Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups with a focus on pre-seed rounds. It makes about 75-100 investments per year in capital-efficient companies seeking to reach product-market fit, typically in rounds of 50k to 500k and pre-money valuations of 1M to 3M. The firm pursues opportunities outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and it invests across the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, with a portfolio spanning many states and roughly two hundred prior investments since its early operations.

Kevin Dick

Managing Partner

John Eng

Principal

Dave Lambert

Managing Director

David Lambert

Founder and Managing Director

Jeff Pomeranz

Managing Director

Paul Swiencicki

Partner

Past deals in Mobile Advertising

Adder

Convertible Note in 2019
Adder Mobile Technologies, Inc. is an outdoor advertising and analytics company based in Louisville, Kentucky. Established in 2017, it specializes in providing a platform that tracks the performance of out-of-home advertising campaigns. Adder offers a mobile application that assists drivers with real-time navigation while simultaneously monitoring their routes. The Adder OOH Portal serves as an analytics engine, delivering GPS and signal-verified data on outdoor advertisements. The company's tools effectively connect digital and physical advertising spaces, allowing brands to invest in their communities while measuring audience engagement. By linking businesses with everyday drivers through car wrap advertisements, Adder facilitates a mutually beneficial relationship that enhances brand visibility and trust within local areas.

AdinMo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
AdInMo is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in in-game advertising. It offers a platform that serves click-free ads, allowing brands and mobile application developers to engage with audiences in eSports, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mobile games without disrupting gameplay. AdInMo's InGamePlay advertising format ensures a seamless experience for players, enhancing brand visibility while providing game developers with new monetization opportunities. This approach generates additional revenue for developers and improves player retention by maintaining immersion. With a broad inventory that allows advertisers to target diverse player personas, AdInMo effectively connects brands with free-to-play mobile game developers, facilitating innovative advertising solutions in the gaming industry.

Groundhog

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Groundhog Technologies Inc. specializes in user analytics services for mobile network operators through its various platforms, including CovMo, MI-DEP, and MI-DSP. The company enables operators to accurately identify subscriber locations and experiences while extracting valuable insights from network data, facilitating proactive solutions in network management, customer care, and marketing. Groundhog's Data Enrichment Platform and Demand Side Platform assist operators in leveraging advertising and data monetization opportunities. Its mobility intelligence platform analyzes subscriber location, quality of experience, context, and lifestyle, offering solutions like Geo-Analytics for demographic profiling, Geo-Targeting for mobile advertising, Geo-P2P for peer-to-peer communication, and Geo-Network for network analysis. Groundhog serves a global clientele of major wireless operators, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Vodafone. Established in 2001, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional offices in multiple international locations.

SmartTones Media

Seed Round in 2018
SmartTones Media is a developer of an audience engagement and measurement platform that enhances advertising effectiveness by fostering consumer interaction and responses. The company combines the extensive reach of traditional broadcast media with the precise metrics of digital platforms, delivering engaging experiences from content such as television, film, radio, and live events directly to mobile devices. SmartTones Media enables companies to connect with their audiences through interactive experiences, enhanced storytelling, and branded entertainment. Utilizing silent sound codes embedded in content, the platform tracks user responses and demographics in real time, providing valuable insights through a comprehensive dashboard. This integration into existing workflows facilitates the creation and execution of smart campaigns, allowing advertisers and content creators to engage consumers effectively while maintaining privacy.

Monetizr

Convertible Note in 2017
Monetizr is a platform that helps brands reach younger gamers through in-game advertising and branded experiences in mobile games. It provides a data-driven system that places ads within gameplay based on user behavior, enabling multi-touch campaigns on iOS and Android. The company partners with major brands and game developers to deliver immersive brand placements and scalable sponsorships across a global network, targeting Generation Z and Millennials. In addition, Monetizr offers a software development kit and a mobile app that allow developers to create and sell game-branded merchandise. Founded in 2016 and based in Covington, Kentucky, Monetizr serves customers worldwide through its international facilities.

Xclaim Mobile

Convertible Note in 2017
Xclaim Mobile, Inc. is a Dallas-based company that specializes in developing an enterprise-grade mobile offer platform designed to enhance digital marketing efforts. Founded in 2016, Xclaim offers a solution that streamlines the transition to mobile marketing by providing tools for location-based marketing campaigns. The platform detects users' devices, locations, and wallet types, allowing for customized offers that can be accepted through popular mobile payment systems such as Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Microsoft Wallet. By enabling brands to engage consumers with timely notifications and relevant offers, Xclaim aims to drive customer response and revenue across industries such as telecommunications, consumer lending, automotive, and retail.

