Paapi, a next-generation ad measurement platform, has closed a £420,000 pre-seed funding round led by SFC Capital, the UK’s most active early-stage investor. The initial round was oversubscribed by 20%. Paapi is tackling one of ad tech’s biggest challenges: giving brands [...]

FirstPartyCapital (FPC), the leading global sector-focused fund, today (11th June, 2025) announces a multi-million pound investment from IX Labs, the investment arm of Index Exchange, one of the world’s largest independent supply-side platforms (SSPs). This strategic partnership comes as FirstPartyCapital [...]

StackAdapt, a leading AI-powered programmatic advertising platform, has announced a USD$235m (£187.6m) equity funding round. Led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the investment arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the round also saw participation from Intrepid Growth Partners and [...]

Ad tech startup XPLN.AI has announced a USD$8mn (£6.1mn) funding round, led by Ventech and Spring Invest.  Redefining advertising effectiveness: For the past 15 years, standard advertising metrics such as impressions, viewability, and completion-rates have dominated the definitions of ad quality, [...]

Adelaide, the leader in attention-based media quality measurement, has secured an additional $1.4m (£1.079m)in a seed-extension round led by Aperiam Ventures. New investments from GOAL Ventures and Nishat Mehta, along with participation from previous investors BlueTree and Human Ventures, contributed [...]

Kevel, the API led ad serving company, is announcing it has raised USD$23m (£18m) in Series C funding. This round of funding was led by Series B investor Fulcrum Equity Partners with investment from Godwin Capital Group, Iberis Capital, Dunnhumby [...]

NumberEight, a London-based startup using on-device AI to deliver ‘privacy-first’ identity solutions for the advertising industry, has raised USD$2.7m (£2.1m) in Pre-Series A funding led by ACF Investors. The investment will be used to drive commercial growth, bolster product development, [...]

FirstPartyCapital’s flagship event MadTechMoney returns on the 31st October 2023, bringing together leading figures across the ad tech/martech industry and the investment community to discuss key investment trends. Returning after the inaugural event held in October 2022, which attracted over 200 [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: China's Baichuan amasses USD£300m (~£246m) in funding; Amazon announces it will launch in South Africa next year; and X trials a paid-subscription model for users. China’s Baichuan raises USD$300m in latest funding round AI start-up Baichuan has [...]

Picnic - the user-first media platform which exists to create a more user-friendly ad-funded web - announced it has closed a £1m funding round. Picnic will leverage the funds to accelerate the development of solutions aimed at delivering outcomes for brands, [...]