BDMI

BDMI is a New York-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels across North America, Europe, and Israel. Primarily focusing on Series A and B investments, BDMI also operates a seed fund that encompasses approximately 20 companies. The firm typically invests between $500,000 and $3 million in startups, aiming to accelerate growth through both financial support and management resources. BDMI leverages its close connection to Bertelsmann, an international media company with consolidated revenues exceeding $25 billion, which operates across various sectors including television, book publishing, magazine publishing, music, and media services. This relationship enables BDMI to not only provide capital but also to support startups through an extensive network of contacts within Bertelsmann and the broader media landscape.

Sim Blaustein

Partner

Brendan Brits

Associate

Urs Cete

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Keith Titan

Co-Founder and Partner

Past deals in Marketing

Spectrm

Series B in 2023
Spectrm is a developer of a conversational marketing automation platform that enables businesses to engage and convert customers through AI-powered chatbots on popular messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram DMs. The platform provides tools that help companies automate customer interactions, facilitating personalized experiences that enhance customer retention and acquisition. By leveraging its end-to-end chatbot technology, Spectrm allows businesses to design tailored engagement strategies, effectively building lifelong relationships with their customers.

Tenovos

Series B in 2022
Tenovos, Inc. is a technology company that has developed an Active Story Management platform aimed at enhancing how brands engage with customers through storytelling. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, the platform offers various products designed to support marketing teams in the management of brand narratives. Key offerings include Story Manager, which provides role-based capabilities for asset management; Story Streams, which aids in the orchestration of content; Story Insights, which delivers analytical tools for performance data; and Story Cloud, which integrates enterprise-grade microservices. Tenovos primarily serves consumer brands across several industries, including consumer packaged goods, retail, media and entertainment, and food and beverage, enabling them to transform static content into dynamic brand experiences.

Breef

Venture Round in 2022
Breef operates an online platform that connects businesses with vetted marketing and creative agencies for project-based collaborations. The platform offers tools for project planning, proposal evaluation, contract management, and payments.

Digiphy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Digiphy is a SaaS platform that transforms physical products and marketing assets into always-on digital channels. It connects brands directly to consumers, delivering dynamic digital experiences at relevant moments. Digiphy's flexible solution enhances brand storytelling, increases transparency, accelerates sales, and deepens consumer engagement.

Memorable

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Memorable is an innovative technology company that specializes in AI-driven creative optimization for advertising. Originating from research at the MIT lab, Memorable harnesses advanced deep learning models to assess the cognitive impact of visual content, such as videos and images. Its platform is designed to predict how memorable and attention-grabbing an advertisement will be, while also forecasting conversion metrics tailored to specific audiences and channels. By generating or modifying content to enhance its effectiveness before publication, Memorable enables businesses to make informed decisions regarding key marketing metrics linked to branding and conversion. The company's technology is already being utilized by industry leaders, demonstrating its significance in the field of advertising optimization.

Octane11

Seed Round in 2022
Octane11 is a B2B-focused data analytics and collaboration platform designed to integrate paid, owned, and earned marketing, sales, and product usage data. The company helps enterprises with over $100 million in revenue break down data silos and drive real business results by enriching and analyzing data across teams. Octane11's platform provides intuitive analytics that enable marketers to understand clients better, track marketing activities, and coordinate multi-channel digital tactics effectively. Launched in late 2020, the company is backed by several venture partners and assists some of the largest B2B enterprises in turning every digital interaction into actionable insights.

Antenna

Series A in 2022
Antenna offers market intelligence for direct-to-consumer subscription businesses. It provides industry benchmarks, insights into subscriber behavior, and strategic decision-making tools to help clients optimize their subscription services.

Tenovos

Series A in 2021
Tenovos, Inc. is a technology company that has developed an Active Story Management platform aimed at enhancing how brands engage with customers through storytelling. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, the platform offers various products designed to support marketing teams in the management of brand narratives. Key offerings include Story Manager, which provides role-based capabilities for asset management; Story Streams, which aids in the orchestration of content; Story Insights, which delivers analytical tools for performance data; and Story Cloud, which integrates enterprise-grade microservices. Tenovos primarily serves consumer brands across several industries, including consumer packaged goods, retail, media and entertainment, and food and beverage, enabling them to transform static content into dynamic brand experiences.

