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Best Mobile Advertising Companies in San Francisco, United States

The 80 best Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AppsFlyer.

80companies tracked
$1.3Bdisclosed funding
1unicorns
51have raised

Ranked: Best Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFounderPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1AppsFlyer 🦄
Cloud based mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform
87Market top 24%Tech top 26%News top 26%Moat top 26%
All 12 signals ▾
Markettop 24%
Techtop 26%
Newstop 26%
Moattop 26%
Producttop 28%
Innovationtop 29%
Growthtop 29%
Partnerstop 33%
Fundingtop 36%
Talenttop 36%
Globaltop 37%
Customerstop 41%
Market: 1,000 employees (top 4% of Mobile) · Top-500,000 web property
Tech: 75 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100
$300M66 mo agoSeries D1,000
1,000 → 1,545 (+55%)
Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder & CEO
——
2RockYou
Cross-platform video ad network for games
22Talent top 28%Funding top 33%Market bottom 44%Global bottom 39%
All 6 signals ▾
Talenttop 28%
Fundingtop 33%
Marketbottom 44%
Globalbottom 39%
Newsbottom 27%
Growthbottom 10%
Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5
Funding: Raised $165M across 11 rounds · 11 rounds over 20 yrs (0.6/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 22/100
$165M135 mo agoDeadpooled57———
3Marin Software
Provider of a platform for managing and automating paid media campaigns
$101M162 mo agoPublic299Christopher Lien
Founder
——
4Swrve
In-app marketing automation platform for mobile apps
$76M99 mo agoAcquired8Tornike Onashvili
Co-Founder
——
5NinthDecimal
NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data that build a precise understanding of…
67Moat top 21%Growth top 30%Funding top 33%Market top 45%
All 7 signals ▾
Moattop 21%
Growthtop 30%
Fundingtop 33%
Markettop 45%
Patentsbottom 49%
Innovationbottom 46%
Globalbottom 39%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 46 patents
Growth: Headcount 108 → 133 (+23%) across vintages
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100
$74M69 mo agoSeries E19—46 patents
Geospatial analytics and accuracy assessment for mobile device location tracking
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6ninthdecimal
NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data that build a precise understanding of…
67Moat top 21%Growth top 30%Funding top 33%Market top 45%
All 7 signals ▾
Moattop 21%
Growthtop 30%
Fundingtop 33%
Markettop 45%
Patentsbottom 49%
Innovationbottom 46%
Globalbottom 39%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 46 patents
Growth: Headcount 108 → 133 (+23%) across vintages
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100
$74M69 mo agoSeries E19—46 patents
Geospatial analytics and accuracy assessment for mobile device location tracking
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7Flurry
Mobile app analytics platform empowering app growth through data-driven insights
$63M144 mo agoAcquired122—6 patents
Mobile app deployment, usage‑based ad targeting, and link‑based service delivery for mobile devices
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8Tapjoy
Mobile advertising & monetization
$60M118 mo agoAcquired137Tomer Bar-Zeev
CEO
37 patents
Incentivized mobile advertising platform for app install acquisition and reward-based user engagement
—
9Smaato
Mobile RTB ad exchange and SSP
$40M142 mo agoAcquired300———
10Playhaven
Mobile game monetization platform
$31M140 mo agoAcqui-Hired35———
11Kiip
Loyalty platform to reward customers through mobile gaming and apps
$27M119 mo agoDeadpooled41———
12Vungle
Online ad network platform
$26M148 mo agoAcquired39—93 patents
AI-driven personalized in‑app video and AR advertising for mobile devices
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13Apsalar
Mobile attribution and analytics
$23M127 mo agoAcqui-Hired29———
14Kaizen Ad
Video and playable advertising creative platform
$22M102 mo agoSeries C26———
15Chartboost
Ads monetization platform based on mobile games
$21M161 mo agoAcquired60
60 → 53 (-12%)
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16MoPub
Marketing tech empowering businesses to acquire, monetize, and measure advertising performance
