Dojo is a full-suite marketing agency run by AI agents. It helps growing companies understand their brand, make better strategic decisions, and execute faster — without needing a big team or external consultants. Think of it as your in-house marketing team, powered by intelligent agents that analyze your brand, suggest next steps, and deliver the content.
We backed Dojo as part of our focus on pre-seed funding for marketing startups using AI to rethink strategy and execution from the ground up.
Here’s why we backed them:
🧑🤝🧑 Team
- Domain Expertise + Technical Depth: Duarte has led marketing at some of the world’s most recognized brands — from Coca-Cola to Volt to Standard Chartered. He knows first-hand how the best marketing teams operate and what moves the needle for challenger brands. Antonio brings deep technical experience from leading AI at OutSystems and Feedzai, where he built and deployed machine learning projects at scale. Together, they blend deep domain expertise and the technical depth to build a product that shows results for customers.
- Speed: In just five months, the team has gone from idea to live product — with 8 paying customers already onboard across a variety of industries, like fintech, e-commerce, and climatetech.
- Grit & Chemistry: Duarte and Antonio have known each other since childhood and bring years of mutual trust and shared ambition — especially as this is not the first time they are building together.
🧠 Product
- Data-First & Proactive: Most new AI-marketing tools ask users what they want to create and then proceed towards execution. Dojo flips this script: it first analyzes your brand’s data across dozens of internal and external sources, analyzes the spaces on the internet where your brand can be active — then proactively recommends actions, creates assets, and helps you execute. It works on a strategic and execution-level to find the highest ROI actions for your brand to take. We fundamentally believe in this approach.
- Deep Problem: Without Dojo, most SMBs either skip deep data- and brand analysis altogether, or rely on expensive consultants that don’t connect strategy with daily execution. Dojo fills that gap.
- Traction: The proof is really in the pudding. The prime example is where Dojo used its own SEO agents to now outrank Copy AI in their most fundamental keyword search on Google, within 6 weeks. Talk about eating your own dog food.
🌍 Market
- Underserved, High-Need Segment: Dojo is built for small and midsize marketing teams who feel the pressure most — they grow fast, but without the resources of an enterprise. They adopt tech quickly and aren’t tied to legacy tools, making them the perfect entry point for a new approach to marketing.
We believe Dojo is the future of marketing infrastructure for ambitious teams. As European investors in marketing startups, we’re always looking for bold, technical teams rethinking the future of brand, data, and growth. If you’re looking for pre-seed funding for your marketing startup — we’d love to meet you.