Nexad

Description: Building AI for Native Advertising

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Point72 Ventures, Sequoia

Reference Link to Deck: https://www.businessinsider.com/adtech-startup-nexad-raises-seed-ai-native-ads-pitch-deck-2025-4

Stage: Seed

Slide-by-Slide Content

Slide 1 — Title

Slide 2 — Market Context

Slide 3 — Search Is Changing

Slide 4 — Product Vision

Slide 5 — Traction

Slide 6 — Example Ad

Slide 7 — Generative Ad Engine

Slide 8 — Data Flywheel

Slide 9 — Team

Slide 10 — Closing

Article-Style Walkthrough

The Nexad deck introduces a bold vision: building a native advertising system for the AI era.

It starts with the broader market context — highlighting how AI apps are transforming brand discovery. A graph shows Google’s dominance in search declining, while AI chat apps are steadily growing to 14%+ market share by 2028.

The company then makes its case that traditional search is dying. Google search results, filled with blogs and forums, are contrasted with ChatGPT’s conversational brand recommendations — which feel more direct, contextual, and useful.

Nexad positions itself as the company building the first AI-native ad system, with the goal of seamlessly merging ads into AI apps and boosting brand visibility.

The traction slide highlights Nexad’s momentum: already reaching 30M+ AI-native users across publishers like iAsk, Dippy AI, and Bounce.

To illustrate how the product works, Nexad shows a live example: a user types into iAsk about being a Michael Jordan fan, and Nexad’s system serves Air Jordan sneaker ads directly in the AI response — blending utility and commerce.

The technology underpinning this is the Generative Ad Engine, designed with contextual awareness and real-time adaptation. Paired with the Data Flywheel — user queries feed the Nexad engine, which delivers useful ads, gathers engagement data, and continuously refines itself — the system is built for compounding performance.

The team brings strong technical and business credibility: Jason Hu (CEO) with ML and monetization experience from TikTok and UChicago, and Harry Zhou (COO) with startup growth and legal expertise from Stanford and Skadden. Advisors from Unity Ads and Uber Ads add industry weight, along with founding engineers from Comcast and AGI labs.

The deck closes with a clear message: Nexad is reinventing advertising for the AI era.