$19M165 mo agoAcquired55——1 internship · 1 launch
17Ad Infuse
Platform offering mobile advertisement management solutions
$18M221 mo agoAcquired11Brian Cowley
Ex - President & CEO
6 patents
Digital advertising delivery and tracking technologies for mobile and media platforms.
—
18Greystripe
Mobile advertising platform
$18M201 mo agoAcquired2—7 patents
Mobile app content integration and peripheral messaging interface technologies.
—
19URX
Deep linking for mobile apps
$15M145 mo agoAcqui-Hired21———
20PuddingMedia
Monitors phone calls to provide tailored ad content
$14M203 mo agoSeries A—Ariel Maislos
Founder & CEO
——
21Appodeal
Mobile app mediation platform maximizing ad revenue and enabling mobile business growth
$11M97 mo agoPublic16Pavel Golubev
Co-Founder & CEO
——
22Immersv
Platform offering VR advertisement creation solution
$11M106 mo agoDeadpooled15—10 patents
IMU-based comfort and distraction monitoring plus VR-to-app installation workflow solutions
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23Placecast
Creates audience segments using location data
$10M108 mo agoAcqui-Hired38———
24mNectar
Virtualized app streaming technology for app ads
$8M137 mo agoSeries A8———
25Bread
Monetization Platform For Social Media, Desktop and Mobile Publishers
$8M162 mo agoAcquired—Alan Chan
CEO
5 patents
Targeted social media advertising platform
—
26Frameplay
In-game advertising platform for advertisers
$8M54 mo agoSeries A—Eric Rossi
Co-Founder
13 patents
Targeted advertising delivery within virtual and augmented reality environments
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27Heyzap
Mobile app monetization and advertising mediation
$8M162 mo agoAcquired17———
28Unity Analytics
Play games, win prizes, amazing originals, responsible gaming
$8M160 mo agoAcquired20Chethan Ramachandran
CEO
——
29Pocket Change
Virtual Currency Platform
$6M167 mo agoDeadpooled—Myles Binford
Founder & CEO
——
30App Samurai
Self-serve mobile advertising platform
$5M75 mo agoSeries A66Mehmet Bilgin
Co-Founder
——
31Adinch
Self-service mobile advertising platform
$4M141 mo agoDeadpooled13Alexey Semakin
Co-Founder & CEO
——
32Aki Technologies
Contextual mobile advertising platform
$4M117 mo agoAcquired186Alvaro Bravo
President & Co-Founder
157 patents
Non‑silicone, anhydrous silky fragrance formulations for hair and cosmetic products
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33Locket
Lock-screen ads platform
$4M136 mo agoAcqui-Hired8———
34MAX
Programmatic ad buying platform
$4M97 mo agoAcqui-Hired—Dan Sack
CEO
31 patents
Targeted antioxidant and energy‑boosting nutraceutical formulations using sugar‑cysteine compounds.
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35ADVR
Content platform for creating VR experiences
$3M110 mo agoDeadpooled7Stephen Ip
Co-Founder & CSO
2 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
36Quettra
Mobile User preference identification and analytics platform
$3M142 mo agoAcquired13Ankit Jain
Founder & CEO
——
37Avocarrot
Native mobile ads
$2M133 mo agoAcquired16———
38Adello
Platform offering in app advertising solution
$2M142 mo agoSeries A215Mark Forster
Founder & President
2 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
39Namo Media
Native mobile advertising in-apps
$2M159 mo agoAcquired—Gabor Cselle
Co-Founder & CEO
——
40Metaresolver
Targeting Mobile Media
$2M170 mo agoAcqui-Hired12Mike Rowehl
Co-Founder
——
41PushPoint
Location-based mobile advertising solutions
$1M162 mo agoAcqui-Hired—Greg McAllister
Co-Founder & CEO
——
42TapRush
Mobile Demand-Side Platform
$1M171 mo agoSeed1David Lukrich
Co-Founder
——
43Growmobile
AI-powered advertising platform connecting advertisers and publishers across channels
$1M165 mo agoAcquired15Brendan Lyall
Co-founder & CEO
——
44CrowdMob
Growth marketing agency specializing in mobile app user acquisition and engagement
$1M185 mo agoDeadpooled—Matthew Moore
Co-Founder & CEO
——
45MobSmith
Mobile rich media advertising solution
$575K182 mo agoAcqui-Hired2Michael Barrett
CEO
——
46Matchpin
Mobile marketing for business
$250K181 mo agoDeadpooled—Tom Carter
Co-Founder
——
47TapEngage
Church engagement platform with apps, giving, media, and management tools
$120K180 mo agoAcquired—Sean Lynch
Co-Founder
——

