Blaze
AcquiredRaised Since FeaturedAI-powered community growth
AI marketing automation platform combining social, on-chain, and product data for Web3 community growth.
About
Blaze is an AI-powered marketing automation and community growth platform built for Web3 companies. The platform uses AI to scan millions of online signals โ social posts, engagements, connections, and on-chain wallet data โ to help companies target high-potential customers at the moment they show buying interest. Key features include lead generation across LinkedIn and Twitter, a wallet CRM with on-chain enrichment and segmentation, personalized DM campaign sequences, gamified quests and rewards, a unified social inbox across Twitter/Telegram/Discord, X ads management with custom audiences, and AI auto-responses. Founded by Lauren Rothwell (ex-Goldman Sachs, Stanford MBA) and Chirag Mahapatra (ex-Facebook, ex-Airbnb, UC Berkeley), Blaze graduated from Y Combinator W22 and grew to serve 200+ companies including Shapeshift, Nansen, and Subquery. The company was acquired in 2025 after raising over $5M in funding.
DailyDropout Take
Blaze caught our eye as a YC W22 company tackling the messy problem of Web3 community growth with real AI and data infrastructure. With founders from Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and Airbnb, they had the technical chops to build a platform that combined social signals with on-chain data โ a combination that proved valuable enough to attract an acquirer.
Discovery signal: YC W22 batch, strong founder backgrounds (Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Airbnb), rapid traction with 200+ Web3 companies, novel on-chain + social data combination
What Makes Them Unique
Blaze uniquely combined AI-driven lead generation from social and on-chain data sources with automated outreach campaigns and a unified community inbox โ enabling Web3 companies to discover, segment, and convert high-intent users across Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, and Discord from a single platform.
200+
Companies Served
135.8K
Monthly Website Visits
~$1.8M
ARR (Aug 2025)
Target Markets
Founders
Lauren Rothwell
Co-Founder & CEO
Former trader at Goldman Sachs in London. MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, BA in Economics and Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. Moved to Silicon Valley and worked in product at several startups before co-founding Blaze.
Chirag Mahapatra
Co-Founder & CTO
Former Engineering Manager at Facebook (Growth org) and led Membership and Authentication Infrastructure at Airbnb. Joined Airbnb via acquisition of ML startup Trooly. Also worked at Amazon and Goldman Sachs. Graduate of UC Berkeley and NITK Surathkal.
Funding History
Lead: Y Combinator
Lead: Inception Capital