About Promoted

We sort marketplace search and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue. We specialize in optimizing scaled marketplaces with top engineering teams. See Solutions or our Case Studies.

Our Story

Andrew was from Meta. Dan was from Google. We met at Pinterest, where we built Pinterest ads together. We realized that we could unify ideas from ads and search engineering to make all commercial media better. We started Promoted to match every buyer with every seller across every app. We joined Y Combinator in Winter 2021 and Y Combinator Continuity in Winter 2022.

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
ML Engineer
Engineer (part-time)
Site Reliability Engineer
(part-time)
Engineer
Head of Operations
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Intern
Software Engineering Intern

Our Team

We are ads engineers from Meta and Google, and we've built this before together. Questions? Email Andrew at ayates@promoted.ai.

Andrew Yates

Chief Executive Officer

Former

Dan Hill

Chief Technology Officer

Former

Jun Sun

ML Engineer

Former

Angela Chang

Head of Operations

Former

James Hill

Engineer

Former

Elsa Birch-Morgan

BI Engineer

Former

Nawaf Alhumaid

Data Engineer

Former

Xingcan Cui

Engineer

current

Vlad Artamonov

Site Reliability Engineer (part-time)

Former

Scott McMaster

Engineer (part-time)

Former

Darrow Hartman

Software Engineering Intern

Yash Narayan

Software Engineering Intern

Our Values

Solve for Win-Win

True value happens when all sides of a transaction are satisfied. We solve for win-win in our optimization systems, with our partners, and in our company

Prove Value

We are relentlessly focused on proving value with earnestness, sincerity, and accountability. We add complexity because it better matches buyers with sellers and grows marketplaces faster.

Build Trust

All stakeholders must believe that Promoted works for them. We earn trust by consistently delivering intelligible value and empowering users with meaningful control over their own businesses.