Xclaim Mobile

Convertible Note in 2016
Xclaim Mobile, Inc. is a Dallas-based company that specializes in developing an enterprise-grade mobile offer platform designed to enhance digital marketing efforts. Founded in 2016, Xclaim offers a solution that streamlines the transition to mobile marketing by providing tools for location-based marketing campaigns. The platform detects users' devices, locations, and wallet types, allowing for customized offers that can be accepted through popular mobile payment systems such as Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Microsoft Wallet. By enabling brands to engage consumers with timely notifications and relevant offers, Xclaim aims to drive customer response and revenue across industries such as telecommunications, consumer lending, automotive, and retail.

AdWill

Convertible Note in 2016
AdWill is a demand-side platform specializing in mobile advertising, enabling businesses to purchase mobile display traffic through real-time bidding. Utilizing a sophisticated machine learning algorithm, AdWill analyzes a wide range of demographic and behavioral attributes to optimize bidding strategies and enhance conversion rates. The platform operates on a large scale, bidding on over 2 billion impressions daily across more than 120 countries, providing clients with extensive reach in mobile advertising.

Karmies

Convertible Note in 2016
Karmies develops a mobile advertising platform centered on branded interactive emojis. The platform provides publishers with an SDK to integrate custom interactive emojis into existing apps and enables brands to reach mobile users through referral-based branded emojis that include content such as traditional banner ads and sponsored content tied to physical locations. The company creates branded emoticons that are clickable on smartphone keyboards and offers features such as Secret Emojiallows that let users attach hidden pictures and text behind emojis. Founded in 2013 and based in Denver, Colorado, Karmies focuses on connecting brands with users who are resistant to traditional advertising by delivering engaging, shareable emoji-based experiences.

ResponsiveAds

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ResponsiveAds provides programmatic, direct, and native advertising solutions through a platform that enables rapid creation and delivery of HTML5 responsive ads across devices. Its offerings include Stretch, a banner advertising platform that deploys as a standard tag to run consistently across screens, and NarratorStudio, a self-serve cloud app for producing pixel-perfect HTML5 creatives. The company enables publishers and advertisers to optimize ads for mobile, tablet, and desktop with a fluid, Fully-Fluid master creative approach that exports HTML5 packages and fits any ad slot. The platform includes a web-development interface to manage inventory, automatic layout generation, a custom format editor, and an animation timeline, plus templates and options for custom solutions. ResponsiveAds has served billions of impressions for marquee brands and agencies, focusing on high-quality, scalable ad experiences and improved sell-through for mobile campaigns.

Feedmob

Convertible Note in 2016
Feedmob Inc. is a mobile analytics and advertising platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in providing performance-driven mobile advertising solutions that emphasize transparency and integrity. Feedmob's platform allows clients to analyze mobile performance campaigns in real time, enabling them to make informed decisions based on data-driven insights. By visualizing large datasets and automating attribution mapping, Feedmob empowers brands to optimize their advertising strategies effectively. The company aggregates and curates high-quality mobile advertising inventory, ensuring that campaigns are impactful from their inception. With a focus on continuous innovation and community engagement, Feedmob delivers expert analysis and recommendations to help clients achieve their mobile growth objectives.

Decisive

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Decisive is a social content analytics platform designed to assist brands in measuring, understanding, and benchmarking the effectiveness of their social media content. Recognizing the necessity for brands to evolve into content companies, Decisive offers tools that enable brands to assess their content performance across major social media platforms using a unified content score. The platform also provides insights into audience sentiment regarding the content and facilitates comparisons with competitors' content. Additionally, Decisive's mobile advertising capabilities support brands in devising strategies based on user engagement, ultimately enhancing customer reach and impact in the digital landscape.

Red Fox Clan

Convertible Note in 2015
Red Fox Clan is a community-focused platform designed for gamers to express their opinions about various games, sharing insights on both positive and negative aspects. This user-generated data is utilized to guide product development and marketing strategies for prominent gaming brands. Additionally, Red Fox Clan offers a marketing platform specifically for mobile games, equipping developers with the necessary resources and tools to promote their games independently, akin to major studios and publishers. Through its dual approach of community engagement and marketing support, Red Fox Clan aims to enhance the gaming experience while empowering developers in the mobile gaming sector.

