Ploy
AI Agents · Digital Marketing
2open roles
$26.6Mlatest round · Venture round · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
3backers · Y Combinator, First Round Capital
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Ploy is an AI marketing platform for website growth. Build on-brand pages, identify visitors, automate SEO and outreach, and improve conversion.
How Ploy hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Ploy scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$26.6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$26.6M
Venture round · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, First Round Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 12
On the Hacker News front page Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper · 258 points
May 5
Raised a round Venture round $26.6M · SEC Form D
Apr 2026
Went through Y Combinator
2025
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 258 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2026 | $26.6M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Ploy, Inc. | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Bryant ChouExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
50% ▲
Marketing
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Slack to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$26.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $26.6M | Details |
People
Bryant Chou
Executive Officer, Director
Todd Jackson
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ploy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
74/100
Cloud & platforms
Webflow
Practices & domains
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Shared investors
RAINFALL VENTURES MANAGEMENT LLCVia a fund
First Round CapitalVia a fund
Y CombinatorVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
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Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6
For four months, no frontier model beat Claude Opus in our production evals. GPT-5.6 did. This is what we learned while migrating.
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Opinion I work with AI for a living. This marketing ploy is repugnant.
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A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Product, Marketing
New York
United States
Sales office
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Communications, Management