AI marketing platform Mega has secured $11.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate the launch of its AI-driven growth engine designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses.
The Brooklyn-based company aims to replace traditional marketing agencies with a network of autonomous AI agents capable of end-to-end management of digital growth channels. These agents manage and optimize search engine optimization (SEO), paid advertising, website management and new AI search channels, delivering what the company calls predictable customer acquisition without the hassle and variability associated with agency services.
The funding round was led by Goodwater Capital, with additional participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Atreides Management, SignalFire and Kearny Jackson. The round also attracted a group of high-profile angel investors, including WNBA stars Diana Taurasi, Breanna Stewart, Kelsey Plum and Nneka Ogwumike.
Mega’s platform aims to address what its founders see as a structural problem for small businesses in the digital economy: the expectation that they compete through complex marketing channels that are typically optimized for large companies.
Most small businesses need to manage search marketing, paid advertising, websites, and new AI-driven discovery platforms simultaneously, but often don’t have the budget, time, or expertise to do so effectively. Traditional agencies can be expensive and inconsistent, while existing AI tools often require significant technical knowledge and manual input.
Mega’s solution enables marketing execution through software rather than dashboards or toolkits. Once a company signs up, the platform independently plans campaigns, executes tasks and continuously optimizes performance.
From the customer’s perspective, the system works like an outsourced growth team that acts automatically.
“We recognized early on that business owners didn’t want another AI chat tool that required hours of prompts,” said Lucas Pellan, co-founder of Mega. “They want customers. So we developed a system that actually gets the job done.”
Mega’s technology is based on a network of specialized AI agents that coordinate marketing activities across multiple digital channels.
The platform currently focuses on four main areas: SEO, paid advertising, website optimization, and what the company calls GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), which refers to optimizing visibility in AI-driven search and discovery systems.
The system plans campaigns, launches them, tests variants and adjusts strategies based on performance data collected across the entire user base.
According to the company, around 55 percent of the work performed by the system is fully automated, while 35 percent is mostly automated under human supervision. The remaining 10 percent is done manually by skilled workers to ensure quality control and strategic leadership.
This hybrid structure allows the company to scale marketing execution while maintaining reliability and performance standards.
Every campaign run through the system feeds data back into the mega platform, improving the algorithms that generate creative assets, refine targeting, manage bids and optimize conversions.
Mega’s creation came from an unexpected origin story.
The founding team originally built a video game company during the Covid pandemic, when the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT sparked a series of internal experiments with AI tools to accelerate their own marketing growth.
Using the internally developed tools, the company’s organic search traffic increased 100-fold, while paid customer acquisition costs fell by around 80 percent.
As the founders shared the tools with other entrepreneurs, demand grew quickly.
“We kept hearing the same question from founders: ‘Can we use this too?’” Pellan said.
This demand led the team to pivot away from gaming and develop the platform into a standalone growth product for SMBs.
Mega’s early growth was rapid. The company reports that revenue grew from zero to $10 million within ten months of launching its platform.
Customers span a wide range of industries, including home services companies, law firms, healthcare providers, e-commerce brands and software companies.
In one example cited by the company, a Texas-based medical spa increased its search traffic 174x using the platform’s automated SEO tools. A personal injury law firm saw a 243x increase in search visibility and ranked in the top three for key search terms.
Another client, a direct-to-consumer healthcare brand, generated $120,000 in sales through its website while outperforming its Amazon marketplace without increasing ad spend.
Mega says the platform helps businesses across its customer base grow around 20 percent faster on average.
For many customers, the appeal is reducing the complexity of managing digital marketing tools and agencies.
Darin Chase, owner of a home services company that uses the platform, said, “Since working with Mega, we’re finally getting a predictable lead flow. Plus, since Mega manages everything, we can dedicate our time from Facebook marketing to other important projects.”
Mega targets the massive SMB marketing sector across North America, where tens of thousands of agencies serve millions of small businesses.
Despite the size of the market, many SMBs continue to struggle with inconsistent marketing performance, unpredictable customer acquisition costs, and limited visibility into which strategies are actually generating revenue.
As digital advertising becomes more competitive and search ecosystems shift toward AI-driven discovery, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many smaller companies to compete with enterprise-level marketing efforts.
Investors believe Mega’s approach represents a major shift in the way growth services can be delivered.
“Mega represents a fundamental shift in the way SMBs should think about marketing, from paying for effort to paying for measurable, repeatable growth,” said Vivek Subramanian, partner and chief product officer at Goodwater Capital.
With new funding secured, Mega plans to expand its platform beyond its current capabilities.
Future developments include AI-driven management of email marketing, outbound sales campaigns, organic social media growth, lead qualification and sales operations.
The company’s long-term vision is to create a fully automated revenue generation infrastructure that enables small and medium-sized businesses to access enterprise-level marketing capabilities without enterprise-wide costs.
The platform could ultimately act as a unified growth system that manages the entire customer acquisition pipeline for SMBs.
Mega believes that, if successful, his model could fundamentally change the way smaller companies approach marketing in the AI age.
By replacing manual marketing workflows with automated systems that enable continuous optimization, the company aims to empower smaller companies to compete with much larger organizations in increasingly competitive digital markets.
