Read the pitch decks of 11 startups looking to disrupt advertising and marketing with AI (www.businessinsider.com)

Business Insider published the pitch decks from 11 adtech and martech startups that have recently raised venture funding, illustrating how AI is rapidly remaking advertising and marketing. The set spans Series B players like Hedra (generative AI video, $32M) and Dig (LLM-driven reputational risk and disinformation detection, $14M), plus Seed/Series A companies such as AdsGency (agentic AI that automates ad buys, $12M), Epiminds ($6.6M), Nexad (native ads for AI chat apps, $6M), Paramark (AI-driven ad-to-sales attribution, $6M), Octave ($5.5M), LTV.ai (personalized SMS/email, $5.2M), CreatorDB ($4.67M) and Artificial Societies ($5.35M). The decks reveal investor confidence and the diversity of technical approaches — from LLMs and agentic workflows to generative video and persona simulation. For practitioners and investors, the trend signals three big shifts: automation of marketer workflows via agentic systems, scalable creative generation (video, virtual influencers, native chat-app ads), and tighter measurement using AI-driven attribution and reputation monitoring. Large agency groups and CMOs are already committing tens to hundreds of millions to AI, accelerating adoption and M&A. The technical implications include increased reliance on LLMs and multimodal models, demand for robust guardrails (brand safety, bias, transparency), and new tooling needs for integration with ad platforms and analytics stacks — all pointing to faster, more personalized advertising but also higher stakes for governance and data strategy.