Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital, founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California, is a prominent venture capital firm that invests in early to growth stage companies across various sectors, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and consumer services. The firm specializes in supporting startups and emerging growth companies, typically investing between $100,000 and $1 million in seed companies, $1 million to $10 million in early ventures, and $10 million to $100 million in growth investments. Sequoia Capital operates globally, with a presence in regions such as Israel, China, and Southeast Asia, and has built a diverse portfolio that includes notable companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, and JD.com. The firm emphasizes a partnership approach with entrepreneurs, leveraging decades of experience to guide them from initial concept through to public offering and beyond.

Audrey Adeline

Analyst

Rohit Agarwal

Vice President / Principal

Rajan Anandan

Managing Director

Michelle Bailhe

Partner

Sumaiya Balbale

COO and Operating Partner

Anas Biad

Partner

Isaiah Boone

Partner

Roelof Botha

Partner

Romie Boyd

Partner

Rosemarie Boyd

Partner

Konstantine Buhler

Partner

David Cahn

Partner

Xi Cao

Partner, China

Vipin Chamakkala

Director, Customer Partnerships

Jiazhen Chen

Investor

Luzhou Chen

Investor

Josephine Chen

Partner

Sakshi Chopra

Managing Director

W. M. Coughran

Founder's Coach and Partner

Charlie Curnin

Partner

Long Do

Analyst

Joe Dobrenski

Partner of Human Capital

Helen Fan

Vice President

Shirley Feng

Managing Director

James Flynn

Partner

Caroline Fu

Vice President

Xiang Gao

Associate

Stacey Gerber

VP, Operations and Experiences

Mike Goguen

Partner

Christopher Graff

Partner, Global Equities

Wayne Guo

Managing Director

Kirstie Irmana

Analyst

Amit Jain

Managing Director

Pushpak Kedia

Associate

Pieter Kemps

Principal

Kais Khimji

Partner

Sunint Khurana

Analyst

Marie Klemchuk

Global CFO

Jess Lee

Partner

Jess Lee

Partner

Teng Lei

Associate

Douglas Leone

Global Managing Partner

Mei Li

Associate

Angie Shuyan Liu

Analyst

Luciana Lixandru

Partner

Xiaobo Lu

Partner, China

Alyssa Maharani

Analyst

Cornelius Menke

Partner

Dean Meyer

Partner

Ishaan Mittal

Managing Director

Abhishek Mohan

Principal

Che Pinjue

Partner, China

GV Ravishankar

Managing Director - India

Antara Raychaudhury

Analyst

Andrew Reed

General Partner

Lauren Reeder

Partner

George Robson

Partner

Haim Sadger

Partner, Israel

Bryan Schreier

Partner

Yoav Shaked

Partner, Israel

Prateek Sharma

VP

Neil Shen

Managing Partner

Shailendra Singh

Managing Director

Thomas Stephenson

Partner

Sam Sun

Partner

Glen Sun

Vice President, China

Johan Surani

Vice President

Jessica H. Tan

Analyst

Vedant Trivedi

Analyst

Aradhita Tuli

Analyst

Mike Vernal

Partner

Pavel Vyhnalek

Operating Partner

Jeff Wang

Managing Partner

Fred Wang

Managing Director

Cen Wang

Partner

Rock Wang

Managing Director

Kai Wang

Managing Director

Michael Xiong

Investor

Lynn Yang

Managing Director, China

Yu Yao

Managing Director

Stephanie Zhan

Partner

Skee Zhang

Managing Director

Qingsheng Zheng

Partner, China

Guo Zhenwei

Managing Director

Jiajia Zou

Managing Director

Past deals in Advertising

Mutiny

Series B in 2022
Mutiny is a company based in the United States that specializes in personalizing websites and landing pages for business-to-business and Software-as-a-Service companies. Its platform allows marketers to create tailored experiences for each visitor, addressing the diverse needs of users from various industries and company sizes. By utilizing a graphical interface, Mutiny enables clients to customize webpage elements based on visitor intent and search terms, thereby enhancing user engagement. This personalization helps convert a significant portion of web traffic that typically bounces, with clients reporting conversion increases of up to 200%. Companies such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude, and Carta have successfully implemented Mutiny's solutions to drive revenue from their top-of-funnel demand without requiring engineering resources.

Skiff

Series A in 2022
Skiff (formerly FirstPaper) is an e-reading and advertising company formed to address the needs of consumers, publishers, and advertisers as print media increasingly migrates to new forms of digital consumption. This includes the emerging class of dedicated e-readers and reading-friendly devices, which create new opportunities and demand new business approaches. Headquarters located in NYC with second office in Palo Alto, CA.

Creable

Angel Round in 2022
Creable is a comprehensive influencer marketing platform that enables brands to discover, analyze, and connect with over 300 million creators across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, streamlining the influencer selection process and maximizing ROI.

Saas Labs

Series B in 2022
Marketing products to increase the visibility of your brand.

Huanju Technology

Series A in 2021
Huanju Technology (main company: Shenzhen Artisan Network Technology Co., Ltd.) is an audio and video marketing technology service provider focusing on the financial industry, committed to providing financial institutions with audio and video marketing technology products, audio and video content and comprehensive marketing solutions. After years of accumulation, Huanju has become the leading all-stop service provider in the financial industry.

Mutiny

Series A in 2021
Mutiny is a company based in the United States that specializes in personalizing websites and landing pages for business-to-business and Software-as-a-Service companies. Its platform allows marketers to create tailored experiences for each visitor, addressing the diverse needs of users from various industries and company sizes. By utilizing a graphical interface, Mutiny enables clients to customize webpage elements based on visitor intent and search terms, thereby enhancing user engagement. This personalization helps convert a significant portion of web traffic that typically bounces, with clients reporting conversion increases of up to 200%. Companies such as Segment, Brex, Amplitude, and Carta have successfully implemented Mutiny's solutions to drive revenue from their top-of-funnel demand without requiring engineering resources.

