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- Epiminds is a new startup using agentic AI to streamline marketing.
- The startup launched out of stealth in October with a $6.6 million seed.
- The startup shared the pitch deck it used with Business Insider.
Epiminds, a marketing tech startup, is betting that AI can help marketers get more done.
Founded by Elias Malm (ex-Google) and Mo Elkhidir (ex-Spotify) in 2025, the Swedish startup recently raised a $6.6 million seed investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from European funds EWOR and Entourage.
"What we are building is an operating system for marketing," Malm told Business Insider in an interview. "An independent third-party player that can do what's best for companies, best for agencies."
Epiminds' core technology is an AI-powered bot called "Lucy" that deploys over 20 autonomous "agents" to help with tasks like analyzing ad performance data, planning marketing campaigns, and then publishing those paid ads.
Marketers can email Lucy directly and request services, such as data reports. They can also dig deeper into those reports by asking Lucy additional questions. Then, if Lucy has recommendations, marketers can allow Lucy to draft a new campaign and publish to platforms like Google Ads or Meta Ads, Elkhidir said.
Epiminds' founders don't see AI necessarily replacing the work of human marketers. Instead, Lucy is positioned as a "senior colleague," Malm said.
"We think that agentic AI can make agencies work with more clients, more companies, and make it easily accessible," Malm said. "We don't want to replace anyone. We want to empower people to be able to do more and maybe spend time on the things that they should spend time on, like close with clients, strategy, creativity."
The startup says it is working with about 20 performance marketing agencies across the Nordic region, the Netherlands, and the US.
Marketers can customize Epiminds' agentic agents to an agency's strategy and needs. The startup uses several off-the-shelf LLM models from Google's Gemini to OpenAI. Malm said it also has a "proprietary framework" for processing large amounts of data and its multi-agentic tools that are "adapted for marketing."
"The only thing that we're missing in our system now that we don't support yet, but we're going to do very soon, is the creative image generation itself," Elkhidir said.
Epiminds is still testing out pricing and charges agencies per user. The company declined to share the cost of access.
The company plans to use its recent funding to hire staff — currently it's just Malm and Elkhidir — and expand into more markets.
While automating elements of the marketing workflow isn't novel, Epiminds is one of many new AI tools (and startups) aiming to further automate the process.
Read the seven-page pitch deck Epiminds used to raise $6.6 million:
Note: Some figures have been redacted in order to share the deck publicly.
Epiminds says the 'future of marketing is AI teams'
Here's what the slide says:
$600B wasted on repetitive work every year. We're building the future to fix it.
The deck begins by introducing Epiminds' founders
"We're a killer salesman (top 1% at Google) and a killer engineer (3x founder, x-Spotify)," the slide starts out.
Here's what the rest of the slide says:
Elias Malm
Former Agency Lead at Google.
Ranked 1% in Sales EMEA. Ex-agency founder.
Mo Elkhidir
13+ years engineering, ex-Spotify, Kry.
3rd-time founder, MSc in ML
Partners
Paul Muller: Co-founder CTO & CEO, Adjust (mobile analytics unicorn)
Daniel W. Dippold: CEO EWOR €300M+ built in ventures
Petter Made: Co-founder, SumUp (€8.5B), ex-Drooms CPTO (fastest virtual data room)
Then the deck shows off some early traction with clients
"We started 12 weeks ago, we have [redacted] in CARR and 16 paying clients," the slide says.
It also lists that Epiminds had 16 paying clients and over 200 brands.
The deck then introduces the problem it wants to solve
Here's what the slide says:
At Google, we worked with 400 marketers & saw how broken marketing is
Marketers spend 60% of their time on low value manual tasks
With a $1T labor market that means $600B is wasted on manual work
Epiminds introduces its main product: Lucy
Here's what the slide says:
Meet Lucy, she runs a full-stack marketing team that handles your marketing from A-Z
What can Lucy do?
- Manages 20+ person AI workforce
- Plans Strategy, Channels, and Budget
- Natively integrated in our user's systems
- Learns from Performance Data
The deck includes an animated product demo
"We are growing with agencies and already saving them 40% of their time," the slide says.
The animated product demo shows how marketers can add "Lucy" to an email, and she'll respond with data reports and copy to send to clients.
The deck closes with Epiminds saying it plans to 'take over the market in 10 months'
"We did this in 10 weeks - we will take over the market in 10 months," the slide says.
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