21 SaaS Startups in the Advertising Industry

January 24, 2023

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SaaS startups have become the darling of Venture Capital investors, especially in the Advertising industry. Over the past decade, software has proverbially “eaten the world” and SaaS companies have scaled to become unicorn corporations in staggering amounts of time.

In this article, we are examining 21 VC funded SaaS startups in the Advertising industry.

Adventr

Users of Adventr have access to a platform for creating, sharing, and analyzing interactive, viewer-driven video content. Its own SaaS network with drag and drop functionality serves as the company's main offering and makes it easier to produce and distribute interactive video. With the capacity to alter the activities of the video or interact with characters in real time, Adventr's viewers are more engaged across all metrics. Ad networks, publishers, and other distribution channels are available for its video content.

Company details:
Founders:
DeVon Harris, Ryan Aviles
Founded:
2015
Based in:
New York, New York, United States
Website:
Adventr
Industries:
Ad Network, Advertising, Analytics, Content, Digital Media, Internet, Publishing, SaaS, TV, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$5,000,000
Seed
20 December 2021
Total funding:
$6,014,288
Investors
Alumni Ventures, Quake Capital Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Reinventure Capital, John Legend

Alyce

Alyce is an AI-powered platform that may be used to open doors or to keep fostering genuine sales connections. The platform's scalable, sustainable, hyper-personalized approach to account-based marketing is changing direct mail, swag, and gifts. It handles ordering, shipping, and reporting for 1-10,000 gifts and leverages personal social data to help you choose the ideal present to give. It is also completely free. In comparison to conventional methods, Alyce establishes genuine, personal connections that result in up to a 2x increase in named account penetration and a 5x increase in pipeline. Giving gifts in a B2B setting is now easy, efficient, and quantifiable. Alyce, a privately held business with its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, was established in December 2015.

Company details:
Founders:
Greg Segall
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Website:
Alyce
Industries:
Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$30,000,000
Series B
8 April 2021
Total funding:
$46,800,000
Investors
Alumni Ventures, General Catalyst, Founder Collective, Mendoza Ventures, Golden Ventures

AppTweak

The top ASO tool is AppTweak, which is supported by data science. With actionable data presented in a user-friendly interface, AppTweak enables more than 1,500 mobile leaders, including Adobe, Jam City, Yelp, Amazon, and Jam City, to expand their applications and games. ASO Intelligence, Ad Intelligence, App Intelligence, and Market Intelligence are all available on AppTweak's one platform.

Company details:
Founders:
Olivier Verdin, Sebastien Dellis
Founded:
2014
Based in:
Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Website:
AppTweak
Industries:
App Marketing, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Apps, SaaS
Latest funding:
$22,000,000
Series B
1 April 2021
Total funding:
$22,500,000
Investors
GoBeyond, Groupe Rossel, Be Angels

Aryel

Aryel is a SaaS marketing platform that enables businesses and creative agencies to quickly and simply develop engaging augmented reality (AR) marketing campaigns, share them through a straightforward custom URL, track objectives and conversions, and integrate the campaign with the most popular marketing tools.

Company details:
Founders:
Leonardo Persico, Luca Petri, Mattia Salvi
Founded:
2020
Based in:
Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Website:
Aryel
Industries:
Advertising, Augmented Reality, Marketing, SaaS
Latest funding:
$828,904
Seed
1 September 2021
Total funding:
$828,905
Investors
Prana Ventures

Bluecore

Retail marketing is triggered, prioritized, and personalized using predictive intelligence by Bluecore, a multi-channel marketing platform. Bluecore creates a thorough portrait of each customer and their previous, and most distinctively, predicted interaction with brand products and experiences through the unification, scoring, and activation of consumer, behavior, and product data in one platform. Today, Bluecore maintains a total product inventory that is second only to Amazon, with close to 500 million consumer IDs.

Company details:
Founders:
Fayez Mohamood, Mahmoud Arram, Max Bennett
Founded:
2013
Based in:
New York, New York, United States
Website:
Bluecore
Industries:
Advertising, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Marketing Automation, SaaS
Latest funding:
$125,000,000
Series E
5 August 2021
Total funding:
$238,219,452
Investors
Techstars, Gaingels, Norwest Venture Partners, FirstMark, Felicis Ventures

Choozle

In order to support programmatic advertising campaigns across display, video, mobile, audio, linked TV, digital out-of-home, and other media, Choozle - Digital Advertising Made Easy® - offers a digital advertising software platform with a single, user-friendly interface. Choozle is a platform that combines the sophistication of several sophisticated digital advertising technologies, a demand-side platform, a platform for managing data, and a platform for managing smart tags. Choozle's easy, beautiful, and cost-effective solution, created for advertising agencies and marketing departments, has democratized the ad tech sector.

