Averi AI is an AI content marketing platform for startups, led by founder and CEO Zack Holland. It automates the content workflow — brand-voice setup, competitive gap and keyword research, drafting, CMS publishing, and performance analytics — with the goal of ranking content in 📝search engines and getting it cited by AI answer engines. Its core customers are lean startup teams, particularly in B2B SaaS.
Averi emerged from stealth in October 2024 with a $2 million pre-seed round, launching as an "AI Marketing Manager" that paired marketing-specific AI models with a marketplace of roughly 3,000 vetted US-based freelance marketers. In 2025 it raised a $3 million seed round led by 📝Grit Capital Partners, with Singularity Capital, 📝Gaingels, and angel investors participating, bringing total funding to about $5.3 million. The company has since narrowed its positioning to an AI content engine built around SEO and 📝generative engine optimization, competing with AI writing and content-optimization tools aimed at startups.
Found via 📝Jennifer Byrne — her firm led their seed round.