United States Marketing Venture Transactions

Grocery TV is an in-store retail media network with over 19,000 displays. Grocery TV is based in Austin, Texas.

Sageview Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Palo Alto, California
www.sageviewcapital.com

Pattern is a tech-enabled e-commerce retail partner to CPG companies that are seeking to maximize performance across global digital marketplaces. The Company uses proprietary technology to help brands accelerate profitable eCommerce growth on digital marketplaces such as Amazon, Alibaba, Mercadolibre, and eBay, primarily acting as the exclusive authorized partner. Pattern provides full-service global distribution and logistics for marketplaces and D2C fulfillment. Pattern was founded in 2013 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

Knox Lane
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
SanFrancisco, California
www.knoxlane.com

Duchossois Capital Management
Investor
Family Office
Chicago, Illinois
www.dcmllc.com

SOCi is a cloud-based provider of marketing software to multi-location brands, property managers, and agencies to help them manage their digital presence across hundreds or thousands of individual locations. SOCi is based in West Hollywood, California.

JMI Equity
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Baltimore, Maryland
www.jmi.com

Feathr is a provider of marketing technology for associations and event organizers. Feathr plans to use the investment to further develop its product offering, enhance its customer experience, and expand its team to meet the needs of more organizations. Feathr was founded in 2012 and is based in Gainesville, Florida.

Fulcrum Equity Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Atlanta, Georgia
www.fulcrumep.com

TripleLift is a programmatic native advertising platform. The company's technology allows brands to amplify their content through in-feed native ads that match the unique look and feel of thousands of publishers. Publishers leverage TripleLift’s technology to create a new revenue stream through monetizing their in-feed inventory. TripleLift was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.

Edison Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Princeton, New Jersey
www.edisonpartners.com

Vista Equity Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
Austin, Texas
www.vistaequitypartners.com
Advisors: Kirkland & Ellis , J.P. Morgan Securities

GumGum is a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. The company has applied its proven machine learning expertise to extract value from digital content for the advertising and sports industries. For advertisers, gumgum offers a full suite of pioneering future-proof solutions. The company’s contextual advertising engine, Verity, comprehends the meaning of a text, images, and video online, allowing marketers to safely and precisely place ads where people are most engaged. GumGum was founded in 2008 and is based in Santa Monica, California. ‍

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
New York, New York
www.morganstanley.com/im/expansioncapital

Pixability is a video advertising technology company that helps media professionals deliver outstanding campaign performance across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Pixability was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Edison Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Princeton, New Jersey
www.edisonpartners.com

LiveIntent is a provider of email advertising and trading desk solutions. LiveIntent offers a buying platform for emails and displays. LiveIntent was founded in 2009 and is based in New York City.

Escalate Capital
Investor
Mezzanine Finance Firm
Austin, Texas
www.escalatecapital.com

FTV Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
San Francisco, California
www.ftvcapital.com

Simpli.fi is a provider of localized programmatic advertising. Simpli.fi works with the largest buyers of localized advertising, including brands, agencies, local media groups, networks, and trading desks. These companies utilize Simpli.fi to localize ad targeting and content, to deliver performance on high volumes of localized campaigns, and to provide deep insights on their dynamic audiences. Simpli.fi was founded in 2010 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

Frontier Growth
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Charlotte, North Carolina
www.frontiergrowth.com

Vungle is a performance marketing platform for in-app video advertisements on mobile devices. Mobile application developers partner with Vungle to monetize their apps through innovative in-app ad experiences that are inspired by insight and crafted with creativity. Advertisers depend on Vungle to reach, acquire, and retain high-value users worldwide. Vungle develops tools that include data-led buying and UX recommendations, ad format innovation, creative automation, and more. Vungle’s data-optimized ads run on over 1 billion unique devices to drive engagement and increase returns for publishers and advertisers ranging from indie studios to powerhouse brands, including Rovio, Zynga, Pandora, Microsoft, and Scopely. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco.

Crosslink Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
San Francisco, California
www.crosslinkcapital.com

Freeosk is a proprietary marketing services platform that offers consumers a fast and fun way to receive free samples of new products wherever they shop, play, and explore. Via a network of interactive kiosks that automatically distribute free samples, Freeosk aims to improve current product sampling solutions by increasing consumer conversion rates while providing deeper insights to retail and manufacturer partners about how shoppers discover and adopt new products. Freeoskis based in Chicago, Illinois.

First Analysis
Investor
Venture Capital Firm
Chicago, Illinois
www.firstanalysis.com

Beringea
Investor
Private Equity Firm
London, United Kingdom
www.beringea.com

PandoLogic is revolutionizing the online recruitment industry by building the largest and most effective recruitment advertising network designed to connect employers and job seekers much more efficiently while helping digital publishers increase revenue and site traffic with online recruitment. PandoLogic was founded in 2007 and is based in New York City.

Edison Partners
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Princeton, New Jersey
www.edisonpartners.com

Cartera Commerce, Inc. is a provider of technology-enabled marketing and loyalty solutions.

Comvest Partners
Investor
Private Equity Firm
West Palm Beach, Florida
www.comvest.com

ClickSquared is a provider of cross-channel marketing and email marketing services. With innovative offerings ranging from self-service email marketing to highly automated, real-time customer engagement and loyalty programs, ClickSquared’s innovative, multi-channel SaaS marketing platform orchestrates and delivers analytics-driven, relevant and personalized customer communications across email marketing, direct mail, social, mobile and web channels.

Staley Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Waltham, Massachusetts
www.staleycapital.com

Escalate Capital
Investor
Mezzanine Finance Firm
Austin, Texas
www.escalatecapital.com

GroundTruth is an operator of location-based marketing and advertising technology company. GroundTruth delivers a unique data set called "visitation data," which allows brands, agencies, SMBs, and non-profits to drive high-performing business outcomes (ROI). GroundTruth activates this data through a suite of performance products and services via their self-serve advertising platform, through managed services, or tailored partnerships. GroundTruth has built proprietary cleansing processes that combine their Blueprint's contextual mapping technology, owned & operated properties, along with 3rd party mobile location data. GroundTruth was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

Palisades Growth Capital
Investor
Growth Capital Firm
Los Angeles, California
www.palisadesgrowth.com

4INFO, Inc. is an identity and media solutions company, solving the digital and TV convergence. 4INFO's platform powers people-based marketing with its patented Bullseye ID®— a persistent, accurate match key that maps consumers to all of their connected devices in a household as well as to valuable consumer data, including CRM data —without compromising privacy. 4INFO provides customers superior match rates for their data, which allows them to use it at scale for both advertising and marketing purposes. 4INFO, Inc. was established in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California.

Vulcan Capital
Investor
Family Office
Seattle, Washington
capital.vulcan.com