SV Angel

Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.

Ashvin Bachireddy

Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Partner

Ronald Conway Sr.

Managing Partner

Ron Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Past deals in Digital Marketing

CreatorDAO

Seed Round in 2022
CreatorDAO is a decentralized community established in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company focuses on investing in creators by offering a comprehensive platform that provides capital, technology, and operational support. CreatorDAO empowers creators by granting them access to essential resources such as mentorship and professional tools necessary for brand growth. By facilitating these investments, CreatorDAO aims to strengthen the creator economy and enhance the success of individuals within this domain.

OpenStore

Series A in 2021
Ingenyes has a new business model in web hosting. It provides free web hosting, then 'clips the ticket' on ancillary services provided by partners such as SEO specialists, web designers, and ecommerce platforms. The company is building a global apps store of services from web partners and connects them to small businesses via its free web hosting service.

Census

Seed Round in 2020
Census is a leading data activation platform that utilizes Reverse ETL technology to transform data warehouses into central hubs for marketing and business operations. By facilitating the synchronization of customer data with essential tools, Census enables organizations to take actionable steps without the need for custom scripts or extensive engineering resources. The platform is utilized by numerous modern companies to enhance various outcomes, including personalized marketing for millions of users, significant improvements in sales productivity, and drastic reductions in customer support response times. Census focuses on aligning sales and marketing teams by sharing audience data effectively, allowing businesses to leverage and distribute product information where it is most needed.

Aesthetic

Seed Round in 2020
Aesthetic's mission is to make the world more well designed by giving every business creative superpowers. To do this, we're automating all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics. Social media is an important marketing channel for businesses, but creating quality content is hard. Our product creates the social marketing posts your brand needs without doing any design work.

Drum

Seed Round in 2019
Drum is a gig economy platform that aims to enhance the lives of millions by facilitating the creation and management of sales forces for businesses. Launched in 2019, it allows companies to establish a sales presence more efficiently than traditional advertising methods. In addition to supporting businesses, Drum provides a comprehensive platform for creators, enabling them to engage with their followers and monetize their content. The platform offers in-app analytics that help creators sell both digital and physical products directly through their profiles, allowing them to focus on their creative endeavors while managing their sales effectively.

Storr

Seed Round in 2019
Storr, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a mobile application designed for social media influencer retailing. Founded in 2014, Storr allows users to easily open their own online stores by selecting and promoting brand-name products. Unlike traditional retailers, users can earn money by selling these products directly to their networks. The platform aims to disrupt the conventional retail model, offering an alternative to major e-commerce giants. Storr collaborates with over 200 brands, including well-known names such as Chanel, Ray-Ban, and Adidas, thereby providing a wide range of offerings for its users. The company is backed by prominent figures in the retail and investment sectors, signifying its potential impact on the evolving landscape of the $3 trillion global retail market.

Storr

Seed Round in 2019
Storr, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a mobile application designed for social media influencer retailing. Founded in 2014, Storr allows users to easily open their own online stores by selecting and promoting brand-name products. Unlike traditional retailers, users can earn money by selling these products directly to their networks. The platform aims to disrupt the conventional retail model, offering an alternative to major e-commerce giants. Storr collaborates with over 200 brands, including well-known names such as Chanel, Ray-Ban, and Adidas, thereby providing a wide range of offerings for its users. The company is backed by prominent figures in the retail and investment sectors, signifying its potential impact on the evolving landscape of the $3 trillion global retail market.

Aesthetic

Seed Round in 2018
Aesthetic's mission is to make the world more well designed by giving every business creative superpowers. To do this, we're automating all the production design work needed by companies, starting with social media graphics. Social media is an important marketing channel for businesses, but creating quality content is hard. Our product creates the social marketing posts your brand needs without doing any design work.

Dyspatch

Series A in 2017
Dyspatch is an email production platform designed to assist enterprise organizations in efficiently creating and managing transactional and triggered emails. The platform centralizes the processes of template creation, approval, and publishing, enabling businesses to build engaging and interactive emails quickly without the need for coding. With advanced template management, users can collaborate within the platform, localize templates, and conduct device testing to ensure consistent branding and legal compliance. The integration capabilities with existing email service providers further streamline and scale email workflows, making Dyspatch a powerful tool for enhancing email strategy and execution across various teams and departments.

SelfMade

Series A in 2017
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.

Upbeat

Venture Round in 2017
Upbeat is a cloud-based public relations company that specializes in connecting businesses with journalists and media outlets through innovative software and data analysis. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Upbeat offers a range of services designed to enhance media outreach campaigns, including customer dashboards, account management workflows, email campaign management, and a comprehensive journalist database. The company also provides media monitoring and analytical tools to track the effectiveness of outreach efforts. Catering to various industries such as education, real estate, trucking, pharmaceuticals, and human resources, Upbeat combines the expertise of software engineers and PR professionals to modernize traditional public relations practices, transforming story ideas into compelling narratives and ensuring effective communication between clients and the media.

