Tagged: privacy-first
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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.
EdgeTensor
EdgeTensor is a Dallas, Texas-based deep-tech company building Gen AI-powered video telematics and fleet-management software that runs at the edge and in the cloud. Founded in 2017 by computer-vision researchers Rajesh Narasimha and Soumitry Ray, the company makes AI affordable and scalable on low-cost cameras and embedded chips, turning raw dashcam and in-cabin video into structured safety, compliance and risk insights. Its hardware- and sensor-agnostic platform serves fleets, telematics service providers, automotive Tier-1s/OEMs and insurers who want driver-safety analytics without being locked to a single device vendor.
Occuspace
Occuspace is a smart-building company that measures how physical spaces are actually used. Its plug-in sensors passively read ambient Bluetooth and WiFi signals - never cameras or personal data - to estimate real-time occupancy, foot traffic and dwell time, then feed the numbers into a dashboard and the free Waitz app. Founded in 2017 by three UC San Diego roommates, it now serves 100+ university campuses plus corporate and federal customers, helping them cut wasted space, save energy and plan facilities from data instead of guesswork.
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.
Pogo
Pogo is a New York-based consumer data platform that pays Americans for the data they already generate. Through its free mobile app, more than 3 million opted-in users share transactions, receipts, app usage, and location visits, then choose exactly how it gets used - anonymous market research or personalized offers from trusted brands - and collect real cash 'Data Dividends' in return. In 2026 Pogo leaned into that first-party purchase data to launch what it calls the world's first AI research platform, connecting brands with purchase-verified buyers through AI-moderated interviews and surveys.
Journify
Journify is an AI-powered, composable customer data platform that captures, cleans, enriches, and streams conversion signals from web, mobile, CRM, and offline sources into ad platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Google. The company helps brands push match rates toward 90%, reclaiming the 30-40% of conversions most advertisers silently lose.
Highlight
Highlight is a San Francisco AI company building a shared intelligence layer for teams and AI agents. Its cross-platform desktop app captures on-screen context, meetings, messages, and documents, then weaves them into a unified team memory that drafts next steps across tools like Linear, Slack, Notion, and calendars. Spun out of game-clip company Medal in 2024, Highlight has grown past 500,000 users and raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures in March 2026, when former Discord product VP Sergei Sorokin became CEO.
AppsFlyer
AppsFlyer is the mobile measurement and marketing analytics platform that helps brands figure out which ads actually work. Founded in Tel Aviv in 2011 and now headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as an independent third-party attribution layer between advertisers, ad networks and app stores - trusted by tens of thousands of companies including HBO, NBC, Macy's, Alibaba and Activision.
Andre Ferraz
Andre Ferraz is the co-founder and CEO of Incognia, a Palo Alto-based privacy-first location identity company that uses passive behavioral signals - where your phone goes, how it moves, what Wi-Fi networks it trusts - to verify users without passwords or biometric friction. Before Incognia, Ferraz co-founded In Loco Media in 2011 at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, building it into a company that mapped 6 million indoor venues and captured 250 billion location data points monthly, before selling it to Brazilian retail giant Magazine Luiza in 2020. With Incognia, he pivoted that location intelligence from advertising into fraud prevention, raising $46.5M total (including a $31M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in 2024), deploying technology on over 200 million smartphones, and pioneering what he calls zero-factor authentication - security that works without the user doing anything at all.
Zocks | AI for Advisors
Zocks is a privacy-first AI assistant built specifically for financial advisors. It turns client conversations into structured intelligence - automating meeting notes, follow-up emails, intake forms, and CRM updates - without recording audio. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, Zocks is used by more than 5,000 advisory firms including Carson Group, Osaic, Commonwealth, and Hightower.
Taoufik Jamali
Taoufik Jamali is a Moroccan-born serial entrepreneur and CEO of Journify, an AI-powered composable Customer Data Platform that pushes ad conversion match rates from ~42% to 70-90% through privacy-first, server-side data activation. With two successful startup exits under his belt - Netclub (sold to Match.com in 2007) and Unyk (acquired by Viadeo in 2009) - and stints as VP of Growth at Shopkick and VP of Product/PLG at Smartsheet, Jamali founded Journify in 2023 and grew it to $1M ARR within nine months, raised $4M in 2025, and doubled the company valuation in under six months as he targets the broken attribution problem plaguing e-commerce advertisers globally.
Tina D'Agostin
Tina D'Agostin is the CEO of Alcatraz AI, a Cupertino-based company building AI-powered facial authentication for physical access control. With 25+ years in security technology spanning Johnson Controls, Niscayah (Stanley), and executive roles at the intersection of hardware and enterprise software, she leads a company that protects over five million employees at Fortune 500 firms, data centers, airports, and stadiums - positioning Alcatraz as 'the Face ID for physical spaces.' Under her leadership, the company raised a $50M Series B in April 2026, bringing total funding to over $100 million.