Alison AI
Seed Round in 2024
Alison is a leading AI-powered platform specializing in video analysis for creative advertising. It offers a software-as-a-service solution that enables businesses to identify the most effective elements of their video content, access comprehensive performance data, and conduct insightful competitive analysis. By streamlining the process from ideation to production, Alison helps clients create videos that have a higher likelihood of success, eliminating guesswork and focusing on data-driven results. This platform is designed to enhance the overall effectiveness of video advertisements, ensuring that clients can optimize their creative strategies effectively.
AudioScenic
Series A in 2023
AudioScenic Limited, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Southampton, United Kingdom, specializes in developing innovative 3D audio technology that enhances the listening experience across various industries including cinema, gaming, production, automotive, and public displays. The company utilizes small arrays of speakers combined with advanced head-tracking technologies to create controlled and independent sound beams directed to each ear, effectively simulating a virtual headphone experience without the need for traditional headphones or extensive speaker setups. This approach delivers a more authentic and immersive audio experience, allowing sounds to be perceived in three-dimensional space with remarkable clarity. AudioScenic’s technology eliminates the limitations of conventional loudspeaker systems by providing optimized sound delivery that adapitates to the listener's position. Their proprietary Virtua 3D Engine enables wide-ranging applications and cost-effective implementations, offering detailed acoustic design support to partners and customers in various market segments.
AudioScenic
Series A in 2020
AudioScenic Limited, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Southampton, United Kingdom, specializes in developing innovative 3D audio technology that enhances the listening experience across various industries including cinema, gaming, production, automotive, and public displays. The company utilizes small arrays of speakers combined with advanced head-tracking technologies to create controlled and independent sound beams directed to each ear, effectively simulating a virtual headphone experience without the need for traditional headphones or extensive speaker setups. This approach delivers a more authentic and immersive audio experience, allowing sounds to be perceived in three-dimensional space with remarkable clarity. AudioScenic’s technology eliminates the limitations of conventional loudspeaker systems by providing optimized sound delivery that adapitates to the listener's position. Their proprietary Virtua 3D Engine enables wide-ranging applications and cost-effective implementations, offering detailed acoustic design support to partners and customers in various market segments.
Nano Interactive
Venture Round in 2020
Nano Interactive GmbH is a technology company based in Starnberg, Germany, that specializes in online live intent targeting and search-based advertising services. Founded in 2014 by former ValueClick executives, the company leverages user search queries to meet the specific needs of advertisers. Its data management platform, Audience Manager, creates anonymous user profiles that facilitate timely and targeted online advertising displays. Additionally, Nano Interactive provides reporting dashboards that enable real-time performance tracking across multiple channels at the keyword level. The company is experiencing significant growth and has expanded its presence across EMEA with offices in cities including Hamburg, London, Paris, Warsaw, and Belgrade.
Usheru is a technology platform that facilitates direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors. By integrating cinema point-of-sale systems with film websites, Usheru allows consumers to easily book tickets while providing film distributors with crucial tools for tracking marketing spend and connecting it to actual ticket purchases. The company offers an insights platform, Usheru Analytics, which provides real-time visibility into the success of marketing campaigns. This enables distributors to understand consumer behavior and build a database of film enthusiasts. Usheru addresses the significant challenge of rising marketing costs in the film industry by offering data-driven solutions and a direct response advertising framework, ultimately fostering stronger connections between film distributors and their audiences.
PowerLinks
Series A in 2018
PowerLinks Media Limited, established in 2012, operates a programmatic native advertising platform that facilitates the buying and selling of native ads across various formats and devices worldwide. The company's core product, PowerLinks, enables brands and media businesses to adopt and scale native advertising, offering a global marketplace for real-time trading of in-feed, in-video, in-image, in-text, and in-display ad formats. With offices in Salford and Manchester, UK, and New York, USA, PowerLinks integrates and distributes sponsored content, search, e-commerce, responsive display, and video content, driving innovation and accelerating revenue generation through open technology and global scale.
Nano Interactive
Venture Round in 2018
Nano Interactive GmbH is a technology company based in Starnberg, Germany, that specializes in online live intent targeting and search-based advertising services. Founded in 2014 by former ValueClick executives, the company leverages user search queries to meet the specific needs of advertisers. Its data management platform, Audience Manager, creates anonymous user profiles that facilitate timely and targeted online advertising displays. Additionally, Nano Interactive provides reporting dashboards that enable real-time performance tracking across multiple channels at the keyword level. The company is experiencing significant growth and has expanded its presence across EMEA with offices in cities including Hamburg, London, Paris, Warsaw, and Belgrade.
.FOX Networks
Venture Round in 2007
FOX Networks (pronounced "dot FOX"), one of the largest international ad networks, is the online division of FOX International Channels. With 150 employees in 19 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, .FOX Networks pioneered the concept of Brandformance™, or achieving branding-like recall with performance-like ROI. The network, which serves +20 billion impressions to +900 million unique users each month, leverages Fox International Channel's TV and online teams around the world to facilitate the convergence of TV and online video planning and buying. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the News Corporation (NYSE: NWS)
Factory Media
Acquisition in 2006
Factory Media Ltd. is a digital media company based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in lifestyle sports and their associated cultures across Europe. Established in 2006, the company operates a diverse portfolio that includes 20 brands, such as MPORA, Road Cycling UK, and Dirt, and publishes 16 digital and 13 consumer magazine brands in six languages. Factory Media engages in the production of branded content and campaigns, leveraging its in-house networks and digital platforms to reach a targeted audience of action sports enthusiasts. The company serves over four million consumers interested in snowboarding, mountain biking, surfing, BMX, and other action sports, with MPORA attracting approximately 3.8 million unique users monthly. Factory Media also offers sponsorship, campaign management, and advertising sales services, representing unsold inventory in the outdoor and lifestyle sports sectors. With regional offices in Munich, Germany, the company has established itself as a dominant player in the European media market for action sports.