Knowde

Series B in 2021
Knowde is an online marketing platform and marketplace focused on the chemicals and ingredients sector. It facilitates connections between suppliers and customers by allowing users to create product pages that enhance visibility in search engine results. The platform leverages advanced technologies, including deep learning, to streamline the trading process for chemicals, polymers, and industrial ingredients. By enabling clients to search, filter, sample, quote, and purchase products conveniently, Knowde aims to simplify the sourcing experience, making it easier for customers to compare offerings from various suppliers worldwide. The service is designed to be user-friendly, allowing businesses to build their product pages quickly and begin their marketing efforts at no initial cost.

Skiff

Seed Round in 2021
Skiff (formerly FirstPaper) is an e-reading and advertising company formed to address the needs of consumers, publishers, and advertisers as print media increasingly migrates to new forms of digital consumption. This includes the emerging class of dedicated e-readers and reading-friendly devices, which create new opportunities and demand new business approaches. Headquarters located in NYC with second office in Palo Alto, CA.

Fetch

Venture Round in 2021
Fetch, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, is a global mobile-first agency with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Manchester and Hong Kong. Fetch has been delivering mobile-first advertising and digital media services since 2009, and its role is to understand the mobile consumer better than any other. Fetch works with some of the world’s most pioneering brands including Uber, Facebook, Hulu, HSBC, Expedia, eBay and Hotels.com, and has won numerous awards for its campaigns for clients including Hotels.com, Expedia and eBay in disciplines which include mobile video, paid social, experiential and mobile marketing. As well as being listed as top 50 digital agency by Econsultancy in 2016, Fetch has also been named mobile agency of the year in three consecutive years, and was voted fastest growing mobile marketing agency in Europe by Media Momentum Awards.

Appier

Venture Round in 2021
Appier Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence solutions to enhance customer engagement for enterprises. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Appier offers a range of AI-driven products, including Aideal, which aids in accelerating purchase decisions; AIQUA, a platform for proactive customer engagement based on user behavior; AIXON, a data science platform that enriches customer data for better audience insights and predictive modeling; and CrossX, an AI-powered advertising solution designed for optimal campaign performance. The company serves approximately 1,000 global brands and agencies, facilitating real-time bidding, programmatic media buying, and deep learning capabilities to help businesses target and retain customers effectively. Appier operates in 14 markets across Asia, including major cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Appier

Venture Round in 2021
Appier Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence solutions to enhance customer engagement for enterprises. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Appier offers a range of AI-driven products, including Aideal, which aids in accelerating purchase decisions; AIQUA, a platform for proactive customer engagement based on user behavior; AIXON, a data science platform that enriches customer data for better audience insights and predictive modeling; and CrossX, an AI-powered advertising solution designed for optimal campaign performance. The company serves approximately 1,000 global brands and agencies, facilitating real-time bidding, programmatic media buying, and deep learning capabilities to help businesses target and retain customers effectively. Appier operates in 14 markets across Asia, including major cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Zhiketong Technology

Series D in 2020
Beijing Zhiketong Technology Co., Ltd. is a digital marketing agency established in 2014 that specializes in providing marketing services for the hospitality, leisure, and entertainment sectors. The company operates primarily through WeChat, offering a range of solutions that include direct-sale marketing strategies, digital marketing consultation, advertising, and comprehensive data analysis. Zhiketong Technology aims to enhance management efficiency and service quality for its partners while improving brand visibility. Additionally, the company develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that equips clients, such as hotels and tourism attractions, with tools for customer management, online marketing, and product design, thereby enabling them to attract more customers and increase revenue. Headquartered in Beijing, Zhiketong Technology plays a significant role in optimizing the operational capabilities of its clients in the competitive digital landscape.

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.

Tezign

Series C in 2020
Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. operates Tezign.com, an Internet platform in China that provides design, creativity, marketing, and experience need services. It offers market and design services, including web/app design, graphic design, illustration, photography, creative strategy, brand strategy, e-commerce solution, event planning, and AR and VR. Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Knowde

Series A in 2020
Knowde is an online marketing platform and marketplace focused on the chemicals and ingredients sector. It facilitates connections between suppliers and customers by allowing users to create product pages that enhance visibility in search engine results. The platform leverages advanced technologies, including deep learning, to streamline the trading process for chemicals, polymers, and industrial ingredients. By enabling clients to search, filter, sample, quote, and purchase products conveniently, Knowde aims to simplify the sourcing experience, making it easier for customers to compare offerings from various suppliers worldwide. The service is designed to be user-friendly, allowing businesses to build their product pages quickly and begin their marketing efforts at no initial cost.

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.

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.

BUY QUICKLY

Venture Round in 2019
Shanghai Buy Quickly E-Commerce Limited offers full-service e-commerce solutions to the fashion industry in China and Southeast Asia. The company offers online and offline retail analytics and consulting, store operations, digital marketing, brand consulting, logistics and warehousing, and customer services, such as call centers, live chats, and e-mail services. It also owns and operates visual studios that provides production, photography, video, post-production editing, and other visual customization services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China.

