# Confiant Inc

> Confiant is a New York ad security company that helps publishers and advertising platforms detect and block malicious or disruptive creatives as they are delivered. Its platform combines client-side and server-side monitoring, quality controls, ad tracing, threat intelligence and automatic reauctioning of blocked slots.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Louis-David Mangin (Co-founder and CEO), Jerome Dangu (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Real-time ad security and creative verification, Ad quality and brand/category controls, Confiant for DSPs, Malvertising Attack Matrix, MAQ Index
- **Notable:** Launched real-time verification and blocking in 2017, according to its company history., Raised a $4.1 million Series A in May 2019., Its 2026 MAQ Index analyzed more than 1 trillion 2025 impressions across 13 platforms.

## Products & services

- **Real-time ad security and creative verification** — Detects and blocks malvertising, redirects and other unsafe ads at delivery across publisher and platform integrations.
- **Ad quality and brand/category controls** — Custom rules for unwanted creatives, categories and brands; beta controls were announced in 2020.
- **Confiant for DSPs** — Creative search, policy controls, scan logs and downstream publisher-block feedback for demand-side platforms.
- **Malvertising Attack Matrix** — Public map of techniques and threat actors that use advertising as an attack vector.
- **MAQ Index** — Recurring benchmark of malvertising, ad quality and risk drawn from Confiant-monitored inventory.

## Achievements

- Launched real-time verification and blocking in 2017, according to its company history.
- Raised a $4.1 million Series A in May 2019.
- Its 2026 MAQ Index analyzed more than 1 trillion 2025 impressions across 13 platforms.
- Its site reports 40,000+ protected premium sites and 80+ mapped malvertising techniques.
- Built In named Confiant a 2024 Top 50 Best Places to Work in the remote startup category.

## Latest updates

- **2026** — Published the 2026 MAQ Index, based on more than 1 trillion monitored impressions in 2025; it reports one dangerous or highly disruptive impression in every 133.
- **2026-02** — Published an investigation of D-Shortiez infrastructure and 59 million malicious impressions tracked in 2025.
- **2025-10** — Announced a partnership with AdPushup combining revenue optimization and ad quality controls.

## Links

- Website: https://www.confiant.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weareconfiant/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/weareconfiant
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weareconfiant

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Last updated: 2026-09-29