Omaze

Series B in 2020
Omaze operates a unique online platform that combines fundraising for charitable initiatives with exciting prize experiences. It hosts auctions where donors can bid for chances to win once-in-a-lifetime opportunities such as celebrity encounters, luxury items, or exclusive travel packages. Omaze provides comprehensive services including marketing, content creation, technology support, and fulfillment to facilitate these experiences while raising funds for various causes.

Tenovos

Series A in 2020
Tenovos, Inc. is a technology company that has developed an Active Story Management platform aimed at enhancing how brands engage with customers through storytelling. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, the platform offers various products designed to support marketing teams in the management of brand narratives. Key offerings include Story Manager, which provides role-based capabilities for asset management; Story Streams, which aids in the orchestration of content; Story Insights, which delivers analytical tools for performance data; and Story Cloud, which integrates enterprise-grade microservices. Tenovos primarily serves consumer brands across several industries, including consumer packaged goods, retail, media and entertainment, and food and beverage, enabling them to transform static content into dynamic brand experiences.

Suzy

Series C in 2020
Suzy, Inc. is a marketing technology company based in New York City that specializes in creating on-demand connections between brands and consumers. By harnessing collective insights from millions of consumers worldwide, Suzy delivers real-time intelligence to help brands validate critical assumptions, develop effective marketing strategies, and optimize product offerings. The company's platform facilitates direct interactions between consumers and brands, enabling the collection of real-time consumer intelligence through ratings, reviews, and feedback. Suzy’s platform empowers companies to assess customer preferences and needs, enhancing their ability to create compelling products and marketing campaigns. Established in 2009 and formerly known as Crowdtap, Suzy is trusted by various Fortune 500 companies and challenger brands, providing them with a streamlined method for conducting research and engaging with their target audiences.

Spectrm

Convertible Note in 2019
Spectrm is a developer of a conversational marketing automation platform that enables businesses to engage and convert customers through AI-powered chatbots on popular messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram DMs. The platform provides tools that help companies automate customer interactions, facilitating personalized experiences that enhance customer retention and acquisition. By leveraging its end-to-end chatbot technology, Spectrm allows businesses to design tailored engagement strategies, effectively building lifelong relationships with their customers.

Wibbitz

Convertible Note in 2019
Wibbitz, Inc. is a developer of an AI-powered video creation platform that allows teams to produce professional short-form videos efficiently. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Wibbitz offers an online platform that simplifies video creation for various purposes, including social media, news coverage, marketing, and events. Users can leverage customizable video templates, drag-and-drop editing tools, and access to millions of licensed photos, videos, and soundtracks. The platform also features a Lightbox API solution, enabling integration of video creation capabilities into websites and applications to enhance user engagement. Wibbitz has established strategic partnerships with several prominent media organizations, including Hearst and NBC Universal, and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and London, United Kingdom.

Wibbitz

Convertible Note in 2019
Wibbitz, Inc. is a developer of an AI-powered video creation platform that allows teams to produce professional short-form videos efficiently. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Wibbitz offers an online platform that simplifies video creation for various purposes, including social media, news coverage, marketing, and events. Users can leverage customizable video templates, drag-and-drop editing tools, and access to millions of licensed photos, videos, and soundtracks. The platform also features a Lightbox API solution, enabling integration of video creation capabilities into websites and applications to enhance user engagement. Wibbitz has established strategic partnerships with several prominent media organizations, including Hearst and NBC Universal, and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and London, United Kingdom.

CrowdTwist

Convertible Note in 2019
Founded in 2009, CrowdTwist specializes in omni-channel loyalty marketing and data solutions. It offers customizable white-label platforms like CrowdTwist Complete, tools to extend spend-based loyalty programs (Enhance), program management engines (Control Center), and data analytics suites (Connect). Serving brands such as Pepsi and L'Oréal, CrowdTwist helps businesses understand customers better through its AI-driven platform.

