Simplified is a San Francisco-based AI-powered content creation and marketing platform that enables teams to design, write marketing copy, create videos, collaborate, and publish to social channels in one place. The company is led by CEO and co-founder KD Deshpande and COO and co-founder Ajay Yadav and operates a global, remote-first team of ten people across the US, Mexico, Bangladesh, India, and Armenia. Simplified raised $8.5M in seed funding to expand operations, amplify its machine learning models, enhance the AI copywriting experience, and broaden support for Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, French, and Malay. In five months the product attracted more than 150,000 new users and generated 300 million words through its AI copywriting tool. Investors in the round include Craft Ventures (lead), Khosla Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, 8-Bit Capital, Mads Johnsen (CPO, Calm), Manik Gupta (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft), and Ankur Nagpal (Founder of Teachable, Vibe Capital). The company intends to use the funding to scale operations and improve its machine-learning capabilities while continuing to grow its user base. Simplified is a San Francisco, CA–based provider of marketing-focused design software led by KD Deshpande. Its platform leverages machine learning to automate content creation, including copy, imagery, format and sizing, and offers collaborative tools for teams to share work and assets across an organization. The system also integrates with stock photo and video services. The company raised $2.2M in funding and said it will use the proceeds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. Investors include a mix of venture firms and angels who participated in the round. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Dec 2021