Best Tech for Digital Publishers Companies in New York City, United States
The 47 best Tech for Digital Publishers companies in New York City, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Outbrain.
Ranked: Best Tech for Digital Publishers companies in New York City
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outbrain Cloud based platform offering native advertising solutions | $404M | 61 mo ago | 136 | Yaron Galai Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17 | Top 50k | 63 patents Personalized content recommendation and curation algorithms for digital media platforms. | — |
| 2 | Taboola 🦄 Provider of a platform for advertising and driving digital performance | $160M | 44 mo ago | 281 | Adam Singolda Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | Top 50k | — | 1 award |
| 3 | Minute Media 🦄 Provider of technology and advertising solutions for publishers and advertisers | $151M | 30 mo ago | 38 | Gili Beiman Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 4 | EX.CO Content management platform | $69M | 106 mo ago | 135 | Tom Pachys Co-Founder and CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+33 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 5 | beehiiv Provider of SaaS and app based platform for newsletter creators | $50M | 27 mo ago | 10 | Vikram Gopal Founder & Marketing Head | Beehiiv RSS feedPrismicSentry+41 | Top 500k | — | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Chartbeat Provider of real-time analytics and optimization tools for media companies | $41M | 96 mo ago | 87 | John Saroff CEO | WordPress Site EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+36 | Top 100k | 2 patents Real-time analytics for ad engagement on digital publishing platforms | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 7 | Supertab Platform offering AI and content monetization solutions | $37M | 73 mo ago | 50 | Cosmin Ene Founder & CEO | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesStripe+20 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | Apester Provider of content engagement platform | $18M | 123 mo ago | 35 | Daniel Zadok Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 9 | Connatix Native ad exchange platform that performs matching in real-time | $15M | 60 mo ago | 193 | — | Salesforcestyled-componentsReact+32 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 10 | LicenseStream Automated online content licensing platform | $7M | 155 mo ago | — | Richard Wright CEO & President | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Locals Subscription-based community platform for creators | $5M | 64 mo ago | 11 | Dave Rubin Co-Founder | PHPFirebaseAmazon Web Services+23 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 12 | Limbik Provider of predictive analytics solutions 42Talent top 28%AI top 35%Funding top 47%Tech bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 28% AItop 35% Fundingtop 47% Techbottom 49% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 30% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated AI: Product described with: artificial intelligence, machine learning rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $3M | 6 mo ago | 32 | Mark Faktorovich Co-Founder | Framer SitesYouTubeReact+11 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 13 | Authorea Collaborative platform for research and learning | $2M | 127 mo ago | 88 | — | RubyFacebook LoginChart.js+30 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 14 | Action Button Online platform providing solutions for publishers to generate interactive content through polls and opinions | $2M | 122 mo ago | 12 | Drew Schutte CEO | HubSpot CMS HubMaterial Design LiteAnimate.css+19 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 15 | Mediachain Digital media association on blockchain. | $2M | 122 mo ago | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Tizra Content creation solution | $850K | 215 mo ago | 2 | David Durand CEO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+23 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 17 | SHLF Online platform to organize content | $210K | 68 mo ago | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Purple Audience engagement platform | $150K | 118 mo ago | 18 | — | — | — | 10 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 19 | Foster SaaS-driven community-based writing platform | $125K | 62 mo ago | 25 | Stew Fortier Co-Founder | — | — | 78 patents Railtrack fastening, joint components, and friction‑material spraying systems for rail infrastructure | — |
Top 12 Tech for Digital Publishers companies in New York City
#1
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2001 · 32 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Limbik provides predictive analytics solutions. It provides an integrated network to track people and capture behavior and preference data with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. It provides moment by moment analysis of how users react to the video content and enables users to discover audience trends and behaviour, analyze video data and target customers. It helps businesses to predict the content which will succeed with video and audio attributes. Customers include ZIFF DAVIS, Group nine, Nitro Circus, IRi, and Fairfax Media.
- Feb 2026Series A$1M
- Feb 2026Conventional Debt—
- Feb 2024Seed$1.3M
- Feb 2024Conventional Debt—
#2
Series H · New York City, New York · founded 2011 · 38 employees$150.8Mraised▾
Provider of technology and advertising solutions for publishers and advertisers. The company offers a supply-side platform connecting publishers and brands within programmatic advertising. It also provides publishers with technology to power digital content destinations. The company delivers advertisers authentic storytelling, engaging experiences, and tailored distribution.