Maker

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2011, Maker offers a unified platform combining design, web-publishing, and analytics tools. It enables businesses like Sony and Square to create, publish, and optimize content for their websites without coding, enhancing user engagement and driving revenue growth.

RankScience

Convertible Note in 2017
RankScience provides a continuous-optimization platform for website search engine optimization, combining automated A/B testing and data science. The system automates running multiple tests to identify changes that improve the ranking of web pages in organic search results and optimize page delivery, helping businesses enhance visibility and performance of their websites.

Zenreach

Series C in 2017
Zenreach, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in online marketing solutions tailored for businesses with physical locations. The company's flagship product, Walk-Through Marketing, integrates digital marketing efforts with in-store results to enhance customer acquisition and lifetime value. Zenreach Engage tracks customer visits and builds detailed customer profiles, while Zenreach Attract optimizes ad performance by targeting audiences based on a business's best customers. The effectiveness of these campaigns is measured using the Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that indicates when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and notable brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris, and BCBG Max Azria.

Amplify.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Amplify.ai is a developer of a conversational marketing and engagement platform that empowers marketing and support teams with advanced AI technology for authentic conversations. The platform facilitates natural language engagement throughout the customer journey, enabling brands to generate feature-rich bots quickly and effectively. Amplify.ai has successfully managed over 2.5 billion engagements with more than 175 million consumers globally, providing tools that drive real conversations and actionable outcomes across various industries.

Zenreach

Series B in 2016
Zenreach, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in online marketing solutions tailored for businesses with physical locations. The company's flagship product, Walk-Through Marketing, integrates digital marketing efforts with in-store results to enhance customer acquisition and lifetime value. Zenreach Engage tracks customer visits and builds detailed customer profiles, while Zenreach Attract optimizes ad performance by targeting audiences based on a business's best customers. The effectiveness of these campaigns is measured using the Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that indicates when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and notable brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris, and BCBG Max Azria.

SelfMade

Seed Round in 2016
SelfMade operates a technology platform that transforms and shares images on social media. It offers professional photo editing services and social media support to help members grow their online following. The company's app provides access to its follower growth technology, allowing users to determine their brand aesthetic, growth strategy, and posting schedule.

Pinterest

Series G in 2015
Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform headquartered in San Francisco that enables users to find inspiration and ideas across categories such as recipes, home and fashion, travel, and more. The service presents visual recommendations based on user interests and allows saving images on thematic boards, following others, and sharing ideas. It operates as a social media platform focused on product and idea discovery, with a global user base of more than 500 million monthly active users, two-thirds of whom are female. It was founded in 2008 and generates revenue primarily through digital advertising.

LiftIgniter

Seed Round in 2015
LiftIgniter is a San Francisco-based company specializing in machine learning-based personalization solutions. Its core offering is a personalization API that facilitates intelligent, real-time interactions across various customer touchpoints. By employing data science techniques, LiftIgniter's platform optimizes key metrics such as click-through rates, engagement, sharing, and conversion for businesses. The technology effectively analyzes user actions and responds with tailored recommendations, enhancing the overall customer experience. This dynamic learning capability allows businesses to better connect with their customers, improve communication, and ultimately drive sales. LiftIgniter was part of the Winter 2014 YCombinator class, underscoring its innovative approach in the field of personalized digital interactions.

Boostable

Seed Round in 2014
Boostable, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 that operates an online marketplace enabling sellers to preview and launch their ads. The company provides a cooperative digital advertising solution designed for ecommerce marketplaces, retailers, and platforms, allowing them to offer digital advertising as a service. Boostable's innovative model focuses on the strategic sharing of costs, data, and resources among companies, which enhances the efficiency and performance of digital ad campaigns. The leadership team at Boostable comprises experienced professionals from reputable digital advertising organizations, bringing expertise from companies such as Amazon, Facebook, MediaMath, Turn, and Merkle.

Delighted

Seed Round in 2014
Delighted Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in online customer feedback solutions. The company offers its flagship product, Delighted, which employs the Net Promoter System to collect real-time, actionable feedback from customers through a single question survey. This enables organizations to understand their customers' experiences better and drive business growth accordingly. As of March 15, 2018, Delighted operates as a subsidiary of Qualtrics International Inc.

