It began with clickable video, survived the messy birth of connected TV, and learned that the best business in advertising may be the part viewers never notice. Now, inside Mediaocean, Innovid is betting that neutral infrastructure plus AI can outmaneuver the walled gardens.

Sinisa (Siggi) Rakovich is the founder and CEO of Hunch, a creative performance platform used by paid social teams at global brands and agencies to automate ad creative, media buying, and cross-channel insights across Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat. Split between New York and Belgrade, Hunch was co-founded in 2018 by Rakovich with Igor Simovic and Nikola Milenkovic, a team that had worked together for more than 15 years. Before Hunch, Rakovich founded Building Explorer, a real-estate platform acquired by PBF in 2010. Hunch raised a €4M round led by Catalyst Romania in 2022 and works with more than 100 global brands.