Vistar Media Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Quixey was a mobile discovery platform delivering Deep View Cards for app content in search and social ads. Mountain View-headquartered from 2012 to 2018, it powered instant actions like ride bookings and hotel reservations for partners including Uber and Expedia. The technology integrated with Google and Facebook to boost app engagement rates before the company's closure.

NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering AI-powered advertising through AdRoll and AdRoll ABM platforms. San Francisco-headquartered since 2006, it serves 30,000+ brands like Hootsuite with multi-channel campaigns across 100+ DSPs, generating $2 billion in annual ad spend. The platform unifies retargeting, prospecting, and ABM with predictive analytics for 3x ROAS improvements.

Yext Inc provides a knowledge engine platform that lets businesses manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to approximately 200 services including Apple Maps, Bing, Cortana, Facebook, Google, Google Maps, Instagram, Siri and Yelp. Digital knowledge is the structured information that a business wants to make publicly accessible. The company also makes search intelligent by helping to provide precise, accurate and current answers to location-based queries that are conducted across the web and mobile applications and voice and artificial intelligence, or AI, engines. The company derives the majority of its revenues from subscription services. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from North America and the rest from International markets.

MediaAlpha Inc provides a platform that enables insurance carriers and distributors to target and acquire customers. The company's technology platform brings insurance carriers and consumers together through a real-time, transparent, and results-driven ecosystem. It serves as a customer acquisition channel in property and casualty insurance, health insurance, and life insurance. The company operates in the United States and generates revenue by earning a fee for each consumer referral sold on its platform.

Sprout Social Inc develops a cloud software that brings together social messaging, data and workflows in a unified system of record, intelligence, and action. It has a centralized, secure and powerful platform that can scale horizontally across an organization to drive maximum business value. The firm generates majority revenue from software subscriptions.

Septeni Holdings Co Ltd is a Japanese Internet marketing company, providing marketing support services based primarily on Internet ads. Its business activities are divided into two segments including Internet marketing business and Media content business. The Internet marketing business segment includes a social media business that provides marketing services for customers on various global social media networks. The company's media content segment plans, develops and operates media and content specializing in Manga art for mobile phone advertisements. Septeni's primary revenue source geographically is Japan and it also operates subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, South Korea, and the United States.

GumGum is a Santa Monica-headquartered artificial intelligence company founded in 2008, specializing in computer vision and natural language processing. The firm analyzes images and videos from web, social media, and TV to enable contextual marketing, sponsorship valuation, and content safety tools for media publishers and brands.

Nexxen International Ltd is a globalized and flexible advertising technology platform with deep expertise in data and advanced TV that helps empower advertisers, agencies, digital publishers and broadcasters to achieve desired outcomes, including increased efficiency and returns, across the media supply chain. It is a demand-side platform (DSP), supply-side platform (SSP), ad server, and data management platform (DMP) and also delivers a flexible and unified technology stack with and exclusive data at its core. Company operates in America, APAC, EMEA, regions, with majority revenue from America.

CE Info Systems Ltd is a data and technology products and platforms company, offering proprietary digital maps as a service, software as a service, and platform as a service. It provides software products, platforms, application programming interfaces, and solutions across a range of digital map data, software, and IoT for the Indian market under the MapmyIndia brand, and for the international market under the Mappls brand. The Company has only one business segment, i.e. Map data and Map data related services (GPS navigation, location-based services and IoT). This business mainly consists of products like digital map data, GPS navigation and location-based services, licensing, royalty, annuity, subscription and customizing its products to customers.

INRIX is a mobility analytics and connected-car services company, founded in 2004 and spun out of Microsoft Research, that turns data from connected vehicles and devices into traffic and mobility insights. Its Traffic Intelligence platform draws on data from more than 175 million vehicles and devices to cover 6.4 million kilometers of roads across 40 countries, powering navigation systems that predict optimal routes. The company has worked with automakers and public agencies, including a collaboration with General Motors on Safety View, a cloud-based application that uses connected-vehicle and public-safety data to help transportation officials plan and measure roadway safety programs.

Yeahmobi is a China-based mobile marketing and advertising network, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Xi'an. Its platform helps mobile gaming, consumer app, cross-border e-commerce, online finance, and travel businesses acquire and monetize international users through global mobile ad services. The company has reported strong growth, including $97 million in revenue during the first half of 2016.

PubMatic Inc is a supply-side platform provider in the digital advertising technology market. These platforms help publishers, which supply digital ad inventory, manage their inventory, selling a high percentage of their inventory (increase the ad fill rate) and maximizing revenue per ad sold (optimize yield). The company generates revenue mainly by taking a piece of the ad sales that it enables. Buyers on the platform include intermediary buyers, such as demand-side platforms, or advertisers and ad agencies directly. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States, followed by EMEA and APAC.

Criteo SA is an ad-tech company in the digital advertising market. Its technology, allows retailer advertisers to launch multichannel and cross-device marketing campaigns in real time. With real-time return on investment analysis of the ads, the firm’s clients can adjust their marketing strategies dynamically. It has two reportable segments: Retail Media and Performance Media. The firm also provides technology allowing retailers to effectively manage their ad inventories and improve yield optimization.