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Clear Channel Outdoor still rents rectangles beside roads and inside airports. But the more revealing business is the machinery behind them - audience data, automated buying and proof that a physical ad did something.
Reprompt
Reprompt builds AI agents for location data. Mapping companies like Foursquare, TomTom, and Radar use its agents to keep points-of-interest and business records current - verifying hours, status, ownership, and dozens of other attributes by cross-referencing web, social, government, and news sources. Founded in 2024 by ex-Mapbox and ex-Robinhood operators, the company turns work that once took weeks of manual research into runs that finish in under an hour.
VOYGR
VOYGR is a place-intelligence API that validates whether real-world businesses are actually operating and enriches their records with fresh web context - news, articles, hours, prices and events. Built by ex-Google Maps, Apple and Meta engineers, it is designed to give AI apps and agents map data they can trust, going beyond the 10-15 static attributes offered by traditional mapping APIs.
Adsquare
Adsquare is a Berlin-based location intelligence company that turns real-world movement and behaviour into audience data marketers can use to plan, target, optimize and measure advertising campaigns. Founded in 2012, its mobile-first data exchange connects location, app-usage, demographic and offline signals to leading DSPs, SSPs and CDPs, powering geocontextual, proximity and audience targeting across mobile, online and digital out-of-home (DOOH). The platform is built privacy-first around consent-based signals and serves thousands of advertisers and dozens of platform partners across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Synup
Synup is a local marketing and digital presence platform that helps agencies and multi-location businesses manage listings, reviews, and social media from one place. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, the company started as a way to keep business location data accurate across hundreds of directories, then expanded into reputation management, local SEO, and AI-driven review responses. In 2025 it launched Synup OS (Agency OS), an operating system that adds CRM, sales pipeline, invoicing, and client-lifecycle tools so agencies can run their whole business - not just their clients' local presence - in a single platform.
Foursquare
Foursquare is a geospatial technology company that turns the physical world into structured, privacy-minded location data. Once known for the check-in app that helped popularize mobile location sharing, the company reinvented itself as an independent location-intelligence platform. Its products - Places, Movement SDK, Studio, and the Graph - supply a database of 120+ million points of interest and movement signals that power maps, marketing, analytics, and app features for companies including Apple, Uber, Snapchat, and Spotify.
Tom Laband
Tom Laband is the co-founder and CEO of Adsquare, a Berlin-born location-intelligence company he started in 2012 with Sebastian Doerfel and Fritz Richter. Adsquare runs a neutral data exchange that turns consented location signals into audience data for programmatic advertising, and Laband has spent more than a decade arguing that location is a durable, privacy-compliant alternative to the crumbling world of online identifiers. A University of Mannheim graduate who cut his teeth in early European mobile advertising at YOC and Sevenval, he now splits his attention between the company's Berlin engineering base and its commercial push in New York.
Onlife
Onlife is a spatial-AI company that turns where people go into what they might do next. It began as the parent company behind Aglet, a location-based 'sneakerverse' game that had players walking real streets to collect virtual sneakers, then used the resulting movement data to build a Spatial Behavioral Engine and a consumer 'Smart Map' that fuses calendars, to-do lists and location into a self-organizing daily planner. Founded by former adidas trends director Ryan David Mullins, Onlife straddles the line between a playful consumer app and a serious geospatial-intelligence platform.
Locala
Locala is a French-founded omnichannel advertising platform that helps global brands plan, buy, and measure multi-location marketing campaigns. Using location data, consumer-mobility signals, and machine learning, it connects online ad spend to real-world outcomes like store visits and foot traffic. Formerly known as S4M (Success for Mobile), the company rebranded to Locala in 2022 and works with brands including L'Oreal, Volkswagen/Audi, Subway, McDonald's, Nespresso, and L'Occitane.
Gary Little
Gary Little is President and CEO of Foursquare, the world's leading independent location technology platform. A rare operator-investor hybrid, he spent six years running internet monetization at Yahoo, then pivoted into investment banking at Credit Suisse, Lazard, and UBS before co-founding Buckthorn Partners and rising to Managing Director at The Raine Group. At Raine he led the $150M Foursquare investment and negotiated the company's transformative acquisitions of Placed and Factual - then stepped into the CEO seat himself in January 2021. Under his leadership, Foursquare has evolved from a nostalgic social check-in app into the dominant infrastructure layer for location intelligence, covering 190 countries, indexing over 200 million points of interest, and powering the geospatial stacks of enterprises across retail, advertising, real estate, and urban planning.