Gil Beyda leads early-stage investment group Genacast Ventures, a part of Comcast Interactive Capital. Genacast Ventures invested in demand-side platform Invite Media prior to being acquired by Google as announced earlier this month. Beyda spoke to AdExchanger.com about the deal as well as momentum in the space. AdExchanger.com: Were you surprised that Invite Media sold […]
– Well, that’s what the Spark Capital website is indicating here as Triggit is now listed. The Boston-based venture fund is invested in other ad tech companies including AdMeld (publisher side platform) and Adap.tv (online video ad marketplace) and is apparently looking to round out the demand-side part of its portfolio. Triggit CEO Zach Coelius […]
Entrepreneur and writer of the Cogblog, Brent Halliburton, has created a new type of ecosystem map showing the interconnected web of funding for ad tech companies and organizes it by broad, functional groups. Halliburton tells AdExchanger.com that he used historical data from angel investor Jerry Neumann, AdExchanger.com and TechCrunch’s Crunchbase to show “every investor that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Choose Your Own Video Ad Adventure Get ready for “Ad Selector” – a new video ad format being championed by VivaKi that puts the power of which ad to play in an online video, into the the hands of the viewer. According to Ad […]
Satya Patel is a Partner at Battery Ventures, a venture capital and private equity investment firm. AdExchanger.com: Battery Ventures has been around since the ’80s as a venture and private equity firm. Looking at a high level, can you take us through some of the strategy pivots the firm has made in regards to digital […]
The research arm of DeSilva & Phillips recently published a paper called “Ad Exchanges, RTB and the Future of Online Advertising” about the fast-moving, digital advertising ecoystem. You can download it here. Jay C. MacDonald, Partner, DeSilva + Phillips, discussed the research paper and today’s M&A environment. AdExchanger.com: For DeSilva & Phillips, what were the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! And Right Media On RTB Given all the hubbub created by the articles in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and included AppNexus, Google and others, Yahoo! has responded with its real-time bidding thoughts via VP/GM Bill Wise who writes, […]
Matt Nichols is a Principal at Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm. AdExchanger.com: Highland Capital Partners has a rich history of venture investment in the ad tech space. What sets it apart from other VC firms in the space? MN: Highland has been a long-time investor in the ad tech space from the early […]
Chris Fralic is Managing Partner of First Round Capital, an early-stage investment company. AdExchanger.com: It seems like First Round is everywhere – ok, maybe not everywhere, but you all are invested in quite a few companies at an early stage. What’s the method to the madness? CF: Yes we are busy, and we do think […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pewing The Internet Pew Internet has released its latest findings from a survey conducted last month on “Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics.” Though it didn’t find many trends as most results were flat compared to the previous study, there is a cornucopia of […]
Dom Vidal is a partner at Index Ventures, which backs – among others – OpenX, Criteo and Adconion, an ad network. AdExchanger.com: What sets Index Ventures apart from other venture firms? DV: At Index, we invest in technology and life science companies from early through to the growth stage of their development. We’re global in […]
Jeff Crowe is Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners. AdExchanger.com: With investments in Brand.net and Turn, obviously Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) appears bullish on the digital media buying space. What drove NVP to invest in each of these companies? JC: Overall, we have been bullish on the digital advertising space for several years and continue […]
Jeremy Liew is Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm, and frequently writes on the LSVP blog. AdExchanger.com: In your April 6 LSVP blog post, you say there will be more ad networks not less. Why? JL: There are four elements that you need to be able to run a successful […]
ContextWeb, makers of the contextual online ad exchange, ADSDAQ, announced today a Series D round of financing. Their fourth round was led by an investment from Investor Growth Capital and additional funding came from all current investors: DFJ (Draper, Fisher and Jurvetson), DFJ Gotham Ventures, Updata Partners, DFJ New England, plus Gold Hill Capital. With […]
