Eniac Ventures

Eniac Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2009, specializing in seed and early-stage investments primarily in technology sectors. The firm focuses on high-growth opportunities within mobile technologies, augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics, mobile enterprise software, and consumer Internet. Eniac Ventures typically invests between $0.2 million and $1 million in seed-stage companies and is known for its hands-on approach, providing extensive support through its Eniac Platform. This includes assistance with talent recruitment, public relations, operations, business development, and fundraising strategies. The firm primarily invests in the United States, particularly in regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York, and aims to partner with bold entrepreneurs to create transformative companies.

Sofia Badalamenti

Investor

Owen Chun

Investor

Hadley Harris

Co-Founder and General Partner

Dan Jaeck

Principal

Monica Lim

Principal

Kristin Mcdonald

Principal

Claire Rafson

Investor

Past deals in Mobile Advertising

Embrace

Series B in 2021
Embrace Mobile, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions that assist application developers in identifying and resolving issues related to mobile application performance. The company's platform offers unique capabilities for performance monitoring and debugging, allowing developers to track user sessions, analyze interactions leading up to errors, and detect various performance issues, including crashes and slow load times. By providing insights into user experiences and facilitating proactive analysis, Embrace enables mobile teams to quickly address problems that could lead to user churn or dissatisfaction. Founded in 2007 and based in Culver City, California, Embrace is recognized for its innovative approach to mobile app observability, making it an essential tool for developers aiming to improve user engagement and application reliability.

Attentive

Series D in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Alloy

Series B in 2020
Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Alloy

Series A in 2019
Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

Attentive

Series B in 2019
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Attentive

Series A in 2018
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

ChatGrid

Seed Round in 2018
ChatGrid is a mobile application intended to offer consumer messaging platforms. The company's application offers a social hub, enabling users to give feedback on their business and brand through mobile messaging.

Alloy

Seed Round in 2017
Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

Edeng

Series A in 2017
Operator of an advertisement publishing platform. The company's platform provides well organized and classified advertisement information including housing, hiring, education and etc., enabling users to efficiently find the needed information.

Viro Media

Seed Round in 2017
Viro Media, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing software applications aimed at facilitating the creation and publication of virtual reality (VR) applications for mobile developers. The company's platform offers a suite of powerful tools that enable developers to integrate VR features into their apps using familiar coding practices, particularly through the React Native framework. This approach allows for the deployment of applications across various mobile VR head-mounted displays. Viro Media’s offerings include support for creating apps with 360-degree photos and videos, 3D assets, sample applications, and comprehensive developer documentation, thereby simplifying the process of crafting immersive VR experiences for both web and mobile developers.

Dubsmash

Series B in 2016
Dubsmash, Inc. operates a web-based platform and mobile application focused on content creation and sharing, primarily through micro-videos. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company allows users to create and share dubbed videos by lip-syncing to audio clips from movies, speeches, and music. This innovative application has gained significant popularity, securing the number one spot in the App Store across 29 countries in Europe. Dubsmash serves as a vital tool for content creators and artists, providing an effective means for promoting music and engaging audiences through entertaining video content.

Attentive

Seed Round in 2016
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

mParticle

Series A in 2016
mParticle, Inc. is a customer data platform designed to assist multi-channel consumer brands in accelerating their growth strategies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables marketers, developers, product managers, and data scientists to unify data and streamline partner integrations with a focus on security and reliability. By collecting user data from various services, mParticle provides a comprehensive view that enhances marketing, advertising, and analytics efforts across web and mobile applications. Its solutions are utilized by notable companies such as Walmart, NBC Universal, and Airbnb to effectively manage their customer interactions throughout the buying process. mParticle serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, financial services, media, and travel, ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, London, and Delray Beach.

Mast Mobile

Venture Round in 2015
Mast Mobile (originally called Grid Mobile), a new software platform that makes it simple for businesses to leverage mobile services better, and, for individuals to manage both work and personal life on one device. It is a platform that places CRM into sales team's day-to-day activities that automatically loads all client communications into the database. Mast Mobile quietly shutdown services on June 15th, 2017. The business was reportedly struggling to raise additional funding.

