DoubleClick Inc. was an American advertisement company that developed and provided Internet ad serving services from 1995 until its acquisition by Google in March 2008. DoubleClick offered technology products and services that were sold primarily to advertising agencies and mass media, serving businesses like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oréal, Palm, Inc., Apple Inc., Visa Inc., Nike, Inc., and Carlsberg Group. The company's main product line was known as DART, which was intended to increase the purchasing efficiency of advertisers and minimize unsold inventory for publishers.
Townsquare Media, Inc. is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York. The company started in radio and expanded into digital media toward the end of the 2000s, starting with the acquisition of the MOG Music Network. As of June 2024, Townsquare was the third-largest AM–FM operator in the country, owning 349 radio stations in 74 markets.
Steel Connect, Inc. is an American company that provides supply chain management services to software companies.
Eric Austin Litman is an American entrepreneur and angel investor, and currently serves as CEO of the robotics health technology company, Aescape, inc. Litman co-founded Proxicom, built Viaduct from a one-man shop through a merger with the Wolf Group, and was the founder and CEO of Medialets, a mobile ad serving and advertising analytics company acquired by WPP plc.
Invented and founded by John R. Armstrong and Robin M. Solís then sold to Scott Ginsberg in 1993, Digital Generation Systems, Inc. was the very first National online service platform in the world. DG provided digital media commercial distribution services to the advertising, entertainment and broadcast industries with an online media distribution network used by advertisers and agencies, and broadcast radio, television, cable, network and print publishing destinations. On February 7, 2014, DG's TV advertising business was acquired by Extreme Reach, Inc. and its online advertising business was spun off into the new company Sizmek, Inc.
Gian Mark Fulgoni is a British businessman, entrepreneur and market research consultant.
Magnite Inc. is an American online advertising technology firm based in Los Angeles, California. The company was formed following a merger between Rubicon Project and Telaria in 2020.
Chad Steelberg is an American serial entrepreneur who co-founded AdForce (IPO), 2CAN Media, and dMarc Broadcasting. Most recently, Chad Steelberg co-founded Veritone. along with his brother, Ryan Steelberg, and serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT) is a technology and marketing services company. It was founded by brother entrepreneurs Ryan Steelberg and Chad Steelberg. In October 2012, Brand Affinity Technologies acquired Printroom, a leading fan photography business.
Virtu Financial is an American company that provides financial services, trading products and market making services. Virtu provides product suite including offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics, broker-neutral, multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology and two-sided quotations and trades in equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, and other securities on over 230 exchanges, markets, and dark pools. Virtu uses proprietary technology to trade large volumes of securities. The company went public on the Nasdaq in 2015.
Bradley A. Keywell is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and executive chairman of Uptake Technologies, an industrial AI software provider. He is an early investor of Tempus Labs, co-founder of Groupon, Echo Global Logistics, Mediaocean, DRIVIN, and Lightbank. He founded WNDR Museum and Chicago Ideas.
Neal Creighton is an American entrepreneur based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was one of the co-founders and CEO of certificate authority GeoTrust in 2001, and is co-inventor of the domain-validated certificate patent issued in 2006 which method accounts for 70 percent of all SSL certificates on the Internet. In 2006, GeoTrust was the 2nd largest certificate authority in the world with 26.7 percent market share according to independent survey company Netcraft. He was also cofounder of RatePoint, Inc., which was named the MITX 2010 Social Media Company of the Year for New England.
Cheetah Mobile Inc (猎豹移动公司) is a Chinese mobile internet company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Beijing.
TubeMogul is an enterprise software company for brand advertising.
Daniel Conrad Engel is an American CEO and entrepreneur who has worked in the e-commerce and software industries since 1997. Engel led customer acquisition at Picasa, Google, FastSpring, GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC. In 2020, Engel founded Santa Barbara Venture Partners, a venture capital investment fund. He graduated from Tulane University in 1998 with a major in finance and is a past member of Young Presidents' Organization. Engel sits on multiple boards of directors and advisers to tech companies. Since 2018, he has served as board member on a range of local nonprofits that address the critical issue of homelessness. Engel lives in Santa Barbara, California with his two children and his wife, Emily, an environmental activist, art historian, and lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Nick Grouf is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. Described as a "pioneer of the Web 1.0 generation", Grouf is the co-founder and managing director of Alpha Edison, a venture capital fund, and the founder of Clementine Capital, LLC, a technology-focused incubator.
Mark Roah is an American entrepreneur and technology inventor based in Palos Verdes Estates, California. He is the co-founder of Octane360, an internet marketing firm based in California which was acquired by Local.com in 2010. The US Patent and Trademark Office issued patent for technology that Roah invented at Octane360. Currently, he is a partner and co-founder of Avenue I Media, a digital marketing company based in Redondo Beach, California.
Jeffrey Terry Green is an American billionaire businessman, who co-founded AdECN, a demand-side advertising platform, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Following two years at Microsoft, Green left to co-found buy-side digital advertising platform The Trade Desk, of which he is chairman and CEO.
Veritone, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence technology company based in Irvine, California founded in 2014. Veritone's aiWARE technology and solutions are licensed and utilized by such industries as global media conglomerates, professional sports teams, federal government agencies, energy utilities, and state and local police departments. Veritone services more than 1,500 customers around the world. It is traded on NASDAQ Global Market as VERI.
