Clouted Raises $7m To Define The Next Era Of Distribution Marketing
Led by Slow Ventures and backed by Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, LINE-Yahoo's Z VC, Gondor Capital, Iterative, AppWorks, Peak XV’s Surge, and a16z Speedrun - Clouted launches its Virality Engine powered by Distribution Intelligence: the first platform that doesn't just execute campaigns, but builds compounding intelligence that makes every campaign smarter than the last.
LOS ANGELES, CA - May 20, 2026 - Clouted, the Virality Engine for consumer and entertainment brands, today announced the close of a $7M seed round led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, LINE-Yahoo's Z VC, Gondor Capital, Iterative, AppWorks, Peak XV’s Surge, and a16z Speedrun. Alongside the raise, Clouted publicly launches its Distribution Intelligence platform - the AI infrastructure layer that makes viral marketing repeatable, measurable, and compounding over time.
In a world where every brand has become a publisher and organic reach has become the highest-signal growth channel, distribution is no longer a nice-to-have - it's the only moat. Yet the tools brands and creators have relied on to grow were built for execution, not intelligence. Post more. Boost harder. Hope it lands. Clouted was built to end that era.
Clouted's Virality Engine deploys AI agents that ingest a brand's strategy, content library, and digital presence to generate data-driven campaign plans and execute them autonomously - optimizing in real-time across clipping, UGC, fan pages, influencer seeding, performance ads, and viral stunts. But what separates Clouted from every other distribution tool on the market is what happens after the campaign ends.
Every piece of content processed through the platform - every video analyzed, every format tested, every optimization made - feeds back into a brand's Distribution Intelligence layer. The platform learns which formats win, which audiences convert, and which distribution channels compound over time. The result: every campaign Clouted runs makes the next one faster, smarter, and more effective. Distribution intelligence doesn't just execute - it builds a moat that grows with every post.
Clouted sits at the intersection of two of the most important shifts in media and marketing - the rise of decentralized content distribution and the application of AI to make that distribution intelligent and scalable. The Clouted team has built real infrastructure for a problem that every brand and creator in the world has but nobody has solved at this level. We're proud to lead this round and back them as they define the Distribution Intelligence category.
- Sam Lessin, Slow Ventures
I built Clouted because I lived the problem firsthand. As a DJ and festival producer, I had great music, great shows, and almost no one seeing them. I kept asking myself why certain artists blew up and others didn't - and the answer was never talent. It was always distribution. Every brand, artist, and creator deserves the infrastructure to be heard. We built Clouted so they never have to figure that out alone.
- Justin Gorriceta-Banusing, CEO & Co-Founder, Clouted
Most marketing tools are execution layers. They run a campaign and move on. What we've built is fundamentally different - every campaign Clouted runs makes the next one smarter. The Distribution Intelligence platform learns your brand, your audience, and what formats win, then compounds that knowledge over time. That's not a feature. That's a moat. And it's why the brands that build with Clouted early will have an infrastructure advantage that only grows.
- Adriel Yong, COO & Co-Founder, Clouted
The way brands market themselves on social media has changed. Brand noise being higher than ever means we’re entering a new era of modern marketing, being distribution-first; focusing on how your content is distributed, not just the quality of your content.
- Eric Aaberg, Head of Marketing, Clouted
Coining the Category: Distribution Intelligence
Clouted is introducing Distribution Intelligence as the defining category for the next era of marketing infrastructure. Where traditional marketing tools measure what happened, Distribution Intelligence predicts, executes, and refines - building a compound data advantage that grows more precise with every campaign.
The distinction matters. Tools that activate creators or run UGC campaigns are execution layers. Clouted's Distribution Intelligence platform is the strategy, execution, and optimization layer simultaneously - ingesting brand data to generate campaign goals and success metrics, deploying AI agents to execute autonomously across all distribution channels, and analyzing every piece of content to surface winning formats and optimizations faster than any human team could.
This is what separates Clouted from the growing field of creator marketplaces and UGC tools: clients don't just get a campaign. They get a distribution infrastructure that gets smarter every single day.
Traction
Total Views
1B+ views generated since October 2025
Campaigns
250+ campaigns executed across entertainment, music, gaming, and consumer brands
Creator Network
100,000+ creators and clippers globally
Platforms
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X
Verticals
Entertainment, music, gaming, consumer brands, tech
Festival
&FRIENDS Festival - sold-out biannual EDM event, 30,000+ attendees, 500M+ media reach
About the Round
The $7M seed round is led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, LINE-Yahoo's Z VC, Gondor Capital, and Iterative. The round also reflects continued support from existing investors Speedrun (a16z), AppWorks, Peak XV, Antler, and Hustle Fund.
Angel investors include Gokul Rajaram, Ben Parr, Matt Schlicht (Moltbook, acquired by Meta Superintelligence), Andrew Yeung, Henry Shi (Super.com), Jeff Wu (k-id), and executives from Twitch, Airbnb, Fourthwall, Zalora, and Cameo.
The capital will be deployed toward expanding Clouted's Distribution Intelligence infrastructure, growing the creator network, and accelerating vertical expansion into gaming and streaming.
The Market Opportunity
The creator economy is a $234 billion market growing at 22% annually - projected by Goldman Sachs to reach $480 billion by 2027. There are 207 million content creators worldwide. 92% of consumers trust peer-generated content over brand advertising, and UGC drives 10x higher conversion rates than branded content. Yet only 16% of brands have a dedicated UGC strategy. The infrastructure gap between what brands know they need and what they're actually able to execute is the market Clouted was built to own.
About Clouted
Clouted is the Virality Engine for consumer and entertainment brands, powered by Distribution Intelligence. Our AI agents ingest your brand, business, and customer data to generate data-driven campaign plans and execute them autonomously - optimizing in real-time across clipping, UGC, fan pages, influencer seeding, performance ads, and viral stunts. Unlike execution-only tools, Clouted's platform analyzes every campaign to build compounding intelligence: learning winning formats, refining your content library, and getting smarter with every post. Distribution Marketing is the only moat. Clouted makes it repeatable. Backed by Slow Ventures, Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, LINE-Yahoo's Z VC, Gondor Capital, Iterative, Speedrun (a16z), AppWorks, Peak XV's Surge, Antler, and Hustle Fund. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. Your story, everywhere.
PRESS CONTACT
Eric Aaberg
Head of Marketing, Clouted
clouted.com