Dyspatch

Seed Round in 2014
Dyspatch is an email production platform designed to assist enterprise organizations in efficiently creating and managing transactional and triggered emails. The platform centralizes the processes of template creation, approval, and publishing, enabling businesses to build engaging and interactive emails quickly without the need for coding. With advanced template management, users can collaborate within the platform, localize templates, and conduct device testing to ensure consistent branding and legal compliance. The integration capabilities with existing email service providers further streamline and scale email workflows, making Dyspatch a powerful tool for enhancing email strategy and execution across various teams and departments.

Quettra

Seed Round in 2014
Quettra, Inc. is a mobile intelligence company based in Milpitas, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in providing mobile advertising services through an online platform that connects advertisers with their target audience. Quettra focuses on personalizing mobile experiences and enhancing monetization by analyzing users' interactions with their mobile devices at a deep operating system level. Its mobile intelligence software compiles extensive data about mobile users, offering app developers direct measurement tools to better understand their user base. As of December 2015, Quettra operates as a subsidiary of SimilarGroup Ltd.

Pinterest

Series F in 2014
Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform headquartered in San Francisco that enables users to find inspiration and ideas across categories such as recipes, home and fashion, travel, and more. The service presents visual recommendations based on user interests and allows saving images on thematic boards, following others, and sharing ideas. It operates as a social media platform focused on product and idea discovery, with a global user base of more than 500 million monthly active users, two-thirds of whom are female. It was founded in 2008 and generates revenue primarily through digital advertising.

Niche

Seed Round in 2014
Niche is a provider of a social media management platform aimed at engaging and monetizing social media accounts, particularly for the younger generation. The company operates a community of influential social media creators active on emerging platforms such as Vine, Instagram, and Tumblr. Niche offers both software and services that help these creators thrive and interact with their audiences effectively. By collaborating with leading brands, studios, start-ups, and agencies, Niche enhances their partners' social media presence, facilitating user acquisition, audience development, and engagement. Through its comprehensive approach, Niche supports creators in building strong online communities while providing valuable resources for brands looking to generate buzz and foster meaningful connections with their target audiences.

URX

Series A in 2014
URX is a developer of a mobile application retargeting platform that enhances the connection between users and relevant commerce experiences. The company specializes in deep linking technology, which directs users to specific pages within applications. This innovative approach allows mobile retailers to maximize the value of their applications by delivering targeted and interactive display advertisements. URX serves a diverse clientele, empowering publishers to effectively monetize mobile content while enabling advertisers to drive mobile commerce.

Boostable

Seed Round in 2014
Boostable, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 that operates an online marketplace enabling sellers to preview and launch their ads. The company provides a cooperative digital advertising solution designed for ecommerce marketplaces, retailers, and platforms, allowing them to offer digital advertising as a service. Boostable's innovative model focuses on the strategic sharing of costs, data, and resources among companies, which enhances the efficiency and performance of digital ad campaigns. The leadership team at Boostable comprises experienced professionals from reputable digital advertising organizations, bringing expertise from companies such as Amazon, Facebook, MediaMath, Turn, and Merkle.

Dyspatch

Seed Round in 2014
Dyspatch is an email production platform designed to assist enterprise organizations in efficiently creating and managing transactional and triggered emails. The platform centralizes the processes of template creation, approval, and publishing, enabling businesses to build engaging and interactive emails quickly without the need for coding. With advanced template management, users can collaborate within the platform, localize templates, and conduct device testing to ensure consistent branding and legal compliance. The integration capabilities with existing email service providers further streamline and scale email workflows, making Dyspatch a powerful tool for enhancing email strategy and execution across various teams and departments.

Vertical Mass

Seed Round in 2014
Vertical Mass, Inc. is an online data management platform based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in serving celebrities and businesses in the music, entertainment, and sports industries by enabling them to collect, manage, and store data on their fans across various digital channels, including social media, websites, mobile applications, ecommerce, and content streaming services. By leveraging this proprietary audience data, clients can gain insights into fan affinities, allowing for more effective advertising and content distribution. Vertical Mass empowers its users to enhance engagement with their audience, optimize marketing strategies, and ultimately drive revenue through data monetization options such as aggregation, sales, or licensing. The platform is tailored to meet the unique needs of a diverse clientele, from emerging influencers to established industry leaders.

Simon Data

Seed Round in 2013
Simon Data develops a customer data platform designed to enhance campaign performance via precise segmentation and personalization. Its platform identifies purchase intent, predicts churn, estimates customer lifetime value, and enables brands to deliver personalized experiences across channels.

URX

Seed Round in 2013
URX is a developer of a mobile application retargeting platform that enhances the connection between users and relevant commerce experiences. The company specializes in deep linking technology, which directs users to specific pages within applications. This innovative approach allows mobile retailers to maximize the value of their applications by delivering targeted and interactive display advertisements. URX serves a diverse clientele, empowering publishers to effectively monetize mobile content while enabling advertisers to drive mobile commerce.