Neumob

Series A in 2015
Neumob, Inc. develops application acceleration technology for application owners and developers worldwide. The company offers Neumob Accelerator, a software development kit that speeds up the load times, reliability, and performance of mobile application anywhere in the world. Its Neumob Accelerator facilitates custom-built, machine learning-driven Neumob protocol and 3-PoP WAN acceleration features to the user’s smartphone. The company’s Neumob Accelerator facilitates application owners and developers to accelerate traffic only where they need it most; and global acceleration network analyzes traffic and routing conditions in real time, and uses machine learning to find the fastest route between the user’s content and customer even on 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of November 14, 2017, Neumob, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CloudFlare, Inc.

Dubsmash

Series A in 2015
Dubsmash, Inc. operates a web-based platform and mobile application focused on content creation and sharing, primarily through micro-videos. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company allows users to create and share dubbed videos by lip-syncing to audio clips from movies, speeches, and music. This innovative application has gained significant popularity, securing the number one spot in the App Store across 29 countries in Europe. Dubsmash serves as a vital tool for content creators and artists, providing an effective means for promoting music and engaging audiences through entertaining video content.

Neumob

Seed Round in 2015
Neumob, Inc. develops application acceleration technology for application owners and developers worldwide. The company offers Neumob Accelerator, a software development kit that speeds up the load times, reliability, and performance of mobile application anywhere in the world. Its Neumob Accelerator facilitates custom-built, machine learning-driven Neumob protocol and 3-PoP WAN acceleration features to the user’s smartphone. The company’s Neumob Accelerator facilitates application owners and developers to accelerate traffic only where they need it most; and global acceleration network analyzes traffic and routing conditions in real time, and uses machine learning to find the fastest route between the user’s content and customer even on 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. As of November 14, 2017, Neumob, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CloudFlare, Inc.

N3TWORK

Series B in 2015
N3TWORK Inc. is a mobile game creator and publisher that focuses on developing free-to-play games for iOS and Android platforms. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aims to provide engaging gaming experiences tailored to users' interests. In addition to game development, N3TWORK specializes in networking software that delivers a personalized online experience, allowing seamless integration across various internet devices. The company was formerly known as N3tw0rk, Inc. before rebranding in 2013.

Voyat

Seed Round in 2014
Voyat Inc. operates a guest retention engine that enhances the relationship between hotels and their guests. Its platform allows hotels to offer personalized promotions, loyalty rewards, and tailored experiences, fostering direct connections both online and on-property. By leveraging technology and data science, Voyat helps hotels understand guest preferences and booking behaviors, ultimately improving customer engagement and loyalty. The company serves a diverse clientele, including leading hotel brands and independent properties, across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Voyat also has offices in Barcelona and Copenhagen. Its technology strengthens the direct booking channel, increases customer lifetime value, and enables hotels to differentiate themselves in a competitive market.

TapCommerce

Series A in 2013
TapCommerce specialized in mobile app retargeting, focusing on enhancing revenue and user engagement beyond the initial app installation. The company offered a software platform designed to assist brands in effectively engaging and converting their mobile audiences. By providing comprehensive targeting solutions, TapCommerce aimed to increase customer lifetime value and maximize mobile revenue for its clients. In 2014, TapCommerce was acquired by Twitter, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the mobile advertising space.

Wristcam

Series A in 2013
Wristcam is a developer of an ultra-compact camera system specifically designed for Apple Watch users. The product leverages a multi-patented computer vision engine that incorporates multi-layer networking and resource optimization, allowing for real-time visual processing tailored for mobile applications. This innovative technology enhances user experiences by enabling seamless photography and video capabilities directly from the Apple Watch, catering to the needs of users seeking a portable and efficient visual solution.

mParticle

Seed Round in 2013
mParticle, Inc. is a customer data platform designed to assist multi-channel consumer brands in accelerating their growth strategies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables marketers, developers, product managers, and data scientists to unify data and streamline partner integrations with a focus on security and reliability. By collecting user data from various services, mParticle provides a comprehensive view that enhances marketing, advertising, and analytics efforts across web and mobile applications. Its solutions are utilized by notable companies such as Walmart, NBC Universal, and Airbnb to effectively manage their customer interactions throughout the buying process. mParticle serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, financial services, media, and travel, ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, London, and Delray Beach.

