companies / laurence-com
Generated UTC · publication cutoff 2026-11-09
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Advertising today is like trading in the 1980s pits: archaic, manual, and iterative guesswork. Humans update bids and keywords using noisy, delayed data with fixed rules that both break at scale and ignore stochasticity. We've built quantitative systems that advertise the way modern hedge-funds trade markets: continuous decision-making under stochastic outcomes and explicit profit constraints. We use customers' existing ad copy and use reinforcement learning and train our own LLMs to run ads ...
verified=2026-09-29 json
| total_raised | 1,000,0001.0M | ○ |
|---|---|---|
| founded | null | |
| hq | New York City, NY | |
| industry | unknown | |
| stage | seed |
Advertising today is like trading in the 1980s pits: archaic, manual, and iterative guesswork. Humans update bids and keywords using noisy, delayed data with fixed rules that both break at scale and ignore stochasticity. We've built quantitative systems that advertise the way modern hedge-funds trade markets: continuous decision-making under stochastic outcomes and explicit profit constraints. We use customers' existing ad copy and use reinforcement learning and train our own LLMs to run ads ...
No cited completed company acquisition recorded.
Dated disclosures. Customer relationships and classifications are historical; ARR is separate from revenue.
No cited disclosure recorded: named customer, disclosed revenue, ARR, count, B2B / B2C, sector, go-to-market.
No cited valuation with an explicit basis is recorded.
Historical post-money / actual annual or stated TTM revenue. Same currency; economic valuation date within 90 days of revenue period end, inclusive. No FX, ARR, annualized revenue, estimates or projections. Conflicts and ambiguous ties are withheld.
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| date | type | amount | lead | src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | seed | 1,000,0001.0M | null | ○ |
| person | role | src |
|---|---|---|
| Leo Gierhake | founder | YC |
| Matthew Chen | ceo | YC |
| Matthew Chen | founder | YC |
| investor | src |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | ○ |
Vercel, HeroUI, Next.js, React, Webpack, @sentry/browser, posthog-js
| fact | status | src |
|---|---|---|
| Seed, $1.0M | attributed | ○ |
| existence | sourced | YC |
| description | sourced | YC |
| date | fact | change | src |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-27latest_round: seed, $1.0M, 2026-01-01, lead: yc → seed, $1.0M, 2026-01-01, lead: null, ○ 2026-05-23 | latest_round | seed, $1.0M, 2026-01-01, lead: yc → seed, $1.0M, 2026-01-01, lead: null | ○ 2026-05-23 |
| 2026-09-24provenance_description: self-reported → sourced, YC 2026-09-17 | provenance_description | self-reported → sourced | YC 2026-09-17 |
| 2026-09-24provenance_existence: self-reported → sourced, YC 2026-09-17 | provenance_existence | self-reported → sourced | YC |
Records begin 2026-09-24. all_changes