Daash Intelligence is a technology company.
Daash Intelligence has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
Daash Intelligence has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Daash Intelligence is an AI-powered predictive commerce intelligence platform designed for retail brands, particularly in beauty and personal care categories like color cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, haircare, and personal care[1][2][3][5]. It serves midsized and smaller brands by combining multiple data sources—such as research panels tracking 6M+ shoppers, social/advertising trends, and brand attributes—to deliver weekly, retailer-specific updates on sales estimates, velocity, market share, rankings, and emerging trends at SKU level[1][3][4][5]. This solves the core problem of limited visibility into real-time competitor performance, enabling data-driven decisions to spot opportunities, optimize performance, and compete with larger players without expensive, delayed insights[1][3].
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco (with some sources noting Miami), the company has shown strong growth, doubling its client roster in a year and raising $8.5M total in seed funding, including a recent $5.5M round backed by investors like Bullpen Capital[1][2]. Clients such as Glow Recipe, Amika, Gntl, Tatcha, and others praise its affordability, ease of use, and actionable granularity for roadmapping, pitching partners, and shifting from intuition to data[1][3][4].
Daash Intelligence was founded in 2022 by a team of retail brand and data experts, including Co-founder and CEO Philip Smolin, Justin Stewart, and Melissa Munnerlyn, who brought experience in marketing intelligence and predictive analytics platforms[1][2][3]. Created at the "intersection of predictive intelligence and consumer products," the idea emerged to address a void in affordable, real-time commerce insights for beauty brands facing fierce competition and delayed data from traditional sources[1][3].
Early traction came quickly post-launch, with the platform gaining clients like Glow Recipe and Amika, leading to phenomenal growth and a second seed round of $5.5M just over a year after the initial funding[1]. Investors highlighted the team's speed in using AI to fill this gap, helping smaller brands benchmark against "beauty behemoths."[1]
Daash rides the wave of AI-driven retail analytics amid booming demand for real-time, predictive commerce intelligence in fragmented beauty markets, where trends shift rapidly and smaller brands lack big-data access[1][3][5]. Timing is ideal post-2022 launch, aligning with post-pandemic e-commerce acceleration, retailer-specific data needs (e.g., Sephora dominance), and AI advancements enabling affordable synthesis of panels/social data[1][2][4].
Market forces like competitive beauty categories, rising indie brands, and data democratization favor Daash, influencing the ecosystem by empowering underdogs to make faster, evidence-based moves—potentially reshaping how CPG firms roadmap and compete[1][3]. Its growth doubles client bases while filling gaps in legacy tools, amplifying AI's role in democratizing retail insights[1].
Daash is poised for expansion beyond beauty into broader CPG, leveraging its AI edge, client momentum, and $8.5M war chest to add retailers, categories, and global reach[1][2]. Trends like hyper-personalized retail AI, edge computing for faster predictions, and deeper e-comm integrations will shape its path, potentially attracting Series A as adoption scales[1][3].
Its influence could evolve from niche enabler to standard for predictive commerce, helping more brands "act quickly on emerging trends" in a data-hungry landscape—ultimately redefining competition from reactive to proactive[1].
Daash Intelligence has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Daash Intelligence's investors include Alpine Meridien, Bullpen Capital, Chicago Ventures, Gaingels, Ironspring Ventures, Las Olas Venture Capital, Mana Ventures, Piva Capital, Trimble Ventures.
Daash Intelligence has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in October 2024.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2024 | $6.0M Seed | Alpine Meridien, Bullpen Capital, Chicago Ventures, Gaingels, Ironspring Ventures, Las Olas Venture Capital, Mana Ventures, Piva Capital, Trimble Ventures |