69 Best Advertising Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Advertising Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 826 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $10.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $153.8m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$124.0m

Money raised

Company providing user behavioral analytics for revenue optimization for websites and smartphone applications

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2

Funding Rounds

$16.7m

Money raised

About.me is a company that has developed a platform for users to make personal and professional websites.

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$12.2m

Money raised

Haptik is a company developing conversational AI for customer experience.

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4

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

Vungle (Vungle, Inc.) is startup which powers video advertisements inside of mobile apps and games.

7

Funding Rounds

$169.8m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company offering a call tracking and conversational analytics for marketers.

6

Funding Rounds

$107.8m

Money raised

GumGum is a Santa Monica, California-based developer of computer vision and machine learning systems for contextually driven advertising and brand protection.

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$18.5m

Money raised

TripleLift is an American multinational technology company developing a platform that enables scalability for native, branded content and OTT advertising.

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Funding Rounds

$3.0m

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Pathmatics provides AI-powered analytics software for marketers that can extract data about various channels, including social media, video, and display.

5

Funding Rounds

$373.0m

Money raised

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

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$528.0m

Money raised

Zomato is a company providing a search engine application that offers information on restaurants and online food delivery.

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6

Funding Rounds

$190.7m

Money raised

Ada is a brand interaction platform that enables the automation of conversations with customers and employees via an AI-based chatbot.

3

Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

Drift is a software company offering a conversational marketing platform founded in 2015 by David Cancel.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

Mirakl is a Paris, France-based company offering software solutions for e-commerce marketplace companies.

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8

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

ContentSquare is an experience optimization platform for business that captures visitor behavior insights, designed to help increase conversions. It uses artificial intelligence to provide automatic recommendations.

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2

Funding Rounds

$82.0m

Money raised

Bionic is a company founded in 2019 by Idan Ninyo.

6

Funding Rounds

$16.4m

Money raised

Threedium creates brand experiences, drives product considerations, and delivers conversions through 3D/augmented reality technology.

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10

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Tipalti automates the way companies pay suppliers, partners, publishers and employees with cloud-based solutions which addresses all phases of the payables workflow.

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3

Funding Rounds

$21.5k

Money raised

Web search engine that uses profits to plant trees

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4

Funding Rounds

$20.6m

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A media company providing a mobile advertising and client connecting platform.It was founded in 2007 and is located in Bangalore, India.

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5

Funding Rounds

$200.0m

Money raised

People.ai is an AI platform based on sales and marketing.

5

Funding Rounds

$40.4m

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Enervee is a company founded in 2010 by Hjalmar Branting, Iker Casillas, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, Yhonastan Fabian, The Sxplay, Ujiie Naotomo, Robbie Grossman, Ingrid Gfölner, Moisey Uretsky, Don Epperson, Matt Service FBCS and Bhavesh M. Mehta.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.6m

Money raised

Virool is a company providing a programmatic video marketing platform.

7

Funding Rounds

$342.2m

Money raised

Iterable is a company founded in 2013 by Andrew Boni.

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8

Funding Rounds

$52.8m

Money raised

Remesh is an AI-based company to gather collective insights founded in 2013 by Aaron Slodov, Andrew Konya and Gary Ellis.

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13

Funding Rounds

$846.9m

Money raised

MediaMath is a company developing and delivering digital advertising media and data management technology solutions.

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4

Funding Rounds

$8.6m

Money raised

Popular Pays is company providing a platform connecting brands with creators to produce custom content and generate awareness.

4

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

WideOrbit is a company that offers software for advertising management

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3

Funding Rounds

$16.6m

Money raised

A company with a digital audio online platform. It was founded in 2007 and has offices worldwide.

3

Funding Rounds

$73.0m

Money raised

Firefly is a mobility based advertising and data platform that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising.

2

Funding Rounds

$52.5m

Money raised

Developer of a real estate marketing platform to help real estate professionals to focus on lead management and collaborate effectively. The company's platform is for real estate professionals that are featuring MLS integration, high-resolution visuals, responsive design, mobile optimization, lead management tools, and marketing automation software for email, social media, and other channels, enabling clients to grow their businesses online.

5

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Rockbot is a company that has designed media streaming platform

2

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

AdRoll is a software development company and marketing platform. The company is a division of NextRoll Inc. and is headquartered in San Francisco.