BUY QUICKLY

Venture Round in 2019
Shanghai Buy Quickly E-Commerce Limited offers full-service e-commerce solutions to the fashion industry in China and Southeast Asia. The company offers online and offline retail analytics and consulting, store operations, digital marketing, brand consulting, logistics and warehousing, and customer services, such as call centers, live chats, and e-mail services. It also owns and operates visual studios that provides production, photography, video, post-production editing, and other visual customization services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Alfilo

Series A in 2019
Alfilo Entertainment & Artists Corp is a consumer products company based in Shanghai, China, with additional offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and Singapore. Founded in 2013, Alfilo specializes in providing licensing rights for cultural, entertainment, and fashion properties. The company connects Hollywood movies, TV shows, and celebrities with audiences in Asia through digital platforms, including mobile games and licensed merchandise available in retail stores. Alfilo's expertise lies in developing innovative merchandising programs that inspire collaboration and product experiences across various retail categories. By offering a diverse portfolio of intellectual property, Alfilo aims to facilitate unique design opportunities for brands and retailers on a global scale.

Zhiketong Technology

Series C in 2019
Beijing Zhiketong Technology Co., Ltd. is a digital marketing agency established in 2014 that specializes in providing marketing services for the hospitality, leisure, and entertainment sectors. The company operates primarily through WeChat, offering a range of solutions that include direct-sale marketing strategies, digital marketing consultation, advertising, and comprehensive data analysis. Zhiketong Technology aims to enhance management efficiency and service quality for its partners while improving brand visibility. Additionally, the company develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that equips clients, such as hotels and tourism attractions, with tools for customer management, online marketing, and product design, thereby enabling them to attract more customers and increase revenue. Headquartered in Beijing, Zhiketong Technology plays a significant role in optimizing the operational capabilities of its clients in the competitive digital landscape.

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.

Qunxiang

Angel Round in 2019
Qunsheng is a venture capital service brand for to C traffic traders and business leaders. We hope to provide them with quality information, worthy of discussion and effective deep links through high-frequency, business-oriented activities. . Beijing Fanxing Siyi Culture Media Co., Ltd. products.

Zhiketong Technology

Series B in 2018
Beijing Zhiketong Technology Co., Ltd. is a digital marketing agency established in 2014 that specializes in providing marketing services for the hospitality, leisure, and entertainment sectors. The company operates primarily through WeChat, offering a range of solutions that include direct-sale marketing strategies, digital marketing consultation, advertising, and comprehensive data analysis. Zhiketong Technology aims to enhance management efficiency and service quality for its partners while improving brand visibility. Additionally, the company develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that equips clients, such as hotels and tourism attractions, with tools for customer management, online marketing, and product design, thereby enabling them to attract more customers and increase revenue. Headquartered in Beijing, Zhiketong Technology plays a significant role in optimizing the operational capabilities of its clients in the competitive digital landscape.

Tikin Media

Series A in 2018
Tikin Media is a forward-looking advertising company that innovates building elevator media. The shareholders are composed of the world's top 500 and well-known media groups. They were successively invested by Baidu Venture Capital, Sequoia China and IDG within one year. Since its inception, the company has positioned itself to be a “high-end commercial building effect media operator”. The company's self-developed and possessed intellectual property elevator projection equipment is a new media form that subverts existing planar communication media, realizes mobile interconnection, and has programmatic ordering and big data analysis functions.

Yeting

Series B in 2018
Operator of a radio broadcasting station. The company focuses on broadcasting and discussing deeper emotional talks with their audience, targeting both men and women.

Tezign

Series B in 2018
Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. operates Tezign.com, an Internet platform in China that provides design, creativity, marketing, and experience need services. It offers market and design services, including web/app design, graphic design, illustration, photography, creative strategy, brand strategy, e-commerce solution, event planning, and AR and VR. Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Mianbaoxiaoke

Series A in 2017
Provider of self-media content and social media community solutions for internet celebrity and influencers. The company provides online influencers with integrated promoting solutions including media incubation, follower acquisition, content development, monetization, and IP protection, offering users the necessary tools and resources to quickly achieve profitability for their self-media content.

Beyond One, Inc.

Grant in 2017
Beyond One, an AR tech startup, is bringing people together by developing cutting edge Augmented Reality software for mobile devices and researching AR consumer content. Beyond One offers mobile AR content development and consulting services. We create mobile apps that advertise a brand’s product via interactive 3D product placement in Augmented Reality. Our advertisement strategy enables brands to reach highly targeted audiences through content relevancy and interactive gameplay, thus yielding higher customer conversions. We work with brands to create a marketing strategy, develop the AR app in house, and deploy it through the brand’s marketing networks. Beyond One created the Local Position Sync (LPS) system, which enables several people to see and interact with virtual objects in AR at the same time. Through LPS, Beyond One has conducted research on AR consumer content development to identify compelling use-cases for mobile AR.

Baidu Literature

Series A in 2017
A literary brand launched by Baidu.

Tezign

Series A in 2016
Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. operates Tezign.com, an Internet platform in China that provides design, creativity, marketing, and experience need services. It offers market and design services, including web/app design, graphic design, illustration, photography, creative strategy, brand strategy, e-commerce solution, event planning, and AR and VR. Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.

BOOM

Series A in 2016
Content Promotion and Content Marketing Software

Innovid

Series D in 2015
Innovid is an independent advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. It offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements across various environments, such as connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop TV. The platform enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and assess innovative advertising experiences across multiple devices and media outlets. Innovid serves a diverse clientele, including advertisers, publishers, and media agencies, and operates in regions including the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, with the majority of its revenue generated in the U.S.

eko

Series C in 2015
Eko is a media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold. The company provides a platform for the creation and delivery of interactive video entertainment and partners with media companies, independent creators, and top brands to create experiences for highly-engaged, digitally native audiences. The company's serialized shows are distributed through eko.com, affiliate partners, and social networks; available on desktop, mobile, connected devices, and VR. Eko Studio, which includes the company's authoring tools, is also home to a large and growing community of creators who are crafting their own interactive experiences with Eko's medium. Eko provides top-quality interactive entertainment and also offers unique opportunities for brands to connect with highly-engaged audiences. Eko investors include Walmart, Innovation Endeavors, Intel Capital, Marker, MGM, NEA, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and WPP. The company is based in New York with an office in Tel Aviv.