- Jan 2024Conventional Debt—
- Jan 2024Series H$100M
- Feb 2020Series G$40M
- Jun 2019Series G$40M
#3
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2021 · 10 employees$49.7Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS and app based platform for newsletter creators. It is designed to help creators, publishers, and brands build, grow, and monetize newsletters and website content. It offers a seamless newsletter builder, no code website creation, and various growth and monetization tools including an ad network, referral program, and subscription management.
- Apr 2024Series B$33M
- Jun 2023Series A$12.5M
- Sep 2022Seed$1.6M
- Oct 2021Seed$2.6M
#4
Taboola 🦄Public · New York City, New York · founded 2007 · 281 employees$160Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for advertising and driving digital performance. It offers tools for advertisers to manage campaigns and optimize performance. The platform provides solutions for audience targeting and creative ad experiences. It helps businesses increase website engagement, drive leads, and facilitate online purchases.
- Nov 2022Post IPO—
- Nov 2015Series E—
- Jun 2015Series E$3M
- May 2015Series E—
#5
Public · New York City, New York · founded 2006 · 136 employees$403.7Mraised▾
Cloud based platform offering native advertising solutions. It is a content discovery and distribution platform that enables users to connect marketers to the target audience through personalized recommendations. Provides content discovery and recommendations for publishers to increase traffic and generate revenue based on user specific contextual analysis and collaborative filtering.
- Jul 2021Series I$200M
- May 2016Series H$45M
- Mar 2015Series G$50M
- Oct 2013Series F$35M
#6
Series C · New York City, New York · founded 2012 · 135 employees$69.2Mraised▾
Content management platform. The platform allows businesses and publishers to create personalize brand content and engage the audience. It allows users to create and design content for a flip, poll, video, quiz, quotes, and more. It provides video OVP and monetization suite for organizations, including content and player management, the own ad server, content recommendation, and more.
- Sep 2017Series C$35M
- Mar 2016Series B$15M
- Mar 2015Series B$16M
- Jun 2014Series A$3M
#7
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2009 · 87 employees$41.1Mraised▾
Provider of real-time analytics and optimization tools for media companies. The company offers dashboards to track engagement, traffic sources, and content performance. It provides historical data analysis, reporting, and competitive benchmarking. The company also offers tools for headline and image testing, and audience conversion optimization.
- Jul 2018Series C$7M
- May 2015Series C$15.5M
- May 2014Series B$3.1M
- Apr 2012Series B$9.5M
#8
Unfunded · New York City, New York · founded 2023 · 50 employees$37.2Mraised▾
Platform offering AI and content monetization solutions. It provides a pay-as-you-go infrastructure for content, application, and API monetization. It offers tools and APIs for developers and businesses. The platform supports various use cases, including content creators, developers, publishers, education providers, and SaaS businesses. It enables businesses to monetize casual users through a pay-as-you-go payment model. It also provides an alternative to traditional subscription and advertising revenue models by allowing users to make small purchases that aggregate into a running balance.
#9
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2013 · 193 employees$15Mraised▾
Connatix offers a native advertising solution for displaying branded content across the web and mobile media properties in a real native way. The platform allows publishers to create Native Ad Placements and performs matching in real-time to bring the best story to the most relevant user. Clients include Bank of America, American Express, ford, Lipton, Unilever among many others.
- Jul 2021Series B—
- Oct 2017Series A$15M
#10
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2011 · 35 employees$18Mraised▾
Provider of content engagement platform. The platform enables content publishers to create the content in the form of quizzes, stories, polls, videos, etc and engage the community of users and monetize assets on the web and mobile. It provides features to deploy interactions to enhance user’s experience while they engage with content on the web or mobile. it also allows members to segmentize the audience, educate them about a topic/brand/product and gain insight into customer satisfaction and event feedback. It has clients such as Time, Rolling Stone, CNN, IDG, etc.
- Apr 2016Series A$12M
- Jul 2015Series A$5M
- Jul 2011Angel$1M
#11
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2019 · 11 employees$4.9Mraised▾
Subscription-based community platform for creators. It allows users to post videos, photos, podcasts, messages, and polls. Users can also sell tickets to events, and offer exclusive content to their fans. The application is available for Android and iOS users.
- Mar 2021Series A$3.8M
- Apr 2020Seed$1.1M
#12
Acqui-Hired · New York City, New York · founded 2003$6.8Mraised▾
LicenseStream is an automated online content licensing platform that enables publishers to put their content in online storefronts where it’s available for others to purchase the usage of digital assets. Automates content licensing, royalty settlement and content monitoring across the internet. Features include administrative consoles, content tracking, remedy collections, and others.
- Sep 2013Series A$223.2K
- Feb 2010Series A$3.2M
- Feb 2007Series A$1.8M
- Feb 2007Series A$1.6M
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