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Marlo
Strike 'brand deal' gold in your inbox.
Built for talent agencies and digital creators, Marlo is the agentic operating system of the creator economy. Marlo, our AI talent manager sits on inboxes & social DMs to put creator brand deals on autopilot. Marlo sorts inbound, drafts responses, & builds a knowledge base 24/7. We make sure that creators never miss a brand deal or opportunity and enable them to focus on what matters most, creating & pushing culture. We partner with and power some of the biggest creators in the world like Alan Chikin Chow, Noah Beck, and the Key Brothers. We've already handled more than 3M inbound opportunities across thousands brand deals for some of the largest managers and creators in the world.
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Meet the Team
CEO & Co-Founder at Marlo
Austin Chen
Austin is a second time founder with an exit to Apple. He previous built Asaii, an artist discovery platform (signing Alina Baraz, Khalid, Alice Merton) that Apple acquired to kickstart their in-house record label & Apple Music for Artists. Most recently, he was a product director at TikTok looking after creator monetization bringing products like TikTok Shop, Taylor's Eras Tour, & Super Fans to market driving hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
CTO & Co-Founder at Marlo
Nishi Kaza
Nishi has built and scaled AI-driven products in adtech, content intelligence, and music, including Apple Music’s DJ Mixes program and foundation models at Scale AI. With a dual degree in EECS and Business from UC Berkeley, he brings a track record of shipping high-impact products that have touched millions of people.