Instacart

Series A in 2013
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.

Toro

Seed Round in 2013
Toro, founded in March 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, is a company that specializes in providing marketing services for app developers. Established by former developers and product managers from popular social games, Toro focuses on equipping app companies with essential tools for mobile marketing. The company's mission is to democratize access to effective marketing strategies, thereby enabling developers to optimize their campaign setups. Toro's marketing plans are primarily executed through the Facebook advertising platform, ensuring that clients can leverage one of the largest social media networks to reach their target audience effectively.

InstallMonetizer

Seed Round in 2013
InstallMonetizer, Inc. is a software monetization platform based in San Jose, California, founded in 2010. It offers tools and services to help software developers generate revenue from their installations, particularly addressing the significant revenue loss from free or trial versions. The platform enables developers to present advertisements to users during the software download process, improving monetization opportunities and enhancing install conversion rates, which typically range from 60% to 85%. InstallMonetizer provides various solutions, including custom installers, stub installers for clients' products, and a BundleCode feature that integrates advertising seamlessly into existing software installations. The firm prioritizes quality by partnering exclusively with trustworthy advertisers, ensuring that no spyware or adware is included in its bundles. Developers benefit from comprehensive backend statistics that track earnings and performance, allowing for informed decision-making regarding monetization strategies.

M.dot

Seed Round in 2012
M.dot enables all businesses and individuals to be accessible & discoverable on mobile devices. With M.dot, small businesses can create and promote their mobile presence in minutes using a smartphone app. No technical skills required. 160 million websites are still not mobile ready – websites will eventually be replaced and mobile presence will become primary. M.dot makes the transition from www. to m. simple yet rich in features.

Perfect Audience

Seed Round in 2012
Perfect Audience is a retargeting platform that specializes in helping businesses reconnect with lost customers and boost sales through targeted advertising. The company provides a user-friendly software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that enables advertisers to effectively retarget audiences across various online channels, including websites, Facebook, and Twitter. In addition to retargeting capabilities, the platform measures the impact of ad views and clicks on conversions and revenue, allowing clients to assess the effectiveness of their advertising efforts. By integrating with popular applications such as Facebook and Shopify, Perfect Audience empowers businesses to enhance their marketing strategies and ultimately increase revenue.

Booshaka

Seed Round in 2012
Booshaka Inc. is a marketing technology company based in Redwood City, California, that provides a word of mouth marketing platform tailored for the social web. Founded in 2010, the company offers a suite of tools designed to help marketers analyze customer interactions and optimize engagement through various data sources, including social media, email databases, and mobile applications. Booshaka's primary product enables Facebook marketers to gain insights into their audience, recognize engaged fans, and identify trending content and keywords. This functionality allows businesses to enhance their marketing campaigns and improve customer experiences. In 2015, Booshaka became a subsidiary of Sprinklr Inc., further expanding its capabilities in the marketing automation landscape.

MNTN

Venture Round in 2012
MNTN is a technology company specializing in Connected TV advertising. It offers advanced targeting, measurement, and automated optimization tools to deliver effective performance-driven campaigns for businesses.

OmniVirt

Seed Round in 2012
OmniVirt is a technology company based in Millbrae, California, founded in 2012. It specializes in creating an advertising platform that enables the creation and distribution of immersive ads using virtual reality (VR), 360° video, 3D rendering, and augmented reality (AR). The platform allows brands to upload, promote, and analyze their content across a network of publishers and platforms, delivering significantly higher performance than traditional advertising. OmniVirt's technology is compatible with most browsers and trusted by major publishers such as The New York Times, WSJ, Washington Post, and Forbes.

Instacart

Seed Round in 2012
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.

Zenreach

Venture Round in 2012
Zenreach, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in online marketing solutions tailored for businesses with physical locations. The company's flagship product, Walk-Through Marketing, integrates digital marketing efforts with in-store results to enhance customer acquisition and lifetime value. Zenreach Engage tracks customer visits and builds detailed customer profiles, while Zenreach Attract optimizes ad performance by targeting audiences based on a business's best customers. The effectiveness of these campaigns is measured using the Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that indicates when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and notable brands such as Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris, and BCBG Max Azria.

Locu

Series A in 2012
Locu is a platform that assists local businesses in managing and publishing their listings and offerings online. By allowing businesses to input essential information such as street address, phone number, hours of operation, and service menus, Locu ensures that they are easily discoverable by over 200 million potential customers. The platform simplifies the process of updating business information, enabling users to make changes in one central location. These updates are then disseminated in real-time to various partner sites, including Yelp, Foursquare, OpenTable, YP, TripAdvisor, and Facebook. This streamlined approach helps businesses maintain accurate and consistent online presence without the need to individually manage multiple listings across different platforms.

