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OFFERFIT GETS $25M TO KILL A/B TESTING FOR MARKETING WITH MACHINE LEARNING
PERSONALIZATION

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November 14, 2023 3:56 PM
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“A/B testing is dead” proclaims the copy on the homepage of OfferFit, a
three-year-old, Boston, Mass.-based startup founded and led by George
Khachatryan as CEO, a PhD mathematician and former cofounder of education
software startup Reasoning Mind.

It’s a bold proclamation, but one the company is confident it can back up for
brands seeking to optimize and personalize their digital marketing efforts more
easily and with far better results than prior methods. (“A/B testing” refers to
the practice of sending half of recipients one type of communication and the
other half a different one and seeing which message performs better in terms of
metrics such as open rates, click throughs, activations, sign-ups, purchases,
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And investors seem to agree: today the company announced a $25 million series B
funding round led by Menlo Ventures, joined by Ridge Ventures and earlier
investors Canvas Ventures, Harmony Partners, Alumni Ventures Group, Carbide
Ventures, and Burst Capital.

In addition, Capital One Ventures, the VC arm of the recognizable and popular
credit card and banking merchant, committed an investment following its success
using OfferFit to automate sending personalized mass marketing messages about
its financial services products to customers.


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WHAT OFFERFIT OFFERS

Key to OfferFit’s success at winning backers and customers-turned-backers is its
approach to digital marketing: it uses machine learning, specifically
reinforcement learning, in which algorithms are trained to take actions that
result in either “penalties” or “rewards,” essentially gamifying the learning
process and relying on trial-and-error, similar to how human babies learn.

Reinforcement learning forms the backbone of OfferFit’s automated marketing
solution, which ingests data about its clients’ customers and marketing
efforts-to-date, and automatically figures out the optimal messages to send at
the optimal times on the optimal channels to each and every single customer —
even if the userbase is in the millions, as is the case with large enterprises
such as Capital One.

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“The beauty of this is it’s not a one time thing,” said Jean-Paul (JP) Sanday, a
partner at Menlo Ventures, in a video conference interview with VentureBeat.
“You can test you and don’t have to declare a winner. It just always optimizes
and it stays on — the lift actually improves over time.”

And even if and when end user behaviors change — as they often do throughout our
lives, as we grow and enter different levels of school, the workforce, get
married, have children — OfferFit can deliver the right messages for the
end-user’s stage of life.

“If your user patterns and behavior changes, it picks up on that and starts
saying, ‘this is a new emerging behavior,'” Sanday explained. “When a new
channel shows up, or somebody starts spending more time in a different app, it
will detect that and change the marketing to accommodate it.”

OfferFit’s ML solution is also flexible enough to work across different key
performance indicators (KPIs) without retooling. Whether the customer is seeking
to drive open rates, engagement, click throughs, or nearly any other
conceivable, measurable result, the platform can optimize its messaging times
and channels to achieve the customer’s goals.

“What frequency with which you send messages, what day what time of day, it all
gets kind of figured out by the system and so you just apply experimentation at
scale,” noted Sanday.

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THE ‘HOLY GRAIL’ OF AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED MARKETING AT SCALE?

Sanday admitted he was hesitant at first to invest in OfferFit because it seemed
too good to be true.

“When I saw this, initially I said, this is like the Holy Grail again.. I don’t
know, I’ve been pitched the ‘Holy Grail’ so many times,” he told VentureBeat.

But Khachatryan’s and his co-founder Victor Kostyuk’s deep mathematics
backgrounds, along with the opportunity presented by a more mature ecosystem of
connected messaging applications and toolsets, won him over to the central
conceit of the platform and the innovation it facilitates: a one-stop shop of
algorithms for optimizing and personalizing marketing across sectors, channels,
audiences segments, and timespans.

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“The model is going to go out and based on actual [end-user] behaviors, start
understanding,” Sanday explained. “It will give you [customer] a series of
things to put in front of users like subject lines, creative offers or
incentives of all different types. And it won’t hallucinate or give them 90% off
or anything, it will operate within the constraints that the customer sets up.”

Specifically, OfferFit claims to have achieved such striking results as a 120%
increase in average revenue per user (ARPU) at Liberty Latin America, a telecom
company, resulting in an addition $1 million in annual value. For Brinks home
security, OfferFit says it achieved a 450% growth in value by driving contract
extensions from existing customers, equivalent to $5 million annual benefit.

The company services customers across sectors in retail and ecommerce, travel
and hospitality technology, media and entertainment, telecommunications and
utilities, financial services and insurance, as well as healthcare and wellness.

Moreover, Sanday was careful to note that OfferFit did not aggregate end-user
data across its customers, nor did it co-mingle data from its various customers
into a pile. However valuable that might seem — creating cross-company customer
profiles — OfferFit seeks to maintain the privacy and data security of both its
customers and end users.

Sanday said this was also not necessary for the platform to optimize its
suggested messaging.

“The way you manifest to your utility provider, for example, does not
necessarily always tell me what’s the right thing to do for your credit card
offer,” he noted.

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR OFFERFIT WITH ITS NEW CASH

Now that the company has demonstrated its value to large notable customers and
secured additional investment, it plans to “continue investing in our product.”

According to its webpage announcing the funding round, that means it will build
out additional integrations to marketing software platforms, allowing OfferFIt’s
ML smarts to leverage existing workflows and software tools to push out the best
messages at the right times for its customers (and most importantly, their end
users).

In addition, the company plans to expand “our self-serve and content generation
capabilities.” According to Sanday, this may ultimately include a generative AI
component of actually generating raw marketing copy and visual assets, though he
stressed these would of course be subject to approval of a human marketing
manager or equivalent for every customer before being pushed out to end users.

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