# Konrad Feldman

> Konrad Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Quantcast, the San Francisco audience-intelligence company he started with Paul Sutter in 2006. A London-born computer scientist with a UCL PhD in neural networks, he was building machine-learning systems for banks two decades before AI became a marketing department buzzword. Today he is making the case that advertising, done with better data and smarter models, is what keeps the open internet open.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Quantcast
- **Organizations:** Quantcast, Searchspace (former), University College London (alumnus)
- **From:** London, United Kingdom
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** BSc, Computer Science, University College London (UCL), PhD, Machine Learning / Neural Networks, University College London (UCL)
- **Known for:** Built one of the earliest commercial machine-learning companies (Searchspace) before ML was a venture category., Co-founded Quantcast and grew it past 800 employees across 20 offices in 11 countries., Pioneered the use of large-scale machine learning for digital audience measurement.

## Career timeline

- **1972** — Born in London.
- **early 1980s** — Gets a Commodore VIC-20 while attending school in Saffron Walden.
- **1990s** — Studies Computer Science at UCL, then PhD research in neural networks.
- **1993** — Co-founds Searchspace with UCL colleagues.
- **1999** — Becomes Searchspace CEO; relocates to New York to scale US operations.
- **2006** — Searchspace acquired by Warburg Pincus. Co-founds Quantcast with Paul Sutter, moves to San Francisco.
- **2007** — Raises $5M Series A in April, then $20M later in the year.
- **2009** — Launches Quantcast Advertise, the company's first commercial product.
- **2021** — Unveils Ara, Quantcast's AI engine, and cookieless innovations on the Quantcast Platform.
- **2024** — Raises $65M in debt financing; continues pushing AI audience graph globally.

## Achievements

- Built one of the earliest commercial machine-learning companies (Searchspace) before ML was a venture category.
- Co-founded Quantcast and grew it past 800 employees across 20 offices in 11 countries.
- Pioneered the use of large-scale machine learning for digital audience measurement.
- Created Quantcast Measure, a free audience-measurement product used by publishers across the open web.
- Shipped Ara, Quantcast's AI engine for cookieless audience targeting.

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Quantcast closed $65M in debt financing.
- **2024** — Continued public advocacy for cookieless, AI-driven audience targeting.

## Links

- Website: https://quantcast.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/konrad-feldman-555132
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/quantcast
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8rG04FPMQ
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/quantcast/

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