Pushmote

Convertible Note in 2015
Pushmote, Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in developing a cloud-based platform tailored for iBeacons and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The platform allows users to create content, tag individuals, and access analytics and heat maps. It also supports gamification and marketing strategies by enabling the creation of interactive scenarios. Pushmote's solution simplifies mobile engagement by sending location-specific notifications, enhancing in-app marketing through targeted pop-ups.

Fosbury

Seed Round in 2013
Fosbury is a privately held company based in The Netherlands, established in December 2012. It specializes in creating mobile promotions that enhance customer engagement and drive repeat business through mobile wallets. The company develops campaigns such as coupons, loyalty cards, and gift cards for platforms like Apple Passbook and Google Wallet, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of mobile devices. Fosbury's offerings include a mobile couponing application that allows users to design, manage, and distribute Passbook campaigns effectively. Additionally, the company provides tools for tracking campaign performance, user engagement, and pass updates, thereby enabling businesses to optimize their promotional strategies.

Appfuel

Convertible Note in 2013
Appfuel is a mobile app cross-promotion platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. Originally known as AppSpree, the company provides application developers with a unified account to facilitate audience targeting, programmatic ad recommendations, and hosting sponsored recommendations. As of June 30, 2015, Appfuel operates as a subsidiary of Tune, Inc. The platform aims to streamline mobile app distribution, enhancing the ability for developers to reach their target users effectively. The founders of Appfuel include Andrew Boos, Alfred Kam, and Rex Kim.

SimpleRelevance

Series A in 2013
SimpleRelevance Inc. is a marketing technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in providing a personalization platform for digital marketers. Established in 2011, the company focuses on enhancing customer engagement through personalized and automated marketing across various channels, including emails, digital advertisements, and mobile applications. By leveraging machine learning technology, SimpleRelevance enables businesses to optimize their marketing messages using both internal and external customer data. This approach allows for tailored communications that consider factors such as customer behavior and preferences, resulting in improved conversion rates and return on investment. SimpleRelevance caters to a diverse clientele, ranging from small businesses to large Fortune 500 companies in sectors such as media, finance, and retail. In December 2015, the company was acquired by Rise Interactive, further integrating its innovative technology into the broader marketing solutions offered by its parent company.

AdYapper

Pre Seed Round in 2013
AdYapper provides an analytics and insights platform for advertisers to optimize campaigns across display, mobile, and TV advertising. The platform delivers real-time analytics, alerts, verification data, and viewability metrics to measure performance, consumer sentiment, and audience engagement. It centralizes data from the ad ecosystem to identify wasted spend and guide in-flight budget reallocations. The solution also includes an influence scoring tool and a domain scorecard to grade inventory, helping clients eliminate low-quality placements and improve media buying decisions. In addition, AdYapper enables advertisers to transform television marketing into an inbound opportunity by sharing content, gathering feedback, and engaging audiences. The company is based in Chicago with additional offices in New York.

Jebbit

Seed Round in 2013
Jebbit, Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in providing interactive mobile solutions for marketers and digital sales teams. Founded in 2011, Jebbit operates a declared data platform that allows brands to create personalized mobile experiences aimed at capturing essential consumer data. By enabling the development of engaging content such as quizzes, lookbooks, and virtual tours, Jebbit helps enterprises gather insights into consumer intentions, motivations, and preferences, moving away from reliance on inaccurate third-party data. The company serves various industries, including travel, e-commerce, and sports, with notable clients like Cathay Pacific Airways and LifeLock. Jebbit's innovative approach to mobile marketing has earned it recognition, including being named one of the Top 25 Most Promising Companies by CNBC and receiving accolades for its tech culture.

Nveloped

Seed Round in 2012
nveloped

Leanplum

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Leanplum Inc. is a mobile marketing platform that specializes in enhancing engagement for brands through a unified, multichannel approach. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, London, Bulgaria, and Amsterdam, Leanplum enables businesses to optimize their mobile applications and marketing efforts. The platform offers a range of services including messaging, automation, app editing, personalization, A/B testing, and analytics, allowing product teams to conduct real-time optimization tests and analyze results effectively. Renowned global brands such as Tinder, Grab, Tesco, and Zynga utilize Leanplum to orchestrate integrated campaigns that foster customer loyalty and drive growth. By transforming data into actionable insights, Leanplum helps companies understand user needs, delivering relevant experiences that enhance brand engagement and establish long-term customer relationships.
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