--- title: Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI... description: Kana, a San Francisco-based AI marketing startup founded by serial martech entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya (previously behind Rapt and Krux), has... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kana-emerges-from-stealth-with-15m-to-build-flexible-ai-agents-for-marketers-qlfyvkjyq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers | daily.dev og:description: Kana, a San Francisco-based AI marketing startup founded by serial martech entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya (previously behind Rapt and Krux), has... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kana-emerges-from-stealth-with-15m-to-build-flexible-ai-agents-for-marketers-qlfyvkjyq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QLFYvKjyQ.png og:image:alt: Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kana, a San Francisco-based AI marketing startup founded by serial martech entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya (previously behind Rapt and Krux), has emerged from stealth with a $15M seed round led by Mayfield. The platform offers loosely coupled, customizable AI agents for tasks like audience targeting, campaign management, media planning, and AI chatbot optimization. A key differentiator is synthetic data generation to supplement third-party data sources, reducing costs and accelerating testing. The founders position flexibility and rapid customization as their competitive moat against larger incumbents, emphasizing a human-in-the-loop approach and real-time agent tailoring. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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