1

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$4.0m

Money raised

Roistat is an end-to-end analytics and marketing platform founded in 2014.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

MixRank is a company providing lead generation service for businesses. It utilizes LiveScan Contacts Engine together with mobile and web intelligence for lead generation automation.

1

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$12.0m

Money raised

Tealeaf was a data analytics business. It was acquired by IBM, then later sold as part of IBM Marketing to Centerbridge Partners as Acoustic Experience Analytics.

5

Funding Rounds

$134.2m

Money raised

Videology is a New York City-based company founded in 2007.

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

A business intelligence company offering a platform made to help companies analyze customer information to lower fraud and increase sales.

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6

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

Zemanta develops enterprise software for native advertising

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1

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A company with a feedback platform for businesses in Europe. It was founded in 2012 and has locations in France and England.

3

Funding Rounds

$6.4m

Money raised

AdStage is a company founded in 2012 by Sahil Jain.

3

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that protects enterprises from bot attacks to keep digital experiences human.

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3

Funding Rounds

$39.3m

Money raised

Unbounce provides a landing page building platform for businesses.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

American global mobile rtb ad exchange and supply side platform

5

Funding Rounds

$29.1m

Money raised

Technorati is a San Francisco-based advertising company founded in 2002.

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12

Funding Rounds

$129.4m

Money raised

RichRelevance, now Algonomy, is an Experience Personalization company.

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2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Vibrant Media is a company founded in 2000 by Douglas Stevenson.

7

Funding Rounds

$93.6m

Money raised

WeGift is a smart solution for distributing gift cards at scale. They stand out for providing access to 700+ brands, bulk discounts of up to 25% off, and the ability to reclaim unspent value on expired gift cards.

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5

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

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Sharethrough is a company founded in 2008 by Matty Mo, Brett Keintz, Robert Fan and Dan Greenberg.

2

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$14.0m

Money raised

MobileWorks is a company offering a crowdsourcing platform. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator

4

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

BrightRoll is an american global digital video advertising company founded in 2006 by Tod Sacerdoti, Dru Nelson and Saar Gur.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

A marketing company that uses artificial intelligence to make a platform which allows brands to discover micro-influencers who could potentially market their goods or services. Its headquarters are located in Singapore and it was founded in 2017.

8

Funding Rounds

$36.1m

Money raised

Boost Media is a San Francisco-based company using crowdsourcing and market testing to help businesses find effective words and images for marketing campaigns.

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1

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$3.7m

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A company offering a digital credential platform.

3

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$23.5m

Money raised

ViralGains is a company founded in 2012 by Jay Singh, Dan Levin, Kate Willett and Doron Gan.

3

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$47.5m

Money raised

Metadata is a company founded by Gil Allouche.

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1

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$10.0m

Money raised

Magnetic is an artificial intelligence company that uses machine learning to deliver smarter, faster, and more effective advertising.

3

Funding Rounds

$16.6m

Money raised

Instapage provides a landing page building platform for businesses.

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5

Funding Rounds

$72.4m

Money raised

Tapjoy is a mobile advertising company

4

Funding Rounds

$273.1m

Money raised

Appsflyer is a saas mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform, based out of herzliya, israel, with offices around the world.

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2

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

Efficient Frontier is an advertising company founded by Anand Ranganathan.

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3

Funding Rounds

$360.0m

Money raised

ActiveCampaign provides a platform with email marketing, marketing automation, and CRM tools for small-to-mid-sized businesses.

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3

Funding Rounds

$116.0m

Money raised

Shift is an online, peer-to-peer, marketplace for buying and selling used cars.

1

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$17.0m

Money raised

Host Analytics is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2000.

4

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$64.0m

Money raised

A company offering a compliance platform for marketing cannabis products.

1

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$5.9m

Money raised

Dstillery is a company founded in 2008.

3

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$9.5m

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Talkwalker is a social media analytics and monitoring tool.

2

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$13.0m

Money raised

A software company making community marketing software that utilizes machine learning.

3

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Promoboxx is a Boston-based company founded in 2010 by Ben Carcio, Dan Koziak, Sonciary Honnoll and Jamie Fiedler.

4

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

ShareRoot Inc is a company founded in 2013 by Marc Angelone.

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