Laurence
Last verified 2026-05-23. JSON
The funding figures on this page are attributed, not sourced: a publisher is on record but no document URL is. How we mark provenance.
| Total raised | $1.0Mattributed |
|---|---|
| Latest round | seed, $1.0M, 2026-01-01attributed |
| Founded | unknown |
| Headquarters | New York City, NY |
| Industry | fintech |
| Stage | seed |
| Website | laurence.com |
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 ...
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | seed | $1.0M | yc |
Detected tech stack
Vercel, HeroUI, Next.js, React, Webpack, @sentry/browser, posthog-js
Provenance
| Fact | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Seed, $1.0M | attributed | yc named as publisher. No document URL on file. |
| Total raised $1.0M | attributed | yc named as publisher. No document URL on file. |
| Company existence | sourced | Y Combinator named as publisher. Document, retrieved 2026-09-17. |
| Description | sourced | Y Combinator named as publisher. Document, retrieved 2026-09-17. |
Change history
| Date | Fact | Change | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24Description: self-reported → sourced, Y Combinator, document, retrieved 2026-09-17 | Description | self-reported → sourced | Y Combinator, document, retrieved 2026-09-17 |
| 2026-09-24Existence: self-reported → sourced, Y Combinator, document, retrieved 2026-09-17 | Existence | self-reported → sourced | Y Combinator, document, retrieved 2026-09-17 |
Records begin 2026-09-24. All changes