Pipeline, Issue 04: 13 marketers building pipeline before the Series D.
Pipeline, Issue 04 profiles 13 marketing and growth leaders at 13 Series C companies that raised $2.49B between them, from Wonderful and Together AI to Metaview and Oligo. Each gets a magazine cover, a profile and the story of the company they market.
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What do these 13 marketers have in common?
- Only 4 of the 13 have CMO in their title. 7 are VPs or SVPs. In the Series B issue, 6 of 12 sat in the C-suite.
- 5 of the 13 companies are Israeli: Wonderful, ScaleOps, Zenity, Port and Oligo. 8 of the 13 are outside the US.
- Wonderful was founded in early 2025 and is already worth $5B, with about 650 people in more than 35 countries.
- Together AI's $800M round is the largest in the issue, at an $8.3B valuation.
- Deepgram raised its $130M Series C while already cash-flow positive.
- Insight Partners led 3 of the rounds: Wonderful's, ScaleOps's and Metaview's.
- 5 of the 13 are women.
The 13 on the covers
Melissa Zeloof
Cover 01 · CMO, Wonderful
Melissa Zeloof is the CMO of Wonderful, the enterprise AI agent company. Wonderful builds AI agents for large enterprises, deployed with local teams in each market, for customer service, sales and internal operations.
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Prem Prakash
Cover 02 · SVP of Marketing, Together AI
Prem Prakash is the SVP and Head of Marketing at Together AI. Together AI is a cloud platform for training, fine-tuning and running open-source AI models.
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Luis Guzmán
Cover 03 · VP of Marketing, n8n
Luis Guzmán is the VP of Marketing at n8n, the Berlin workflow automation company. n8n is a workflow automation platform that teams use to connect apps and build AI agents, with an open-source edition anyone can run.
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Praveen Rangnath
Cover 04 · CMO, Deepgram
Praveen Rangnath is the CMO of Deepgram. Deepgram makes speech-to-text and voice AI models that developers build voice agents and transcription on.
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Joey Balázs
Cover 05 · Head of Marketing, ScaleOps
Joey Balázs is the Head of Marketing at ScaleOps, the Tel Aviv cloud resource automation company. ScaleOps automatically right-sizes cloud and AI infrastructure in production, so engineering teams stop paying for compute they don't use.
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Cinthia Portugal
Cover 06 · Ex-VP of Global Marketing, Zenity
Cinthia Portugal was the VP of Global Marketing at Zenity, the AI agent security company, through its $125M Series C. She left in October 2026 and has joined Linx Security. Zenity secures the AI agents and copilots companies build and buy, from Microsoft Copilot to custom agents.
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Edan Tal
Cover 07 · VP of Marketing, Port
Edan Tal is the VP of Marketing at Port, the internal developer portal company. Port is an internal developer portal: one place where engineering teams see and run their services, tools and AI agents. It is the commercial alternative to Spotify's open-source Backstage.
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Eli Staykova
Cover 08 · VP of Marketing, Render
Eli Staykova is the VP of Marketing at Render, the cloud platform for developers. Render is a cloud platform where developers deploy web apps, APIs, databases and AI agents without managing servers.
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Jade Maitland
Cover 09 · VP of Marketing, Primer
Jade Maitland is the VP of Marketing at Primer, the London payments company. Primer is a unified payments platform that lets merchants connect and orchestrate every payment provider and method from one place.
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Kaushik Sen
Cover 10 · CMO, UpGuard
Kaushik Sen is the Chief Marketing Officer of UpGuard. UpGuard is a cyber risk platform that monitors a company's own attack surface and the vendors it depends on.
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Mark Horton
Cover 11 · VP of Marketing, Fieldguide
Mark Horton is the Vice President of Marketing at Fieldguide. Fieldguide is an AI platform for audit and advisory firms that automates the work of an engagement, from requests to testing.
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Stephanie Bowker
Cover 12 · Head of Marketing, Metaview
Stephanie Bowker is the Head of Marketing at Metaview, the AI recruiting platform. Metaview is an AI recruiting platform that takes notes in interviews, sources candidates and screens applicants for hiring teams.
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Mike O'Malley
Cover 13 · CMO, Oligo
Mike O'Malley is the CMO of Oligo Security. Oligo is a runtime application security platform that detects and blocks exploits in the libraries and code a company actually runs.
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