San Francisco Startups List

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36 advertising platforms Startups View all

Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

ZypMedia - advertising platforms local advertising online video advertising

ZypMedia

Vertical DSP connecting large local ad salesforce with online video inventory.
ExtendTV is developing a platform to disrupt the marketplace for local online video advertising by making it accessible to more than 5 million small and mid-size businesses. We connect a large and well-established local ad salesforce to online sources of geo-targeted ...

Partnered

The company-to-company business development network connecting startups and brands
Corporations are spending millions of dollars annually on initiatives that help them discover and connect to startups that are transforming their marketing, commerce, and more. We run the first scalable, self-serve network for brands and startups to connect on ...

Orlife

Hyper-targeting on social web
Our mission is to help target consumers with expressed intent on social media. Our unique technology creates a real-time interactive infographic which allows users to segment consumer actions and to hyper-target with incentivized ads and messages.

Media Relevance - television advertising platforms online video advertising broadcasting

Media Relevance

Contextual video monetization everywhere
Media Relevance is a technology platform that increases the CPM or CPA levels for video ads through better contextual targeting. The platform uses words spoken in video, a viewer's social graph and key meta-data to match highly relevant advertising to videos, ...

dennoo - advertising advertising exchanges advertising platforms online video advertising

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 ...

BrightRoll - advertising mobile advertising advertising platforms online video advertising

BrightRoll

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

Grocerize - consumer internet advertising platforms groceries recipes

Grocerize

The best way to buy groceries - for the 348M people who spend $1.4 trillion.
Grocerize makes recipe shopping a breeze. Grocerize closes the loop between meal inspiration and food procurement by connecting shoppers at the point of relevance with local grocery retailers and food brands. Grocerize is disrupting the $60b grocery market.

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NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Optimal - advertising analytics advertising platforms social media marketing

Optimal

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

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 ...

Hipset - media advertising platforms online video advertising celebrity

Hipset

The YouTube Network for Artists
Hipset connects popular YouTube channels with advertisers. Our technology increases the number of advertising real estate our partnered YouTube channels have by maximizing the virality of their video releases. Our experience comes from designing Ustream's product ...

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 ...

AdStack - performance marketing advertising platforms email email marketing

AdStack

Real-time Email Optimization, Personalization & Analytics Platform
AdStack automatically optimizes emails after they’ve been sent. This helps email marketers: • Save time with automatic email testing • Boost ROI through real-time optimization • Increase relevancy with instant-personalization

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

AdStage - digital media advertising search marketing advertising platforms

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 ...

Accomplice - social media advertising advertising platforms social media marketing

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 ...

TapFwd - mobile advertising advertising platforms bridging online and offline

TapFwd

The intelligent mobile ad platform | Powered by data from everywhere
The intelligent mobile ad platform | Powered by data from everywhere TapFwd connects offline, online, and mobile data to enable marketers to target people instead of devices, and to understand how mobile ads affect in store and online commerce.

Vungle - mobile advertising mobile advertising advertising platforms

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.

Jisst - mobile advertising social commerce advertising platforms semantic web

Jisst

google adwords for social media.
Jisst is a consumer intent discovery engine. We align consumer intent with brand advertising. Our semantic engine understands the meaning and intent of words. Unlike sentiment and social monitoring systems Jisst discovers the semantics in social media that give ...

LiveRamp - advertising analytics advertising platforms big data analytics

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 ...

Causes - nonprofits advertising platforms politics cause marketing

Causes

Discover and organize campaigns around the issues that impact you and your community

PaperG - advertising displays advertising platforms Advertising & Creative Agencies

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. ...

Perfect Audience - digital media advertising sales and marketing advertising platforms

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. ...

ReTargeter - SEO displays semantic search advertising platforms

ReTargeter

Making targeted display advertising easy and effective!
ReTargeter is a leading full-service display advertising company specializing in audience targeting and retargeting for brands of all sizes. Retargeting enables brands to focus their advertisements on everyone who has engaged with them online, whether through ...

Virool - advertising mobile advertising advertising platforms online video advertising

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, ...

ZootRock - digital media social media B2B advertising platforms

ZootRock

Monetize your Social
ZootRock sources engaging content for posting to your social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and RSS. Through the links you share, we create Ad Inventory that you can utilize to do one of the following: 1. Display calls-to-action to drive traffic ...

PocketMath - mobile commerce real time mobile advertising advertising platforms

PocketMath

A self-serve buying platform for programmatic mobile ad inventory.
PocketMath is the world’s largest self-serve mobile advertising platform for buying programmatic (real-time bidding / RTB) mobile ad inventory across games, apps, and mobile websites, all in real-time. Offering 30 billion+ ad opportunities every day around the ...

Adility (Acquired by inComm) - advertising mobile advertising advertising platforms bridging online and offline

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 ...

Revnetics - mobile advertising platforms domains

Revnetics

Monetization platform for direct navigation

VigLink - advertising platforms

VigLink

Outclick monetization
VigLink automates the monetization of publisher content by automatically converting outbound links into affiliate links and optionally inserting new ones.

Loot! - mobile advertising advertising platforms social media marketing Native Advertising

Loot!

Mobile platform for creating and distributing native social ads
At Loot!, our team has developed a mobile first, incentivized word-of-mouth marketing platform with a focus on targeting micro-influencers at scale, through full automation while offering robust performance analytics. Businesses use our platform to run location ...

Floodlight - SaaS mobile advertising advertising platforms direct advertising

Floodlight

Build a beautiful media kit for your site in minutes.
Floodlight let's publishers create a media kit in minutes. Floodlight media kits update all your social and traffic stats in real time so they're always up to date. "....easier than any other tool out there." - Techcrunch

Sharethrough

Building technology to power the distribution of meaningful content on mobile devices.
Say goodbye to banners, interstitials and punch-the-monkey ads; we're taking the interruption, irrelevance and waste out of online advertising. Talk to us if you're interested in working on everything from complex client-side workflows and analytics in Rails and ...

Klick Push - SaaS music big data advertising platforms

Klick Push

Reshaping Digital Music Distribution and Advertising
The music industry has made significant progress in revamping traditional content distribution models to incorporate streaming, radio, and a la carte purchasing but they have failed to reach users where they are engaged most. Klick Push proactively places music ...

Imgur - mobile digital media social media platforms advertising platforms

Imgur

Online community & destination consisting of the internet's most viral image-based content
Social community platform. Viral content destination. Image hosting & sharing tools.

Grow Mobile - mobile mobile advertising advertising platforms mobile games

Grow Mobile

A single mobile ad buying solution across networks with ROI analytics and optimization.
Grow Mobile is building a unified dashboard for mobile ad buying across a large number of ad networks with ROI analytics transparency reporting for better optimization and ad budget scale.

UpNest - real estate marketplaces advertising platforms local businesses

UpNest

Agents Compete, You Win! ™. Our marketplace is changing real estate.
UpNest is an online real estate marketplace that matches home buyers and sellers with top, local agents who compete for their business. Buyers and sellers receive personalized quotes offering competitive commissions, rebates, and services. Our no-obligation service ...

AdEspresso - social media SaaS optimization advertising platforms

AdEspresso

Facebook Advertising Optimization Made Easy
AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users ...

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