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Ex-Google DeepMind and Databricks Engineers Launch Pomo to Apply AI Agent Principles to Decision-Dense Marketing Functions

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Ex-Google DeepMind and Databricks Engineers Launch Pomo to Apply AI Agent Principles to Decision-Dense Marketing Functions SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pomo, an agentic marketing intelligence platform built for mid-market, today announced $4.5 million in seed funding led by K indred Ventures, with participation from Databricks Ventures, Seven Stars, SV Angel, Timeless Partners, and 645 Ventures. The round also includes backing from prominent angel investors including Scott Belsky, Mehdi Ghissassi, and Massimo Mascaro, all of whom have led AI and product organizations at Adobe, Google DeepMind, and Google AI. The capital will be used to grow Pomo’s engineering and applied AI team, deepen its real-time market intelligence engine, and accelerate customer adoption.

Marketing is entering a decision crisis: execution has accelerated, but judgment has not. As channels fragment and feedback loops shorten, leaders are forced to make high-stakes decisions more frequently across performance, creative, budget allocation, and compliance. The result is operational noise. Teams spend time reacting to dashboards and one-off tasks instead of prioritizing the few moves that materially shift outcomes.

Pomo addresses this by moving beyond copilots and point solutions to a closed-loop intelligence-and-decision support system that supports, not replaces, marketing teams. Existing tools wait to be prompted, but Pomo works continuously monitoring competitor moves, demand signals, creative trends, and channel performance to surface the few priorities that actually matter each day. It then recommends specific actions and can automate execution with team-defined guardrails. By combining first-party data such as CRM, commerce, advertising platforms with external market context, Pomo models a company's constraints and strategic intent so every recommendation fits how the business actually operates. Every outcome feeds back into the system, driving continuous closed-loop optimization that enables recommendations to get sharper over time.

"Marketing teams today are making more decisions, faster, across more channels than ever — but the tools haven't kept up. Teams are buried under fragmented data and forced to make high-stakes calls without the full picture. Pomo gives them a unified intelligence layer that monitors what matters, recommends what to do, and helps execute within brand-safe guardrails — so smaller teams can operate with the precision and speed of a much larger organization,” said Praneet Dutta, Co-founder & CEO of Pomo.

Ai4 partnered early with Pomo to accelerate marketing execution for its upcoming 2026 global conference, and its founder Marcus Jecklin joined as an investor. The company is also collaborating with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a leading industry association representing tens of millions of businesses. Pomo is currently piloting its agentic marketing intelligence platform with a select group of design partners globally and is seeing strong early adoption from D2C brands and consumer-facing enterprises across lifestyle, hospitality, and real estate. These pilots have demonstrated:

"We've watched marketing evolve step-by-step, moving from manual execution to AI copilots,” said Steve Jang, Founder and Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. “Pomo solves a real operational problem: it consolidates market signals, surfaces competitive intelligence, and helps teams generate the deliverables they need, from product positioning to campaign strategy.”

Pomo was co-founded by CEO Dutta and CTO Joe Cheuk, who met at Google. Dutta led applied generative AI and reinforcement learning at Google DeepMind on models including Imagen and Gemini, translating frontier research into products used by millions across advertising, climate, industrial controls and recommender systems. Cheuk was a Staff Engineer at Databricks, Meta, and Google Cloud, where he saw how fragmented tools and siloed data slow decisions. The Pomo team also includes early engineers from Google and Meta, with advisors who formerly led global marketing and advertising at General Motors and American Express.

If you’re a team interested in the platform for high leverage decision making, get in touch with the Pomo team, reach out at hello@usepomo.ai.

About Pomo

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Pomo is an AI marketing intelligence platform that gives brands the strategic clarity typically reserved for the best-resourced marketing teams. Enter your website, and Pomo tells you what matters, why, and what to do about it. It turns fragmented signals into prioritized decisions. Pomo handles the heavy lifting of continuous market monitoring and data synthesis, empowering marketers to focus their time on strategic judgment and execution, effectively making a lean team magnitudes more efficient. Learn more at https://usepomo.ai/.

About Kindred Ventures

Kindred Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that partners with founders at the earliest stages to build enduring companies. The firm focuses on product-driven teams tackling large, complex problems across technology, infrastructure, and applied AI.