Company details:
Founders:
Andrew Fischer, Jeffrey Finch
Founded:
2012
Based in:
Denver, Colorado, United States
Website:
Choozle
Industries:
Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Digital Media, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$15,000,000
Series C
12 May 2021
Total funding:
$29,127,499
Investors
Boathouse Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Gemini Group

Clarisights

By building a platform that provides performance marketing and growth teams the insights and superpowers they've always desired, Clarisights was formed to enable them. Marketers can use Clarisights to independently explore and analyze all of their data in a single, user-friendly interface, saving them from having to deal with antiquated spreadsheets and BI systems that can't keep up with their rising amount of marketing channels and data. Clarisights is used by marketing teams all over the world for every step of their real-time, collaborative performance marketing process, including connecting with data channels, building and improving dashboards, and working with coworkers. With the help of the data ingestion and analytics platform Clarisights, marketers can understand the data coming in from many sources and get novel insights from it. Users just add the sources (analytics, advertising data) they wish to track, and our backend ingests the data from those sources, does the required transformations, and saves it in our own database. This creates a smooth in-browser experience for our platform. None of this requires the user to set up any data pipelines. Within minutes of signing up, users can start creating interactive infographics to answer questions about their marketing data. Marketers may create visualizations using Clarisights to respond to queries like "What are my main sources of traffic and what are the biggest expense sinkholes?" and then rapidly dive down into detailed information like "Which ad creatives are producing the greatest RoI?" or "What sort of ad text has the least customer acquisition cost?"

Company details:
Founders:
Ankur Gupta, Arun Srinivasan
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Palo Alto, California, United States
Website:
Clarisights
Industries:
Advertising, Business Intelligence, SaaS
Latest funding:
$14,000,000
Series A
4 October 2021
Total funding:
$16,300,000
Investors
Techstars, The Family, Better Capital, Sequoia Capital India, GTMfund

Cloud Campaign

The simplest approach for agencies to handle several brands on social media at once is using Cloud Campaign. The software is ideal for marketing companies who are serious about outcomes because to its simple scheduling, in-depth analytics, 1-click client reports, team workspaces, and many other features. The business is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was established in 2017.

Company details:
Founders:
Ross Gray, Ryan Born
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Industries:
Advertising, B2B, Marketing, SaaS, Social Media Marketing, Software
Latest funding:
$5,000,000
Series A
21 May 2021
Total funding:
$6,695,000
Investors
Oregon Venture Fund, Boomtown Accelerators, Right Side Capital Management, Service Provider Capital, Active Capital

CreatorIQ

The most dependable software, CreatorIQ, unifies and drives sophisticated influencer marketing for the most creative businesses in the world. Our intelligence cloud allows workflow optimization, brand safety, and meaningful measurement while enabling data science-enabled creator discovery. Among the companies who use CreatorIQ's technology to improve their influencer marketing networks are ABInbev, Airbnb, Calvin Klein, CVS, Disney, H&M, Sephora, and Unilever.

Company details:
Founders:
Igor Vaks
Founded:
2014
Based in:
Culver City, California, United States
Website:
CreatorIQ
Industries:
Advertising Platforms, Brand Marketing, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Social Media Marketing
Latest funding:
$40,000,000
Series D
14 September 2021
Total funding:
$80,800,000
Investors
Unilever Ventures, Kayne Partners, Cobalt Capital, TVC Capital, Silver Lake Waterman

Funnel

The purpose of Funnel is to eliminate manual data collecting. All marketing and advertising platforms can be integrated with Funnel, allowing you to supply your data wherever you need it. integrations with 400+ data sources out of the box. You will have the choice to input your data into any tool using Funnel. Automatically stream data into Google Sheets, Google Data Studio, Google Analytics, your data warehouse, business intelligence software, and any other visualization software. E-commerce enterprises, media agencies, brands, b2b organizations, mobile app developers, and gaming businesses are all served by Funnel. It was formed in 2014 by Per Made and Fredrik Skantze. offices in Boston and Stockholm (HQ).

