69 Best Mobile Advertising Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Mobile 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 162 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $64.2m.

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

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Instagram logo

Instagram

Instagram is a Menlo Park-based photo-sharing social media platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

Vungle logo

Vungle

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

4

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

App Samurai logo

App Samurai

App Samurai is a San Francisco-based company that provides mobile marketing technology.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.4m

Money raised

Zomato logo

Zomato

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

5

Funding Rounds

$528.0m

Money raised

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SpinCar

SpinCar is a company founded in 2014 by Devin Daly, Steven Saporta and Michael Quigley.

4

Funding Rounds

$130.0m

Money raised

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CleverTap

CleverTap is a software company offering a customer lifecycle and engagement platform as a mobile marketing suite.

5

Funding Rounds

$105.6m

Money raised

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Virool

Virool is a company providing a programmatic video marketing platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.6m

Money raised

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Heyzap

Heyzap is a mobile advertising platform that was acquired by Fyber for $45m in 2015. It was founded in 2008 and was located in San Francisco, California.

3

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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Snaps

Snaps is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2015 by Vivian Rosenthal.

5

Funding Rounds

$18.5m

Money raised

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zeotap

Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence platform that helps brands better understand their customers and predict behaviors.

10

Funding Rounds

$111.8m

Money raised

Smaato logo

Smaato

American global mobile rtb ad exchange and supply side platform

4

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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Phunware

Phunware is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2009 by Alan Knitowski, Luan Dang and Alan Kane.

9

Funding Rounds

$104.3m

Money raised

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Vibrant Media

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

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

AdMob logo

AdMob

AdMob is a mobile advertising company founded in 2006 by Omar Suleiman.

3

Funding Rounds

$34.3m

Money raised

BrightRoll logo

BrightRoll

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

4

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

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TrialPay

TrialPay is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2006.

3

Funding Rounds

$55.8m

Money raised

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ViralGains

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

3

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Chartboost logo

Chartboost

Chartboost is a mobile games-only ad platform founded in 2011 by Maria Alegre.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Tapjoy

Tapjoy is a mobile advertising company

5

Funding Rounds

$72.4m

Money raised

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AppsFlyer

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

4

Funding Rounds

$273.1m

Money raised

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Fiksu (company)

Fiksu is a company founded by Micah Adler.

3

Funding Rounds

$16.7m

Money raised

avocarrot (Glipsa Connect) logo

avocarrot (Glipsa Connect)

Avocarrot is a company powered by Glipsa Global Group with a specialization in a monetization platform for app developers. Its headquarters are in Athens, Greece and it was founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

$161.7k

Money raised

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Celtra

Company

4

Funding Rounds

$36.2m

Money raised

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Jivox

Jivox is a San Mateo, California-based advertising company offering a cloud-based, data-driven digital marketing platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$38.2m

Money raised

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CHEQ (advertising company)

The Go-to-Market security suite, trusted by over 12,000 customers to protect their funnels, sites and analytics from bots and fake users.

5

Funding Rounds

$174.0m

Money raised

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Sightly (company)

Sightly is a company founded in 2013 by John Zdanowski.

3

Funding Rounds

$9.8m

Money raised

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SmartNews

Operator of a news platform intended to discover and deliver the latest trending news stories.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

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Onswipe

Onswipe is a New York City-based company founded in 2010 by Jason L. Baptiste.

3

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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MoPub

MoPub is a company founded in 2010 by Jim Payne.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.5m

Money raised

Socialize logo

Socialize

Socialize is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2008 by Daniel R. Odio, Isaac Mosquera and Sean Shadmand.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

Singular (advertising company) logo

Singular (advertising company)

Singular is a San Francisco-based company creating a marketing intelligence platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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adjust (software company)

Unbotify's mission is to provide a best in class solution to one of the major problems of web application security today - detecting malicious bots.

2

Funding Rounds

$234.6m

Money raised

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MomentFeed

MomentFeed is a company founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

4INFO logo

4INFO

4INFO is an american national mobile advertising corporation founded in 2004 by Pankaj Shah.

