Advertising Startups

Popular Pays is an influencer marketing and creator management platform that connects brands with creators for campaign development and execution. The company serves brands seeking to collaborate with content creators aligned with their values.

10 investors

Permutive develops a privacy-first advertising platform that enables publishers to collect and activate first-party data and allows advertisers to access audiences through direct publisher relationships, replacing third-party cookie reliance. The platform serves publishers and media buyers globally with data management, audience enrichment, and programmatic activation capabilities.

6 investors

1stCollab is an influencer marketing platform that connects creators with brand partnership opportunities. The platform handles campaign matching, contract management, and payment processing for creators and agencies seeking sponsorship deals.

5 investors

Jupiter is a monetization platform for food content creators that facilitates brand partnerships with CPG companies, integrates with ad networks, and enables commerce through Instacart. The platform serves content creators of all sizes in the food and cooking niche.

5 investors

Lapis is an AI-powered platform that automates the creation, launch, and optimization of paid advertising campaigns across channels including ChatGPT, Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit. It serves growth teams by generating on-brand ad creative, landing pages, and performance-driven campaign variations while learning from results to improve campaigns over time.

4 investors

Taiv operates a smart TV platform for bars, restaurants, gyms, and retail venues across North America that delivers targeted ads and custom content on in-venue screens using AI. The platform serves venue owners, advertisers, and customers by automating content delivery and ad serving across thousands of locations.

4 investors

Absurd is a platform that generates AI-produced videos for brand and performance advertising, enabling companies to produce professional-quality content within days rather than traditional timelines.

3 investors

Boostable provides advertising tools that enable sellers and brands to promote listings on marketplaces while collecting performance data. The platform serves marketplace operators seeking to increase seller engagement and retention.

3 investors

Heyzap operates a mobile advertising network that connects app developers with users through SDK integration on Android and iOS, offering monetization, app discovery, mediation, and cross-promotion services.

3 investors

Rubbrband is a video production agency that creates advertisements for emerging brands, leveraging Hollywood-level production expertise.

3 investors

Virool is a video advertising platform that connects video marketers with publishers to monetize online content through video advertising.

3 investors

Buoyant Aero provides fully electric, self-flying aerial advertising platforms (blimps) as a service for brands and events. The company handles all aspects from envelope design and custom graphics to flight operations and audience engagement, targeting marketing teams and event organizers.

2 investors

InstaAgent creates and distributes personalized advertising campaigns across Meta, TikTok, and niche social platforms, enabling brands to test and scale audience-specific creative variants based on persona and performance data.

2 investors

Kular develops AI-powered sales tools for business owners. The company is founded by scientists from leading research institutions and focuses on delivering intuitive sales solutions.

2 investors

Plai is an AI-powered advertising platform that simplifies campaign creation and management for brands, agencies, and creators. The company uses text-to-ad AI models to automate ad production across multiple channels, replacing complex manual processes.

2 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.

2 investors

AdGrok provided software that automated keyword selection and bidding management for Google AdWords campaigns, targeting business owners managing paid search advertising.

1 investor

Automate Ads builds software for managing and optimizing digital advertising campaigns across multiple channels.

1 investor

Beluga provides tools for measuring and executing creator marketing campaigns with automation similar to paid advertising platforms. The company serves brands and marketers in the creator economy.

1 investor

Bluma is a platform for creating short-form video content optimized for social media formats like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. It serves creators, agencies, and performance marketing teams seeking to produce ads, UGC-style videos, and social-ready content at scale with fewer tools and faster iteration.

1 investor

CoinTent offers a micropayment system allowing readers to buy individual digital content from publishers while enabling those publishers to capture revenue from per-article purchases.

1 investor

Commissary Club operates a digital platform and community for people with criminal records, providing access to employment, housing, and legal resources alongside social connections, with AI agents that handle applications and referrals on behalf of members.

1 investor

Credictive provides metadata tagging systems that attribute ownership and source information to digital content.

1 investor

CustomerOS is a B2B marketing platform powered by AI agents that identifies target prospects, analyzes pipeline data, and optimizes marketing spend to drive revenue. It serves strategic marketers seeking pipeline visibility and data-driven campaign optimization.

1 investor