innovators / leaders /
thinkers / builders /
doers / makers /
creators / explorers /
experimenters / transformers /
disruptors / pioneers /
entrepreneurs /
visionaries /
trailblazers / trendsetters /
renegades / masterminds
Our startups address the needs of the Modern CMO.
We are the corporate venture capital fund of MDC Partners, a global advertising agency network. Since 2011, we’ve been investing in seed-stage, B2B technology startups and entrepreneurs transforming the marketing landscape.
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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Agencies
Employees
Fortune 500 Brand Clients
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.
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.
gradient.
Gradient leverages machine learning to help marketers maximize their sales performance on Amazon
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.
Veritonic
Veritonic is the audio effectiveness company - the first analytics platform built to quantify the value of sound.
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
Justin Lewis
CEO
Instrument
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
We’d love to hear from you:
Jessica Peltz-Zatulove
jpeltz@mdcventures.vc
745 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10151
Looking forward to speaking @GCVenturing Summit this afternoon! Will be sharing our community driven approach to #cvc to drive collaboration and inspiration across the company 💫
Looking forward to speaking @GCVenturing Summit this afternoon! Will be sharing our community driven approach to #cvc to drive collaboration and inspiration across the company 💫
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) November 2, 2018
Thrilled to be working with the team at Gradient and co-investing with our friends @psl @flyingfishvc @blackjaysvc ! Soon marketers will be able to leverage advanced machine learning to elevate their sales performance on Amazon 👏👏 https://t.co/GgvBG9PC4k
Thrilled to be working with the team at Gradient and co-investing with our friends @psl @flyingfishvc @blackjaysvc ! Soon marketers will be able to leverage advanced machine learning to elevate their sales performance on Amazon 👏👏 https://t.co/GgvBG9PC4k
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) October 23, 2018
We spoke to our friends at top venture funds @LererHippeau @ForerunnerVC @fcubedvc and @usv about what’s next for the Retail Apocalypse and where the opportunities are for brands- check it out here 👉 https://t.co/ndM0fEELK8
If you missed our @mdcventures event last week: Check out @Wearlively founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant speaking to @PSFK @piersfawkes about how building a powerful community and curating the right lifestyle content can lead to obsessive brand love. https://t.co/TXsJBNRIsQ
Looking forward to speaking @CDXForum about the future of Voice and the implications for marketers- postcards from the edge up next! https://t.co/ouMIRYb4vT
Looking forward to speaking @CDXForum about the future of Voice and the implications for marketers- postcards from the edge up next! pic.twitter.com/ouMIRYb4vT
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) September 5, 2018
Proud to be featured among friends from @SalesforceVC @M12vc @HearstVentures @AmexBusiness @WarnerMediaGrp @SamsungNEXT on this great write up on #CVC - CVCs bring a differentiated perspective and value to investment syndicates https://t.co/Pybkirjl7o
Proud to be featured among friends from @SalesforceVC @M12vc @HearstVentures @AmexBusiness @WarnerMediaGrp @SamsungNEXT on this great write up on #CVC - CVCs bring a differentiated perspective and value to investment syndicates https://t.co/Pybkirjl7o
— MDC Ventures (@mdcventures) August 27, 2018
