Pomo, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of an agentic marketing intelligence platform built for mid-market, has raised $4.5 million in a Seed funding round led by Kindred Ventures.
The round also saw participation from Databricks Ventures, Seven Stars, SV Angel, Timeless Partners, 645 Ventures and angels including Scott Belsky, Mehdi Ghissassi, and Massimo Mascaro.
The company plans to use the funds to grow its operations and speed up development.
Marketing is becoming harder because decisions need to be made faster, but better judgment hasn’t kept up. With more channels and faster feedback, teams are constantly making choices about campaigns, budgets and content, which creates a lot of noise and distraction. Instead of focusing on what really matters, teams often react to dashboards and small tasks.
Pomo solves this by acting as a continuous intelligence system for marketing teams. It doesn’t wait for commands—instead, it constantly tracks competitors, customer signals, trends, and performance to highlight the most important priorities each day. It then suggests actions and can even help execute them with set rules. By combining internal business data with external market insights, Pomo gives recommendations that match how the company actually works, and it keeps improving over time based on results.
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Ai4 partnered early with Pomo to improve marketing for its 2026 global conference, and its founder, Marcus Jecklin, also became an investor. Pomo is also working with the Confederation of Indian Industry. It is testing its AI marketing platform with global design partners, with early adoption from D2C and consumer brands in lifestyle, hospitality, and real estate.
These pilots show that Pomo can detect market, and competitor signals earlier than existing tools, replace hours of manual research with daily prioritized action plans, turn insights directly into executable workflows, and ensure all outputs stay brand safe through built in policy controls.
“Marketing teams today have to make faster decisions across more channels, but their tools haven’t kept up,” said Praneet Dutta of Pomo. “They are overloaded with scattered data and often make important decisions without the full picture. Pomo brings everything into one system that tracks what matters, suggests actions and helps execute safely within brand rules so that small teams can perform like much larger ones.”
“Marketing has evolved from manual work to AI copilots, but the next step is fixing real execution problems,” said Steve Jang of Kindred Ventures. “Pomo brings together market signals and competitive insights and helps teams create what they need, from positioning to campaign plans.”
Pomo was co-founded by CEO Praneet Dutta and CTO Joe Cheuk, who met at Google. The team also includes former engineers from Google and Meta, along with advisors from companies like General Motors and American Express.
About Pomo
Founded in 2025, by Praneet Dutta and CTO Joe Cheuk and based in Palo Alto, California, Pomo is an AI marketing intelligence platform that helps brands understand what matters, why it matters, and what actions to take. It turns scattered data into clear, prioritized decisions and continuously monitors the market, allowing marketing teams to focus on strategy, and execution while becoming much more efficient.
About Kindred Ventures
Founded in 2014, by Steve Jang, Kindred Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that supports founders from the very beginning of their journey. It focuses on product-led teams building long-term companies in areas like technology, infrastructure, and applied AI.
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