Mega Raises $11.5M to Provide SMBs Enterprise-Grade Growth Teams

The AI-powered platform replaces traditional marketing agencies with a network of specialized AI agents to drive predictable growth for small and mid-sized businesses.

Published on Mar. 9, 2026

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Mega, a New York-based startup, has raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Goodwater Capital. The company's AI-powered platform is designed to provide small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with an enterprise-grade growth team without the overhead of a traditional marketing agency. Mega's network of specialized AI agents handles tasks like SEO, paid advertising, and website management, allowing SMBs to focus on their core business while achieving predictable customer acquisition and growth.

Why it matters

The funding round highlights the growing demand for AI-powered marketing solutions that can level the playing field for SMBs competing in a digital ecosystem built for enterprises. Traditional marketing agencies often struggle to deliver consistent, scalable performance within the budgets of smaller businesses, while DIY AI tools can be complex and time-consuming to operate. Mega's approach aims to bridge this gap by providing SMBs with an automated, end-to-end growth engine.

The details

Mega's core product is an AI-powered growth engine that uses a network of specialized AI agents to handle various marketing tasks, including SEO, paid advertising, and website management. The platform is designed for businesses generating between $500,000 and $20 million in revenue, and it aims to deliver consistent, scalable performance without the need for SMBs to manage agencies or juggle multiple tools. Approximately 55% of the work is fully automated, 35% is mostly automated with humans in the loop, and 10% is executed end-to-end by humans, allowing Mega to maintain quality control while leveraging the power of AI.

  • Mega was founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the team was initially building a video game company.
  • The company went from zero to $10 million in revenue in just 10 months.

The players

Mega

An AI-powered growth engine that replaces traditional marketing agencies for small and mid-sized businesses.

Robbie Schneidman

Co-founder of Mega.

Lucas Pellan

Co-founder of Mega.

Goodwater Capital

The venture capital firm that led Mega's $11.5 million Series A funding round.

Darin Chase

A home services business owner who has seen success working with Mega.

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What they’re saying

“We realized early that business owners do not want another AI chat tool that requires hours of prompting. They want customers. So we built a system that actually does the work. We use AI agents to execute end to end, continuously improving performance so SMBs get predictable growth without managing agencies or juggling tools.”

— Lucas Pellan, Co-founder of Mega (businessinsider.com)

“Mega represents a fundamental shift in how SMBs should think about marketing, from paying for effort to paying for measurable, repeatable growth. We're excited to back Lucas and team as they build an AI-native enterprise-grade growth engine that any business can turn on”

— Vivek Subramanian, Partner & Chief Product Officer at Goodwater Capital (businessinsider.com)

“Since working with Mega we are finally getting a predictable lead flow. We are also able to divert our time away from Facebook marketing to other important projects because Mega manages everything.”

— Darin Chase, Home services business owner (businessinsider.com)

What’s next

Mega plans to expand beyond SEO, ads, and websites, and into managing the entire revenue generation engine for SMBs, including email, outbound, organic social, lead qualification, sales operations, and reporting. The long-term vision is to provide a fully automated growth infrastructure that allows small and mid-sized businesses to compete with enterprise-grade marketing capability, without enterprise overhead.

The takeaway

Mega's AI-powered growth engine represents a new approach to marketing for small and mid-sized businesses, shifting the focus from paying for effort to paying for measurable, repeatable growth. By leveraging specialized AI agents to handle a wide range of marketing tasks, Mega aims to level the playing field for SMBs and help them compete with enterprise-level marketing capabilities without the associated overhead.