Pathmatics

Corporate Round in 2018
Pathmatics, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in providing a comprehensive digital advertising intelligence platform. This platform offers insights into the performance of brands, competitors, and industries across various advertising channels such as display, social, video, mobile, and native. By utilizing Pathmatics' technology, clients can optimize their media spending, strategically position their marketing efforts, and anticipate competitor moves. The company's data powers offerings by Nielsen and Kantar Media, and is used by prominent agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible.

Inked Brands

Series A in 2018
Inked Brands, Inc is a company based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that specializes in providing comprehensive support services for brands, including marketing, product development, fulfillment, web development, and customer support. Founded in 2007, the company focuses on enhancing e-commerce opportunities by enabling influencers to utilize their social media followings to generate sustainable revenue streams. Inked Brands aims to empower brands and influencers alike, fostering growth and engagement in the digital marketplace.

A Million Ads

Seed Round in 2018
A Million Ads Limited is a digital audio advertising company founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company specializes in delivering personalized and contextually relevant audio advertisements, utilizing a robust data-driven approach to determine key aspects of each ad, including voiceover, music, and sound effects. Its platform integrates various sources of audience-level data, such as purchase history, loyalty status, and listening preferences, to dynamically serve ads tailored to individual listeners. With over 10 billion ad impressions served, A Million Ads offers a fully automated decision-making engine that allows for the seamless trafficking of multiple ad versions through a single tag. The company's managed service clients include prominent brands, for whom it produces targeted campaigns that have demonstrated measurable success in brand recall, foot traffic, and sales. This innovative approach enables advertisers to effectively engage their target audiences across various audio formats, including streaming, podcasts, and broadcast radio.

Wibbitz

Series C in 2017
Wibbitz, Inc. is a developer of an AI-powered video creation platform that allows teams to produce professional short-form videos efficiently. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Wibbitz offers an online platform that simplifies video creation for various purposes, including social media, news coverage, marketing, and events. Users can leverage customizable video templates, drag-and-drop editing tools, and access to millions of licensed photos, videos, and soundtracks. The platform also features a Lightbox API solution, enabling integration of video creation capabilities into websites and applications to enhance user engagement. Wibbitz has established strategic partnerships with several prominent media organizations, including Hearst and NBC Universal, and operates additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and London, United Kingdom.

Clique

Series C in 2017
Clique Brands Inc. is a media and marketing company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2006. It operates a variety of consumer brands, including Who What Wear, MyDomaine, Byrdie, CollegeFashionista, and Obsessee, focusing on content and products that appeal to millennial women and Gen Z girls. The company integrates data science with its editorial expertise to produce engaging content and marketing strategies. Clique's offerings include CMG Studios, an in-house creative agency, and INF Network, which represents over 55 prominent bloggers and influencers, providing integrated advertising solutions. In 2016, Clique launched its first clothing and accessories line in collaboration with Target, which has since become a leading performer for the retailer.

Spectrm

Seed Round in 2016
Spectrm is a developer of a conversational marketing automation platform that enables businesses to engage and convert customers through AI-powered chatbots on popular messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram DMs. The platform provides tools that help companies automate customer interactions, facilitating personalized experiences that enhance customer retention and acquisition. By leveraging its end-to-end chatbot technology, Spectrm allows businesses to design tailored engagement strategies, effectively building lifelong relationships with their customers.

CrowdTwist

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2009, CrowdTwist specializes in omni-channel loyalty marketing and data solutions. It offers customizable white-label platforms like CrowdTwist Complete, tools to extend spend-based loyalty programs (Enhance), program management engines (Control Center), and data analytics suites (Connect). Serving brands such as Pepsi and L'Oréal, CrowdTwist helps businesses understand customers better through its AI-driven platform.

Pathmatics

Series A in 2016
Pathmatics, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in providing a comprehensive digital advertising intelligence platform. This platform offers insights into the performance of brands, competitors, and industries across various advertising channels such as display, social, video, mobile, and native. By utilizing Pathmatics' technology, clients can optimize their media spending, strategically position their marketing efforts, and anticipate competitor moves. The company's data powers offerings by Nielsen and Kantar Media, and is used by prominent agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible.