Company details:
Founders:
Fredrik Skantze, Per Made
Founded:
2014
Based in:
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Website:
Funnel
Industries:
Advertising, Analytics, Big Data, Marketing, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$65,842,197
Series C
12 October 2021
Total funding:
$133,842,198
Investors
F-Prime Capital, Industrifonden, Kreos Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Stena Sessan

Influ2

The first person-based marketing platform, Influ2, invented an innovative method of account-based marketing. The technology gives B2B marketers the ability to pinpoint specific decision-makers, discern their intentions, and monitor interaction on an individual basis. The company serves more than 75 large and medium-sized businesses throughout the world, including Fortune 500 B2B companies like NVIDIA, Capgemini, and Episerver. With more than 50 workers on staff, Influ2 has offices in NY and CA. Every user's engagement is tracked by Influ2. Having access to this data enables B2B marketers to create campaigns that are more intelligent and compelling and generate 4–7 times more leads. Users of the Influ2 platform may create an audience, post customized messages and images, and keep track of all interactions at both the account and individual levels. Prior to submitting a lead form, leads are identified using the behavioral scoring model. Marketers can view every individual who has interacted with their campaign by name, company, and other relevant information thanks to Influ2's person tracker. The solution works with several CRM and marketing automation systems, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Creatio, Outreach, and ActiveCampaign.

Company details:
Founders:
Dmitri Lisitski, Vladimir Mikhalko
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Website:
Influ2
Industries:
Advertising, B2B, Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Enterprise Software, Lead Generation, Marketing, Marketing Automation, SaaS, Social Media Advertising
Latest funding:
$8,000,000
Series A
26 October 2021
Total funding:
$11,400,000
Investors
VentureFriends, Rally Ventures, One Way Ventures, AVentures Capital, Murat Abdrakhmanov

inSTREAMLY

Brands and streamers may connect through the automated streamer management tool called inSTREAMLY. Micro-sponsorships enable streamers to subtly monetize their programming while providing businesses with a novel method to engage Generation Z. Streamcoi is an esports organization, MCN, agency, and tournament organizer-focused SaaS branch.

Company details:
Founders:
Damian Konopka, Maciej Sawicki, Szymon Kubiak, Wiktoria Wójcik
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Website:
inSTREAMLY
Industries:
Advertising, eSports, Gaming, SaaS, Software, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$1,318,312
Seed
14 April 2021
Total funding:
$1,553,852
Investors
Colopl Next, PKO BP, Supernode Global, PKO VC, SMOK Ventures

Intellimize

Utilizing machine learning, Intellimize automatically optimizes websites to increase income and client acquisition. By tailoring websites to give the best experience to each user on any device, it helps advertisers increase conversions and revenue. They use machine learning to automate this. Compared to conventional A/B testing or rules-based personalization, leading firms depend on Intellimize to generate more income quicker and with less effort. Additionally, the business instantly customizes desktop and mobile webpages for each individual visitor. San Mateo, California serves as the company's headquarters. Intellimize was established in 2016.

Company details:
Founders:
Brian Webb, Guy Yalif, Jin Lim
Founded:
2016
Based in:
San Mateo, California, United States
Website:
Intellimize
Industries:
Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Machine Learning, SaaS
Latest funding:
$30,000,000
Series B
8 July 2021
Total funding:
$52,000,000
Investors
Precursor Ventures, Operator Partners, Pear VC, Amplify Partners, Addition

Knak

Some of the biggest businesses in the world utilize the email & landing page generation tool Knak. Without touching a word of code, Knak enables people and teams to collaborate on and generate stunning, responsive, on-brand emails. Top marketing automation programs including Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Pardot, Adobe Campaign, as well as hundreds of email sending platforms, are compatible with the Knak platform.

Company details:
Founders:
Brendan Farnand, Patrick Proulx, Pierce Ujjainwalla
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Website:
Knak
Industries:
Advertising, Email, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$25,000,000
Series A
10 November 2021
Total funding:
$25,000,000
Investors
Insight Partners, Invest Ottawa

Paloma

Paloma powers e-com on messaging channels, giving brands 2–10X higher conversion rates compared to their websites. This full-suite commerce SaaS platform rapidly generates the most efficient shopping experiences – all while collecting millions of customer data points, seamlessly feeding insights back to brands.

Company details:
Founders:
Kelsey Hunter, Zachary Podbela
Founded:
2017
Based in:
New York, New York, United States
Website:
Paloma
Industries:
Advertising, Computer, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, Retail Technology, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$4,000,000
Seed
2 June 2021
Total funding:
$5,000,000
Investors
Alumni Ventures, The Fund, The Artemis Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Laconia

PPC Bee

PPC Bee is the application designed to manage on-line marketing PPC product campaigns. Would you like to earn bigger profits and get a higher return on your PPC budget? PPC Bee automatically optimizes your campaigns to get the maximum clicks for the least spend, increasing your ROI. PPC Bee automatically generates highly targeted campaigns. Want to increase sales 20%? With PPC it's easy, thanks to advanced settings and precision targeting. You can increase sales even higher with extra optimization of your own. PPC Bee gets people clicking through to your site like crazy. Product information is changed dynamically and updated automatically with PPC Bee. PPC Bee is an original Czech company providing services in the field of tools for on-line marketing. Our clients include major e-shops as well as cataloging servers. PPC Bee functions will satisfy even the most demanding users! Complete functionality is available for one month for free! Further information on www.ppcbee.com

