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Daniel A. Saedi launches Minerva, an AI marketing platform developed with OpenAI, alongside a $20 million Series A

The platform uses proprietary data on 270 million Americans.

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Original postJoe Lonsdale#1794

AI can now read your customers' minds.

We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.

Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:

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Many users praise Minerva's OpenAI-powered AI marketer for automating lead detection and personalized campaigns with strong results, while others criticize it as invasive spyware that ignores privacy.

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I've known Daniel A. Saedi for ~25 years, since before the fancy A. in his name, and have wanted to invest in him for as much of that that I've known investing was a thing.

Finally got to do it with Minerva, which you should use if you want customers.

AI can now read your customers' minds.

We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.

Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:

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Meta knows everything about your customer, but they keep that data for themselves.

Minerva democratizes data on over 270M+ customers built by Wall Street Quants over the last 3 years

When a customer searches for “luxury handbags”, our agents know and find that customer.

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Tiffany Fong@TiffanyFong

@TheRealDanSaedi Y’all have data on every American. Congrats on becoming the real Palantir. 👏

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Right now, you send the same email to:

- A 24-year-old woman living in Soho - A 67-year-old woman in Boise, Idaho

Minerva knows the difference.

So every email, ad, and text can speak to the actual person, not some generic segment.

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We already work with Wander, Trust & Will, and Luxury Presence to improve ROAS and response rates by up to 3.4x.

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With Minerva, you can run AI-powered segmentation and hyperpersonalized campaign actions across your data, but ONLY within the exact permissions you set.

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shirish@shiri_shh

@TheRealDanSaedi I feel like ads already feel hyper-specific (“our phones are listening to us!”). this is scary good.

I’d love to know what the actual cost of deployment is?

How much does Minerva save you compared to a traditional broad campaign?

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Bark@barkmeta

@TheRealDanSaedi You gotta launch merch.

It would go crazy and no one would even know why.

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mrme@mrmee776

@WhaleInsider @TheRealDanSaedi the real future plays on @Asentum post-quantum L1 with JS smart contracts from day one. Quantum-safe chain built to last 50+ years. $ASE https://asentum.com

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Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdale

@TheRealDanSaedi 🔥

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le.hl@0xleegenz

@TheRealDanSaedi

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Whale Insider@WhaleInsider

@TheRealDanSaedi 🐳

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mads campbell@martyrdison

@TheRealDanSaedi

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To celebrate our launch, we’re sponsoring your first Minerva campaign for free.

Reply on the first post and we’ll send you the setup link.

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Raq@raqisright

@TheRealDanSaedi Lfg!! The future

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Mike Dudas@mdudas

@TheRealDanSaedi incredible, congrats hombre

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@kanavtwt apollo is a contact database. hightouch is a pipe. minerva is the whole stack above both - the consumer context, the engine that activates it, and the agents that run the marketing.

you'd stitch both of them together plus hire a team to approximate one slice of what we do.

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Armin Hamrah@arminbuilds

@TheRealDanSaedi thrilled the OAI thing worked out; amazing call on our end!

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Travers@travers00

@TheRealDanSaedi incredible stuff, congrats @TheRealDanSaedi - fun to watch this come alive

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