Top 12 Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco

#1
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2011 · 1000 employees
$300Mraised
▾

Cloud based mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform. It allows app developers, brands, and agencies to measure mobile user acquisition across all paid, organic, viral, and social media sources. It provides real-time attribution data, allowing businesses to track user acquisition and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. It also provides marketing insights for brands to attribute, understand, and engage users through a marketing platform. It helps brands make informed decisions based on reliable data.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 87how this company ranks against its industry peers
Market
top 24%
Tech
top 26%
News
top 26%
Moat
top 26%
Product
top 28%
Innovation
top 29%
Market: 1,000 employees (top 4% of Mobile) · Top-500,000 web property · Unicorn (valued $2.0B)
Tech: 75 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services · Devops: Envoy, Nginx
News: 16 BI events in 12 mo (of 52 tracked, 8 types) · +700% YoY · 6 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 147k LinkedIn followers — 54.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2020Series D—
  • Jan 2020Series D$210M
  • Jan 2017Series C$56M
  • Jan 2015Series B$20M
Founders & team
Oren KanielCo-Founder & CEOGal EksteinChief Business OfficerRan AvrahamyCMO
Investors
M12, Pitango, Magma Venture Partners, General Atlantic, Qumra Capital, Goldman Sachs
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAosApple Icloud MailAppsflyerAtlassian StatuspageBootstrap
#2
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2003 · 133 employees
$73.8Mraised
▾

NinthDecimal is a mobile audience intelligence platform. Using both data and proprietary technology it constructs customized audience segments which are built on data points from devices. NinthDecimal also offers one-to-one audience targeting with the launch of the Location Graph, the platform that builds audiences using historical location data. Some of its partners include Media Math, Bright Roll, Exelate, Tube Mogul, The Trade Desk, and dataXu.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 21%
Growth
top 30%
Funding
top 33%
Market
top 45%
Patents
bottom 49%
Innovation
bottom 46%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 46 patents · Soonicorn
Growth: Headcount 108 → 133 (+23%) across vintages
Funding: Raised $73.8M across 11 rounds · 11 rounds over 18 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series E (Sep 2020)
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2020Series E$8M
  • Nov 2018Series D$804K
  • Sep 2018Series D$606K
  • Dec 2017Series D$6.7M
Investors
Comcast Ventures, DFJ, Trident Capital, Panorama Capital, Norwest, Draper Frontier
#3
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2018
$8Mraised
▾

In-game advertising platform for advertisers. It offers a self-service platform for brands to promote video gaming to audiences. It allows marketers to promote brands to video gaming audiences through intrinsic in-game advertising campaigns. It enables marketers to deploy targeted and additive advertising experiences that enhance the player experience.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 2.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2021Series A$8M
Founders & team
Eric RossiCo-FounderJonathon TroughtonCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Hiro Capital, Razer, Kona Venture Partners, zVentures, Westerly Winds
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7Core-JsGoogle Analytics
#4
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 8 employees
$76.1Mraised
▾

Swrve provides an in-app marketing automation platform that allows mobile product teams to optimize their applications and games. Combines analytics, segmentation, AB testing and in-app messaging in a unified application that allows monetization managers to continually test their applications by tracking user behavior, targeting specific user segments, tuning in-app elements, and talking to users via in-app messages. Added dynamic engagement scoring that allows product managers to segment their user bases, offering deals and messages and discounts to certain subsets. Has offices in SFO and Dublin.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2018Series D—
  • Sep 2017Series D$25M
  • Nov 2015Series C$30M
  • Sep 2014Series B$10M
Founders & team
Tornike OnashviliCo-Founder
Investors
Atlantic Bridge, Intel, SV Angel, AIB Seed Capital Fund, Enterprise Ireland, Bank of Ireland
Tech stack
AhoyAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerAws Certificate Manager
#5
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2003 · 19 employees
$73.8Mraised
▾

