Anoki
San Carlos, US Β· Founded 2023 Β· Delaware corporation Β· 61 employees on LinkedIn Β· 2 known investors
Anoki builds ContextIQ, a multimodal AI platform for Connected TV (CTV) that analyzes video at the scene level to enable brand-suitable, contextually relevant ad placements. It serves advertisers, agencies, and CTV/FAST platforms in the contextual advertising space.
Also known as Anoki AI
Founders & leadership
Anoki was founded in 2023 by Raghu Kodige.
Board
Investors Β· 2
Reported raises Β· per SEC filings
Form D private placements$7M disclosed across 1 round Β· 2023
βΆ$7MraisedNov 2023 Β· 22 investors Β· Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Raghu KodigeExecutive Officer, Director
- Ullas NaikDirector
- Ashish BalduaExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $8.5M
- Amount sold
- $7M
- First sale
- Nov 2023
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2023
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Anoki is a connected TV (CTV) technology company that applies multimodal artificial intelligence to video content in order to understand it at the scene level. Its flagship product, ContextIQ, is positioned as an end-to-end multimodal AI platform and "Copilot" for contextual video intelligence, used to plan and activate CTV ad placements that match the scene and sentiment of surrounding content, and to assess brand safety and suitability β including for live news programming.
Beyond contextual targeting, Anoki offers In-Scene Ads, CreativeAI for generating and testing CTV ad creative variants and adaptations, and LiveTVx. It also builds an AI-enhanced FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) application that runs natively on Google TV, featuring a dynamic program guide and other AI-driven discovery features, and has announced plans to bring a streamlined FAST solution for OEMs to the Ventura TV operating system. Anoki Labs extends the same video-understanding stack to searching media archives for specific scenes and automatically detecting emerging events at scale.
The company publishes technical material on its approach, including work on ContextIQ as a multimodal video understanding and retrieval system for contextual advertising and on benchmarking with validation datasets and performance metrics.
Business model
Anoki licenses its AI video-understanding software to the CTV advertising ecosystem, embedding ContextIQ into supply-side platforms, streaming publishers, FAST channel operators and agency workflows to enable contextual ad targeting, brand suitability screening and AI-generated ad creative. It also supplies a FAST application and OEM-facing streaming solution for TV platforms.
Traction
Publicly cited traction includes integrations and partnerships with Magnite, Index marketplaces, Amagi, Spectrum Reach, Allen Media Group and Future Today, and agency deployment by CMI Media Group across DTC and HCP pharmaceutical campaigns. A CMI Media Group CTV campaign using scene-level targeting reported a 28% awareness uplift, 26% favorability uplift and 16% consideration uplift, with awareness uplift among female respondents cited at 3.5x above benchmark. ContextIQ was named AI Marketing Copilot of the Year in the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards.
Latest developments
Recent activity includes the ContextIQ integration into Magnite's CTV stack, a launch with Index marketplaces for scene-level contextual targeting, a partnership with Amagi for in-content CTV ads on FAST channels, work with Spectrum Reach on real-time transparency in streaming TV, an Allen Media Group partnership for real-time brand suitability in live news and streaming, announced plans to bring a FAST solution for OEMs to the Ventura TV operating system, the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Award for ContextIQ, and recognition of co-founder Susmita Ghose in the 100 Women in AI Awards.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Anoki describes ContextIQ as CTV's first end-to-end multimodal AI platform and Copilot for scene-level contextual video intelligence, and partners characterize it as a class-leading contextual advertising capability. Its positioning contrasts scene-level contextual targeting with traditional show- or genre-level CTV targeting, and emphasizes privacy-compatible contextual signals.
Technology
The core technology is multimodal AI for video understanding: analyzing content scene by scene across modalities to identify themes, emotional and thematic context and sentiment, then retrieving and matching relevant scenes for ad placement. Published work covers ContextIQ as a multimodal video understanding and retrieval system for contextual advertising and its benchmarking against validation datasets. Generative AI is used to produce and test CTV ad creative variants, and the same stack supports scene search across media archives and automated detection of emerging events.
Go-to-market
Anoki goes to market largely through integrations and partnerships with platforms that already sit in the CTV supply chain β Magnite's CTV stack, Index marketplaces, Amagi for FAST channel monetization, Spectrum Reach, Allen Media Group and Future Today β plus direct agency adoption such as CMI Media Group. It supports this with case studies, campaign lift results, industry primers and educational content on multimodal AI for CTV.
Advertisers and media agencies buying CTV inventory (including pharmaceutical DTC and healthcare-professional campaigns), supply-side platforms and ad marketplaces, streaming and FAST channel publishers, broadcasters running live news, and TV OEMs and operating-system platforms.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Competitors Β· 7
by search overlap
Companies competing with Anoki for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline Β· 9
launches, deals, and filingsAnoki co-founder Susmita Ghose was recognized in the 100 Women in AI Awards.
Anoki's ContextIQ platform was named AI Marketing Copilot of the Year in the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards.
Allen Media Group partnered with Anoki to enable real-time brand suitability for live news and streaming.
Amagi partnered with Anoki to apply ContextIQ scene-level contextual advertising to FAST channel monetization.
Anoki launched with Index marketplaces to power scene-level contextual targeting across CTV inventory.
CMI Media Group became the first agency to implement ContextIQ across both direct-to-consumer and healthcare-professional pharmaceutical campaigns.
Magnite integrated the Anoki ContextIQ platform and AI Copilot, embedding AI-powered scene analysis into its CTV stack to enable scene-level targeting.
Spectrum Reach and Anoki partnered to improve real-time transparency in streaming TV.
Anoki announced plans to bring a streamlined FAST solution for OEMs to the Ventura TV operating system.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities Β· 1
corporate structureIn the news
βΈResearch sources Β· 1
primary sources listed
- Anokianoki.ai Β· web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Anoki do?
- Anoki applies multimodal AI to connected TV, powering scene-level contextual ad targeting, brand suitability and content discovery.
- Who founded Anoki?
- Anoki was founded by Raghu Kodige in 2023.
- Who are Anoki's investors?
- Anoki's investors include Protagonist, Streamlined Ventures.
- How much funding has Anoki raised?
- Anoki has disclosed $7M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Anoki headquartered?
- Anoki is headquartered in San Carlos, US.