Pursway

Audience Targeting Platform

Business Software
Acquired (Inactive) by IPG on Sep 2015 - closed due to acquisition
Acquired Herzliya Founded 2005
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Total raised
$17.1M
Last: Series B 2013-10
Stage
Acquired
Founded
2005
Headcount
6
HQ
Herzliya
Sector
Business Software

About

Pursway empowers consumer-facing organizations to scale their target audience by identifying like minded individuals with a strong social affinity to their brand. Using our solutions, leading global organizations in telecommunications, retail, and financial services extend their marketing reach to the friends of their audiences. Pursway has developed a proprietary database that maps relationships between more than 150 million North American consumers. Leveraging machine learning, anti-terrorism techniques, Pursway is able to analyze billions of pieces of data from thousands of open data sources and connect the dots. The technology platform accurately determines who is a real-life friend of whom while matching entities to create a human network in which real-life connections are identified. We have sufficient transactional evidence that friends really do buy what their friends buy. Since we have the unique ability to identify the best friends of your target audience, we can extend your marketing reach to target the best friends of your best audiences.

Funding history · 3 rounds · $17.1M total

2013-10
Series B $7.2M
2011-10
Series B $1.4M
2010-02
Series A $8.5M

Sectors & technology

Primary sector
Business Software
Sub-sectors
Business SoftwareSales & Marketing SolutionsAdvertising Platforms
Technologies
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningPlatforms & InterfacesWeb
Target customers
Communication ServicesDiversified Telecommunication ServicesFinancial ServicesCommerce & Retail
Business model
B2B

Tags

targetingsocial-networkssoftware-applicationsadvertisingaudience-targetingbig-datamachine-learningmarketing