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Melius funds its shift toward AI advertising creation
Melius announces total funding of 25 million dollars after abandoning its first product. Founded by former Ramp engineers, the startup now targets the generation of advertising campaigns and content. Its claimed growth remains a company statement.
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Melius announced Tuesday total funding of 25 million dollars, according to TechCrunch. This amount includes a Series A of 20 million dollars led by CRV and a seed round of 5 million dollars led by General Catalyst. The platform presents itself as an AI tool for generating advertising campaigns, images and videos.
This funding accompanies a product shift. Co-founders Joowon Kim, Young Kim and Arnav Ramu met as engineers at Ramp, a company that makes expense and financial management software. Their first project was intended to help marketers manage and optimize advertising spending. According to Joowon Kim’s account reported by TechCrunch, the team subsequently abandoned that product and its code to focus on creating content and campaigns.
The shift is significant: Melius is moving from optimizing advertising purchases to producing creative assets. This can be seen as a bet on demand for production tools, but the funding demonstrates neither their quality nor their commercial effectiveness for customers.
The startup says it exceeded 1 million dollars in annualized revenue within two months of emerging from stealth in July. This figure is an indicator claimed by the company, rather than an independent measure of its trajectory. The article provides no comparative assessment that would distinguish Melius from other AI advertising creation tools.