Operator of a mobile audience intelligence platform intended to understand consumers' physical world behaviour. The company's platform provides a location conversion index, location graph to process data points from a large number of unique users to bridge online and offline data, enabling clients to leverage a people-centric approach to understand and engage their audience across all media channels.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 21%
Growth
top 30%
Funding
top 33%
Market
top 45%
Patents
bottom 49%
Innovation
bottom 46%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · IP moat: 46 patents · Soonicorn
Growth: Headcount 108 → 133 (+23%) across vintages
Funding: Raised $73.8M across 11 rounds · 11 rounds over 18 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series E (Sep 2020)
Investors
Omega Venture Partners, North Atlantic Capital, Comcast Ventures, Panorama Capital, Trident Capital, DFJ
#6
Deadpooled · San Francisco, California · founded 2005 · 57 employees
$165.5Mraised
▾

RockYou is an interactive media company. Has multiple free-to-play games including company-owned and partner titles based on key platforms, genres, and demographics. Its integrated video advertising service enables brands to reach target consumers on Facebook, web, and mobile.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 22how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Funding
top 33%
Market
bottom 44%
Global
bottom 39%
News
bottom 27%
Growth
bottom 10%
Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5
Funding: Raised $165M across 11 rounds · 11 rounds over 20 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series D (Mar 2015)
Market: 57 employees
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2015Series D$23M
  • Jul 2014Conventional Debt$10M
  • Apr 2014Series D$3.3M
  • Dec 2012Series D$8M
Investors
Columbia Capital, FastPay, DCM Ventures, Partech Partners, SK Telecom Americas, SoftBank Group
#7
Public · San Francisco, California · founded 2006 · 299 employees
$100.8Mraised
▾

Provider of a platform for managing and automating paid media campaigns. The platform offers tools for connecting, understanding, and sharing marketing data across various ad platforms. It provides capabilities for automating and managing ad platforms at scale. The platform also offers features for forecasting, planning, and optimizing campaigns.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2012Series F$20M
  • Jun 2012Series F$818.4K
  • Feb 2012Series F$30M
  • Apr 2011Series E$16M
Founders & team
Christopher LienFounder
Investors
Amicus Capital, Benchmark, Crosslink Capital, DAG Ventures, Focus Ventures, Triangle Venture Capital Group
Tech stack
AccessibeApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#8
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2005 · 122 employees
$63Mraised
▾

Mobile app analytics platform empowering app growth through data-driven insights. It provided a platform for product, development, and growth experts to build better apps. The platform enabled tracking of installs, sessions, time spent, and more, offering insights into audience behavior and app usage. It facilitated on-demand analysis with tools for funnels and cohorts. The platform offered features like custom dashboards, data export, and integration options via SDKs and APIs. It supported app engagement, product iteration, and user acquisition efforts. The platform provided resources and guides on topics such as app tracking transparency, privacy compliance, crash analytics, growth hacking, and push strategies. It offered analytics, events, segmentation, audience, user journeys, funnels, push, and crash reporting.

Funding rounds
  • May 2014Conventional Debt$10M
  • Dec 2013Series E$12.5M
  • Apr 2013Series D$25M
  • Dec 2010Series C$15M
Investors
Menlo Ventures, DFJ, InterWest Partners, First Round Capital, Union Square Ventures, Crosslink Capital
Tech stack
AddtoanyApache Traffic ServerBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDrupal
#9
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 26 employees
$22.4Mraised
▾

Kaizen Ad is a video and playable advertising creative platform which connects advertisers and publishers to a global network called Optimizers. It provides an intelligent creative brief process including organizing assets, assigning Optimizers from the global network, and managing all of the communications with Opitimzers. It enables marketers to replace and iterate creative variations to optimize their campaign performance. Some of the brands using Kaizen Ad are Playrix, Funstage, Nanobit, Rakuten, LBC Studios, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2017Series C$4.6M
  • Feb 2016Series B$8M
  • Apr 2015Series A$4M
  • Mar 2014Series A$5M
Investors
STRIVE, Eight Roads Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, CyberAgent Capital, SBI Investment, Mizuho Capital
#10
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 66 employees
$4.6Mraised
▾

