About Promoted
We sort marketplace search results and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue. We specialize in optimizing scaled marketplaces with top engineering teams.
Our Story
Andrew was fromMeta. Dan was from
Google. We met at
Pinterest. We realized that we could unify ideas from ads and organic search to make search and discovery for all commercial media dramatically better.
We started Promoted to match every buyer with every seller across every app. After joiningY Combinator in Winter 2021, we’ve been dedicated to optimizing marketplaces ever since.
Our Team
We’re engineers from Meta, Google, and Pinterest, and we’ve built this before together.

Andrew Yates
Chief Executive Officer
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Dan Hill
Chief Technology Officer
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Angela Chang
Chief of Staff
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Xingcan Cui
Software Engineer
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Jun Sun
AI Engineer
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James Hill
AI Engineer
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Kevin Grandon
Software Engineer
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Vlad Artamonov
Site Reliability Engineer
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Scott McMaster
Software Engineer
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Pei He
AI Engineer
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Colton Wolk
Sales Engineer
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Mialy DeFelice
Data Scientist
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Our Values
Solve for Win-Win
True value happens when all sides of a transaction are satisfied. We solve for win-win in our optimization systems, with our partners, and in our company.
Prove Value
With earnestness, sincerity, and accountability, we relentlessly focus on proving value. We add complexity because it better matches buyers with sellers and grows marketplaces faster.
Build Trust
All stakeholders must believe that Promoted works for them. We earn trust by consistently delivering intelligible value and empowering users with meaningful control over their own businesses.
Our Office
Contact sales to visit us and discover how we enhance marketplace efficiency.