StarDust
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Stardust is an advertising platform for mobile app and game marketers, running automated user-acquisition campaigns on iOS and Android with support for MMPs such as AppsFlyer, Adjust, Tenjin, and Singular. It offers managed campaigns optimized for goals including installs, purchases, ROAS, retention, and ad views.
Also known as Stardust
Founders & leadership
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Stardust (stardust.gg) offers an automated advertising platform for mobile app and game marketers. Advertisers connect their app, define a target KPI, and the company's automated engine handles targeting, optimization and scaling of user-acquisition campaigns across iOS and Android. Supported optimization goals include installs, purchases, ROAS, retention, ad views, and custom in-app actions, with reporting tied to mobile measurement partners AppsFlyer, Adjust, Tenjin and Singular.
The product is positioned as fully managed: campaigns run automatically while a dedicated account manager oversees performance and strategy. The company states campaigns can go live within 48 hours of onboarding and creative handoff, and that customers grow from thousands to millions of installs. The site also references documentation for a separate Stardust Wallets-as-a-Service offering that lets developers create player profiles and custodial wallets and sign and submit blockchain transactions on behalf of users, with SDK and REST API access and support for EVM, IMX, Sui and Solana chains.
Business model
Stardust sells managed user-acquisition campaigns to app and game publishers. The company states there are no platform or setup fees, with advertisers instead paying per install. A minimum ad spend of $500 USD per day applies, and the onboarding form segments prospects by monthly ad spend bands ranging from under $10,000 to $500,000 and above.
Performance-based pricing: no platform or setup fees, charging on a pay-per-install basis, subject to a $500 per day minimum ad spend.
Latest developments
The company is running an invite-only beta of its AI advertising platform, offering selected apps and games up to $20,000 in managed and funded campaign credits ahead of general availability.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market
Market position
Stardust presents itself as an automated alternative to manually managed mobile user-acquisition, combining an always-on optimization engine with a dedicated account manager. The site states the platform is used by mobile games, without naming them publicly.
Technology
An automated optimization engine that runs campaigns continuously without manual adjustment, optimizing toward advertiser-defined KPIs such as CPI, ROAS and purchases, and integrating with the AppsFlyer, Adjust, Tenjin and Singular mobile measurement platforms across iOS and Android. Stardust also documents a Wallets-as-a-Service product that creates custodial wallets and player profiles, signs transactions and submits them to blockchains via a TypeScript SDK or REST API, with support for EVM, IMX, Sui and Solana; applications are managed through a dashboard with per-application API keys and team-based access.
Go-to-market
Access is currently gated through an invite-only beta. Prospective advertisers apply through a request-invite form on the company site specifying platform, monthly ad spend, optimization goal and MMP. During the beta Stardust selects apps and games to test the platform and manages and funds campaigns up to a qualifying credit amount, advertised as up to $20,000 in credits, at no cost to the advertiser.
Mobile app and game publishers and performance marketers running user-acquisition on iOS and Android, from advertisers spending under $10,000 per month up to those spending $500,000 or more per month. The Wallets-as-a-Service documentation targets game and application developers building blockchain-connected experiences for mainstream users.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
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Competitors · 3
by search overlapCompanies competing with StarDust for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsStardust opened applications for an invite-only beta in which it selects apps and games to test the platform, managing and funding campaigns up to a qualifying credit amount of up to $20,000 at no cost to the advertiser.
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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- StarDuststardust.gg · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does StarDust do?
- Stardust is an AI-driven mobile user-acquisition platform that runs automated iOS and Android app install campaigns.
- Who founded StarDust?
- StarDust was founded by Marcus F..
- Who are StarDust's investors?
- StarDust's investors include Backed, Blockchain Capital, Delta Blockchain, Lattice Capital, Mantis Capital, Maven 11, Polymorphic Capital, Triblock.