App Samurai provides a cloud-based advertising platform for advertisers to create, track, and measure online advertising campaigns for startups. It enables advertisers to engage users by creating display and video ad campaigns through and track industry-specific metrics to measure ROI. Some of the features include ad planning, execution, and analysis. It also provides a dashboard showing all the performance metrics about in-app events. Some of its clients include Nike, PaperClip, Fitplan, etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 21k LinkedIn followers — 7.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2020Series A$2.4M
  • Aug 2017Seed$1M
  • Jan 2017Seed—
Founders & team
Mehmet BilginCo-FounderSoner SensoyCofounder & Board Member
Investors
212 Vc, Collective Spark, e2vc, Techstars, ACT, Precede Technologies
Tech stack
AddtoanyAddtoany Share ButtonsAkismetAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAnt Design
#11
Deadpooled · San Francisco, California · founded 2010 · 41 employees
$27.3Mraised
▾

Provides rewards in mobile apps for brands and advertisers to reach out to consumers. Brands provide rewards at Kiip enabled gaming apps. Developers integrate Kiip in the app to increase engagement. Offers a self-service ad platform for advertisers to create and push rewards in mobile apps. Users make a Kiip account to get rewards through Kiip enabled gaming apps. Its network reaches 70 million users across a network of more than 1,500 games and apps. Partnered with digital agency VivaKi in March 2014.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2016Series C$12M
  • Nov 2014Series B—
  • Aug 2013Series B—
  • Jan 2013Series B—
Investors
Relay Ventures, True Ventures, HWVP, Interpublic, DG Ventures, Vast Ventures
#12
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2007 · 137 employees
$60Mraised
▾

Tapjoy is a mobile performance-based advertising platform that drives deep engagement and monetization opportunities for app publishers, while delivering engaged consumers to brands and advertisers. Tapjoy has a reach of more than 450M (December, 2013) mobile users each month and its “Mobile Value Exchange” model allows users to receive premium content in exchange for their engagement with advertisements.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2016Series D—
  • Jul 2011Series D$30M
  • Mar 2011Series C$15.1M
  • Feb 2009Series B$15M
Founders & team
Tomer Bar-ZeevCEO
Investors
InterWest Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, The D. E. Shaw Group, Rho Capital Partners, J P Morgan, ORIX
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesAmplitudeBootstrapCdnjsCloudflare

Funding & investor landscape

$1.3Btotal disclosed funding
50companies funded
135disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Crosslink Capital5 rounds
Google Ventures5 rounds
SV Angel4 rounds
XG Ventures4 rounds
AngelPad3 rounds
First Round Capital3 rounds
InterWest Partners3 rounds
Western Technology Investment3 rounds
Y Combinator3 rounds
500 Global2 rounds

Notable founders

Oren Kaniel
Co-Founder & CEO · AppsFlyer
Gal Ekstein
Chief Business Officer · AppsFlyer
Eric Rossi
Co-Founder · Frameplay
Jonathon Troughton
Co-Founder & CEO · Frameplay
Tornike Onashvili
Co-Founder · Swrve
Christopher Lien
Founder · Marin Software
Mehmet Bilgin
Co-Founder · App Samurai
Soner Sensoy
Cofounder & Board Member · App Samurai
Tomer Bar-Zeev
CEO · Tapjoy
Pavel Golubev
Co-Founder & CEO · Appodeal
Ariel Maislos
Founder & CEO · PuddingMedia
Alan Chan
CEO · Bread
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 12,126,562 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Mobile Advertising coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Mobile Advertising companies are there in San Francisco, United States?
Radar tracks 80 indexable Mobile Advertising companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco, United States?
The Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco, United States on this list have raised a combined $1.3B in disclosed equity funding across 50 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Mobile Advertising company in San Francisco, United States?
AppsFlyer is the highest-funded Mobile Advertising company in San Francisco, United States, with $300M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco, United States are funded?
50 of the 80 Mobile Advertising companies in San Francisco, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Mobile Advertising unicorns are there in San Francisco, United States?
1 Mobile Advertising company in San Francisco, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in San Francisco, United States Mobile Advertising companies?
The most active investors in San Francisco, United States Mobile Advertising companies on this list include Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, SV Angel, XG Ventures, AngelPad.
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