daydream, the leading AI-powered organic search agency, announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round led by WndrCo with participation from First Round Capital and Basis Set Ventures. This brings daydream’s total funding to $21 million and will be used to accelerate hiring, product development, and market expansion.
“We are thrilled to receive this support and endorsement from leading venture capital firms,” said Thenuka Karunaratne, CEO and co-founder of daydream. “We offer every high-growth company our world-class expertise and SEO services, ensuring maximum growth in a marketing channel considered one of the most challenging to master.”
Most modern tools show how a company performs in search engine optimization (SEO) and search using artificial intelligence, but daydream goes beyond simple monitoring, achieving results through strategy and effective execution. This AI-powered agency connects SEO agents with leading experts, providing comprehensive search engine optimization support.
“The SEO market is huge, and artificial intelligence is changing it so rapidly that most companies can’t keep up. We supported daydream because Temuka and Shravan understand this field better than anyone we’ve met, and they’ve built a product that demonstrates this. Teams that master organic search in the AI era will truly gain an unfair advantage, and daydream will help them achieve it,” noted ChenLi Wang, General Partner at WndrCo.
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The daydream approach combines three components: the daydream method—a concept encompassing seven factors of organic growth, from keyword strategy to AI-powered visibility; SEO agents who work faster than traditional agencies and automate search execution at scale; and a dedicated growth manager assigned to each client—an SEO expert responsible for strategy, quality, and results.
“SEO requires deep knowledge, agility, and the ability to adapt to changes in search technology itself,” says Shravan Rajinikanth, CTO and co-founder of daydream. “Most companies are still optimizing their websites for a version of a search engine that no longer exists. We’re building agents that can think, strategize, and perform all the tasks a seasoned SEO can, all at the speed and scale required by the age of generative AI.”
AI-powered agencies represent a new category in the world of venture-backed startups. In its Spring 2026 Request for Startups, Y Combinator ranked AI-powered agencies as the third-most-preferred startup category for funding. Daydream‘s Series A funding round is a bet that combining AI agents with human expertise is the most effective model for broad-based SEO and AI search.
Source: PRNewswire
