AdTech Startups

Unreal Labs builds AI agents that generate, test, and optimize advertising creatives automatically, treating creative production and paid growth as an engineering problem. The company targets large advertisers and is currently working with a limited set of beta partners.

3 investors

Uplane is an AI-powered platform for performance marketing that automates the generation of personalized ads and landing pages, campaign launches, and budget allocation across channels. The platform serves marketing teams seeking to improve campaign results while reducing time, effort, and ad spend.

3 investors

Upscale offers an AI platform that generates TV commercials and performance creative for brands advertising on connected TV (CTV) and streaming channels, handling creative production, media buying, and measurement. It targets ecommerce brands across verticals such as furniture, baby, apparel, supplements, pets, and footwear.

3 investors

Verve is an advertising technology company that connects advertisers with publishers across emerging channels such as connected TV and mobile apps, offering AI-driven and contextual targeting tools for privacy-compliant ad campaigns. It serves brands, agencies, and publishers with digital media and retail media solutions to optimize ad inventory.

3 investors

A company that builds interactive video experience (iVX) solutions designed to engage audiences and deliver measurable results for brands and agencies.

3 investors

Virool runs a programmatic video distribution platform for brand marketers, using a proprietary data management platform of unique user profiles to build addressable audience segments and distribute native video content across multiple sites and screens. It provides analytics with viewability guarantees, emotional resonance measurement, and fraud protection.

3 investors

Zenus builds AI-based facial analysis technology used at events across 20+ countries, with an emphasis on privacy-by-design and ethical use. The company provides analytics products for event organizers and related clients.

3 investors

Zitcha builds a retail media platform for retailers operating retail media networks (RMNs), connecting onsite, offsite, and in-store advertising channels into one system for planning, activation, billing, and reporting. Its AI recommendation engine ties ad spend to product margin, inventory, and sell-through data so retailers, brands, and agencies can measure incremental sales and category profit.

3 investors

Zoomph provides an AI-powered analytics platform for sports properties, leagues, brands, and agencies to track, measure, and optimize content performance across social media, broadcast, and in-venue activations, with a focus on sponsorship ROI measurement.

3 investors

GENIEE provides marketing software and advertising platforms including DSP, SSP, retail media, marketing automation, and CDP solutions for businesses to execute digital marketing campaigns.

3 investors

Logly is a Japanese adtech company whose main business is the native advertising platform "LOGLY lift," which integrates ads into a media site's design without harming the user experience. It also offers "Ultec," an account-intelligence tool that uses intent data and AI to help B2B companies turn website visits into leads and sales opportunities.

3 investors

Candee is a creative production agency and wholly owned subsidiary of Shogakukan that handles video production, live streaming, event production, and fan-business services, offering end-to-end planning, filming, and editing. It also develops new advertising products and ventures, including a crowdsourcing platform connecting manga artists with assistants.

3 investors

FLUX is a Japanese company that helps businesses advance digital transformation by combining domain professionals with AI and other technologies. It positions itself as a partner for enterprises aiming to improve productivity in the Japanese economy.

3 investors

Intimate Merger operates IM-DMP, a large-scale data management platform holding around 1 billion audience data records, offering platform provisioning, data analysis, and data-utilization consulting to client companies. It supports digital transformation and data-driven marketing efforts in Japan.

3 investors

All Ads is a Japanese marketing company that specializes in LTV (Lifetime Value) marketing services. The company operates in the digital marketing sector serving businesses seeking to optimize customer lifetime value strategies.

3 investors

Bridge is a Japanese web marketing agency offering SEO and LLMO (large language model optimization) consulting, content marketing, and multi-platform ad operations (Google, Yahoo!, Facebook) for clients ranging from startups to large enterprises. It serves industries including SaaS, D2C, finance, real estate, recruitment, and B2B services.

2 investors

42matters provides app and SDK intelligence datasets and analysis tools for cybersecurity teams to detect malware, verify publishers, and monitor mobile and connected TV applications for security risks and compliance violations.

2 investors

Merkle Loyalty Solutions (formerly 500friends) provides customer loyalty and retention marketing services, including strategy consulting, program management, analytics, and a SaaS loyalty platform, aimed at CMOs and enterprise marketers. It operates as part of Merkle, a data-driven performance marketing agency.

2 investors

8x operates a creator network for brands, having creators post marketing content from their own personal accounts in their own voice rather than from branded pages. It positions this authentic, creator-led posting as its core model for driving audience engagement and algorithmic reach.

2 investors

A Parent Media Company (APMC) provides streaming and monetization solutions for brands and content creators. The company operates Kidoodle.TV, a safe streaming service designed for children and families.

2 investors

ABCS Insights provides advertising measurement and audience targeting using deterministic purchase data from receipts and credit, debit, and ACH transactions across North American retailers. It serves advertisers, media teams, and agencies with full-funnel campaign measurement covering brand, consideration, and sales outcomes across channels including social, CTV, DOOH, linear TV, and in-store.

2 investors

Abyssale is a creative automation platform that helps marketing and design teams produce, resize, adapt, and scale visual marketing assets, reducing repetitive design work. It serves marketers, designers, developers, and agencies collaborating on creative production.

2 investors

A platform that auto-generates narrated audio versions of written stories and articles, with options to distribute to podcasting platforms and integrate advertising. It enables publishers to create branded voice narrations, track listener engagement, and monetize audio content through subscriptions and ads.

2 investors

Boltive provides an independent governance engine that evaluates autonomous agents, creatives, and inventory in advertising transactions to ensure compliance with defined business, security, and quality rules. It enables publishers, platforms, agencies, and brands to govern agentic advertising workflows at machine speed without replacing the autonomous systems themselves.

2 investors