Tagged: martech
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First Data Company
First Data Company is a Dubai-based marketing technology firm that turns anonymized transaction data into precise advertising audiences. Its machine-learning models aggregate purchase signals from retailers, mobile operators and online cash registers to predict what a customer is likely to buy next, then place relevant ads across Google, Facebook and programmatic inventory. Positioned for a cookieless world under the tagline "We know your customer," the company blends brand-building ("brandformance") with performance marketing and CRM personalization to lift sales for its clients.
Tejas Manohar
Tejas Manohar is the cofounder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the San Francisco company that helped create the Composable CDP category by bringing customer data platform capabilities directly onto the data warehouse. He moved to San Francisco at 16 to become one of Segment's first ten engineers, then left in 2018 to start Hightouch with Kashish Gupta and Josh Curl. Under his leadership Hightouch has crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue and raised a $150M Series D in April 2026 at a $2.75B valuation, pivoting the company toward AI Decisioning and agentic marketing.
Brian Stempeck
Brian Stempeck is the CEO and co-founder of Evertune AI, a New York startup that helps brands measure and improve how they show up inside AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. He spent 11 years on the executive team of The Trade Desk as employee number eight, serving as Chief Client Officer and later Chief Strategy Officer and a board member, and helped grow the company from a tiny team to a public company worth tens of billions. Before adtech he was a management consultant at Bain & Company and, earlier still, a political journalist. He founded Evertune in 2024 with former Trade Desk colleagues to build the category he calls Generative Engine Optimization.
CMP.LY
CMP.LY is a New York-based social media technology company founded in 2009 to solve a then-new problem: how brands, agencies and influencers disclose material connections in compliance with FTC, FINRA, SEC and FDA rules. Its patented system of short disclosure URLs, codes and icons let marketers signal endorsements, paid posts and reviews inside a tweet or Facebook post while linking to full, audit-ready disclosures. In 2013-2014 the company expanded into monitoring, measurement and insights and rebranded its platform as CommandPost, serving Fortune 100 financial services, automotive and consumer brands.
Camphouse
Camphouse is a Stockholm-based enterprise software company that runs an intelligent media operations platform for advertisers and agencies. Formerly known as Mediatool, it centralizes media planning, budget allocation, campaign activation and reporting into a single system of record, layering an AI Co-Pilot on top so data-driven marketers can turn scattered spreadsheets and media plans into structured, end-to-end media intelligence. Its customers include global brands and agency networks such as L'Oreal, Heineken, Dentsu and Jellyfish.
Duel Tech
Duel is a London-founded B2B SaaS company that runs a Brand Advocacy Platform, helping consumer retail brands recruit, activate and scale tens of thousands of customers, creators, fans, employees and ambassadors into a measurable word-of-mouth growth channel. Founded in 2017 by adventurer-turned-entrepreneur Paul Archer and games developer Naio Tsarouchis, and certified as a B Corp, Duel powers advocacy programs for brands including Charlotte Tilbury, Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch and Pandora, and raised a $16M Series A in September 2025.
Evertune AI
Evertune AI is a New York-based analytics and generative engine optimization (GEO) platform that measures and improves how brands appear inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Founded in 2024 by veterans of The Trade Desk, it runs hundreds of thousands to over a million prompts per customer to score brand visibility, benchmark against competitors, and generate AI-optimized content. The company raised a $15M Series A in August 2025, led by Felicis Ventures.
Evocalize
Evocalize is a Seattle-based marketing technology company that builds a collaborative, AI-powered platform enabling local businesses - especially real estate agents and mortgage loan officers - to launch and optimize sophisticated digital advertising campaigns across Google, Meta, TikTok, YouTube and direct mail with push-button templates. Its software is typically embedded within the tools of enterprise partners such as Realtor.com, Rate and MoxiWorks, and it operates a patented Digital Co-Marketing Network that lets agents and lenders run compliant, cost-shared campaigns together.
Hunch
Hunch is a creative performance platform that unifies creative, media, and insights so paid-social teams can build, launch, and learn faster across Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok. Founded in Belgrade in 2018, it automates dynamic product ads, catalog product video, and hyper-local campaigns at scale, using AI to turn performance data into better creative. Its customers are mid-market and growth-stage e-commerce, retail, travel, and betting brands that want the automation power of enterprise tools like Smartly without the enterprise overhead.
Influ2
Influ2 is a New York-based B2B advertising platform that pioneered contact-level, or person-based, advertising - the ability to serve ads to specific named decision-makers inside target accounts rather than anonymous account-level audiences. Founded in 2017 by Dmitri Lisitski and Volodymyr Mikhalko, the company ties every ad impression, click, and site visit back to an individual, then feeds those signals to sales teams so they know exactly who is engaging and what to say. Influ2 has raised roughly $17 million, counts customers like Capgemini, AppsFlyer, Chargebee, and Amplitude, and has expanded from advertising into buying-group intelligence with products such as Signals Center and Audienscope.
