Best Mobile Advertising Companies in New York City, United States
The 87 best Mobile Advertising companies in New York City, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: mParticle.
Ranked: Best Mobile Advertising companies in New York City
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mParticle Platform offering data management software 72Tech top 22%Talent top 28%Funding top 30%Moat top 31% All 10 signals ▾Techtop 22% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 30% Moattop 31% AItop 45% Producttop 46% Markettop 49% Growthbottom 49% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 24% Tech: 44 technologies across 7/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $272M | 56 mo ago | Acquired | 151 151 → 98 (-35%) | Michael Katz CEO | Co-founder | — | 2 launchs |
| 2 | GroundTruth Provider of a location analytics platform for marketing applications | $158M | 95 mo ago | Acquired | 252 252 → 386 (+53%) | Stephen McCarthy CEO | 16 patents Precision agriculture: real-time soil carbon, tillage, and residue management via sensor analytics | — |
| 3 | Visto Platform offering programmatic DSP solution | $98M | 68 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 405 | — | 129 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 4 | Integral Ad Science AI powered ad fraud detection software | $81M | 130 mo ago | Acquired | 880 880 → 1,171 (+33%) | Jack Habr Founder & CEO | 135 patents Digital ad verification, fraud detection, and brand‑safe content analytics for online advertising | — |
| 5 | Button Provider of a platform optimizing mobile taps for increased revenue 48Funding top 25%Moat top 38%Tech top 39%Patents top 40% All 13 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Moattop 38% Techtop 39% Patentstop 40% AItop 45% Partnerstop 45% Producttop 47% Talentbottom 49% Innovationbottom 44% Growthbottom 44% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 40% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $67.3M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 12 yrs (0.3/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 5/10 · IP moat: 32 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $67M | 12 mo ago | Acquired | 44 | Michael Jaconi Co-Founder and CEO | 32 patents Web traffic routing and URL exchange platforms for privacy-preserving session stitching. | 1 award |
| 6 | IGA Worldwide In-game advertising solutions provider | $51M | 192 mo ago | Deadpooled | 83 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Unlockd Mobile advertising on lockscreen | $50M | 108 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 55 | Matt Berriman Co-Founder & Director (currently in litigation vs Google) | — | — |
| 8 | Mojiva Mobile media and advertising network | $46M | 154 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 105 | Dan Goikhman Co-Founder | — | — |
| 9 | Unacast Provider of data management platform for forecasting locations 37Funding top 31%Moat top 39%Tech top 42%Growth top 45% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 31% Moattop 39% Techtop 42% Growthtop 45% Producttop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 45% Newsbottom 43% Marketbottom 36% Fin. healthbottom 28% Funding: Raised $40.1M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 11 yrs (0.5/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 9 curated direct competitors tracked rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $40M | 6 mo ago | Series C | 20 | Jeff White Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 10 | Moblty Content deployment platform for kiosk and mobile advertising | $34M | 85 mo ago | Acquired | 35 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Medialets Ad serving and rich media advertising platform | $33M | 149 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 50 | — | — | — |
| 12 | JUN GROUP Mobile video ad platform | $28M | 130 mo ago | Acquired | 86 | — | 1,146 patents AI model evaluation tools, floating-point optimization, pharmaceutical crystal forms, and medical needle devices. | — |
| 13 | Mobilewalla AI-based data management platform | $27M | 97 mo ago | Series B | 20 | Jay Clark Co-Founder | — | 1 partnership |
| 14 | Yieldmo Online ad exchange platform | $22M | 69 mo ago | Series D | 109 109 → 149 (+37%) | Todd Coleman Co-Founder | 96 patents Programmatic interactive ad delivery with responsive media generation and visual consumption modeling | — |
| 15 | Crossboard Mobile Mobile ad network platform | $15M | 151 mo ago | Early Stage | 20 | — | — | — |
| 16 | TapCommerce Simplifying online shopping with secure payments and intuitive store creation | $12M | 151 mo ago | Acquired | 33 | — | — | — |
| 17 | StrikeAd Mobile demand side platform | $11M | 153 mo ago | Acquired | 78 | Alex Rahaman Founder | — | — |
| 18 | Apps Savvy Tech and business blog offering insights on technology and lifestyle | $10M | 174 mo ago | Series B | — | Chris Cunningham Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 19 | Adcade Cross Platform Mobile Advertising. | $10M | 132 mo ago | Deadpooled | 18 | — | — | — |
