Mike Yan

Co-Founder & CEO Manychat

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Mike Yan is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Manychat, a Palo Alto, California company whose software lets businesses and creators automate conversations with customers on Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other messaging channels. He started the company in 2015 with Antony Gorin, and it now serves more than a million businesses in over 170 countries. In April 2025 he raised $140 million in growth capital led by Summit Partners to push further into AI agents, the company’s largest round by far after an $18 million first institutional investment from Bessemer Venture Partners in 2019.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Manychat with Antony Gorin in 2015, and has led it as CEO.
• Raised Manychat’s first institutional round, $18 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, in 2019.
• Led a $140 million growth round from Summit Partners in April 2025, taking total funding to $163.3 million.
• Introduced Manychat AI in 2024, which the company says tens of thousands of creators and businesses adopted.
• By October 2025 Manychat had connected one million Instagram accounts and powered five billion conversations.

Professional Journey

Yan co-founded Manychat in 2015 with Antony Gorin as a messenger automation startup. The company describes its mission as helping businesses grow by building meaningful customer relationships.

Manychat’s first institutional investment came in 2019, when Bessemer Venture Partners put in $18 million. The product now spans Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook Messenger and SMS, with Instagram automation a particular focus of the company’s recent messaging. In 2024 it introduced Manychat AI to let customers hand more of those conversations to AI.

In April 2025 Manychat announced a $140 million growth investment led by Summit Partners, bringing its total funding to $163.3 million. Yan said the company’s role was to “package and simplify new foundational technologies” so that customers could “focus on delivering exceptional value in their space”, and the company said the money would go into global expansion, research and development, and AI-agent features. By that October, Manychat reported that it had connected one million Instagram accounts and powered five billion conversations. Manychat’s blog reported him setting out the future of Instagram automation at the IGSxM 2025 event, and he told Boardroom that creators understand “their most valuable asset is the trust and strength of their relationships with their community”.

Education

No education record was found in Manychat’s press materials or the editorial coverage read.