Movable Ink
Movable Ink is a New York-based marketing technology company that uses AI to turn customer data into personalized visual content across email, mobile, and web at the moment each person engages. Founded in 2010, its platform - anchored by Studio, the Da Vinci decisioning engine, and a newer Programmatic CRM - helps enterprise brands automate one-to-one personalization at scale. The company reached unicorn status in 2021 and serves hundreds of large consumer, retail, financial services, and media brands worldwide.
Narrative I/O
Narrative I/O is a New York-based data infrastructure company that makes incompatible data work together. Its platform automatically normalizes disparate datasets, resolves identity, and lets companies securely buy, sell, enrich, and activate data - increasingly delivered natively inside a customer's own Snowflake environment so no data has to move. Founded in 2016 by Nick Jordan and led since 2023 by CEO Tim Mahlman, Narrative serves marketers, data scientists, and enterprises including Nielsen, TransUnion, Experian, and Fanatics.
Proxima
Proxima is a New York-based predictive data intelligence platform that helps consumer and DTC brands find high-value customers and scale paid media efficiently. It turns billions of anonymized ecommerce transactions from a proprietary network of tens of millions of shoppers into AI-powered audiences, conversion attribution, creative guidance, and industry benchmarks across Meta, TikTok, and Google. Founded in 2022 by Alex Song, the company raised a $12M Series A in April 2024 led by Mucker Capital.
Share One
Share One is a Round Rock, Texas company that turns customers into storytellers by producing verified video testimonials. Founded in 2020 by Dan Lievens, it pairs professional human interviewers and editors with a tracking platform to capture, verify, and distribute authentic customer stories, positioning genuine human narratives as a trust signal in a market flooded with AI-generated content.
Stensul
Stensul is a New York-based enterprise software company whose Governed Creation platform lets marketing teams build, review, and launch on-brand, compliant emails and landing pages in hours instead of days. Combining no-code building, real-time collaboration, and brand and compliance guardrails, Stensul plugs into existing ESPs and marketing automation platforms - Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, Adobe Campaign, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud - and is used by large enterprises including BMW, Capital One, Samsung, Box, and Greenhouse.
The Brandtech Group
The Brandtech Group is a marketing technology holding company built to help the world's largest brands do their marketing better, faster and cheaper using technology - and, increasingly, generative AI. Founded by former Havas CEO David Jones in 2015 as 'You & Mr Jones,' it has grown through a string of acquisitions into a digital-only group of roughly 7,000 people across 40+ countries, spanning in-housing agency Oliver, performance-media group Jellyfish, and its flagship generative-AI ad platform Pencil Pro. Clients include eight of the world's ten largest advertisers, and after a $115M Series C in 2024 the group was valued at about $4 billion.
Vendelux
Vendelux is a New York-based, AI-native event intelligence platform that turns in-person B2B events into a measurable, pipeline-generating channel. It tracks a proprietary database of 250,000+ conferences and trade shows, matches a company's ideal customers and target accounts against real attendee data, books qualified meetings before the show, and attributes resulting pipeline back to specific events inside Salesforce or HubSpot. Founded in 2021 by Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, Vendelux serves GTM teams at companies like Ramp, Coupa, Contentful and T-Mobile, and has raised roughly $71M across seed, Series A and a 2026 Series B.
Dmitri Lisitski
Dmitri Lisitski is the co-founder and CEO of Influ2, a New York-based B2B advertising platform that pioneered 'person-based marketing' - reaching named decision-makers inside target accounts rather than anonymous audiences. A serial entrepreneur with more than two decades in online marketing and advertising, he began his career buying media for consumer giants like P&G and Coca-Cola, co-founded the IT services company that became GlobalLogic (later acquired by Hitachi for $9.6B), and holds Executive MBAs from Columbia and London Business School. He founded Influ2 in 2016 after concluding that account-based marketing was the right idea served by imprecise technology.
Eric Presbrey
Eric Presbrey is the CEO of Leadspace, the B2B customer data platform and revenue automation company whose AI-driven data intelligence powers go-to-market teams at enterprises such as Microsoft, Salesforce and Nvidia. Appointed in April 2025, he brings more than two decades of commercial leadership across marketing technology and data companies, having served as chief revenue officer at PebblePost and Centrical, president of publicly traded Zeta Global, and a member of the Epsilon leadership team that drove 10x growth. Based in Dallas, Texas, he is known for building high-performing go-to-market teams and scaling data-driven revenue engines.
Jeffrey Matisoff
Jeffrey Matisoff is North America CEO and Managing Partner of The Brandtech Group, the self-described world's number one generative AI marketing company. Named to the regional CEO role in early 2026, he runs Brandtech's largest market and leads its pitch to help brands turn AI into a competitive advantage through tools like the Pencil Gen AI platform and its 'Share of Model' work on how large language models describe brands. Matisoff joined Brandtech in 2021 from WPP, where he was global president of EightBar, IBM's dedicated agency, and he helped lead the acquisition and integration of digital marketing company Jellyfish. His career spans two decades in media and creative, with earlier stops at Accuen, PHD, and Universal McCann.
