively. Kana plans to deploy its new capital toward expanding engineering, product and go-to-market teams. To date, Kana has raised $15 million and has not disclosed revenue or user metrics.

Total raised

$15M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Feb 2026