Ukrainian startup Zeely has won The Pitch by Deel & J.P. Morgan competition in Paris, securing a $1 million investment from Deel, as Vestbee was informed.
- The Pitch by Deel, sponsored by J.P. Morgan, is a global startup competition for early-stage founders. It attracted over 50,000 applications worldwide, with only 84 startups selected as finalists to pitch live in Paris.
- The program brings together leading investors and industry experts, including partners from firms such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tencent, and awards top performers with up to $1 million in funding along with access to a global investor network.
- Founded in 2022 by Dima Samoiliuk, Yaroslav Samoiliuk, and Alina Bondarenko, Zeely is an AI marketing platform that enables businesses to create, launch, and manage advertising campaigns end to end.
- It generates ad creatives such as UGC-style videos and static visuals, produces marketing copy, and turns product inputs into ready-to-run campaigns across platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads, and TikTok.
- The platform continuously analyzes real-time performance data such as engagement, clicks, and conversions, and automatically adjusts targeting, budgets, and creatives to improve results. It also generates multiple ad variations to support testing and scaling across campaigns.
- Zeely is used by more than 650,000 sellers, operates across 2,000 industries, and reports an average 184% improvement in ad performance based on internal platform data.
- The new investment will support the development of Zeely 2.0, focusing on advancing its AI-driven marketing capabilities, improving product intelligence, expanding into new markets, and strengthening the company’s engineering, AI, and performance marketing teams.
