Marqo

Marqo

San Francisco, CA, USA
42 employees
Search Engines
Series A · $18.4M

About Marqo

Marqo is an AI-native ecommerce search and product discovery platform built for mid-market and enterprise retailers in fashion, beauty, electronics, and home goods. It trains a dedicated AI model on each retailer's product catalog and shopper behavior — leveraging clickstream, purchase, and event data — to deliver personalized, semantically relevant search results and recommendations. The platform automates ranking, merchandising, and optimization to improve conversion rates, average order value, and revenue from existing traffic.

Company details

Team Size42
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
IndustrySearch Engines

Funding

Total raised

$18.4M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners
BBlackbird Ventures
JJanuary Capital
CCreator Fund

Founders

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Tom Hamer

Former AWS software engineer (worked on RDS); co-founded Marqo with Jesse Clark after meeting at AWS.

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Jesse N. Clark

Former lead scientist at Amazon Robotics AI and scientist at StitchFix; co-founded Marqo with Tom Hamer.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.