Moat

Series B in 2012
Moat, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service analytics solutions for brand advertisers and publishers. Founded in 2007 and now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation, Moat offers a range of tools designed to enhance advertising effectiveness. Its Moat Analytics platform provides insights into ad campaigns and website inventory, while Moat Pro delivers real-time ad intelligence, enabling users to visualize relationships between brands, publishers, and programmatic platforms. Additionally, Moat offers a search engine dedicated to display ads, allowing users to discover and explore advertisements from various brands. This comprehensive approach positions Moat as a key player in measuring and driving customer attention across digital marketing channels.

NationBuilder

Series A in 2012
NationBuilder is a software platform for leaders and organizations to power campaigns, movements, and communities. The platform unifies website content, email communications, live programming, social insights, and people management in one system, enabling real-time data-driven decision making and simpler operations. By consolidating several tools into a single scalable platform, it supports advocacy groups, nonprofits, and political campaigns in engaging supporters, coordinating volunteers, and tracking performance across channels. The company is headquartered in downtown Los Angeles and maintains offices in New York, Washington, DC, Vancouver, and London.

Endorse

Series A in 2012
Endorse is a mobile offline marketing platform designed for consumer product companies, enabling them to connect with shoppers on an individual level. The company allows consumers to earn rewards for their loyalty to favorite brands, effectively closing the online-to-offline purchase loop. By utilizing item-level receipt data, Endorse provides personalized offers tailored to consumers' purchase histories and social media profiles. This approach helps brands enhance their marketing strategies and engage customers more effectively, ultimately driving proven retail sales in physical stores.

Percolate

Seed Round in 2011
Percolate is a provider of a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration. The company's software integrates various marketing functions, including governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and customer interactions, Percolate empowers marketers to effectively build and manage complex marketing programs. This enables brands to efficiently organize integrated campaigns and deliver personalized content, ensuring that marketing efforts are aligned with customer engagement across all platforms and locations. With a focus on increasing productivity and driving sales, Percolate facilitates comprehensive control and agility for marketing teams.

MNTN

Series B in 2011
MNTN is a technology company specializing in Connected TV advertising. It offers advanced targeting, measurement, and automated optimization tools to deliver effective performance-driven campaigns for businesses.

Chloe + Isabel

Series A in 2011
Chloe + Isabel, established in 2011, is a New York-based social commerce jewelry company that empowers women through entrepreneurship. It offers a wide range of hand-crafted jewelry, as well as accessories and beauty products, sold through independent Merchandisers in the U.S. and online. The company's innovative platform enables Merchandisers to create personalized digital boutiques, earn commissions, and access training, trends, and insights to support their businesses. Founder and CEO Chantel Waterbury, with over 14 years of experience in jewelry design for major retailers, aims to empower women by providing an entrepreneurial opportunity in the direct sales model.

Fullscreen

Seed Round in 2011
Fullscreen Media is a media company based in Culver City, California, that specializes in social-first entertainment experiences. Founded in 2011, Fullscreen provides technology and services that facilitate the creation and sharing of video content, catering to a connected generation. Its offerings include marketing services designed to help companies engage and monetize their social audiences, as well as creative strategies that enhance brand awareness. Additionally, Fullscreen provides merchandise for men, women, and children, along with various accessories available online. The company operates as a subsidiary of Otter Media, focusing on empowering artists, creators, brands, and agencies to effectively connect with and entertain their audiences.

Moat

Series A in 2011
Moat, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing software-as-a-service analytics solutions for brand advertisers and publishers. Founded in 2007 and now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation, Moat offers a range of tools designed to enhance advertising effectiveness. Its Moat Analytics platform provides insights into ad campaigns and website inventory, while Moat Pro delivers real-time ad intelligence, enabling users to visualize relationships between brands, publishers, and programmatic platforms. Additionally, Moat offers a search engine dedicated to display ads, allowing users to discover and explore advertisements from various brands. This comprehensive approach positions Moat as a key player in measuring and driving customer attention across digital marketing channels.

AppRedeem

Seed Round in 2011
AppRedeem, Inc. is a mobile advertising platform that focuses on application discovery, branding, and monetization. Founded in 2010 and based in Mountain View, California, the company enables users to earn points by trying out mobile applications and providing feedback to developers. This engagement model serves both advertisers and mobile developers, helping them effectively promote their apps. AppRedeem's platform is utilized by a significant portion of the top grossing developers in the App Store, indicating its influence in the mobile app ecosystem. As of September 2015, AppRedeem operates as a subsidiary of Perk.com Inc.