Company details:
Founders:
Ondrej Bartas, Pavel Vachek
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
Website:
PPC Bee
Industries:
Advertising, E-Commerce, SaaS
Latest funding:
$1,354,476
Seed
21 December 2021
Total funding:
$1,354,477
Investors
Reflex Capital

Product Lead

ProductLead helps you sell more online, by leveraging user generated content and activating influencers. If your brand gets stuck online, ProductLead helps you gather content and activate influencers, in order to sell more through social. By using social galleries and influencer campaigns, we help ecommerce sites boost their sales and engagement.

Company details:
Founders:
Mihai Bocai
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Constanta, Constanta, Romania
Website:
Product Lead
Industries:
Advertising, E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Software
Latest funding:
$724,775
Seed
26 April 2021
Total funding:
$724,776
Investors
InnovX, Eleven Ventures, Sparking Capital, Founders Bridge

StreetMetrics

Digital advertising would not be purchased from you if analytics and useful performance information were not provided. We believe that MOOH advertisements should follow the same rule. We created a set of measuring and attribution tools especially for the MOOH sector because of this. For MOOH marketers, StreetMetrics serves as a link between the offline and online worlds. Our digital measurement and attribution technologies give advertisers the ability to organize, monitor, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their MOOH advertising efforts.

Company details:
Founders:
Drew Jackson
Founded:
2016
Based in:
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Industries:
Advertising, Mobile, Ride Sharing, SaaS, Software, Transportation
Latest funding:
$2,265,000
Seed
2 June 2021
Total funding:
$3,265,000
Investors
Techstars

Tagger Media

Tagger is a powerful, intuitive, end-to-end influencer marketing and creator listening engine revolutionizing the industry. With direct relationships with all major social media platforms, as well as exclusive access to billions of valuable data points, Tagger provides users with invaluable discovery capabilities, research and analytics, and customizable reports. The platform allows brands, agencies, and media companies to plan campaigns, measure popularity using social listening, discover and activate influencers, and report what matters most. 2-Time WINNER of “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” at the 2021 & 2019 Influencer Marketing Awards, WINNER of “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” at the 2020 Digiday Technology Awards, named “Best Influencer Marketing Company” at the MarTech Breakthrough Awards in both 2019 & 2020, Tagger’s SaaS solution provides an up-leveled and streamlined influencer marketing experience, empowering users to maximize their ROI with ease.

Company details:
Founders:
Jim Sellers, Peter Kennedy
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Santa Monica, California, United States
Website:
Tagger Media
Industries:
Advertising, Analytics, Marketing, SaaS, Social CRM, Social Media
Latest funding:
$15,000,000
Series B
30 November 2021
Total funding:
$23,500,000
Investors
Blue Horizon Corporation, Five Elms Capital

Vendasta

Our main goal at Vendasta is to democratize technology for small and medium-sized enterprises in order to stimulate local economies (SMBs). We achieve this by giving our channel partners, who are local specialists from all over the world, a strong platform. Partners promote, sell, bill, fulfill, and provide digital solutions to their SMB clients using Vendasta's platform. Our end-to-end platform and marketplace offer a single sign-on to SMBs' digital goods and analytics through a tight integration with an operating system. More than 60,000 channel partners use Vendasta, and these partners in turn deal with more than 5.5 million SMBs globally. At www.vendasta.com, register for free and learn more about Vendasta.

Company details:
Founders:
Allan Wolinski, Brendan King, Ches Hagen, Guy Kelsey, Jeff Tomlin
Founded:
2008
Based in:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Website:
Vendasta
Industries:
Advertising, B2B, Digital Marketing, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms, Project Management, SaaS, Small and Medium Businesses, Task Management
Latest funding:
$98,994,399
Series D
27 May 2021
Total funding:
$146,180,056
Investors
BDC Venture Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada, Vanedge Capital, Canadian Business Growth Fund, Lugard Road Capital

WASK INC

A digital marketing tool is called Wask. All online marketers have access to managing and reporting their Ad accounts, which are integrated with Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn Ads.

Company details:
Founders:
Ercan Pilcioğlu, İrem Çakır
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Website:
WASK INC
Industries:
Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Consulting, Digital Marketing, Facebook, Google, Mobile Advertising, SaaS
Latest funding:
$500,000
Seed
17 August 2021
Total funding:
$675,000
Investors
APY Ventures, Logo Ventures, TechOne VC, Tarvenn Ventures

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