# Beeswax (Acquired by Comcast)

> Beeswax is a New York advertising technology company founded in 2014 whose Bidder-as-a-Service lets brands, agencies and media companies customize programmatic buying without building the auction infrastructure themselves. Acquired by Comcast’s FreeWheel in 2021, its legacy offerings now sit within FreeWheel’s Buyer Cloud and DSP portfolio.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ari Paparo (Co-founder and founding CEO), Shamim Samadi (Co-founder and founding Chief Product Officer), Ram Kumar Rengaswamy (Co-founder and founding CTO)
- **Products:** Bidder-as-a-Service, Beeswax DSP, Antenna, Custom Data Augmenter and Bidding Agent
- **Notable:** Acquired by Comcast’s FreeWheel in 2021 after a December 2020 announcement., Acquired MediaGamma’s assets and added three data-science team members in April 2020., Raised approximately US$28 million according to FreeWheel’s acquisition announcement.

## Products & services

- **Bidder-as-a-Service** — Managed real-time bidding infrastructure with buyer-controlled logic, APIs and individual bidder instances; subsequently named FreeWheel Buyer Cloud.
- **Beeswax DSP** — Programmatic buying interface with reporting, workflow tools and custom optimization, subsequently named FreeWheel DSP.
- **Antenna** — Log-level data capabilities for analysis and optimization of programmatic buying.
- **Custom Data Augmenter and Bidding Agent** — Tools to enrich bidding decisions with proprietary data and bring-your-own algorithms.

## Achievements

- Acquired by Comcast’s FreeWheel in 2021 after a December 2020 announcement.
- Acquired MediaGamma’s assets and added three data-science team members in April 2020.
- Raised approximately US$28 million according to FreeWheel’s acquisition announcement.
- Operative integration case-study page reports a 50% reduction in trafficking errors.
- A customer testimonial from Bruno Vannod reports average savings of 10% on media buys; not a universal performance claim.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Parent FreeWheel introduced third-party inventory scoring for CTV Premium Signals Packaging with Adelaide, Magid and Mediaprobe. This is a parent-platform update, not a standalone Beeswax launch.

## Links

- Website: https://www.beeswax.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beeswaxio
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/beeswaxio
- GitHub: https://github.com/BeeswaxIO
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beeswaxio/

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Last updated: 2026-10-03