Appier

Series B in 2015
Appier Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence solutions to enhance customer engagement for enterprises. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Appier offers a range of AI-driven products, including Aideal, which aids in accelerating purchase decisions; AIQUA, a platform for proactive customer engagement based on user behavior; AIXON, a data science platform that enriches customer data for better audience insights and predictive modeling; and CrossX, an AI-powered advertising solution designed for optimal campaign performance. The company serves approximately 1,000 global brands and agencies, facilitating real-time bidding, programmatic media buying, and deep learning capabilities to help businesses target and retain customers effectively. Appier operates in 14 markets across Asia, including major cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Innovid

Series D in 2015
Innovid is an independent advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. It offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements across various environments, such as connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop TV. The platform enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and assess innovative advertising experiences across multiple devices and media outlets. Innovid serves a diverse clientele, including advertisers, publishers, and media agencies, and operates in regions including the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, with the majority of its revenue generated in the U.S.

Taykey

Series D in 2015
Taykey is a technology company that provides real-time advertising solutions designed to help brands leverage trending topics to enhance their marketing efforts. By analyzing data from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies what is currently popular among specific audiences, enabling brands to respond timely and effectively. The platform automates the media buying process, allowing companies to seamlessly integrate trends-based insights into their broader marketing strategies, including social media content and audience analysis. Notable clients include American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen, who utilize Taykey's services to transform consumer sentiment and trending conversations into actionable advertising strategies.

Appier

Series A in 2014
Appier Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence solutions to enhance customer engagement for enterprises. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Appier offers a range of AI-driven products, including Aideal, which aids in accelerating purchase decisions; AIQUA, a platform for proactive customer engagement based on user behavior; AIXON, a data science platform that enriches customer data for better audience insights and predictive modeling; and CrossX, an AI-powered advertising solution designed for optimal campaign performance. The company serves approximately 1,000 global brands and agencies, facilitating real-time bidding, programmatic media buying, and deep learning capabilities to help businesses target and retain customers effectively. Appier operates in 14 markets across Asia, including major cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Shuyun

Series B in 2014
Provider of cloud-based data services for marketing enterprises. The company offers channel marketing management services, marketing-type Customer Relationship Management SaaS software and other marketing operation services, enabling global consumer with digital operation solutions for brand retail enterprises and helps customers achieve global consumer growth.

Skai

Series F in 2014
Skai, formerly known as Kenshoo, is a global leader in agile marketing software, providing solutions that empower marketers to build brands and generate demand across various media channels. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for management and optimization, audience targeting, measurement, and forecasting, enabling clients to effectively navigate the complexities of digital advertising. Skai's platform is utilized by brands, agencies, and developers to manage nearly $350 billion in annual client sales revenue through search, social, mobile, and display advertising. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including automotive, education, financial services, and retail, and has established partnerships with major platforms such as Facebook and Google. With a presence in over 190 countries and numerous international offices, Skai caters to many prominent clients, including several Fortune 50 companies and leading global advertising agencies. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Skai continues to drive innovation in the marketing technology sector.

Flite

Venture Round in 2014
Flite, Inc. is a creative management platform based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2006, Flite empowers advertisers by enabling them to design and deliver engaging advertising campaigns in real-time. The platform integrates web applications into online advertising units, facilitating the creation of interactive mobile, native, and rich media ads. It allows marketers to respond to performance metrics and current events by updating their ad creatives dynamically. Flite offers a range of advertising solutions, including a Programmatic Creative platform that merges data and creativity, a Design Studio for building content-driven ads, and tools for creating responsive ads across various devices. The company's innovative technology supports brands, agencies, and publishers in managing and optimizing their digital advertising efforts effectively. Flite operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. since late 2016.

Kontera

Series D in 2013
Kontera Technologies specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has developed a content activation platform that analyzes over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time across 15,000 exclusive publishers and many of the most visited websites. This platform identifies current interest trends and activates brand content across Display, Mobile, and Social environments, allowing it to engage more than 170 million consumers each month. Prominent advertisers, including major automotive and consumer goods companies, utilize Kontera's services to create unique brand experiences. The company is supported by notable investors and maintains offices in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and London.

Taykey

Series C in 2013
Taykey is a technology company that provides real-time advertising solutions designed to help brands leverage trending topics to enhance their marketing efforts. By analyzing data from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies what is currently popular among specific audiences, enabling brands to respond timely and effectively. The platform automates the media buying process, allowing companies to seamlessly integrate trends-based insights into their broader marketing strategies, including social media content and audience analysis. Notable clients include American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen, who utilize Taykey's services to transform consumer sentiment and trending conversations into actionable advertising strategies.

eko

Series B in 2013
Eko is a media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold. The company provides a platform for the creation and delivery of interactive video entertainment and partners with media companies, independent creators, and top brands to create experiences for highly-engaged, digitally native audiences. The company's serialized shows are distributed through eko.com, affiliate partners, and social networks; available on desktop, mobile, connected devices, and VR. Eko Studio, which includes the company's authoring tools, is also home to a large and growing community of creators who are crafting their own interactive experiences with Eko's medium. Eko provides top-quality interactive entertainment and also offers unique opportunities for brands to connect with highly-engaged audiences. Eko investors include Walmart, Innovation Endeavors, Intel Capital, Marker, MGM, NEA, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and WPP. The company is based in New York with an office in Tel Aviv.

