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 155 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $63.1m.

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Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

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

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$4.4m

Money raised

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

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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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$130.0m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$105.6m

Money raised

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

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$6.6m

Money raised

Virool is a company providing a programmatic video marketing platform.

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$18.5m

Money raised

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

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$111.8m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

American global mobile rtb ad exchange and supply side platform

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Funding Rounds

$104.3m

Money raised

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

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$17.0m

Money raised

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

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$46.0m

Money raised

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

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$55.8m

Money raised

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

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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.

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Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$72.4m

Money raised

Tapjoy is a mobile advertising company

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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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3

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$16.7m

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Fiksu is a company founded by Micah Adler.

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1

Funding Rounds

$161.7k

Money raised

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.

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Funding Rounds

$36.2m

Money raised

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$38.2m

Money raised

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

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$174.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$9.8m

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Sightly is a company founded in 2013 by John Zdanowski.

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$1.3b

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

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3

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$11.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.8m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$234.6m

Money raised

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.

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MomentFeed is a company founded in 2013.

2

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$55.0m

Money raised

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.

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Funding Rounds

$202.6m

Money raised

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

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$1.0m

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

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$65.3m

Money raised

SessionM is a Boston-based company founded in 2011.

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$2.2m

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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.

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Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

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3

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$10.0m

Money raised

Madvertise is a Europe-based company.

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$15.7m

Money raised

Freespee is a company founded in 2009.

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$12.6m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

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

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1

Funding Rounds

$320.0k

Money raised

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Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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.

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Funding Rounds

$245.0k

Money raised

Tatango is a Seattle-based company founded in 2007.

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Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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

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$33.5m

Money raised

Creative platform that powers mobile video ad creation for brands.

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Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

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

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$33.5m

Money raised

RadiumOne is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2009.

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$25.0m

Money raised

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

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$20.0k

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App.io is a company founded in 2012.

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$18.4m

Money raised

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

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$24.0m

Money raised

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

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$115.0m

Money raised

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

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$2.0m

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Grey Jean Technologies creates software solutions.

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$1.2m

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

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$60.0m

Money raised

American global mobile advertising company

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

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$7.3m

Money raised

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

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$5.5m

Money raised

Bluedot Innovation is a company founded in 2017.

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

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Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

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

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$3.0m

Money raised

1

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$50.0k

Money raised

Rovertown is a company founded in 2009 by Mike Philip.

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$27.5m

Money raised

LoopMe is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2012.

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$400.0k

Money raised

Industry Dive is a Washington, D.C.-based company founded in 2012.

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$360.2k

Money raised

Mopapp is a London-based company founded in 2002 by Alessandro Rizzoli, Marco Bellinaso and Federico Sita.

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Glassmap is a social network and communication platform allowing users to coordinate meetings and hangouts.

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$21.0m

Money raised

Verve Wireless is a New York City-based company founded in 2005 by Jaron Schaechter, Felix Heberle and Jürgen Fey.

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$22.5m

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Threads is a London-based company founded in 2017 by Nirvek Bhati.

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