Videopixie

Seed Round in 2011
Videopixie is an online marketplace that connects users with video production professionals, offering services across various price points to accommodate different budgets. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including retailers who require weekly product videos, game companies looking to create national television trailers from in-game footage, and newlyweds who wish to edit extensive wedding footage into concise highlights. By facilitating connections between clients and top video professionals, Videopixie streamlines the video production process for a wide array of projects, ensuring quality and efficiency.

Pinterest

Series A in 2011
Pinterest is a visual discovery and bookmarking platform headquartered in San Francisco that enables users to find inspiration and ideas across categories such as recipes, home and fashion, travel, and more. The service presents visual recommendations based on user interests and allows saving images on thematic boards, following others, and sharing ideas. It operates as a social media platform focused on product and idea discovery, with a global user base of more than 500 million monthly active users, two-thirds of whom are female. It was founded in 2008 and generates revenue primarily through digital advertising.

SocialFlow

Series A in 2011
SocialFlow, Inc. is a software company that specializes in social media distribution and monetization solutions tailored for publishers and media organizations. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow utilizes an advanced algorithm to optimize the timing, relevance, and audience targeting of social media posts. The platform identifies high-performing content for amplification through advertising and integrates these posts into platform-specific advertising formats. Furthermore, it establishes a feedback loop that analyzes audience responses, facilitating the development of new advertising opportunities that enhance client reach to segmented audiences. SocialFlow’s technologies enable publishers to distribute engaging content effectively while generating new revenue streams, and its client roster includes prominent organizations such as Condé Nast, The Associated Press, and CNN. The software supports tens of thousands of journalists globally in extending the reach and engagement of editorial content across various social platforms.

Crowdbooster

Seed Round in 2011
Crowdbooster is an internet company that specializes in social analytics software aimed at enhancing social media marketing strategies. The platform allows advertisers and content creators to transact in sponsored content, while also providing tools to measure and optimize their marketing efforts. By equipping marketers with actionable insights, Crowdbooster enables them to make informed decisions regarding their content sharing practices, ensuring they connect effectively with their target audiences.

Factual

Series A in 2010
Factual Inc. is a location data company that specializes in providing accurate and comprehensive data for mobile advertising, developers, and enterprise solutions. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York and Shanghai, Factual offers various services, including local business and point of interest data through APIs, geofencing capabilities for targeted advertising, and a UPC-centric dataset for consumer packaged goods. The company also features Geotag, a reverse geocoder designed for high-volume geotagging. Factual's platform supports product and engineering teams, marketers, and data analysts by enabling them to build digital products and execute impactful marketing strategies based on reliable location data. As of April 2020, Factual operates as a subsidiary of Foursquare Labs, Inc.

Beautylish

Angel Round in 2010
Founded in 2010, Beautylish is an online retailer specializing in beauty care products. It offers a wide range of makeup, skincare, haircare, and other beauty products, along with a community platform for users to discover, learn, and discuss these products.

Bitly

Series B in 2010
Bitly offers a link management platform enabling businesses to shorten, brand, optimize links, track analytics, gather audience insights, and measure campaign performance. Its solution supports cross-device and channel usage, with tools including browser plugins and software applications.

SavingStar

Series A in 2010
SavingStar, Inc. is a cash back rewards platform focusing on grocery and online shopping. Founded in 2010 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company allows users to earn cash back on grocery purchases by linking offers to their supermarket and drugstore loyalty cards, as well as by submitting receipt images. This paperless system eliminates the need for traditional coupons, making it easier for shoppers to redeem rewards. In addition to grocery offers, SavingStar provides incentives for online shopping at various retailers, enabling users to earn double cash back on purchases made through its platform. The company also facilitates brand promotions, allowing for engagement through activities such as watching videos or sharing contact information. SavingStar operates as a subsidiary of Quotient Technology Inc.

Magnetic

Series A in 2010
Magnetic Media Online, Inc. is a digital marketing and artificial intelligence company that provides a comprehensive advertising platform for enterprises, brands, and agencies. It specializes in data-driven advertising solutions, enabling marketers to effectively find, retain, and re-engage customers across various channels and devices. The company's offerings include a media buying platform, audience targeting through AI-optimized strategies, and capabilities for video, connected television, native, and cross-device advertising. Magnetic leverages extensive data sources, including purchase intent data from over 450,000 partner sites and insights from more than 250 million shopping profiles, to deliver targeted and effective programmatic campaigns. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York City, Magnetic has established a presence in multiple U.S. cities as well as in Europe and Canada, reflecting its commitment to serving a diverse clientele across various verticals.

Loyalty Lab

Venture Round in 2010
Loyalty Lab, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, offering a comprehensive CRM suite designed as a software-as-a-service. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Loyalty Lab provides a web-based platform that enables online travel retailers and service companies to manage loyalty programs effectively. The company's integrated offerings include email messaging, promotions and incentives management, and campaign management solutions, all aimed at enhancing marketing efforts and customer engagement. Previously known as InStorecard, Inc., Loyalty Lab continues to focus on delivering innovative CRM solutions to its clients.

