# Koah

> Koah is a San Francisco ad network for AI applications. Its SDK places labeled, context-matched ads around conversations and other content, helping publishers offset inference costs while giving advertisers a channel into moments of expressed intent.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Nic Baird (Co-founder and CEO), Herrick Fang (Co-founder), Mike Choi (Co-founder and CPO)
- **Products:** Publisher ad SDKs, Contextual ad network, Advertiser tools, Publisher reporting API
- **Notable:** Koah reported 175 million queries and 35 million native ad impressions in the year preceding February 2026., Koah reported more than 2 million monthly active users across its publisher ecosystem in February 2026., Liner case study reports a 122% CTR lift and 84% increase in monetized surface area after adopting Koah formats.

## Products & services

- **Publisher ad SDKs** — Web, iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter integrations for requesting, rendering and tracking native ad placements.
- **Contextual ad network** — Matches advertiser campaigns to conversational and other first-party content context, then serves native formats including inline, suffix, sponsored source and interactive units.
- **Advertiser tools** — Campaign management, targeting, generated creative, conversion pixel and server-side Conversions API, and performance reporting.
- **Publisher reporting API** — Programmatic management of publisher properties and daily performance reports.

## Achievements

- Koah reported 175 million queries and 35 million native ad impressions in the year preceding February 2026.
- Koah reported more than 2 million monthly active users across its publisher ecosystem in February 2026.
- Liner case study reports a 122% CTR lift and 84% increase in monetized surface area after adopting Koah formats.
- Luzia case study reports 2x eCPM and 1.5x CTR versus its legacy digital ad providers.
- Bitly case study reports an 8% session-to-signup conversion rate.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Introduced 21+ audience targeting, a public status page and multi-advertiser conversion tracking.
- **2026-08** — Launched server-side Conversions API V1 and upgraded ad copy serving for sub-second responses.
- **2026-07** — Added viewability-gated impressions and reliability improvements across five SDKs.
- **2026-02** — Raised a $20.5 million Series A led by Theory Ventures.

## Links

- Website: https://www.koahlabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/koahlabs
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/koahlabs
- GitHub: https://github.com/koahlabs

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Last updated: 2026-09-29