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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.
catch&release
Catch & Release helps brands and agencies better discover, clear, and license UGC content across the open web.
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.
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.
RLY.
RLY turns iPhone live photos into reels (looping 3-second HD clips) - making your images come to life.
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
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
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
Cathy Planchard
Partner
Allison+Partners
Ashish Toshniwal
Co-founder and CEO
Y Media Labs
Stella Voutsina
CTO
MDC Media Partners
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Exploding Old Contexts With AI
According to IBM, we produce 2.5 exabytes of data each day. This is equivalent to 250,000 Libraries of Congress or 90 years of HD video —…
2017.05.10 / 2min read. Read More
On Sarin And Cyberwar
The horror that unfolded Tuesday after the Assad regime dropped sarin nerve gas on the city of Khan Sheikhun, Syria, was like a nightmare…
2017.05.10 / 3min read. Read More
The Ultimate Empathy Machine: VR And Social
“In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit…A pale-skinned pop culture-obsessed geek…I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul…
2017.05.10 / 3min read. Read More
Highways Jammed With Broken Heroes
The American romance with the automobile is the stuff of legend. Seldom has a product of mechanical engineering been as obsessed over by…
2017.05.10 / 4min read. Read More
To Zero and Back Again: The Coming Revolution In AI
“Perhaps the most important consequence of the Internet, at least from a business perspective, [is] the reduction of the cost of…
2017.05.10 / 3min read. Read More
The Rise Of Autonomous Agents (And The End Of Advertising)
“If you don’t know me by now, you will never never never know me.” — Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
2017.05.10 / 4min read. Read More
The Voice, Unbundled
Forget about Millennials. Anyone trying to understand the future of media and technology should observe what the children do.
2017.05.10 / 3min read. Read More
Artful Redirection: Food Tech Takes On Food Media
Anyone with even a passing interest in health and nutrition can be forgiven for thinking the mainstream media just doesn’t know what it’s…
2017.05.10 / 3min read. Read More
The Anxiety of Authenticity — Or, New Ways of Seeing
Consumers spend an overwhelming amount of time in environments where brands are not always welcome. As good as the ad experiences are on…
2017.05.10 / 3min read. Read More
CPG And The Lure Of Direct-to-Consumer
For anyone in the CPG industry still unclear about the power of direct-to-consumer models, Unilever’s July purchase of Dollar Shave Club…
2017.05.10 / 2min read. Read More
Great OpEd by @msg_ai founder @puneetmehtanyc : The Turing test holds no value in assessing conversational AI https://t.co/kwXPdtlkXG via @VentureBeat
Great OpEd by @msg_ai founder @puneetmehtanyc : The Turing test holds no value in assessing conversational AI https://t.co/kwXPdtlkXG via @VentureBeat
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) May 21, 2018
Standing room only @ERoundtable demo day- interesting batch of diverse businesses across HR, crypto, fitness and D2C #startups https://t.co/lJhH0Y8IHb
Standing room only @ERoundtable demo day- interesting batch of diverse businesses across HR, crypto, fitness and D2C #startups pic.twitter.com/lJhH0Y8IHb
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) April 26, 2018
So proud of the @RLY_app team!They've interviewed 100s of Gen. Z social media users & in response have built an amazing new app—for people who value authenticity and more control over who sees their posts.
LAUNCHED TODAY! Check it out 😎
https://t.co/qcLdcRw4L3
So proud of the @RLY_app team!They've interviewed 100s of Gen. Z social media users & in response have built an amazing new app—for people who value authenticity and more control over who sees their posts.
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) April 26, 2018
LAUNCHED TODAY! Check it out 😎https://t.co/qcLdcRw4L3
Brands need to pay attention to “sound and feel”- not just look and feel, 43% of smart speaker owners would be interested in skills from brands they follow, 31% have added items to a shopping cart. #powerofaudio
Brands need to pay attention to “sound and feel”- not just look and feel, 43% of smart speaker owners would be interested in skills from brands they follow, 31% have added items to a shopping cart. #powerofaudio
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) April 24, 2018
Is @cheddar the new news? When @FoxBusiness median age is 69 and hundreds of thousands of households are cutting the cord- they’re well positioned for a successful new approach to live https://t.co/ha7pMuw8vC
Is @cheddar the new news? When @FoxBusiness median age is 69 and hundreds of thousands of households are cutting the cord- they’re well positioned for a successful new approach to live pic.twitter.com/ha7pMuw8vC
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) April 12, 2018
Proud early investor! Thrilled to support Analisa Goodin and the Catch&Release team to transform the production process, helping creative agencies make more content, faster. 👏👏 https://t.co/BxcL2TicOv @ddoft @slk1 @nicholi57 @jessicapeltz @mbassik https://t.co/eYUwMpeVOn
Proud early investor! Thrilled to support Analisa Goodin and the Catch&Release team to transform the production process, helping creative agencies make more content, faster. 👏👏https://t.co/BxcL2TicOv @ddoft @slk1 @nicholi57 @jessicapeltz @mbassik https://t.co/eYUwMpeVOn
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) April 11, 2018
