Blaze

Marketing automation for the modern world

Y CombinatorWinter 2022ActiveB2BSaaSB2BSalesMarketing

What they do

Problem

Companies struggle to identify and reach the right potential customers at the moment they show buying intent.

Solution

Blaze uses AI-driven marketing automation to scan millions of online signals and trigger targeted outreach to interested prospects.

Who it's for

Modern companies and marketing/sales teams seeking to target and convert high-intent leads.

Founders

Lauren Rothwell

Founder

Lauren leads Agents Growth (product marketing, self-serve growth and product activation) at ElevenLabs. Lauren was previously the co-founder and CEO of Blaze (YCW22). Lauren grew up in Ireland, and started her career on the trading floor of Goldman Sachs in London. She worked in product at several start ups before launching Blaze. Lauren has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a degree in Economics and Statistics from Trinity College Dublin.

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Chirag Mahapatra

Founder

Chirag is a co-founder and CTO of Blaze. Previously, he was an Engineering Manager at Facebook in the Growth org working on problems in privacy, infrastructure and data. Prior to this, he was led the Membership and Authentication Infra teams at Airbnb. He also had stints in the Identity and Risk teams while there solving problems in ML. He joined Airbnb as part of an acquisition of a ML startup, Trooly. Chirag has a graduate degree from UC Berkeley and undergraduate degree from NITK.

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