Clique

Series B in 2015
Clique Brands Inc. is a media and marketing company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2006. It operates a variety of consumer brands, including Who What Wear, MyDomaine, Byrdie, CollegeFashionista, and Obsessee, focusing on content and products that appeal to millennial women and Gen Z girls. The company integrates data science with its editorial expertise to produce engaging content and marketing strategies. Clique's offerings include CMG Studios, an in-house creative agency, and INF Network, which represents over 55 prominent bloggers and influencers, providing integrated advertising solutions. In 2016, Clique launched its first clothing and accessories line in collaboration with Target, which has since become a leading performer for the retailer.

StyleHaul

Series B in 2013
Founded in 2011, StyleHaul is a global digital platform dedicated to women's lifestyle content. It operates multiple channels on YouTube, including StyleHaulMundo for Spanish and Portuguese speaking audiences, StyleMeFIT for health and fitness, and StyleMeTV for fashion and beauty. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices worldwide, StyleHaul partners with major brands to create innovative, multi-platform marketing programs.

Pathmatics

Seed Round in 2013
Pathmatics, Inc., established in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, specializes in providing a comprehensive digital advertising intelligence platform. This platform offers insights into the performance of brands, competitors, and industries across various advertising channels such as display, social, video, mobile, and native. By utilizing Pathmatics' technology, clients can optimize their media spending, strategically position their marketing efforts, and anticipate competitor moves. The company's data powers offerings by Nielsen and Kantar Media, and is used by prominent agencies like Mindshare, Mediacom, and Possible.

Victorious

Seed Round in 2013
Victorious is a Santa Monica-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) as a primary marketing strategy. By focusing exclusively on SEO, Victorious aims to transform it into a key channel for lead generation rather than a supportive tactic for other marketing efforts. The company offers a comprehensive suite of SEO services designed to enhance online visibility and deliver measurable business outcomes. Victorious is committed to generating long-term return on investment for its clients, aligning their strategies with broader marketing goals and fostering sustainable business growth. Through its innovative approach, Victorious is redefining the significance of SEO in driving success for businesses.

Regiohelden

Series A in 2012
Regiohelden GmbH, founded in 2010 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in providing online marketing services tailored for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and regional companies. The company focuses on search engine optimization and marketing, helping local advertisers reach their online audience, convert prospects into clients, and measure campaign results effectively. Regiohelden enables its clients to leverage the internet for business growth, supporting them with targeted digital marketing strategies.

Semasio

Series A in 2012
Founded in 2010, Semasio specializes in targeting solutions for programmatic advertising. It uses Natural Language Processing to analyze website content, generating user profiles that enable clients to create and address specific audiences. Headquartered in Hamburg with offices in New York, Denmark, and Portugal, Semasio serves global agency networks, advertisers, and media agencies.

Regiohelden

Venture Round in 2012
Regiohelden GmbH, founded in 2010 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in providing online marketing services tailored for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and regional companies. The company focuses on search engine optimization and marketing, helping local advertisers reach their online audience, convert prospects into clients, and measure campaign results effectively. Regiohelden enables its clients to leverage the internet for business growth, supporting them with targeted digital marketing strategies.

Regiohelden

Seed Round in 2011
Regiohelden GmbH, founded in 2010 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in providing online marketing services tailored for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and regional companies. The company focuses on search engine optimization and marketing, helping local advertisers reach their online audience, convert prospects into clients, and measure campaign results effectively. Regiohelden enables its clients to leverage the internet for business growth, supporting them with targeted digital marketing strategies.

CrowdTwist

Series A in 2011
Founded in 2009, CrowdTwist specializes in omni-channel loyalty marketing and data solutions. It offers customizable white-label platforms like CrowdTwist Complete, tools to extend spend-based loyalty programs (Enhance), program management engines (Control Center), and data analytics suites (Connect). Serving brands such as Pepsi and L'Oréal, CrowdTwist helps businesses understand customers better through its AI-driven platform.

Mojiva

Venture Round in 2011
Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology. Mojiva, Inc. provides products and solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.

Mojiva

Series A in 2008
Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology. Mojiva, Inc. provides products and solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
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