Volta Industries

Free Sponsored Electric Vehicle Charging
Volta builds and operates a nationwide network of free-to-use electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The charging stations are front and center at prime retail venues, featuring six-foot-high, backlit advertising surfaces. EV drivers enjoy free charging, supported ...

StartupList

The social network to drive traction for early stage startups.
StartupList gets startups early adopter traction and user engagement.

AdRoll

The most effective retargeting platform in the world
AdRoll was named the fastest growing private company by Inc magazine this year. We're the first company to bring real-time advertising to companies of all sizes by building the first self-service, intuitive UI. We're working on ton of interesting projects. We're ...

Vungle

Powering the next generation of Mobile Monetization through Video
Vungle has invented a new ad format for mobile app developers to acquire users, making traditional text & banner ads a thing of the past.

DOZ

SaaS enabled Marketplace for Marketing
DOZ makes hundred of curated marketers work together to drive qualified audience to DOZ clients' sites. Marketing professionals are automatically identified and qualified based on their location, industry knowledge, skills and social proofs. DOZ system assigns ...

GinzaMetrics

Enterprise Organic Search (SEO) & Content Marketing Platform
GinzaMetrics provides search intelligence as a service to in-house marketers, SEO managers and interactive agencies. Customers use our platform daily to discover new keywords and topics for which they can create targeted content, learn from their competitors and ...

App.io

Interactive streaming like never before.
Interactive streaming like never before.

SocialWire

Product Ads for eCommerce and Retail
Socialwire provides marketing automation software to online retailers. We select the products out of a merchant's catalog that will sell the best and merchandize them through advertising on Facebook, Twitter and other channels. As Google's PLA results are proving, ...

LiveRamp

Taking your data to new places
LiveRamp is the leading data onboarder, enabling marketers to unify their customer database across disparate online marketing applications and leverage it for analytics, targeting, measurement, content optimization, and more. More information at: www.LiveRamp.com We ...

Onboardly

Content Marketing and PR for Startups
We work with venture funded startups to help them get noticed, secure early traction, and most importantly: acquire more customers. We understand that startups are motivated by innovation, operate at lightening speed, and are fueled on the desire to change the ...

BackType

Acquired by Twitter
BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies understand the business impact of social media. Our dashboard helps marketers quantify and profile engagement and audiences so they can make better marketing decisions. You can try the ...

Samba TV

We bring Data Science to Television.
Samba TV is built into millions of consumer electronic devices (smart phones, tablets, TVs and set top boxes). The core algorithms analyze what's onscreen to bring you more of what you like, and enhance the viewing experience for the most popular programs on TV. ...

Adsnative

Infrastructure layer for a Bannerless Internet
AdsNative is the SaaS platform that allows publishers to monetize their websites/applications through visually integrated ads that blend with their content. Our tools make heterogenous and unobtrusive advertising simple, easy-to-scale and robust. We empower publishers ...

UpOut

Netflix for Real World Entertainment
UpOut is the Netflix for real world entertainment. For a $20 monthly subscription, members choose two experiences each month and we send a pair of complimentary digital tickets to them at no additional charge. Since launch, we've sent over 20,000 tickets to our ...

Boostable

Advertising for sellers on marketplaces (YC W14).
Advertising made easy for marketplace sellers. Boostable grows marketplaces by helping their sellers advertise online. - Sellers instantly sign up with their store URL and launch their ads. - Boostable automatically builds and runs the ads for them. - Sellers ...

URX

The Deeplink Search Engine, For Developers (YC S13)
URX is building the world's first App Search API, which lets developers find and link users directly to relevant content inside other apps to create a seamless experience across multiple apps.

Knotch

Gauge Audience Reactions
Knotch gauges the real time pulse of content.

AKQA

BrightRoll

BrightRoll is the largest independent video ad platform for reaching audiences at scale.

SilverPush

Single user identity across devices
We are a mobile adtech startup that has created a single identity of users across all of their digitally connected device devices - TV, Desktop, Mobile, Tablet. With this understanding, we allow our clients to target their exact audience and deliver unparalleled ...

Kiip

Growth Machines

Growth and Distribution Hacking at Scale
DoRevolution was formed in 2013 with the mission to make Big Data actionable by using cognitive computing to augment human cognition. Through the use of cognitive computing – exemplified by systems like Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy champion – man and machine together ...