| 20 | Dobleas Mobile Self-service DSP & DMP platform | $10M | 159 mo ago | Series B | — | Yuzuru Honda Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 21 | Sense Networks Location-based mobile advertising | $9M | 203 mo ago | Acquired | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | TreSensa Playable advertisements provider for marketing of games and brands | $9M | 134 mo ago | Acquired | 27 | — | 7 patents Multi-provider service orchestration and mobile UI animation generation platform | — |
| 23 | Hangit Provides location driven engagement | $6M | 142 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | Jason Hogg Chairman & Founder | 8 patents Real-time mobile device geolocation using sensor fusion and positioning algorithms | — |
| 24 | GiftConnect Mobile gift and track advertising | $6M | 138 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Mark Levin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 25 | PBB Provides data analytics solutions and insights for advertisers | $5M | 133 mo ago | Deadpooled | 12 | — | — | — |
| 26 | Start.io Provider of a platform for mobile advertising and audience monetization | $4M | 156 mo ago | Series A | 147 | Gil Dudkiewicz CEO | 6 patents Patents concentrated in mechanical & energy engineering | 1 partnership |
| 27 | AdTheorent AI based predictive mobile advertising platform | $4M | 112 mo ago | Acquired | 301 | Anthony Iacovone Co-Founder | 3 patents Scalable machine‑learning analytics and distributed data preservation platforms | — |
| 28 | Parsec Cost per Second based mobile ad network | $4M | 95 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 25 | — | 8 patents High‑speed NAS data‑path optimization and linearized trans‑impedance optical receiver amplifiers | — |
| 29 | EveryScreenMedia Powering media buyers in the mobile advertising landscape | $4M | 166 mo ago | Acquired | 12 | — | — | — |
| 30 | PadSquad Provider of content based advertisement creation tool | $3M | 49 mo ago | Seed | 60 | Daniel Meehan Founder & CEO | — | 1 job opening |
| 31 | ActionX Mobile app and cross-screen retargeting | $3M | 153 mo ago | Acquired | 25 | Evan Schwartz Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 32 | Pig.gi Reward based ad serving on mobile | $3M | 102 mo ago | Seed | 14 | Isaac Phillips Co-Founder | — | — |
| 33 | Parrable Provider of data management solution | $2M | 119 mo ago | Series A | 8 | — | 33 patents Timestamp-driven correlation of network identifiers and sessions for traffic analysis | — |
| 34 | Clickky Performance advertising platform for mobile apps | $2M | 133 mo ago | Deadpooled | 14 | — | — | — |
| 35 | RunAds Mobile-focused programmatic advertising platform | $2M | 154 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 99 | Seth Hittman Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 36 | Slidejoy Mobile platform offering rewards for using the lock screen | $1M | 135 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 5 | — | — | — |
| 37 | mPoint Media China focused Advertising technology | $1M | 137 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Christopher Cioffi CEO | — | — |
| 38 | Tomi.ai Provider of predictive marketing platform leveraging first-party data and machine learning | $1M | 60 mo ago | Seed | 14 | Konstantin Bayandin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 39 | Swyft Media Global font solutions for brands: licensing, management, and custom typography | $1M | 151 mo ago | Acquired | 10 | — | — | — |
| 40 | Decisive Self-Serve Mobile DSP & Campaign Analytics | $120K | 128 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | David Dundas CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Mobile Advertising companies in New York City
#1
Series C · New York City, New York · founded 2015 · 20 employees$40.1Mraised▾
Provider of data management platform for forecasting locations. A leading proximity network, enabling global online media players to extract a higher value from advertisers and launch new innovative campaigns. Enables advertisers of Unacast's partners, reach and retarget customers in the online space based on the customer interaction with beacons in the physical space.
- Dec 2025Series C$28M
- Oct 2021Series B$16M
- Feb 2018Series B$17.5M
- May 2016Series A$5M
#2
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2014 · 44 employees$67.3Mraised▾
Provider of a platform optimizing mobile taps for increased revenue. The platform uses artificial intelligence to route users to destinations with higher conversion rates. It offers smart routing, in-app priority, and attribution using first-party data. The platform integrates with mobile measurement partners to improve performance for retailers, publishers, advertisers, and creators.
- Jun 2025Series C—
- Jul 2019Series C$30M
- Jan 2017Series B$20.7M
- 2015Series A—
#3
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2012 · 151 employees$272Mraised▾
Platform offering data management software. The platform leverages API to collect customer data and connect it to the customer data platform. It helps in collecting, cleaning and connecting customer data to AB testing and analytics tools for experiments throughout the product lifecycle, thereby generating insights to improve conversions. It helps to understand user engagement, improve customer experience and make decisions based on customer data.