Innovid

Series C in 2013
Innovid is an independent advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. It offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements across various environments, such as connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop TV. The platform enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and assess innovative advertising experiences across multiple devices and media outlets. Innovid serves a diverse clientele, including advertisers, publishers, and media agencies, and operates in regions including the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, with the majority of its revenue generated in the U.S.

Thinkingdom Media Group

Venture Round in 2013
Thinkingdom Media Group Ltd. engages in the planning, publication, and distribution of books.

Chartboost

Series B in 2013
Founded in 2011, Chartboost is the largest mobile games based growth and ad monetization platform. Reaching over 800M unique users every month across more than 300,000 mobile games, Chartboost works with 90% of the top grossing iOS and Android game developers. Through Chartboost Exchange, Ad Network, and Influence, Chartboost empowers game developers to earn top eCPMs while connecting advertisers to highly engaged audiences. The Chartboost SDK is the highest integrated independent mobile ad SDK. Chartboost is a Sequoia-backed company and offices in San Francisco (HQ) and Amsterdam. For more information, please visit www.chartboost.com

Skai

Series E in 2012
Skai, formerly known as Kenshoo, is a global leader in agile marketing software, providing solutions that empower marketers to build brands and generate demand across various media channels. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for management and optimization, audience targeting, measurement, and forecasting, enabling clients to effectively navigate the complexities of digital advertising. Skai's platform is utilized by brands, agencies, and developers to manage nearly $350 billion in annual client sales revenue through search, social, mobile, and display advertising. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including automotive, education, financial services, and retail, and has established partnerships with major platforms such as Facebook and Google. With a presence in over 190 countries and numerous international offices, Skai caters to many prominent clients, including several Fortune 50 companies and leading global advertising agencies. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Skai continues to drive innovation in the marketing technology sector.

Pontis

Series D in 2012
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

Shuyun

Series A in 2012
Provider of cloud-based data services for marketing enterprises. The company offers channel marketing management services, marketing-type Customer Relationship Management SaaS software and other marketing operation services, enabling global consumer with digital operation solutions for brand retail enterprises and helps customers achieve global consumer growth.

Innovid

Series B in 2011
Innovid is an independent advertising and analytics platform designed specifically for television. It offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes ad serving, measurement, and creative optimization for TV advertisements across various environments, such as connected TV, mobile TV, and desktop TV. The platform enables advertisers to personalize, deliver, and assess innovative advertising experiences across multiple devices and media outlets. Innovid serves a diverse clientele, including advertisers, publishers, and media agencies, and operates in regions including the U.S., Canada, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, with the majority of its revenue generated in the U.S.

Ganji

Series C in 2011
Ganji.com is a prominent Chinese domestic classified website that facilitates the exchange of local information among users. Launched in 2005, it serves as a web portal where individuals can post and browse various listings, including real estate for rent or sale, job opportunities, second-hand goods, used cars, pets, tickets, and educational services. Targeting the local business market, Ganji.com aims to create a comprehensive online community platform that caters to the needs of both users and local merchants. As of mid-2011, the platform had approximately 890,000 daily active users and has expanded its reach to over 343 cities across China, with operational offices in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The company leverages intelligent technologies to enhance its recruitment services and provides features such as location-based advertising, corporate live broadcasts, and AI interview rooms, ensuring users have access to relevant local services and activities.

Taykey

Series B in 2011
Taykey is a technology company that provides real-time advertising solutions designed to help brands leverage trending topics to enhance their marketing efforts. By analyzing data from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies what is currently popular among specific audiences, enabling brands to respond timely and effectively. The platform automates the media buying process, allowing companies to seamlessly integrate trends-based insights into their broader marketing strategies, including social media content and audience analysis. Notable clients include American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen, who utilize Taykey's services to transform consumer sentiment and trending conversations into actionable advertising strategies.

Flite

Series C in 2011
Flite, Inc. is a creative management platform based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2006, Flite empowers advertisers by enabling them to design and deliver engaging advertising campaigns in real-time. The platform integrates web applications into online advertising units, facilitating the creation of interactive mobile, native, and rich media ads. It allows marketers to respond to performance metrics and current events by updating their ad creatives dynamically. Flite offers a range of advertising solutions, including a Programmatic Creative platform that merges data and creativity, a Design Studio for building content-driven ads, and tools for creating responsive ads across various devices. The company's innovative technology supports brands, agencies, and publishers in managing and optimizing their digital advertising efforts effectively. Flite operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. since late 2016.

eko

Seed Round in 2011
Eko is a media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold. The company provides a platform for the creation and delivery of interactive video entertainment and partners with media companies, independent creators, and top brands to create experiences for highly-engaged, digitally native audiences. The company's serialized shows are distributed through eko.com, affiliate partners, and social networks; available on desktop, mobile, connected devices, and VR. Eko Studio, which includes the company's authoring tools, is also home to a large and growing community of creators who are crafting their own interactive experiences with Eko's medium. Eko provides top-quality interactive entertainment and also offers unique opportunities for brands to connect with highly-engaged audiences. Eko investors include Walmart, Innovation Endeavors, Intel Capital, Marker, MGM, NEA, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and WPP. The company is based in New York with an office in Tel Aviv.

Skai

Series C in 2010
Skai, formerly known as Kenshoo, is a global leader in agile marketing software, providing solutions that empower marketers to build brands and generate demand across various media channels. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for management and optimization, audience targeting, measurement, and forecasting, enabling clients to effectively navigate the complexities of digital advertising. Skai's platform is utilized by brands, agencies, and developers to manage nearly $350 billion in annual client sales revenue through search, social, mobile, and display advertising. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including automotive, education, financial services, and retail, and has established partnerships with major platforms such as Facebook and Google. With a presence in over 190 countries and numerous international offices, Skai caters to many prominent clients, including several Fortune 50 companies and leading global advertising agencies. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Skai continues to drive innovation in the marketing technology sector.