Adility (Acquired by inComm)

Enabling Online-to-Offline Commerce!
Adility provides merchants, brands and retailers controlled online to offline commerce transactions. The Adility Gateway fast tracks integration for partners with an install base of merchants to connect these merchants to the Adility Cloud. Online publishers ...

Popular Pays

A marketplace where brands meet Instagram influencers. (YC W15)
Get paid opportunities or free products in exchange for posting about brands on Instagram. Your photos are worth more than you think. App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popular-pays/id673760702?mt=8

Stipple

Native advertising for the visual web
Stipple powers advertising and commerce inside images that actually contain the specific product being advertised. Our platform enables advertisers to manage the marketing information delivered inside images across the web & social platforms. Even as images are ...

Virool

The fastest growing video distribution platform | YC S12
Virool is the fastest growing video advertising platform for marketers. We work with individuals, small business, agencies and Fortune 500 brands to help them distribute their online videos across our network of more than 100,000 publishers including premium websites, ...

AdStage

Cross-network Ad Platform for Search, Social & Mobile
AdStage is a self-serve all-in-one online advertising platform, complete with an integrated app system, to help advertisers of all sizes manage their campaigns across multiple networks like Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn. The AdStage platform provides ...

Boost Media

Ad Creative Optimization for Enterprise Online Advertisers
Boost Media is the only cloud-based platform that combines human talent with software to scale relevant content by optimizing search, social, and image messaging. Our Optimizer Network is a tightly vetted group of thousands of content creators that work to reach ...

Richrelevance

As the global leader in omnichannel personalization, RichRelevance partners with the most innovative brands and retailers. Our fully integrated product suite and proven, real-time infrastructure were built from the ground up to enable brands and retailers to deliver ...

SimpleGeo

GoodAudience

Get your brand, product or service in front of over 400 million active social media users!
Social engagements that drive business results. Reach over 400 million active social media users. Press: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/goodbye-silicon-valley-hello-london-hYjn8QE2TeW3vOfHUUfZcw.html http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/techstars-london-demo-day http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sherman-lee/how-i-got-into-techstars-_b_5666370.html http://techcitynews.com/2014/05/07/why-we-moved-our-startup-from-san-francisco-to-london http://techcitynews.com/2014/06/23/5-startups-to-watch-from-techstars-london-demo-day

dennoo

World's first Time Based Advertising Platform, Grand Prize at 2011 SVS @ SiliconValley
With an ad exchange focused on "digital mass marketing", Dennoo seeks to change digital display advertising into true mass media advertising through an innovative time-based ecosystem backed by a revolutionary video ad server, introducing a Viewable-time based ...

isocket

Direct ad sales tools for the webs best publishers (Forbes, Conde Nast, Mashable, etc)
isocket builds tech for direct ad sales. In online advertising, 80% of the money is in "direct deals", where marketers and websites work directly together. But >80% of the technology is for the 20% of the business in remnant "leftover" inventory. So people are ...

ShopLogic

Intelligent Incentives and Pricing
ShopLogic optimizes incentives and pricing for online businesses. Shopping consumers have come to expect incentives like discounts and deals, but incentives can kill financial margins for online businesses. ShopLogic lets those businesses intelligently manage ...

Optimal

Ads+Social Analytics in a SaaS Model
Acquired by Brand Networks (http://bn.co)

Kwarter

Second Screen Gaming Platform.
Second Screen Gaming Platform for Brands and Broadcasters. At Kwarter we are evolving the way brands and broadcasters engage with TV audiences. We build live mobile experiences that engage viewers through multiple screens, and celebrate TV's most powerful moments. We’re ...

Volio

Interactive experiences featuring personality, video and voice recognition technology
Interactive experiences which feature personality, video and voice technology for media creators, brands, marketers and entertainers to drive deeper engagement

Beintoo

Mobile Gamification for Monetization and Distribution
Beintoo is a mobile engagement platform provider in more than 250 Million devices, offering a unique loyalty program for mobile and web applications. Beintoo rewards users with virtual credits, called “Bedollars,” for achievements and daily activities on the web ...

Metamarkets

Metamarkets provides a real-time analytics service for digital advertisers. Our solution gives the buyers, sellers and marketplaces of digital advertising the ability to visualize insights and make decisions from the vast amounts of transactional data in real-time, ...

Bread (acquired by Yahoo)

AdSense for the Social Web
Bread is the only platform that monetizes across social media, desktop and mobile. Our proprietary technology serves premium, rich media ads on links shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social media platforms. Bread partners with top influencers ...

