Recommended by: Susannah Shipton, partner at AlleyCorp; Kamran Ali, investor at Inspired Capital
Relationship: AlleyCorp is an investor in Agentio. Inspired Capital is not.
Total funding: $4.25 million, according to the company
What it does: Agentio is an ad platform for creator-led content. Agentio uses AI to help advertisers find creators to partner with by analyzing the creator’s data, like performance and previous partnerships.
Based in New York City, Agentio was cofounded by Arthur Leopold (CEO) and Jonathan Meyers (CTO). Leopold was formerly the president of Cameo — and its first employee.
Why it’s on the list: Inspired Capital’s Kamran Ali told BI that Agentio’s tools for YouTube creators remove “significant friction from a process that historically taken weeks” and highlighted its founders’ backgrounds at Cameo and Spotify.