Taykey

Series A in 2010
Taykey is a technology company that provides real-time advertising solutions designed to help brands leverage trending topics to enhance their marketing efforts. By analyzing data from numerous online sources, Taykey identifies what is currently popular among specific audiences, enabling brands to respond timely and effectively. The platform automates the media buying process, allowing companies to seamlessly integrate trends-based insights into their broader marketing strategies, including social media content and audience analysis. Notable clients include American Express, BestBuy, General Electric, Paramount, and Volkswagen, who utilize Taykey's services to transform consumer sentiment and trending conversations into actionable advertising strategies.

Kontera

Series C in 2009
Kontera Technologies specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has developed a content activation platform that analyzes over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time across 15,000 exclusive publishers and many of the most visited websites. This platform identifies current interest trends and activates brand content across Display, Mobile, and Social environments, allowing it to engage more than 170 million consumers each month. Prominent advertisers, including major automotive and consumer goods companies, utilize Kontera's services to create unique brand experiences. The company is supported by notable investors and maintains offices in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and London.

StrongView

Series D in 2009
StrongView, based in Redwood City, California, is a prominent provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions that focus on enhancing customer relationship marketing through contextual understanding. The company offers tools that allow brands to recognize and respond to the evolving circumstances of consumers at each stage of engagement, thereby delivering more relevant and timely interactions. Recognized for its innovative approach, StrongView aims to challenge traditional marketing methods by prioritizing customer context as a crucial element in creating value for both brands and consumers. It operates as part of Selligent, further solidifying its position in the marketing technology landscape.

ideacts innovations

Series B in 2009
ideacts innovations is an India-based web advertising platform. The company offers CLINCK, an active desktop application designed to create media platforms in the cyber cafe environment. Ideacts Innovations Pvt., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Skai

Series B in 2009
Skai, formerly known as Kenshoo, is a global leader in agile marketing software, providing solutions that empower marketers to build brands and generate demand across various media channels. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for management and optimization, audience targeting, measurement, and forecasting, enabling clients to effectively navigate the complexities of digital advertising. Skai's platform is utilized by brands, agencies, and developers to manage nearly $350 billion in annual client sales revenue through search, social, mobile, and display advertising. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including automotive, education, financial services, and retail, and has established partnerships with major platforms such as Facebook and Google. With a presence in over 190 countries and numerous international offices, Skai caters to many prominent clients, including several Fortune 50 companies and leading global advertising agencies. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Skai continues to drive innovation in the marketing technology sector.

Pontis

Series C in 2009
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

AdMob

Series C in 2008
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads. It provides solutions for discovery, branding, and monetization on the mobile Web. Its mobile advertising and monetization solutions include mobile sites; Mobile Analytics solution, which helps mobile site owners to gain insight into their traffic and site usage to make data-driven decisions about their mobile business; and Mobile Metrics Report, which offers insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem.

Amobee

Series C in 2008
Amobee, Inc. is a global marketing technology company that provides comprehensive advertising solutions for brands and agencies. The company specializes in a unified platform that integrates various advertising channels, including video, mobile, display, and television, allowing marketers to execute cross-channel, programmatic media campaigns effectively. Amobee's offerings include advanced audience targeting technology, real-time brand intelligence, and tools to measure campaign impacts on offline sales. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, Amobee enables clients to gain insights into consumer behavior and engagement. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Amobee operates internationally with over 550 employees across 21 offices. As a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Limited, the company continues to innovate in the marketing technology sector, providing solutions that address the evolving needs of digital advertising.

PopularMedia

Series C in 2008
PopularMedia, Inc. specializes in social media marketing services, offering tools designed to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Its key products include Influencer Ads, which fosters connections among consumers to create shared experiences around brands and content; SocialNotes, which enables instant social interactivity on any webpage; and Importer, a tool that allows users to import their existing web-based address books from various platforms. The company caters to advertisers, website marketers, and publishers, enhancing their marketing capabilities through innovative social media solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PopularMedia has formed a strategic partnership with Contagion and has been operating as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc. since June 30, 2009.

ideacts innovations

Venture Round in 2008
ideacts innovations is an India-based web advertising platform. The company offers CLINCK, an active desktop application designed to create media platforms in the cyber cafe environment. Ideacts Innovations Pvt., Ltd. was founded in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.
Bihu.com is a Beijing-based provider of in-game advertising, in-game value added services and instant messaging services.

Skyrider

Series C in 2008
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Flite

Series B in 2008
Flite, Inc. is a creative management platform based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2006, Flite empowers advertisers by enabling them to design and deliver engaging advertising campaigns in real-time. The platform integrates web applications into online advertising units, facilitating the creation of interactive mobile, native, and rich media ads. It allows marketers to respond to performance metrics and current events by updating their ad creatives dynamically. Flite offers a range of advertising solutions, including a Programmatic Creative platform that merges data and creativity, a Design Studio for building content-driven ads, and tools for creating responsive ads across various devices. The company's innovative technology supports brands, agencies, and publishers in managing and optimizing their digital advertising efforts effectively. Flite operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. since late 2016.

Skai

Series A in 2007
Skai, formerly known as Kenshoo, is a global leader in agile marketing software, providing solutions that empower marketers to build brands and generate demand across various media channels. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools for management and optimization, audience targeting, measurement, and forecasting, enabling clients to effectively navigate the complexities of digital advertising. Skai's platform is utilized by brands, agencies, and developers to manage nearly $350 billion in annual client sales revenue through search, social, mobile, and display advertising. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including automotive, education, financial services, and retail, and has established partnerships with major platforms such as Facebook and Google. With a presence in over 190 countries and numerous international offices, Skai caters to many prominent clients, including several Fortune 50 companies and leading global advertising agencies. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Skai continues to drive innovation in the marketing technology sector.

