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Connected-Stories

connected-stories.com

Connected-Stories is a multi-agent AI platform powering scalable marketing generation, creative automation, and personalized content.

HQNew York, New York, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$3.71M
Valuation$19m
Revenue$3m ARR
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Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
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Media
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Usage Based
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Latest equity round
Seed
Reported funding amount
$1M-$10M

About

Connected-Stories builds a multi-agent AI and creative-management platform for enterprises, supporting generative marketing, creative automation, personalized content, and interactive advertising. Its differentiation is the combination of human creative insight with AI-driven content generation, delivery, interaction tracking, and real-time optimization across digital and CTV channels.

Market

Connected-Stories competes in enterprise marketing technology across creative management, generative-AI content production, dynamic creative optimization, personalized video, and interactive advertising. It positions itself as an end-to-end, agentic creative operating layer that connects strategy, content generation, campaign activation, and optimization, rather than only offering ad creation or media buying. Its differentiation is the combination of a Brand Knowledge Graph, multi-agent workflow, real-time personalization, interactive video formats, and cross-platform delivery across Meta, Google, YouTube, CTV, and display.

Target Customers

Connected-Stories primarily targets enterprise and global consumer brands, especially performance-driven organizations in retail, consumer electronics, automotive, fashion, advertising, and e-commerce. Its likely buyers and users are marketing, creative operations, media, and e-commerce leaders responsible for producing and optimizing personalized content at scale.

At a Glance

Problem

Connected-Stories addresses the fragmentation and cost of modern marketing production. Strategy, creative production, campaign activation, and performance analysis often sit in disconnected tools, forcing teams into manual handoffs, duplicated work, and fragmented data that slow execution and break the learning loop. The resulting pain is both operational and economic: marketers struggle to produce enough audience- and channel-specific content, while creative-operations friction and media waste make campaigns slower and more expensive.

Its clearest use case is performance advertising: turning one video storyboard into interactive, context-aware, personalized ad variants at scale. The company says its formats can add clickable hotspots, calls to action, product galleries, and dynamic elements, while its broader site claims seven-times-faster content production, two-times-higher conversion rates, and 60% lower cost per click. Those performance figures are company-reported claims rather than independently verified results.

Product / Service

Connected-Stories is a software platform and managed-access enterprise solution for connecting strategy, creative generation, distribution, and optimization in one workflow. Its multi-agent system, branded Leo, combines a Brand Knowledge Graph with specialized agents: Leo Strategist turns brand and audience knowledge into campaign plans, Leo Creator generates images, copy, video, and variants, Leo Media distributes and adapts creatives across platforms, and Leo Analyst monitors performance and refines campaigns in real time. The platform is designed to preserve human judgment while automating repetitive execution.

The product supports interactive video ads, dynamic localization, product-feed-driven variants, and exports for Meta, Google, YouTube, CTV, display, and other digital channels. It is positioned to help brands produce dozens or hundreds of versions from a single story, test them across audiences and placements, and improve campaign efficiency without proportionally increasing production workload. The commercial model is usage-based, with flexible pricing by company size and access provided through a demo or request-access flow.

Market

Connected-Stories competes in the overlap of creative-management software, video advertising, AdTech, marketing technology, generative-AI content creation, and cross-channel campaign optimization. G2 places it primarily in Video Advertising Software, with overlap into Social Media Advertising and Cross-Channel Advertising. G2 lists Smartly, Facebook for Business, and LocaliQ among its alternatives; the broader competitive set includes platforms such as Innovid, Celtra, and other tools for creative automation, dynamic advertising, and campaign optimization.

The company appears to be an early commercial, privately held venture-backed software business rather than a pre-revenue concept. PitchBook identifies it as founded in 2018 and records a $2 million 2022 seed round plus a $1.06 million later-stage VC deal, with $3.06 million raised in total and both listed financing stages marked as generating revenue. However, the same profile does not disclose a current revenue figure or customer count, so traction is best characterized as funded commercial activity supported by enterprise-facing testimonials and claimed campaign results, not as publicly demonstrated scale.

Founders & Leadership

Claudio VaccarellaFounder
Co-Founder and CEO
Tommaso VaccarellaFounder
Co-Founder and GM
Luca PanneseFounder
Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director at SMALL
Luciano SalemmeChief Technical Officer

Funding History

2022-08
Seed$2M

BlackSheep

2025-01
Seed$1.71M

BlackSheep

Recent News

2026-04-24other
Startup Profile: Connected-Stories

Lynx Collective profiled Connected-Stories as an AI-powered platform for real-time marketing-content personalization. The profile describes its use of agentic AI to ideate, build adaptive stories, and optimize creative across channels.

2026-01-19product_launch
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Connected-Stories promoted access to a free trial of its AI video platform, dynamic content tools, and next-generation advertising capabilities.

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Business Model

Connected-Stories uses usage-based pricing, including credit-based purchasing, so customers pay according to consumption. It also makes annual contracts available and sells scalable AI-powered advertising and creative-management services to businesses and enterprises.

Products

Leo multi-agent platform, comprising Strategist, Creator, Media, and Analyst agentsGenAIssance generative creative tools and Multimodal Creative StudioPersonifAI creative distribution and real-time optimizationInteractive and adaptive video advertising, including clickable video ads, product galleries, contextual variants, and DCO outputsAI Video Production Hub for e-commerce and marketing, including ambient still-life videos, virtual try-on videos, 360-degree product loops, UGC-style videos, and product explainers

Tech Stack

Generative AI for image, copy, and video creationPredictive AI and learning models for real-time optimizationMulti-agent / agentic AI orchestrationBrand Knowledge GraphMultimodal Creative StudioReal-time dashboards and performance analyticsDynamic feeds and product-feed-driven creative personalization

Competitors

Celtra
Smartly
Storyteq
Hunch
Adacado

Key Investors

BlackSheep Ventures, Finint Investments, ISV Startup Springboard, Eureka! Venture SGR, VentureOut (US)