Simaia, an AI-Native GEO Marketing Team, Raises Pre-Seed Funding via Iterative’s S26 Batch
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Simaia, an AI-native GEO marketing team for companies across the Asia-Pacific region to be recommended within AI search, today announced a pre-seed round secured through its acceptance into Iterative’s S26 batch, following an earlier angel round. Simaia operates as both the strategic brain and the operational body of a marketing function, auditing how buyers search on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overview, then writing and distributing the content that gets brands cited inside those answers. The company’s customers come from a range of industries, including manufacturers, suppliers and outsourcing firms, service companies, tech companies, fintech, real estate and tour groups across six countries. Simaia reports that customers across those different industries have seen inbound lead volume rise three-to-fivefold within two months of engagement.
Simaia’s product splits into two functions delivered as one service. The analysis function scans a client’s category across the five major AI models, benchmarks the client against competitors, and produces a ranked list of the third-party sources those models trust most in that category. Based on the results, the execution function then writes on-site blog content formatted for LLM extraction, places press releases with outlets AI models cite, and posts to the channels each model favors, while pacing publishing volume against the client’s Google Search Console data so new content does not cannibalize existing search rankings. When an AI referral converts into a website visit, Simaia identifies the company, the individual contact, their email, phone number and LinkedIn profile, and passes that record to the client’s sales team.
No two Simaia engagements run the same playbook. Each client’s ranked list of trusted sources, competitor benchmark and content calendar comes out of that client’s own audit, so a fintech account and a manufacturer are working from entirely different source lists and publishing cadences. Plans start at $800 USD per month.
“This round builds on traction we already had: double-digit growth month over month, customers seeing three to five times the leads within two months, and a ninety percent retention rate,” said Ryan Wan, CEO and Co-Founder of Simaia. “Iterative’s backing lets us keep that going across the six markets we already serve. We will be expanding to other markets too.”
The round comes as buyers increasingly research vendors through conversational AI rather than traditional search, a shift borne out by broader search data: research published by ahrefs in early 2026 found AI Overviews reduced clicks to top-ranking content by 58% in some query categories. That shift leaves companies reliant on trade exhibitions, outbound, SEO, and referral networks with no visibility into whether they appear in an AI-generated answer at all. In one existing Simaia case study, a manufacturing client’s inbound lead rate moved from one lead every three months to ten leads per month within two months of engagement.
“We built Simaia so a founder or sales leader never has to learn how ChatGPT and other LLMs decides what to cite, they just see the leads show up,” said Ryan Wan.
About Simaia
Simaia is an AI-native GEO marketing team built for companies that want to be found by buyers using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overview. The company runs AI search audits, competitor gap analysis and content distribution across on-site blogs, press releases and LinkedIn, then identifies and hands qualified leads to clients’ sales teams. Simaia serves customers across China, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the United States and has raised a pre-seed round through Iterative’s S26 batch following an earlier angel round.
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