Jump Ramp

Series B in 2013
Considered one of New York City’s fastest growing mobile-first companies, Jump Ramp is the leader in delivering innovative promotions, rewards and instant winning experiences through free mobile casual gaming. Connecting consumers with our top partners in mobile gaming, commerce, branding and product discovery. We are backed by premiere VCs including SoftBank Capital, Bullpen Capital. Founders Collective and LeadEdge Capital. Our flagship app Lucktastic launched on Android in 2014 and has quickly built an engaged, enthusiastic and loyal customer base attracting nearly 10 million installs in the US on Android and iOS. Lucktastic is consistently ranked in the top 3 within the lifestyle category on the Google Play Store alongside brands like Tinder, Zillow, and Starbucks as well as top 10 respectively in the Apple Store. With a dominant social footprint that includes nearly 2 million Facebook fans, the Lucktastic brand has a reach that extends 12 million weekly unique American consumers. We have a strong focus on extending our brand and becoming a household name in the US. Jump Ramp looks to grow a network of apps and innovative content beyond our flagship app with an eye on expanding to Asia and other International markets. Jump Ramp prides itself on being a close knit team with nearly 40 employees, and looking to double in the next 18 months. We look for talent that thrives in an innovative entrepreneurial environment, is excited about consumer products that touch millions of Americans and who embrace our exciting diverse NYC culture. We’re not afraid to move fast and break things as we release, launch, iterate, update and announce - sometimes all in the same day! So if you thrive on solving problems in the mobile space that have never been tackled before, come join our team!

Marfeel

Venture Round in 2013
Marfeel Solutions, S.L. is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2011 that offers an ad-optimized mobile design solution for publishers and professional bloggers. The company specializes in helping clients monetize mobile traffic by creating and optimizing mobile websites tailored to user habits and behavior. Marfeel's proprietary technology dynamically adjusts site layouts to enhance readership, engagement, and page views, ultimately driving ad revenue. Its platform ensures consistency between mobile and desktop content without the need for extensive IT support, as all updates are managed through the cloud. With partnerships involving over 20,000 global ad networks, Marfeel provides access to premium advertisers, reaching more than 500 million readers monthly. Recognized by Google and named a Top 100 European Startup by WIRED Magazine, Marfeel has also received accolades from Gartner and Forrester, solidifying its position in the mobile marketing sector. The company is backed by notable investors, including Nauta Capital and BDMI.

Vista Media Group

Seed Round in 2013
Vista Media Group, Inc. engages in outdoor advertising business.

Vistar Media

Seed Round in 2013
Vistar Media Inc. is a technology company specializing in location-based advertising solutions that enhance the buying and selling of mobile and digital out-of-home media. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Vistar Media utilizes geotemporal data to analyze consumer behavior patterns, providing valuable insights for brands to engage effectively with their target audiences. The company offers a comprehensive marketing platform that allows brands to reach consumers based on their real-world activities. Additionally, Vistar Media provides tools for media owners, including an advertising platform for digital out-of-home networks, which helps manage inventory, optimize sales, and monetize unsold ad space. Their services also include Cortex, a content management system for infrastructure management, and solutions for data providers and advertisers to facilitate the scalable purchase of location-based media. Vistar Media has established a strategic partnership with Verve Mobile, further enhancing its capabilities in the advertising landscape.

TapCommerce

Seed Round in 2013
TapCommerce specialized in mobile app retargeting, focusing on enhancing revenue and user engagement beyond the initial app installation. The company offered a software platform designed to assist brands in effectively engaging and converting their mobile audiences. By providing comprehensive targeting solutions, TapCommerce aimed to increase customer lifetime value and maximize mobile revenue for its clients. In 2014, TapCommerce was acquired by Twitter, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the mobile advertising space.

Message Bus

Series B in 2012
Mail Bypass, Inc., doing business as Message Bus, provides a cloud-native application service for enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels. Its service enables enterprises and application developers to deliver transactional and marketing messages, including emails, SMS, push mails, and social messages. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Corte Madera, California.

