Progress Ventures
Venture capitalBoston · Seed–Late Stage · 6 people tracked
Investment thesis
Progress Ventures invests in the advertising, commerce, marketing, and media technology markets, building on two decades of transactional and M&A advisory experience from Progress Partners. It takes a hands-on, strategic approach, offering both commercial and financial guidance to help early-stage through growth-stage companies scale. The firm draws on an ecosystem of Executives-in-Residence and an expert network to help portfolio companies solve difficult problems, source talent, and navigate market dynamics. Its capital markets expertise supports portfolio companies with longer-term capital planning and evaluating financing options as they grow.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 6 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 24 of 29 portfolio companiesMarketing Tech ×15AdTech ×14AI & Machine Learning ×13SaaS ×10Data & Infrastructure ×7Enterprise Software ×5Media & Entertainment ×3Retail Tech ×3
HQs:United States×14
Who they back
founder profiles across 6 portfolio companiesAccelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 29 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 12023 · 12021 · 12014 · 15 dated
New York, US
Leighton Welch(Executive Officer, Director)Gary Vaynerchuk(Director)Jeffrey Nicholson(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatAdriaan Zur Muhlen· per SEC Form D · $19M raise · filed Feb 2023
Co-investorsBDMI
Adstra provides identity resolution and data licensing solutions that enable brands, agencies, and publishers to drive growth through clean customer data and targeted audience activation across marketing channels.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech
Co-investorsExtreme Venture PartnersExtreme Venture Partners LLPGreycroftMenlo VenturesTiger Global Management
Capture offers marketing and recruitment software for higher education institutions, including a marketing automation platform (ENGAGE), predictive modeling (APPLY), digital advertising, and behavioral email tools.
EdTechMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsVenture First
Deltatre provides products and services for sports, media, and entertainment organizations across streaming, digital platforms, data, graphics, and broadcast to build audience experiences and generate revenue.
Media & EntertainmentSaaSSports Tech
Co-investorsBain Capital Tech Opportunities
Dstillery provides an AI-powered audience targeting platform for programmatic digital advertising, using predictive modeling to build campaign audiences from a brief to activation.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechNew York, US
Michael BeebeinAndrew Pancer(Executive Officer)Michael DiPiano(Director)Alan Murray(Executive Officer, Director)David Bell(Director)Mark Siegel(Director)
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersEscalate Capital PartnersUS Venture PartnersVenrockNewSpring Capital
ID5 provides an identity infrastructure and universal identity standard for digital advertising, turning fragmented signals into an addressable and measurable framework across channels.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech
Co-investors360 Capital
San Francisco, US
STANISLAV TUSHINSKIY(Director)VICTOR FRUMKIN(Executive Officer)
BoardMICHAEL ILYICEV(Director)
Co-investorsCOREangelsHawke VenturesSmart Partnership CapitalAccompliceDecentral Park Capital
Integral Ad Science provides advertising verification and quality assurance solutions for digital advertisers and platforms.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechNew York, US
Lidiane Jones(Chief Executive Officer)Amit Chaturvedi(Chief Operating Officer)Srishti Gupta(Chief Product Officer)Thomas Joseph(Chief Technology Officer)Lisa Nadler(Chief Human Resources Officer)Yossi Almani(Chief Legal Officer)
Co-investorsAccompliceAugust CapitalCross Creek AdvisorsFounder CollectiveGolub GrowthLobby Capital+2 more
LISNR is an ultrasonic proximity platform that enables contactless commerce and customer engagement through presence detection, secure authentication, targeted promotions, and gamified loyalty experiences across retail, finance, mobility, and education sectors.
AdTechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechCincinnati, US
Rodney Williams(Founder & CEO)inChris Ridenour(Director)Monique Idlett(Director)Michael Venerable(Director)
BoardNick MacShane(Director)
Co-investors7BC Venture CapitalCincyTechCollectivCourtside VenturesJumpstart VenturesLeadX Capital Partners+11 more
Infillion MediaMath is a demand-side platform (DSP) with a composable, API-first architecture for running programmatic ad campaigns across video, display, audio, CTV, and digital out-of-home.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsBlue CollectiveQED InvestorsSJF VenturesHyde Park Angels
Narrative builds a data infrastructure platform that enables interoperability across systems and teams through a shared semantic layer, with built-in data quality validation and compliance.
AdTechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSector Agnostic
Co-investorsG20 VenturesGlasswing VenturesKohala VenturesEarl Grey Capital
Outside is a media company that operates a network of more than 20 brands in the active lifestyle and outdoor recreation space, offering gear reviews, expert advice, destination guides, adventure films, and original series.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentSports Tech
Co-investorsImagination CapitalNext VenturesCaruso Ventures
Pixability offers Pixability360, a platform for planning and measuring YouTube advertising and content across paid, organic, and creator strategies.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsBantam GroupBoston Harbor AngelsEdison PartnersLaunchpad Venture GroupPJCVCFA Group+1 more
Simpli.fi provides AI-optimized advertising solutions using location intelligence for marketers, enabling targeted audience activation and campaign measurement across programmatic and omnichannel channels.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersG20 Ventures
Skyword provides content marketing services and technology, combining an in-house team, a global network of creators, and its Accelerator360 platform that blends live data, automation, and generative AI to help brands produce and optimize content across channels.