Jeffrey Nicholson
Jeffrey Nicholson is the CEO and co-founder of Tracer, a New York-based data intelligence platform that turns fragmented, siloed marketing and business data into unified real-time insight. He built Tracer with CTO Leighton Welch inside VaynerMedia, where he served as the agency's first Chief Media Officer and grew the media department to roughly 250 people worldwide alongside Gary Vaynerchuk. A Babson-trained entrepreneur with more than 15 years across advertising, media, and technology, Nicholson went full-time as Tracer's CEO in January 2020 and has since raised a Series A round. He also founded the education venture NicholNotes and advises Roku, Pinterest, and Nextdoor.
Kevin Creusy
Kevin Creusy is the co-founder and co-CEO of Upfluence, an influencer marketing software company he built with Vivien Garnes starting in 2012. What began as an agency that sent products to bloggers for reviews grew into a SaaS platform serving more than 1,600 brands, blending influencer discovery, campaign management, payments and eCommerce tools. A serial entrepreneur who launched his first company at 20, Creusy leads product and eCommerce strategy at Upfluence and has pushed the company toward AI-assisted creator outreach and revenue-driven influencer marketing.
Manlio Carrelli
Manlio Carrelli is the Chief Executive Officer of Stensul, the New York based marketing creation platform that helps enterprise teams build governed email and landing page campaigns at scale. Appointed in May 2026, he arrived from CB Insights, where he led the AI predictive intelligence company and launched one of the industry's first AI agent workforces. With roughly two decades leading consumer and enterprise software companies - including revenue leadership at LivePerson and product and marketing roles at Intermedia - Carrelli has built a career at the intersection of AI, growth, and go-to-market. At Stensul he is focused on a single idea: as AI floods the enterprise with content, governance and compliance are no longer optional.
Cinarra Systems, A Softbank Company
Cinarra Systems is a location intelligence and measurement company that turns carrier-grade mobile network data into privacy-safe marketing insight. Founded in 2012 and now a wholly owned SoftBank subsidiary, Cinarra works with mobile network operators to power audience segmentation, store-visit attribution and cookieless targeting - processing billions of daily location signals inside the carrier's own data center so no personally identifiable information ever leaves. Its platforms (RealSight, VitalSight, RealPeople, VenueVitalics) link online ad exposure to real-world venue visits for advertisers and turn telco data into a new monetization channel for operators.
Demandbase
Demandbase is a San Francisco-based B2B go-to-market software company that pioneered account-based marketing (ABM) and now runs Demandbase One, a unified platform combining account intelligence, intent data, advertising, sales intelligence and AI agents. It helps revenue teams identify in-market accounts, coordinate marketing and sales across channels, and turn buyer signals into pipeline. Founded in 2006 by Chris Golec and led by CEO Gabe Rogol, the company serves hundreds of enterprise B2B customers.
GrowthLoop
GrowthLoop is an agentic, composable customer data platform (CDP) that runs directly on a company's cloud data warehouse - Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or Redshift - so marketing teams can build audiences, orchestrate journeys, and measure results without copying data into a separate system. Formerly Flywheel Software, the company pitches a 'Compound Marketing Engine' that pairs a no-code, drag-and-drop audience builder with AI 'Growth Agents' that suggest segments, build journeys, and optimize campaigns. It serves large enterprises including Ford, Costco, Albertsons, NerdWallet and major sports organizations.
Iterable
Iterable is a San Francisco-based AI customer engagement platform that lets consumer brands coordinate personalized messaging across email, SMS, push, in-app, and web from a single system. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google engineer Andrew Boni and ex-Twitter engineer Justin Zhu, it uses unified behavioral and product data plus a growing set of AI agents, branded Nova, to build, test, and optimize customer journeys in real time. The company reached a $2 billion valuation in 2021 and serves brands including DoorDash, Fabletics, HelloFresh, Redfin, and SeatGeek.
Linklabs
Linklabs (branded 'Remix The Web') is a Sao Paulo-based software platform that helps brands, publishers and agencies collect, moderate, display and analyze social content from across the web. It aggregates user-generated content from 15+ social networks, review sites and messaging apps into curated social walls, website hubs, event projections and ad units - with built-in content-rights management and campaign analytics to turn peer recommendations into measurable marketing conversions.
Amperity
Amperity is a Seattle-based enterprise software company that builds an AI-powered customer data platform. Its patented machine-learning identity resolution engine, Stitch, unifies fragmented customer records from disparate sources - email, phone, address, loyalty and device IDs - into a single, accurate view of each customer. Founded in 2016 by Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager, Amperity helps global consumer brands like Alaska Airlines, DICK'S Sporting Goods, and Wyndham turn messy data into reliable profiles, predictive insights, and activation across marketing, analytics, and AI. The company reached unicorn status in 2021 with a $100M Series D and has since pivoted toward an AI-first, lakehouse-native architecture that runs directly inside Databricks and Snowflake.
Pixis
Pixis is a codeless AI infrastructure company for marketing, giving advertising teams a suite of plug-and-play AI models that plan, target, optimize, and create ad campaigns without writing code. Founded in 2018 by three BITS Pilani classmates and headquartered in Burlingame, California, the company has built 200+ proprietary AI models and serves more than 1,000 customers, including 18 Fortune 2000 brands. It raised $209M across Series A through C1, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Touring Capital, and others.