A hockey player from the Iron Range raised $350,000 from hometown investors and built a digital signage company that ran 25,000 screens. Twenty years later, a Vista Equity Partners firm bought it.
AlphaOTT is a Miami-based IPTV and OTT technology company that gives telcos, ISPs, cable operators and businesses the software to launch their own branded streaming service. Its carrier-grade suite - the CORE middleware, FRONT apps for 16-plus platforms, a CDN, transcoder and anti-fraud security layer - lets an operator run live TV, video-on-demand, billing and subscriber management end to end. The platform has been deployed in more than 40 countries and serves over two million subscribers.
Grocery TV is an in-store retail media platform that helps grocery retailers build, run and monetize digital screen networks at the front end and throughout the store. Operating the largest in-store retail media network for grocery in the U.S., it powers screens across 6,500+ stores through 120+ retailer partners, reaching roughly 1 in 4 Americans (95M+ shoppers weekly). Brands buy campaigns that run at the point of purchase, retailers earn incremental revenue, and Grocery TV supplies the hardware, content management system and measurement tying ad exposure to sales lift.