We believe that marketing will be entirely reshaped by AI and help leading organizations master this transition.
We are building Uplane so marketing teams achieve superior results with less effort, time, and ad spend.
We founded Uplane because marketing desperately needs a revolution. Marketing managers are blocked in slow, endless design cycles. New ads and landing pages are a constant performance bottleneck. Launching and optimizing campaigns means countless manual steps in slow, buggy ad systems. And consumers carry the burden: irrelevant ads every day, paid for in billions.
Our vision is a marketing engine that operates with true autonomy. Thousands of personalized ads and matching landing pages generated in seconds. Launched across channels with one click. Budgets allocated autonomously so every penny is invested for maximum impact. An engine that runs hundreds of experiments around the clock and gets better with every bit of consumer feedback.
We have lived the painful inefficiencies of manual marketing ourselves. Backed by deep expertise in product, data, and AI, our mission is to give performance marketers true leverage: superior results with less effort and spend, and a whole lot of joy.
CEO
Julius became the youngest director at Enpal, Europe’s first greentech unicorn, where he managed seven-figure monthly ad budgets and scaled a new lead platform to €200M annualized revenue in twelve weeks. He has run marketing since founding a fashion label at sixteen. At Uplane he owns direction and go-to-market, and he stays closest to the customers.
CTO
Lukas has spent fifteen years taking products from zero to one. He was founding engineer and then head of engineering at Blair (YC S19), where the platform processed over $100M in student financing, and Head of Product at Fastgen (YC W23). At Uplane he leads engineering and owns the engine that turns a brand into thousands of on-brand ads and pages.
COO
Marvin studied data science at Imperial, Harvard, and TUM, then went from McKinsey into the CEO office at Enpal, running growth analytics as the founder’s right hand. At Uplane he runs the operating side: the analytics behind every account, hiring, finance, and how the team delivers across San Francisco and Berlin.
Uplane is backed by leading venture capital firms that have built and scaled category-defining software companies, and by operators who ran performance marketing at the scale we are automating.
Early-stage investor
YC
Where Uplane started
The early-stage investor behind OpenAI, Airbnb, Stripe, and DoorDash. Uplane went through the program and stays inside its network.
Venture fund
20VC
Operator-built venture capital
Harry Stebbings’ fund, built on a decade of conversations with the operators who scaled the last generation of software.
Venture fund
Play
Early-stage, creative-led
Early-stage specialists in interactive and consumer products, where creative volume and measurement decide the outcome.
Seed fund
Multimodal
AI-native seed capital
A seed fund investing exclusively in Y Combinator companies building AI-native software.
Alumni fund
Rebel
Top-decile YC alumni
The YC alumni fund that invests only in the top 10% of YC companies.
Alongside our funds, a group of angel investors backs Uplane directly: multiple unicorn founders, CMOs, and operators from performance marketing, e-commerce, and applied AI, several of whom have built and sold the companies whose marketing teams we now serve. They are on the phone with us weekly, not once a quarter.
Request a demo to see Uplane in action. We build real ads and landing pages on your brand within days.