Osen

Series A in 2007
Osen Media is a professional railway media that focuses on channel media operations. Its primary focus is advertising, and it owns three magazines, Lvban, Baolin and Lvbao, which are targeted at high-speed railway passengers as well as airline passengers. On February 28, 2011, Osen Media was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

adBrite

Series C in 2007
adBrite is the largest independent advertising exchange. adBrite first started taking advertising for external sites in 2003, and raised $4 million in venture capital from Sequoia in 2004. In 2006, adBrite raised another $8 million from Sequoia and Artis Capital, the same pair that invested together in YouTube. In 2008, adBrite changed its business model and became an ad exchange. adBrite maximizes selection and control for advertisers and publishers by providing site-level transparency, display and video capabilities, and an open platform for data providers and real-time bidders. adBrite now reaches more than 160 million U.S. unique visitors each month.

Kontera

Series B in 2007
Kontera Technologies specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has developed a content activation platform that analyzes over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time across 15,000 exclusive publishers and many of the most visited websites. This platform identifies current interest trends and activates brand content across Display, Mobile, and Social environments, allowing it to engage more than 170 million consumers each month. Prominent advertisers, including major automotive and consumer goods companies, utilize Kontera's services to create unique brand experiences. The company is supported by notable investors and maintains offices in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and London.

Yueqing Easythink Media

Series A in 2007
Yueqing Easythink Media (乐清我乐网) is a local network focused on providing online media advertising solutions. Through integration of online and offline resources, it reasonably uses advertisement sites and eventually became the top-ranking media in Yueqing. Currently, the company is building a restroom advertising platform, and the website is also being maintained.

Flite

Series A in 2007
Flite, Inc. is a creative management platform based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and Chicago. Founded in 2006, Flite empowers advertisers by enabling them to design and deliver engaging advertising campaigns in real-time. The platform integrates web applications into online advertising units, facilitating the creation of interactive mobile, native, and rich media ads. It allows marketers to respond to performance metrics and current events by updating their ad creatives dynamically. Flite offers a range of advertising solutions, including a Programmatic Creative platform that merges data and creativity, a Design Studio for building content-driven ads, and tools for creating responsive ads across various devices. The company's innovative technology supports brands, agencies, and publishers in managing and optimizing their digital advertising efforts effectively. Flite operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. since late 2016.

CTS Media

Series B in 2007
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

StrongView

Series B in 2007
StrongView, based in Redwood City, California, is a prominent provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions that focus on enhancing customer relationship marketing through contextual understanding. The company offers tools that allow brands to recognize and respond to the evolving circumstances of consumers at each stage of engagement, thereby delivering more relevant and timely interactions. Recognized for its innovative approach, StrongView aims to challenge traditional marketing methods by prioritizing customer context as a crucial element in creating value for both brands and consumers. It operates as part of Selligent, further solidifying its position in the marketing technology landscape.

AdMob

Series B in 2007
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads. It provides solutions for discovery, branding, and monetization on the mobile Web. Its mobile advertising and monetization solutions include mobile sites; Mobile Analytics solution, which helps mobile site owners to gain insight into their traffic and site usage to make data-driven decisions about their mobile business; and Mobile Metrics Report, which offers insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem.

Pontis

Series B in 2007
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

PopularMedia

Series B in 2007
PopularMedia, Inc. specializes in social media marketing services, offering tools designed to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Its key products include Influencer Ads, which fosters connections among consumers to create shared experiences around brands and content; SocialNotes, which enables instant social interactivity on any webpage; and Importer, a tool that allows users to import their existing web-based address books from various platforms. The company caters to advertisers, website marketers, and publishers, enhancing their marketing capabilities through innovative social media solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PopularMedia has formed a strategic partnership with Contagion and has been operating as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc. since June 30, 2009.

Amobee

Series B in 2007
Amobee, Inc. is a global marketing technology company that provides comprehensive advertising solutions for brands and agencies. The company specializes in a unified platform that integrates various advertising channels, including video, mobile, display, and television, allowing marketers to execute cross-channel, programmatic media campaigns effectively. Amobee's offerings include advanced audience targeting technology, real-time brand intelligence, and tools to measure campaign impacts on offline sales. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, Amobee enables clients to gain insights into consumer behavior and engagement. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Amobee operates internationally with over 550 employees across 21 offices. As a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Limited, the company continues to innovate in the marketing technology sector, providing solutions that address the evolving needs of digital advertising.

Amobee

Series A in 2006
Amobee, Inc. is a global marketing technology company that provides comprehensive advertising solutions for brands and agencies. The company specializes in a unified platform that integrates various advertising channels, including video, mobile, display, and television, allowing marketers to execute cross-channel, programmatic media campaigns effectively. Amobee's offerings include advanced audience targeting technology, real-time brand intelligence, and tools to measure campaign impacts on offline sales. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, Amobee enables clients to gain insights into consumer behavior and engagement. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Amobee operates internationally with over 550 employees across 21 offices. As a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Limited, the company continues to innovate in the marketing technology sector, providing solutions that address the evolving needs of digital advertising.

Skyrider

Venture Round in 2006
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.

HdtMEDIA

Series B in 2006
HdtMEDIA is a Chinese digital advertisement network that offers technological marketing solutions to enhance online advertising efforts. The company has established partnerships with major online media in China, including leading portals and search engines, as well as over 90% of premium vertical sites. HdtMEDIA operates a comprehensive digital media advertisement platform, which includes innovative products like iCast and iFocus, designed to improve the effectiveness of digital and mobile advertising. Through its services, HdtMEDIA enables clients to reach their target audiences more effectively, ultimately helping them increase their profitability.

