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Lapis

AI that creates and runs ads, end-end

Y CombinatorFall 2025ActiveB2BMarketingArtificial IntelligenceB2BMarketingAdvertising

What they do

Problem

Marketing teams struggle to produce sufficient on-brand ad creatives and run scalable A/B tests across channels due to limited design and creative capacity.

Solution

Lapis is an AI platform that generates on-brand advertising creatives from existing brand assets and runs end-to-end ad campaigns across ChatGPT, Meta, and Google.

Who it's for

Marketing teams at SMBs and large enterprises that need to create and manage ads across multiple platforms.

Founders

Varunram Ganesh
Founder

CEO of Lapis. Previously, I was Head of Growth at Warp (YC W23) where I built the sales and marketing functions from scratch and took Warp from 0 to $2.5M. I am an engineer and I did bitcoin research (wrote code) at the MIT Media Lab for two and a half years.

Sai Surbehera
Co Founder

CTO at Lapis. Previously, I was an MLE at Walmart Tech where I built the recall and reranking algorithm for Walmart Search.

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