Nectar Social, a Palo Alto, California-based AI-powered marketing operations platform, has raised $30 million in Series A funding.
Investors
Led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, created in partnership with Anthropic. Additional participants included True Ventures, GV, and Kinship Ventures, founded by Gwyneth Paltrow.
Menlo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the forefront of AI. Its portfolio includes more than 85 public companies and over 170 exits through mergers and acquisitions. Managing more than $7 billion in assets, Menlo invests across AI, consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.
Nectar Social Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to accelerate engineering and applied AI hiring across the Bay Area and New York, deepen platform partnerships, and expand Nectar Agent into additional categories of marketing and brand operations.
About Nectar Social
Founded in 2023 by sisters Misbah Uraizee and Farah Uraizee, Nectar Social develops an AI-powered operating system for modern marketing teams. The company’s platform combines social intelligence, community management, creator workflows, conversational commerce, and AI-powered customer engagement into a unified system. Nectar's autonomous AI marketing agent, Nectar Agent, is designed to operate in a brand's voice across social conversations, direct messages, comments, and creator interactions. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, its customers include e.l.f. Beauty, Babylist, Figma, Graza, and Liquid Death.
Funding Details
Company: Nectar Social
Raised: $30.0M
Round: Series A
Funding Date: May 2026
Lead Investor: Menlo Ventures
Additional Investors: Anthropic, True Ventures, GV, Kinship Ventures
Company Website: https://www.nectarsocial.com/
Software Category: AI Marketing & Social Commerce Software
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