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Markets2026-09-24 · source-backed
Jon Miller's Phave came out of two years in stealth on September 23, GA since August, backed by FirstMark, Ridge and Costanoa, with SambaNova, SPS Commerce and mabl as customers. Marketers state an objective; an engine called Maestro computes a per-person "Playlist" of touches. Accounts and buying groups are first-class records, and it runs headless through MCP and a REST API. Pricing on monthly active recipients removes the contact-count tax legacy marketing automation charges (PR Newswire). Starts at $36K a year. The 2.97-against-HubSpot's-2.46 scoring across 481 requirements is vendor-run and unaudited.
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