# Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing: Marketing & advertising, Ottawa, Canada

> Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products online.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/chris-mclellan-ai-forward-marketing (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Canada · [Marketing & advertising startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products online.

Funding reported Last round: Series C

Marketing & advertising Ottawa, Canada

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2025 1 year old
- **Team:** 14 11 to 50 people
- **Funding reported:** 190.5M as listed, currency not stated
- **Last round:** Series C May 2021

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products online.

Chris McLellan is an AI-forward marketing consultancy helping startups and small to mid-sized businesses thrive in the digital world that AI is shaping. Services: • Marketing Knowledge Base: Collaborative datasets for powering AI systems from a single source of truth. • Marketing Ops: Customized CRM, list building, email engines, and dashboards. • Product Marketing: Positioning, ICPs, research, and GTM plans. • Event Marketing: Hosted webinars, paid sponsorships, exhibiting, speaking, and reporting. • Content Marketing: Transform recorded conversations into shareable insights, at scale. • Partner Marketing: Industry referral partners, brand ambassadors, and 3rd party integrations. • Marketing Agents: Automate CRO and first-line support. • Growth Apps: Cost-effective lead magnets, vibe-coded with experienced developers. • AI Optimization: Extractable landing pages and digital citations to boost domain authority. Visit: chrismclellan.me

## What company datasets say Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **190.5M** in the source's currency

Last round **Series C**

Last round size **130M**

Last round date **May 2021**

## On a portfolio page

Investors who name them

- [Daniel Debow](https://millionrounds.com/fund/daniel-debow)

Each firm lists Chris McLellan AI-Forward Marketing on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## The company, in detail

What they build

Known for

marketing strategy gtm knowledge retrieval no-code ai platform omnichannel ai platform customer experience enhancement multilingual support consumers ai automation ecommerce aeo personalized resolutions generative ai voice marketing ai decision explanation safety and compliance

Built with from their website

Atlassian Cloud Zendesk React Redux Zapier Remote Grafana Amazon Route 53 Google Search Console Microsoft 365 Stripe

+7 more

Amazon AWS Salesforce Google Workspace Apple Business Manager Apple School Manager AI Gmail

- **Sector:** Marketing & advertising
- **Industry code:** NAICS 54151, SIC 7375
- **Region:** Ontario

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