MyLikes

Adgile

Adgile makes ad exchanges easy for advertisers and rewarding for optimizers
Adgile is a cloud-based advertising solution combining creative production, media buying, and analytics. Advertisers and creative talent are aligned to make running highly effective ad campaigns easy and rewarding. http://www.adgile.com/what-we-do/

140 Proof

Ads for humans. Powered by the Blended Interest Graph.
140 Proof delivers revenue to app developers via our targeting API: we recommend tweets based on your unique interest graph. We have traction in iPhone, Android, OS X, Windows, and web apps, reaching over 300mm people, and our millions of engaged users are evidenced ...

Technorati

adRise

The largest provider of free TV apps. (Think free Netflix)
Tubi TV is the next generation TV company. Think 'Free Netflix'. Tubi TV is the world's largest library of FREE TV shows and movies. If you're looking for more challenges and responsibilities and want to make an impact in the consumer media space with films and ...

PaperG

Making it easy to build, tailor, and test ads.
PaperG's technology has been called by The New York Times as “An Ad Engine To Put Mad Men Out Of Business.” It removes creative friction to allow advertisers to build more ads, faster. By doing so, PaperG scales ad creatives across devices, formats, and volume. ...

CloudFlare

CloudFlare is rebuilding a faster, safer web.
CloudFlare is building a faster, safer web from the ground up. Nearly half a million websites today have the speed and security previously reserved for the Internet giants because they are a part of the CloudFlare network.

Action Factory

Action Factory is building the solutions to the problems faced by publishers - we are the future of publishing. We do this by building a platform to manage audience development, infrastructure and monetization while operating media brands by matching written content ...

Second Funnel

Helping consumer brands turn content into a sales funnel
Live campaign with Gap: http://gap.secondfunnel.com/summerloves/ Live campaign with NastyGal: http://nastygal.secondfunnel.com/swim-city Go to market: a web-based landing page creation tool for digital marketers at retail brands. We segment visitors by what they ...

Sqor Sports

Sqor Sports is the world's most engaging editorial and social network for Sports
Sqor (www.sqor.com) is an editorial and social content platform focused on exclusively on sports. We filter out the noise. Sqor was founded on the premise that the athlete should be in full control of his/her digital presence, including the monetization of their ...

Marin Software

Quantcast

Measure + Advertise
Quantcast Measure New! Quantcast’s free direct audience measurement reports are now available for apps. Gain user insights across your online, mobile web and mobile app properties. Quantcast Advertise Audience targeting for buyers and sellers of digital media. ...

Monstrous.fm

Gameful Social Music
Monstrous.fm was acquired by Freeform Development, Inc. in March 2015. Our gamified celebrity music apps empower artists to connect with fans, grow their audiences, and turn “Likes” and tweets into revenue. We leverage our music artists' social media outreach ...

Parrable

Mobile Intelligence Platform
Parrable is a mobile intelligence platform.  Parrable’s proprietary technology platform allows anonymous, deterministic identification of users wherever they travel on any device (mobile web <> app) with its persistent identifier that protects consumer privacy. ...

RivalMe

Social-Mobile Trivia, Powered by the Social Graph
RivalMe is the world's leader in trivia solutions. Our cross-platform iOS, Android and Facebook apps let you play trivia against your friends anywhere at any time. Powered by our Einstein Engine, we use DEEP Social Graph integration to make sure you get QUESTIONS ...

BitWall

Content monetization platform

LookSmart

VoiceBunny

Crowdvoice it! ®
Voicebunny makes it easy to get voiceovers in minutes from a pool of 100,000 voice talents. Connecting to the VoiceBunny API opens a world of opportunities: news articles become podcasts within minutes, video editing apps can offer great voices to their clients, ...

Socialmedia.com

LivingSocial features deals on the best things to do in your city, including restaurants, spas, travel, and more, with discounts up to 80% off.

UmixTV

News from social networks and rss feeds in a video format.
CONSUMERS Personalized TV experience from social networks feeds and rss transformed into a VIDEO stream. It's your personal interest-based (#Hashtags-optimized) TV channels, instant, beautiful, endless, interactive, automatically generated from the featured content ...

Countable

Direct Your Democracy
Briefly, Countable is an iPhone app, Android app and website where users can learn about issues, influence their representatives in government, and rally their community and friends around those issues. I can use Countable to tell my Senators how to vote on Keystone, ...