UberMedia

Series A in 2010
UberMedia is a technology company headquartered in Pasadena, California, that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It processes billions of social, demographic, and location signals daily to provide businesses with insights that enhance decision-making and consumer engagement. By delivering dynamic advertising solutions, UberMedia helps Fortune 500 companies across various sectors, including retail, automotive, entertainment, and consumer markets, achieve specific business goals such as increasing customer visits and boosting sales. The company is recognized as a pioneer in its field and has received accolades for its innovative approach.

MNTN

Seed Round in 2010
MNTN is a technology company specializing in Connected TV advertising. It offers advanced targeting, measurement, and automated optimization tools to deliver effective performance-driven campaigns for businesses.

CitizenNet

Seed Round in 2010
CitizenNet, Inc. is a technology company based in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2008. It specializes in providing tools for real-time social media analytics and advertising, leveraging a semantic platform that aggregates and filters social content from platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The company's offerings include Social Streams, which capture and moderate real-time social activity, content analytics to monitor sentiment and trending topics, user analytics to gather insights on social interactions, and outreach tools to connect with potential customers. CitizenNet employs advanced natural language processing and semantic analysis to enhance ad targeting and optimize social media advertising performance. The company serves a diverse range of clients across various sectors, including e-commerce, education, entertainment, consumer packaged goods, and retail, drawing on a team with extensive experience from leading technology and advertising firms. As of early 2017, CitizenNet operates as a subsidiary of Condé Nast.

Groupon

Series B in 2009
Groupon is a global online marketplace that connects consumers with merchants by offering discounted deals on goods and services across categories such as events, travel, dining, beauty, home, and merchandise. The platform operates through websites and mobile apps, enabling users to browse, purchase, and redeem deals, and to discover experiences, getaways, and discounted products. Groupon provides merchants with deal campaigns, payment processing features, and point-of-sale solutions, earning revenue primarily through commissions on transactions conducted via its marketplace and digital coupons. The company operates primarily in North America and internationally through a network of local and national partners, delivering a daily deals and discounts model that positions it as a middleman between shoppers and businesses.

Inadco

Series A in 2009
Founded in 2008, Inadco is a platform that facilitates two-way communication between marketers and consumers through native ads. It enables advertisers to build cost-per-lead campaigns and buy media on a CPL basis, while allowing publishers to sell ad inventory on the same model.

CoTweet

Series A in 2009
CoTweet is a business front-end for Twitter, enabling companies to engage in proactive marketing and response-oriented customer service activities. On March 2, 2010 CoTweet was acquired by ExactTarget.

Motally

Series A in 2009
Motally specializes in providing mobile analytics solutions, focusing on user tracking and reporting for mobile devices, apps, and platforms. Their hosted service offers tailored tracking mechanisms designed specifically for the mobile environment. With a database exceeding 10,000 devices and over 10,000 carrier IP address range blocks, Motally ensures comprehensive coverage. The integration process is straightforward, taking only a few minutes to set up. Users benefit from daily reports, web-based dynamic reports, and detailed user statistics such as unique users, page views, search keywords, and average pages per visit. As a business tool, Motally helps companies gain deeper insights into customer behavior, optimize product offerings, and maximize the return on investment for advertising campaigns.

Bitly

Series A in 2009
Bitly offers a link management platform enabling businesses to shorten, brand, optimize links, track analytics, gather audience insights, and measure campaign performance. Its solution supports cross-device and channel usage, with tools including browser plugins and software applications.

Adara

Seed Round in 2009
Adara is a company that provides an online audience targeting platform designed to enhance business planning through actionable insights. By leveraging proprietary data and audience segmentation, Adara offers travel brands and advertisers a comprehensive view of their audience. This enables them to personalize their offerings effectively, aligning with specific consumer buying habits. Through its predictive analytics capabilities, Adara helps brands improve consumer engagement and gain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace.

AppNexus

Seed Round in 2007
AppNexus is a cloud-based advertising technology platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising for buyers and sellers of digital inventory. The platform supports real-time bidding, trading desks, and marketplaces to maximize yield and campaign performance, and provides a digital delivery system and the AppNexus Publisher Suite for ad serving, planning, forecasting, diverse marketplace sales, and direct campaign management. It also offers PriceCheck, a header bidding solution for banner, video, and interstitial units, and AppNexus Apps, an application platform for third-party vendors to develop features for clients and reach new audiences.

