MDC Ventures – Addressing the needs of the modern CMO

MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of MDC Partners, one of the fastest growing and most influential marketing and communications networks in the world. Our agency partners leverage technology, data analytics, insights, and strategic consulting solutions to drive measurable results and optimize return on marketing investment for over 1,700 clients worldwide.

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60+

Agencies

6000+

Employees

1700+

Fortune 500 Brand Clients

140+

Offices Worldwide

Adaptly

Adaptly enables the biggest advertisers to scale their advertising campaigns across walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest and Twitter.

Are You A Human

Acquired by Distil Networks, Are You A Human allows people to be certain they’re addressing a verified human before serving content, services, or ads.

Awe.sm

Acquired by Unified, Awe.sm enables powerful insights, content, and advertising tools built on the industry’s most advanced data platform.

Cross Pixel

Cross Pixel is a leading DMP that powers high performance audience data and insights for real time programmatic media buys.

CrowdTwist

CrowdTwist provides multichannel loyalty and engagement solutions that drive incremental spend, greater lifetime value and richer customer data.

Dextro

Acquired by Taser, Dextro is a computer vision company that analyzes the contents and context of videos.

Entrypoint

Entrypoint is a software platform that enables creators to create, distribute, and measure interactive 360 mobile video experiences across the web.

Indicative

Indicative is an enterprise behavioral analytics platform for business users to optimize marketing and product decisions across the entire customer journey.

Mezzobit

Acquired by OpenX, Mezzobit acts as a firewall for audience data, putting digital enterprises in control of how 3rd parties use their visitor data.

Msg.ai

Msg.ai empowers brands to build conversational interfaces that engage in highly personalized, 1:1 or group conversations across the customer journey, integrating with existing CRM, or ecommerce platforms.

PlaceIQ

PlaceIQ is a leading data and technology provider that powers critical business and marketing decisions with location data, analytics and insights.

Polymorph

Polymorph (formerly AdsNative) is a white labeled monetization platform for publishers to maximize revenue, reduce costs, and deliver better ad experiences.

Roost

Roost is pioneering web-based push notifications as a new CRM messaging channel across popular browsers.

Samba TV

Samba TV offers essential TV insights to more effectively engage audiences to help marketers bridge the gap between digital and television.

SellerCrowd

SellerCrowd is a members-only community of media sellers sharing the latest intel about brands and their agencies.

SocialFlow

SocialFlow is a social media SaaS platform that provides an integrated product suite to identify and automate social marketing opportunities in real time.

Tidal Labs

Tidal Lab’s influencer CRM platform centralizes, automates, and optimizes influencer efforts.

Wedgies

Wedgies helps brands create high quality, custom mobile ad experiences through interactive poll, quiz, and question units.

Yieldbot

Yieldbot delivers relevant ads based on real time consumer intent by analyzing and leveraging 1st party data on premium publisher sites.

Jessica Peltz-Zatulove
Partner

Jessica Peltz-Zatulove is a Partner at MDC Ventures. Prior to joining MDC, she specialized connecting marketers with emerging technology and has a passion for helping startups secure their first customers. She previously spent 10+ years working with Fortune 500 brands including Verizon Wireless, Kraft Foods, and H&M. As a VP at Zenith Media, she was recognized an industry pioneer in the mobile space; her cutting edge collaborations were often featured in Mashable, Adage, Mobile Marketer, and Mediapost. Jessica has a global footprint with strategic relationships at over 300+ startup organizations across 20+ countries. In addition to being featured on CNBC, Fox Business, and popular podcasts – she’s been named one of “NYC’s 100 Most Influential People in Tech”, “35 People in NYC Tech to Watch in 2016”, and a Rising Star by Global Corporate Venture.

Michael Nicholas
Partner

Michael is a Partner at MDC Ventures and the Entrepreneur in Residence at MDC Media Partners. He has worked in advertising, media and technology throughout his career and has decided in today’s converged world, it’s impossible to tell where one begins and the other ends. Michael has led large agencies, smaller start-ups and strategy groups for the past 15+ years. He’s a mentor at Techstars and has garnered truly global experience partnering with many of the worlds best brands, including Coca-Cola, adidas, Nokia, AOL, Motorola, Reebok, Microsoft, Philips, Samsung and TiVo.

Investment Committee

Stuart Coleman
Managing Director
MDC Ventures

Michael Bassik
Managing Director
MDC Partners

David Doft
Chief Financial Officer
MDC Partners

As a corporate VC, we have access to the brightest and most creative minds in marketing to help guide our portfolio founders. These leaders are accessible to our portfolio for mentorship, customer opportunities, and to share their invaluable domain expertise.

Scott Arenstein
Managing Partner
Hello Design

Jason DeLand
Founding Partner
Anomaly

John Doyle
ED of Brand Experience
Colle+McVoy

Tom Dunlap
Chief Production Officer
72andSunny

Mike Karam
Head of Strategy
Laird + Partners

Barry Lowenthal
President
The Media Kitchen

Naveen Passey
CFO, COO
Doner

Cathy Planchard
Partner
Allison+Partners

Matt Powell
Global Chief Information Officer
KBS

Brad Simms
President and CEO
GALE

Corey Szopinski
Exec. Creative Technical Director
CP+B

Ashish Toshniwal
Co-founder and CEO
Y Media Labs

Dylan Viner
Deputy Head of Strategy
Redscout

Stella Voutsina
CTO
MDC Media Partners

We’d love to hear from you:

Jessica Peltz-Zatulove
jpeltz@mdcventures.vc
745 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10151

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