Minerva
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About
Minerva is a Brooklyn-based AI platform for consumer marketing teams that unifies fragmented first-party customer data, enriches it with proprietary consumer context, and runs end-to-end marketing workflows with AI agents 12. The company launched publicly on June 11, 2026, alongside a $20M financing and a strategic collaboration with OpenAI on frontier models including GPT-5.5 12. Minerva says it had signed 36 customers at launch — including the NBA, Juicebox, Luxury Presence, Trust & Will, and Wander — with early deployments showing 3.4x paid-media ROAS and 2.5x direct-mail MQL improvements 1.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | Seed | $20M | The General Partnership | 8VC, Lingotto Innovation, Topology Ventures, NBA Investments 123 |
What Investors Say
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What Founders Say
“Marketing teams are under pressure to deliver better outcomes with more complexity, more channels and more data than ever before. Minerva gives marketers the context and infrastructure to understand their customers more deeply and act on those insights faster.”
— Jackson Engles, Co-Founder & CEO, in the launch announcement, June 11, 2026 1
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“Minerva Launches AI Platform for Consumer Marketing with $20M from The General Partnership, 8VC, Lingotto Innovation, Topology Ventures and NBA Investments, Alongside OpenAI Collaboration,” company announcement via Yahoo Finance / BusinessWire, June 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/minerva-launches-ai-platform-consumer-201500678.html↩↩↩↩↩
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“Minerva raises $20M and an OpenAI deal to fix marketers’ broken first-party data,” PPC Land, June 11, 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://ppc.land/minerva-raises-20m-and-an-openai-deal-to-fix-marketers-broken-first-party-data/↩↩↩
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“Minerva’s $20M bet on agentic marketing data workflows,” ContentGrip, June 11, 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://www.contentgrip.com/minerva-ai-consumer-marketing/↩