Fanzy

Always-on, enterprise wide social loyalty
Fanzy is an always-on, enterprise-wide social loyalty platform. Fanzy drives significant ROI by enabling enterprises to capture more value from their social marketing budgets. Fanzy's gamified referral programs enable brands to leverage their social fanbases ...

Adteractive

Onvedeo

From boring data to engaging videos!
We turn boring data into compelling video stories

Lookery

HubSpot is an inbound marketing software platform that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers.

140Fire.com

Mark Cuban backed 140Fire is the fastest growing video ad tech company of 2011
140Fire is the fastest growing interactive video ad technology company of 2011. Our DataRoll product adds interactive elements to video campaigns which: o Help understand viewers o Measure ad effectiveness o Increase ad engagement ...

Mulu

Deep Learning for Intelligent Commerce
Mulu is the world's first deep learning platform built specifically to identify millions of commercially available products, however and wherever they're mentioned online. Publishers and bloggers use Mulu to automatically offer the products they mention for sale ...

Perfect Audience

Retargeting made simple
Perfect Audience is the ultimate all-in-one retargeting platform. We make it easy for marketers to segment their visitors and to retarget high-value customers and lost shoppers with ads on the Facebook Exchange and across the display exchanges using realtime bidding. ...

Huddler

We Know Communities.
Huddler is technology enabled media company that powers some of the most knowledgeable and passionate communities online. From audiophiles to golfers to moms and fashionistas, our 31 sites and 24 million monthly enthusiasts are the early adopters that move markets ...

Louder

Amplify links beyond your network.
The Louder platform surfaces important conversations that deserve more attention, and gives users a way to drive those conversations to places they've never been. Every week, the top voted link in each #channel is amplified as a promoted tweet to over 10,000 ...

AtContent

Makes Your Blog as Powerful as a Social Network.
AtContent helps bloggers to become more influential by enabling them to smartly repost content via relevant blogs, across all blogging platforms. The "repost" is equivalent to a full size blog post and looks native on any blog. Bloggers connect their blogs to ...

AudioTag

Bringing interactivity and tracking to broadcast media.
AudioTag builds technology which allows broadcasters and content producers to connect directly with their audience using smartphones and tablets via the audio portion of the broadcast. While companies spend millions on broadcast advertising and more money developing ...

SnapBi

PRINT TO PURCHASE: Driving “impulse buy” conversion from ad to transaction
We leverage the cloud to provide a TaaS (Transaction as a Service) solution to bring advertisers and consumers together for impulse mobile purchasing experiences from printed media.

Exiles

Connecting out-of-market sports fans online and offline
We build passionate communities for out-of-market sports fans – e.g. Yankees fans outside of NYC. 1/2 of sports fans now live out of market - it's a massive, highly fragmented audience that can be aggregated with social tools and fan-perspective content. Being ...

MightyHive

Data Driven Marketing in Real-Time
Programmatic advertising is complicated. There’s intense pressure to adopt new technologies, but where do you begin?  MightyHive makes it simple. We offer industry-leading advertising technologies alongside first class service, training, and support – everything ...

ligertail

commodifying distribution
LigerTail built a 300-pixel ad unit that allows users on a site to add links to similar content and explore links submitted by others. It's like Reddit in an embeddable widget form. Links can be promoted through auction-based payment. check out our site: http://ligertail.com check ...

Hiptype

Analytics & Targeted Advertising for eBooks (YC S12)
Hiptype (YC S12) brings analytics and targeted advertising capabilities to the most popular eBook platforms, where these powerful features have never before been possible. Our patent-pending plugin for books captures demographic and book performance data that ...

Federated Media

Adbrite

Veed.me

Video Production Marketplace
Online video marketing is an exploding market of $7B, growing annually by 25% and taking over the $30B market of text ads. Veed.me is a video production marketplace that connects businesses that need a promotinal video, with a community of talented videographers ...

Accomplice

Marketing & measurement. Let's bring it together.
Accomplice is a digital marketing software and services company that helps you find and execute the optimal mix of digital marketing efforts that drive business results. Our SaaS platform brings marketing and measurement together, improving conversion rates across ...

CoTweet

Clikthrough

Adwords for Video, now you can click on stuff in video and not watch boring ads
Clikthrough provides innovative object-tagging software to monetize video better and gives consumers more info about what they are watching. Our solution elicits 80+% "cliks" per video view and higher organic search ranking.