Sales & marketing

Blaze

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Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Blaze uses AI and automation to scan millions of online signals to help modern companies target the right potential customers as soon as they show interest.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Retrera

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Lauren Rothwell

Founder

Lauren leads Agents Growth (product marketing, self-serve growth and product activation) at ElevenLabs. Lauren was previously the co-founder and CEO of Blaze (YCW22). Lauren grew up in Ireland, and started her career on the trading floor of Goldman Sachs in London. She worked in product at several start ups before launching Blaze. Lauren has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a degree in Economics and Statistics from Trinity College Dublin.

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Chirag Mahapatra

Founder

Chirag is a co-founder and CTO of Blaze. Previously, he was an Engineering Manager at Facebook in the Growth org working on problems in privacy, infrastructure and data. Prior to this, he was led the Membership and Authentication Infra teams at Airbnb. He also had stints in the Identity and Risk teams while there solving problems in ML. He joined Airbnb as part of an acquisition of a ML startup, Trooly. Chirag has a graduate degree from UC Berkeley and undergraduate degree from NITK.

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10team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2022 · Source

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Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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