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Azoma is a SaaS platform that helps consumer brands and retailers optimize their product visibility across artificial intelligence search engines, operating from an undisclosed headquarters location. The company utilizes Generative Engine Optimization and Agentic Commerce Optimization to track brand mentions and generate structured content that systems like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Amazon Rufus cite during product recommendations. The enterprise serves a diverse portfolio of major global ecommerce clients, including recognizable consumer brands such as Mars, HP, Colgate, L'Oréal, and Zappos.com. To support its go-to-market strategy and ongoing product development, the firm secured £3 million in pre-Series A funding in 2025 from institutional backers including MaRS IAF, Twinpath Ventures, Techstars, and eBay Ventures. Azoma was founded in 2022 by chief executive officer Max Sinclair alongside an unnamed co-founder with an advanced academic background in artificial intelligence.
Azoma has raised $120K across 1 funding round.
Azoma has raised $120K in total across 1 funding round.
Azoma is a London-based SaaS startup founded in 2022 that builds an end-to-end Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform to help brands and retailers boost visibility in AI search engines and chatbots like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Amazon Rufus.[1][2][4] It serves major consumer brands and retailers such as Mars, Colgate, P&G, Zappos, HP, Arla, Canadian Tire, and Southeastern Grocers by solving the problem of declining discoverability in private AI conversations, where traditional SEO falls short.[1][2][4] Azoma's core products include a "digital twin" simulator that tests brand mentions across massive prompt volumes from target demographics and AI-optimized content generation for product listings, images, and copy, enabling real-time monitoring, localization in any language, and compliance-checked outputs.[1][2][3] The company achieved profitability in 2025, recently raised $4M from investors including eBay Ventures to fuel R&D and sales expansion, and integrates with tools like Salsify, Shopify, and Snowflake for enterprise workflows.[1][3][4]
Azoma was founded in 2022 by CEO Max Sinclair and cofounder Timur Luguev in London, emerging amid the rise of generative AI tools that shifted consumer research—now with 60% of adults using platforms like ChatGPT for product discovery—from traditional search to private, unoptimized AI interactions.[1][2][5] The idea stemmed from recognizing that brands lacked visibility in these "black box" chatbot responses, prompting the duo to develop two patented technologies: a digital twin for simulating brand performance via demographic-specific prompt floods (e.g., 100,000 queries from a 30s male profile for coffee shops) and content generation tuned for AI answer engines.[1][3] Early traction came quickly, with enterprise clients onboard and profitability reached earlier in 2025, culminating in the $4M raise to scale amid growing GEO demand.[1][3][4]
Azoma stands out in the nascent GEO market through patented tech and enterprise focus:
These enable profitability and clients like P&G, positioning Azoma ahead of general SEO tools.[1]
Azoma rides the AI search revolution, where generative engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity are supplanting Google-style results, with 60% of product research now AI-driven and rules for optimization still evolving.[1][2][4] Timing is ideal post-ChatGPT's 2022 boom, as brands face "invisibility" in private queries amid e-commerce giants like eBay investing in AI agility to counter rivals (e.g., StockX).[3] Market forces favoring Azoma include exploding GEO demand, AI content needs for localization/scale, and integrations with legacy systems, influencing the ecosystem by standardizing AI visibility—much like SEO did for web search—while eBay Ventures' backing accelerates retailer adoption.[2][3][4]
Azoma is poised to dominate GEO as AI shopping channels mature, using its $4M to hire in sales/customer success and advance R&D for deeper integrations and model-agnostic optimization.[1][3] Trends like multimodal AI (images/video) and regulatory scrutiny on generated content will shape its path, potentially expanding to influence answer engine APIs directly. Its influence could evolve from niche optimizer to ecosystem standard, turning AI search into a brand growth engine—ensuring household names like Mars stay discoverable in tomorrow's conversations, just as it simulates today.[1][2]
Azoma has raised $120K across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $120K Seed in October 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2023 | $120K Seed | — | M25, Matchstick Ventures, Math Venture Partners, Pareto Holdings | Announced |
Azoma has raised $120K in total across 1 funding round.
Azoma's investors include M25, Matchstick Ventures, MATH Venture Partners, Pareto Holdings.
