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Simplified

All-in-one AI design, video, copywriting and social media platform built for small marketing teams.

Simplified was founded in San Francisco by KD Deshpande and Ajay Yadav with a straightforward pitch: small marketing teams and solo founders were paying for a design tool, a video editor, a copywriting app, and a scheduler separately, when one product with AI stitched through it could do the same job for less money and fewer tab switches. The company raised an $8.5 million seed round in 2021 led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Khosla Ventures and angel investors including Superhuman's Rahul Vohra, bringing total funding to roughly $10.7 million. Today Simplified runs as a single workspace covering design, AI video, ad copy, presentations, and social scheduling, all built around a shared brand kit so colors, fonts, and logos stay consistent across every asset. Its 2026 push has centered on Riley, an AI agent meant to run a campaign end to end — draft, brand it, route for approval, publish, then report back.

Founded

2020

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Sector

applications