5

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

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MAX (company)

Provider of a vehicle subscription service intended for independent commercial drivers. The company offers a convenient path to financial freedom & wealth creation through low-to-zero-emission vehicle ownership and value-added services.

2

Funding Rounds

$55.0m

Money raised

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MOLOCO

MOLOCO empowers mobile apps to run their own advertising business by providing all of the required components as a cloud service.

7

Funding Rounds

$202.6m

Money raised

Heartbeat logo

Heartbeat

Heartbeat is a Sydney-based company founded in 2015 by Kate Aveline Edwards.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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SessionM

SessionM is a Boston-based company founded in 2011.

3

Funding Rounds

$65.3m

Money raised

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Inspide

Developer of a geo-intelligence platform intended to respond to geolocated data needs of businesses. The company's spatial intelligence platform allows users to learn about customers and the places they move through, enabling clients to perform hyper-segmentation and detailed predictions to derive actionable insights.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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Enso

Access the entire ecosystem in one click via an interface, API, or SDK. Enso simplifies your life by bundling multiple transactions into one. Give it a try!

1

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

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Madvertise

Madvertise is a Europe-based company.

3

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Freespee logo

Freespee

Freespee is a company founded in 2009.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.7m

Money raised

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LiveIntent (advertising company)

LiveIntent is a New York-based company founded in 2009.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

Fanpics logo

Fanpics

Fanpics is a San Diego, California-based company founded by William Dickinson in 2013.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

AdLaunch logo

AdLaunch

The Easiest Way To Start a Video Advertising CampaignTM

1

Funding Rounds

$320.0k

Money raised

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DoubleRecall

DoubleRecall is a company providing a recall based advertising platform and monetization solution for online media and mobile publishers. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Tatango

Tatango is a Seattle-based company founded in 2007.

2

Funding Rounds

$245.0k

Money raised

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DOV-E

DOV-E is a telecommunications company that is focused on mobile payments.

5

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Vidsy logo

Vidsy

Creative platform that powers mobile video ad creation for brands.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.5m

Money raised

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GroundTruth (formerly xAd)

GroundTruth is a company developing location-based marketing and advertising technology founded in 2009.

1

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

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RadiumOne

RadiumOne is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2009.

4

Funding Rounds

$33.5m

Money raised

Placed logo

Placed

Placed provides location-driven insights and ad intelligence.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

EMarketer logo

EMarketer

EMarketer is a New York City-based company founded in 2002 by Geoff Ramsey.

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

App.io logo

App.io

App.io is a company founded in 2012.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0k

Money raised

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ShopSavvy

ShopSavvy is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2008 by Alexander Muse.

5

Funding Rounds

$18.4m

Money raised

Whisper logo

Whisper

Whisper is a Venice, Los Angeles-based company founded in 2012.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Grey Jean Technologies logo

Grey Jean Technologies

Grey Jean Technologies creates software solutions.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

NearWoo logo

NearWoo

NearWoo is a Santa Monica, California-based company founded in 2012 by Jason Crilly.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

Ogury logo

Ogury

Platform for highly effective and sustainable advertising with strong consumer privacy protection.

3

Funding Rounds

$115.0m

Money raised

Amobee logo

Amobee

American global mobile advertising company

5

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

Zap logo

Zap

Zap is a company founded in 2012 by Dustin Cheng, Terence Lok, Angelique Uy and Justin Lim.

1

Funding Rounds

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Burstly

Burstly is a Santa Monica, California-based company founded in 2009.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.3m

Money raised

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Bluedot Innovation

Bluedot Innovation is a company founded in 2017.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

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FLATLAY

FLATLAY is a cryptocurrency company founded in 2017 by Ali Sammour.

1

Funding Rounds

Liftoff (mobile advertising company) logo

Liftoff (mobile advertising company)

Liftoff is a company founded in 2020.

1

Funding Rounds

Scalarr logo

Scalarr

Scalarr is a Wilmington, Delaware-based company founded in 2016.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Rovertown

Rovertown is a company founded in 2009 by Mike Philip.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

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LoopMe

LoopMe is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2012.

3

Funding Rounds

$27.5m

Money raised