Creator EconomyMarketing TechSaaSBoston, US
Co-investorsMultiplier Capital
Sovrn provides advertising and commerce software for publishers, helping them optimize and diversify their monetization channels.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSBoulder, US
Todd Siegler(Chief Operating Officer and Secretary)Matt Arkin(Chief Revenue Officer)Nolan Smith(Vice President, Finance)Walter Knapp(Chief Executive Officer)
BoardFred Harman(Director)Greg Martin(Director)
Co-investorsArcher Capital GroupArcher Venture CapitalFoundryOak Investment PartnersStructural CapitalBoulder Ventures
TalkShop.live is a live shopping platform where users watch live video streams and buy featured products directly during the broadcast, using its patented shoppable embedded point-of-sale technology.
E-commerceMedia & EntertainmentRetail Tech
Bryan Moore(Founder)inTina Moore(Founder)in
Co-investorsFlucas VenturesFourth RealmSpero Ventures
Teikametrics offers an AI-powered marketplace intelligence platform for brands selling on Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop, covering multi-marketplace campaign management, full-funnel advertising, generative-AI listing optimization, and analytics.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechBoston, US
Alasdair McLean-Foreman(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Srinivas Guddanti(Executive Officer)Michael McMahon(Director)John Traugott(Director)Austin Westerling(Director)
Co-investorsCentana Growth PartnersIntel CapitalGranite Point CapitalJump Capital
Tenovos offers an AI-enriched digital asset management and content intelligence platform that unifies content from multiple sources into a single visual layer for teams to find, govern, and activate assets.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Selim M. Hakimi(Executive Officer, Director)John Shackleton(Director)D. Scott Bowen(Executive Officer, Director)inAndrea Pulcini(Director)
BoardAdriaan D. Zur Muhlen(Director)
Co-investorsLevel EquityBDMIS4S Ventures
Tracer is an AI-based brand protection platform that monitors digital channels, removes infringing content, and maps brand abuse networks using patented graph technology and machine vision.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSMiddleburg, US
Peter Hayes(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsMultiplier CapitalOrigin VenturesBDMINewRoad Capital Partners, LLCS4S Ventures
Tracer is a data platform that ingests data from any source, builds a governed layer of reusable business logic and shared metric definitions, and surfaces real-time insights and AI-driven recommendations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Co-investorsA-Rod CorpRSE VenturesBDMINewRoad Capital Partners, LLCS4S Ventures
Tracer is a research lab building Echo, an inference system that coordinates open-weight models behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for chat, code, and agent workloads.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsY CombinatorBDMINewRoad Capital Partners, LLCS4S Ventures
tvScientific offers a connected TV (CTV) advertising platform with real-time reporting that integrates with Google Analytics to track traffic, conversions, and return on investment from CTV ad campaigns.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Jason Fairchild(Founder)inDavid Koye(Founder)in
Co-investorsNewRoad Capital Partners, LLCNorwest Venture PartnersSecond Alpha PartnersUnanimous CapitalAperiam VenturesS4S Ventures
Upland Software provides cloud-based enterprise software for business operations, including marketing and audience engagement tools such as sweepstakes and contest promotion platforms used by media and broadcast companies.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsActivant CapitalBantam GroupEniac VenturesRaptor GroupSaaS Capital
Veritonic offers an analytics platform for marketers that unifies creative testing, brand lift, and attribution to measure advertising performance across CTV, social, podcasting, and digital audio and video channels.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSKillingworth, US
Scott Simonelli(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Eisner(Executive Officer)
BoardDaniel Hanks(Director)inDaniel Borok(Director)Mark Wachen(Director)
Co-investorsForefront VentureSWaN & Legend Venture PartnersUpstage VenturesGreycroftLavrock VenturesLerer Hippeau+1 more
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Upland · investing.com · Aug 17, 2026
Tracer · ycombinator.com · Jul 31, 2026
Dstillery · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 23, 2026
Narrative · theamericanreporter.com · Jul 2, 2026
Adstra · housingwire.com · Jun 25, 2026
Teikametrics · startupfundraising.com · Jun 17, 2026
Tenovos · aws.amazon.com · Nov 12, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Progress Ventures made?
- Progress Ventures has 26 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Progress Ventures invest at?
- Progress Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Progress Ventures focus on?
- Progress Ventures focuses on AdTech, E-commerce, Marketing Tech, Media & Entertainment.
- Where is Progress Ventures located?
- Progress Ventures is headquartered in Boston, US.
- Who does Progress Ventures co-invest with?
- Progress Ventures most often shares deals with Bantam Group, Contour Venture Partners, G20 Ventures, among 71 tracked co-investors.
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