CTS Media

Series A in 2006
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

AdMob

Series A in 2006
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads. It provides solutions for discovery, branding, and monetization on the mobile Web. Its mobile advertising and monetization solutions include mobile sites; Mobile Analytics solution, which helps mobile site owners to gain insight into their traffic and site usage to make data-driven decisions about their mobile business; and Mobile Metrics Report, which offers insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem.

HdtMEDIA

Venture Round in 2006
HdtMEDIA is a Chinese digital advertisement network that offers technological marketing solutions to enhance online advertising efforts. The company has established partnerships with major online media in China, including leading portals and search engines, as well as over 90% of premium vertical sites. HdtMEDIA operates a comprehensive digital media advertisement platform, which includes innovative products like iCast and iFocus, designed to improve the effectiveness of digital and mobile advertising. Through its services, HdtMEDIA enables clients to reach their target audiences more effectively, ultimately helping them increase their profitability.

Waps.cn

Venture Round in 2006
WAPS is a Chinese mobile marketing service provider founded in 2005. The company specializes in mobile internet-based advertising and integrated marketing services aimed at mobile developers and advertisers. WAPS is focused on building an extensive intelligent mobile advertisement network and offers a comprehensive mobile internet marketing platform. Its services include advertising management and monitoring, as well as a WAP advertising affiliation and application for creating WAP sites. By facilitating effective marketing solutions, WAPS plays a crucial role in the mobile advertising landscape.

Celles

Venture Round in 2006
Celles New Media (北京盛思新媒广告有限公司) is an advertising platform and provider of media integrated marketing services for global advertising clients for placing advertisements on the wireless internet media. It provides wireless internet advertisement services for over a thousand clients including HP, Nokia, JNJ, Microsoft, and more. Celles New Media has professional wireless internet media resources and wireless advertisement operation experience accumulated throughout the years. It has established long-term corperate relationship with over ten thousand WAP sites like Sina, Souhu, Tecent, Kongzhong, 3g.cn, and more. Celles New Media was founded in 2005.

Kontera

Series A in 2006
Kontera Technologies specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has developed a content activation platform that analyzes over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time across 15,000 exclusive publishers and many of the most visited websites. This platform identifies current interest trends and activates brand content across Display, Mobile, and Social environments, allowing it to engage more than 170 million consumers each month. Prominent advertisers, including major automotive and consumer goods companies, utilize Kontera's services to create unique brand experiences. The company is supported by notable investors and maintains offices in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and London.

SintecMedia

Series C in 2006
SintecMedia Ltd. engages in the design and implementation of management systems for the broadcast, cable, and satellite industries. It offers OnAir, a broadcast management system, which manages airtime sales, traffic, programming, and promotion campaigns. The company also provides system configuration, data migration, training, integration, support and maintenance, and project management services. Its product is used in various networks in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Denver, Toronto, London, and Jerusalem. SintecMedia Ltd. is a former subsidiary of Sintec Advanced Technologies, Ltd.

adBrite

Series B in 2006
adBrite is the largest independent advertising exchange. adBrite first started taking advertising for external sites in 2003, and raised $4 million in venture capital from Sequoia in 2004. In 2006, adBrite raised another $8 million from Sequoia and Artis Capital, the same pair that invested together in YouTube. In 2008, adBrite changed its business model and became an ad exchange. adBrite maximizes selection and control for advertisers and publishers by providing site-level transparency, display and video capabilities, and an open platform for data providers and real-time bidders. adBrite now reaches more than 160 million U.S. unique visitors each month.

Waps.cn

Series A in 2006
WAPS is a Chinese mobile marketing service provider founded in 2005. The company specializes in mobile internet-based advertising and integrated marketing services aimed at mobile developers and advertisers. WAPS is focused on building an extensive intelligent mobile advertisement network and offers a comprehensive mobile internet marketing platform. Its services include advertising management and monitoring, as well as a WAP advertising affiliation and application for creating WAP sites. By facilitating effective marketing solutions, WAPS plays a crucial role in the mobile advertising landscape.

StrongView

Series B in 2006
StrongView, based in Redwood City, California, is a prominent provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions that focus on enhancing customer relationship marketing through contextual understanding. The company offers tools that allow brands to recognize and respond to the evolving circumstances of consumers at each stage of engagement, thereby delivering more relevant and timely interactions. Recognized for its innovative approach, StrongView aims to challenge traditional marketing methods by prioritizing customer context as a crucial element in creating value for both brands and consumers. It operates as part of Selligent, further solidifying its position in the marketing technology landscape.

CTS Media

Series A in 2006
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

Pontis

Series A in 2006
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.

PopularMedia

Series A in 2006
PopularMedia, Inc. specializes in social media marketing services, offering tools designed to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Its key products include Influencer Ads, which fosters connections among consumers to create shared experiences around brands and content; SocialNotes, which enables instant social interactivity on any webpage; and Importer, a tool that allows users to import their existing web-based address books from various platforms. The company caters to advertisers, website marketers, and publishers, enhancing their marketing capabilities through innovative social media solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PopularMedia has formed a strategic partnership with Contagion and has been operating as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc. since June 30, 2009.

Skyrider

Series B in 2005
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Kontera

Venture Round in 2005
Kontera Technologies specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has developed a content activation platform that analyzes over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time across 15,000 exclusive publishers and many of the most visited websites. This platform identifies current interest trends and activates brand content across Display, Mobile, and Social environments, allowing it to engage more than 170 million consumers each month. Prominent advertisers, including major automotive and consumer goods companies, utilize Kontera's services to create unique brand experiences. The company is supported by notable investors and maintains offices in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and London.
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