AdReady

Series A in 2007
AdReady, a division of CPXi, specializes in providing a comprehensive programmatic display advertising platform tailored for mid-size to large advertisers and agencies. The company integrates the efficiency and precision of programmatic display with innovative creative solutions, enhancing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. AdReady's platform facilitates campaign creation and management for advertisers, while also assisting publishers with advertisement operations, trafficking, and billing. By collaborating with leading demand sources, major display publishers, and advanced data providers, AdReady ensures that display advertising is accessible to a wide range of marketers, agencies, and publishers, thereby maximizing marketing budgets and return on investment.

SnapTell

Series A in 2007
SnapTell is a provider of mobile marketing solutions that focuses on enhancing consumer engagement through innovative technology. The company offers a highly customizable platform that enables marketers to deploy mobile marketing campaigns efficiently. Its flagship Snap.Send.Get solution allows consumers to access marketing content and product information seamlessly while on the go, thereby increasing brand awareness and driving conversions. Additionally, SnapTell provides visual product search technology through a mobile application that enables users to take pictures of in-store products and compare prices across different locations. This image recognition-based service caters to a wide range of clients, including brands, agencies, content owners, publishers, retailers, and operators, positioning SnapTell as a key player in the mobile marketing landscape.

Yardbarker

Seed Round in 2007
Yardbarker Media is a leading sports and entertainment media platform in the United States, attracting over 12 million user sessions monthly. Established in 2006, it offers a comprehensive online publishing platform that features articles, news, and information pertinent to sports. Yardbarker provides a space for sports fans, bloggers, and professional athletes to read, discuss, and engage with a variety of sports content, including articles, photos, and videos. The company also operates an online store that sells clothing and accessories for men, women, and children, alongside gift cards. Additionally, Yardbarker curates and sends out popular email newsletters, such as 'The Morning Bark' and 'Quiz of the Day,' to more than 370,000 daily subscribers, further enhancing its reach and engagement within the sports community.

Sharethrough USA

Seed Round in 2007
Sharethrough today is one of the leading independent omnichannel ad exchanges in the world. We are committed to preserving an open internet with independent and accessible content funded by quality advertising. Our mission is to build a sustainable advertising ecosystem for journalists, content creators and app developers, by connecting publishers and advertisers with true technology innovation supporting all ad formats, devices, and user experiences. The first building block of Sharethrough started at Stanford where Dan Greenberg and Rob Fan were teaching assistants in the first-ever "Facebook class". One of their core observations during this time was that the best performing monetization strategy for the applications they built was genuinely interesting sponsored content that was presented in a non-interruptive format. This learning led to the founding of Sharethrough and the company’s role in evangelizing the native advertising movement. Sharethrough merged with District M in February 2021. By doubling the exchange overnight, we now have a dedicated team of 140 talented employees across 8 offices in the US & Canada to help us achieve our goals. With the mission of modernizing online advertising, Sharethrough is one of the fastest growing technology companies, with one of the world’s most sophisticated monetization software platforms, predicated on helping digital media as whole move beyond the pervasive model of interruptive, low value online advertising.

AdMob

Series B in 2007
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that enables app developers to monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps through ads. It offers discovery, branding, and monetization solutions for the mobile Web, including support for mobile sites, a Mobile Analytics solution that provides traffic and usage insights to inform decisions, and a Mobile Metrics Report that tracks trends in the mobile ecosystem.

Vitrue

Seed Round in 2006
Vitrue is a provider of social media marketing solutions designed for marketers, agencies, and publishers. The company offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform that enables brands to effectively manage their social marketing efforts across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube. Vitrue's award-winning Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform supports over one billion social connections globally, managing more than 4,500 social accounts in over 100 countries. Its services include promotional programs, branded community development, and syndicated brand applications, along with centralized data and member management, strategic consultation, and event marketing integration. Vitrue aims to maximize the marketing potential of social media for its clients while ensuring security and scalability in its operations.

Ning Interactive

Series A in 2005
Ning is an online platform that enables users to create social communities and websites tailored to their specific needs. The company provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that includes a variety of community-building tools, allowing clients to engage and nurture their audiences effectively. Key features of the platform include branding and visual design options, member profiles, moderation capabilities, and privacy settings. Users can also utilize tools for sharing and inviting members, as well as integrate social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, Ning supports functionalities like blogging, discussion forums, event management, and multimedia sharing, making it a comprehensive solution for organizers, activists, and influencers looking to establish and maintain a strong online presence.

Topica

Venture Round in 2000
Topica has been helping thousands of satisfied customers use email marketing to grow and improve their businesses - with no software required. Their pay-as-you-go online application allows you to: Grow your list of subscribers with signup forms for your website. Create a professional eye-catching HTML newsletter and send it out to a targeted audience. Deliver your emails. Our service is backed by whitelisting, feedback loops and reputation monitoring.
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