Hightouch
Unicorn · $2.8BYC S19San Francisco, US · Founded 2019 · 200 employees · 45 known investors
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Hightouch builds a data activation platform that integrates with existing enterprise data infrastructure to enable marketing and business teams to activate customer data at scale. The platform combines customer data capabilities with AI technology for use by enterprise organizations.
Also known as Carry Technologies Inc. · Carry · Hightouch, Inc. · hightouch.io
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S19)
Hightouch was founded in 2019 by Kashish Gupta, Tejas Manohar, and Joshua Curl.


Investors · 45
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$300M disclosed across 2 of 8 rounds · 2021–2026
- $150MraisedMay 2026 · 2 sources
Bain, Goldman Sachs
Source ↗ - $150MSeries DApr 2026 · 5 sources
Bain Capital Ventures (lead), Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead), Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead), Amplify Partners, Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, TD7, TD7 (The Trade Desk venture arm), Y Combinator
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountSeries CApr 2026Source ↗
- Undisclosed amountSeries CFeb 2025
Sapphire Ventures (lead), Amplify Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, NVC, Y Combinator
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountSeries AJul 2021Source ↗
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Valuation · disclosed
Disclosed eventsSource: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed — follow each entry's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Hightouch operates a marketing data and AI platform that sits on top of an enterprise's existing data infrastructure, primarily its cloud data warehouse, rather than storing customer data itself. Its two main product lines are a Composable Customer Data Platform (CDP), which lets marketing teams build audiences with a no-code builder, orchestrate journeys and activate warehouse data in real time across more than 300 downstream tools, and an Agentic Marketing Platform (AMP), which applies AI agents to campaign planning, creative generation and execution across performance and lifecycle marketing channels.
The company describes three capability layers underpinning the agentic products: a context layer that connects to customer attributes, behavioral data, channel performance, product catalogs, brand guidelines, digital asset managers and creative tools such as Figma; content infrastructure that pairs AI models with brand context, uses LLM judges to grade outputs, and adds editing, compliance and approval workflows; and orchestration covering audience building, journey orchestration, cross-channel launch and measurement. An earlier product, AI Decisioning, launched around February 2025, uses reinforcement learning and in-house models to let marketers set goals and guardrails while agents select messages per individual across email, push, in-app and advertising. Hightouch Ad Studio is its first end-to-end agentic workflow product, aimed at performance-marketing creative. An MCP integration lets external AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini access Hightouch capabilities.
Hightouch was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch and is based in San Francisco, with co-founders Kashish Gupta and Tejas Manohar serving as co-CEOs and Josh Curl as CTO.
Compiled by commissioned research from 18 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
5 people who came through Hightouch went on to found or lead other companies.
Related companies · 10
Companies working in the same space as Hightouch.
Timeline · 9
launches, deals, and filingsSeries D led by Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Amplify Partners, ICONIQ Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and TD7, the venture capital arm of The Trade Desk. Adweek reports the process began in January 2026 with term sheets by January 31.
$150M source ↗
Hightouch introduced an Agentic Marketing Platform built on a marketing context layer, with Ad Studio as its first end-to-end agentic workflow product for generating on-brand ad creative, plus an MCP integration allowing external AI assistants to access Hightouch.
Hightouch also cites recognition as a Forrester Strong Performer, a Leader in an IDC MarketScape, G2 Leader and Momentum Leader, a Digiday award, and inclusion in Redpoint Ventures' 2026 InfraRed 100.
Hightouch's website lists "Databricks Invests in Hightouch" among its recognitions; no amount or date is disclosed.
Changelog entries include event and real-time audience tracing in the Event Debugger, Klaviyo and Pinterest Ads reporting data for Data Agents, Agent Health tab and alerting for AI Decisioning, staged identity resolution, liquid template testing, a Google Ads Data Manager API integration, an Ometria destination, and comment-based refinement of agent reports.
Round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from NVC, Bain Capital Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Y Combinator, Afore Capital, and Amplify Partners.
$80M source ↗
Agentic marketing product using reinforcement learning and in-house models to select and deliver personalized communications across email, push, in-app, and advertising against marketer-set goals and guardrails; developed over roughly 18 months.
TechCrunch reported that customer data-syncing and analysis startup Hightouch acquired HeadsUp.
Reported funding round for the company that helps businesses sync customer data across systems.
$38M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 18
primary sources listed
- Hightouchhightouch.com · web
- DOJO AI Announces $6M in Funding to Power Agentic Marketing Platform, Transforming Data Into Business Impacttheaiinsider.tech · web
- Hightouchhightouch.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Hightouch do?
- Hightouch sells a composable customer data platform and agentic AI marketing tools that run on a company's own data warehouse.
- Who founded Hightouch?
- Hightouch was founded by Kashish Gupta, Tejas Manohar, Joshua Curl in 2019.
- Who are Hightouch's investors?
- Hightouch's investors include 515 Ventures, Afore Capital, Allison Pickens Ventures, Amplify Partners, ASDF Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bare Ventures, Dash VC and 30 more.
- How much funding has Hightouch raised?
- Hightouch has disclosed $300M raised across 2 of its 8 known rounds.
- Where is Hightouch headquartered?
- Hightouch is headquartered in San Francisco, US.







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