Signal360

Series A in 2012
Signal360 Inc. is a company based in New York that specializes in proximity marketing solutions for mobile devices, specifically for iOS and Android platforms. Founded in 2011 and originally known as Sonic Notify, Inc., the company rebranded in August 2014. Signal360's primary offering is a mobile notification platform that facilitates real-time user engagement within retail environments. The platform utilizes patented inaudible sound technology and supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standards, including iBeacon, to enable businesses to interact with customers through existing or custom mobile applications. By delivering targeted and personalized marketing messages, Signal360 helps enterprises create meaningful connections with their customers in physical locations.

AppHero

Seed Round in 2012
AppHero recommends apps you’ll love by learning about your unique interests, preferences and characteristics.

Vungle

Seed Round in 2012
Vungle, Inc. operates a performance marketing platform that specializes in in-app video advertising for mobile businesses, advertisers, and publishers globally. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a range of services including in-app video ads, creative and lifetime value optimization technologies, software development kits, and comprehensive ad serving solutions. Vungle also offers a Programmatic Buying solution tailored for agencies and trading desks, along with a Mobile Attribution solution that allows clients to assess the source and user value of their installs and track ad campaign performance. With additional offices in major cities around the world, Vungle aims to connect advertisers with high-value users through engaging video content.

Metaresolver

Seed Round in 2012
Metaresolver is a provider of a mobile advertising platform that enhances media buying on mobile platforms through improved targeting capabilities. The company utilizes proprietary data to connect media and marketing intelligence with consumer attributes, such as device model, location, content, connection, and carrier. This approach enables advertisers to execute more effective campaigns by leveraging detailed insights about their audience. Metaresolver was acquired by Millennial Media, further expanding its reach and resources in the mobile advertising landscape.

OnSwipe

Venture Round in 2011
OnSwipe is a platform designed to enhance the presentation of content and advertising for publishers on touch-enabled devices through web browsers. By enabling media companies to deliver a magazine-like experience, OnSwipe allows their content to appear and function similarly to native applications, catering to the increasing prevalence of tablet usage. The platform simplifies the process of publishing across various touch devices, addressing the evolving needs of the media industry.

Thumb

Angel Round in 2011
Thumb is the easiest way for people to express themselves and to discover people like them. The simple act of ‘thumbing’ brings people together in a purpose-driven community that allows people to express what matters most to them, generates instant feedback, and helps people make meaningful connections. Thumb is available on iOS, Android, and via Website at www.thumb.it.

OnSwipe

Seed Round in 2011
OnSwipe is a platform designed to enhance the presentation of content and advertising for publishers on touch-enabled devices through web browsers. By enabling media companies to deliver a magazine-like experience, OnSwipe allows their content to appear and function similarly to native applications, catering to the increasing prevalence of tablet usage. The platform simplifies the process of publishing across various touch devices, addressing the evolving needs of the media industry.

TapToLearn

Seed Round in 2011
When we began our first experiments with using Mobile devices a few years ago we were very excited by the possibility of learning in nontraditional manner. The beauty of effectiveness of the iPhone first and the iPad platforms gave shape to our vision of building beautiful apps, designed to build learning for your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Devices. Each of our apps are extremely easy to use, focus on just one area of learning using interactivity and add an element to fun while learning.

MightyMeeting

Seed Round in 2010
With MightyMeeting you can manage a library of PowerPoint presentations directly from your smartphone. You can share them via email, blog, Twitter, or Facebook. You can start or join web meetings directly from your laptop, iPhone, iPod Touch, or an Android phone.

Localytics

Seed Round in 2010
Localytics is a mobile app analytics and marketing platform that helps businesses enhance their mobile app acquisition, engagement, and retention strategies. It offers a suite of tools that integrate marketing capabilities—such as push notifications, in-app messaging, and email marketing—with robust analytics features. This allows companies to utilize real-time user data for personalized and automated marketing campaigns. Localytics serves over 6,000 apps across more than 2 billion devices, catering to notable clients like Live Nation, HSN, Comcast, and The New York Times. By focusing on mobile and web app engagement, Localytics equips organizations with the insights and tools necessary for improving user interaction and loyalty.

MightyMeeting

Seed Round in 2010
With MightyMeeting you can manage a library of PowerPoint presentations directly from your smartphone. You can share them via email, blog, Twitter, or Facebook. You can start or join web meetings directly from your laptop, iPhone, iPod Touch, or an Android phone.
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