- Oct 2021Series E$150M
- Feb 2020Series D$45M
- Dec 2017Series C—
- Oct 2017Series C$35M
#4
Acqui-Hired · New York City, New York · founded 2005 · 405 employees$98.4Mraised▾
Platform offering programmatic DSP solution. It helps users in data-driven buying. The platform provides visibility into cost, audience, etc, and thereby helps to understand how the buying decisions are made. It centralizes the data execution and reporting to plan and optimize advertising across screens, formats, and technologies. Its features include reallocation tools, audience analytics, and performance reports.
- Sep 2020Series D$8.7M
- Jan 2018Series D$14.5M
- Jun 2016Series D$34M
- Jul 2013Series C$20M
#5
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2003 · 252 employees$157.8Mraised▾
Provider of a location analytics platform for marketing applications. The features of the platform include audience targeting, location targeting, weather targeting, location display SDK, and advertisement managing solutions. The location-based marketing solution is designed to drive in-store traffic and sales and the target audience includes marketers, publishers, and channel partners.
- Jul 2018Series F$18M
- Dec 2016Series E—
- Nov 2016Series E$42.5M
- Sep 2014Series D$50M
#6
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2009 · 880 employees$80.8Mraised▾
AI powered ad fraud detection software. The platform analyzes the data to identify anomalies and distinguishes human behavior from bots. It integrates with agencies, ad networks, and DSPs. The solution also covers different aspects of ad fraud, such as identifying anomalies indicating fraud, preventing wasted media spend by blocking threats, and utilizing a multi-layered approach to fraud detection.
- Jul 2015Conventional Debt$40M
- Jul 2015Series E$27M
- Feb 2015Series D$4M
- Jan 2014Series D$30M
#7
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2012 · 35 employees$34.3Mraised▾
Mobility provides a programmatic exchange which offers proprietary inventory for selling. Provides a platform which serves as a real-time content deployment in retail store kiosks and data analytics solution. Offers Built-in facial recognition which allows for contextual content deployment. Partners includde Samsung, Verizon, IBM, Ingram etc.
- May 2019Series A$14.1M
- Jul 2017Series A$5.5M
- May 2016Series A$3M
- Feb 2016Series A$8.4M
#8
Acqui-Hired · New York City, New York · founded 2014 · 55 employees$50Mraised▾
Unlockd is a mobile advertising company which serves ads on phone screen. Serves full-screen ads, content, and coupons when the users unlock their phones. The ads are provided based on the location, time of day and personal interests. In return, users get a discount on their mobile bills. Unlockd is available only in Android phone as of now. The telecom carriers also earn from the advertisers. Partners include Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook Audience Network, Dentsu Aegis, Starbucks, GrubHub, and Hulu. Telecom carriers in the network are Lebara Mobile and Sprint Telecom.
- May 2017Series B$23M
- Apr 2016Series A$12M
- Oct 2015Series A$15M
#9
Acqui-Hired · New York City, New York · founded 2008 · 105 employees$45.5Mraised▾
Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. Led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob; Mojiva provides products and solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers. Mocean Mobile was acquired by Pubmatic on May 19, 2014.
- Aug 2013Series C$3.5M
- Nov 2012Series C$7M
- Jul 2011Series C$25M
- Apr 2010Series B$7M
#10
Deadpooled · New York City, New York · founded 2005 · 83 employees$51.4Mraised▾
IGA Worldwide is an in-game advertising solution provider. The company offers "Radial Network" which platform that enables game developers/publishers to place static and dynamic ads in their games from various brands. Its solutions enable advertisers to target consumers playing games across various gaming platforms and genres.
- Jun 2010Series B$4.4M
- Jan 2008Series B$5M
- Jul 2007Series B$25M
- Jul 2006Series A$17M
#11
Series D · New York City, New York · founded 2012 · 109 employees$22.1Mraised▾
Online ad exchange platform. It enables users to exchange mobile advertisements. It connects publishers and buyers to buy, sell and serve ads. The platform enables marketers to purchase non banner ad inventory in proprietary ad formats on mobile pages and applications of publishers. It allows marketers to buy ads directly from the platform and target contextually, demographically, or by specific sites.
- Sep 2020Series D—
- Jun 2017Series C—
- Oct 2014Series C$10M
- Dec 2013Series B$8M
#12
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2008 · 20 employees$27.3Mraised▾
Mobilewalla an audience data provider, plans and executes mobile audience targeted mobile ad campaigns. Based on clients' audience requirements, It suggests relevant mobile apps that should be bought. Earlier an app search and discovery company. Later developed an app analytics platform that did App ranking. Amassed large data for it. Built technology to segment mobile users demographically. Used by RTB exchanges.
- May 2018Series B$12.5M
- Mar 2018Series A$7M
- Jul 2015Series A$3.4M
- Feb 2013Series A$4M
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