Kana raises $15M for AI marketing agents built by 25-year industry veterans

San Francisco-based Kana emerged from stealth with $15M in seed funding led by Mayfield. The startup offers AI agents for data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and media planning. Co-founders Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya previously built and sold marketing tech companies to Microsoft (Rapt, 2008) and Salesforce (Krux, 2016). Kana was incubated for nine months at their startup studio super{set}.

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