From his recent “Ignite” presentation at a Google Zeitgeist event, investment banker Terence Kawaja of LUMA Partners breaks down the key levers driving the digital media industry (data, data, data) as well as the types of companies which will be involved in this ecosystem going forward. For those deep in the industry, you may know […]
Seth Levine is a co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, an early stage technology venture firm based in Boulder, Colorado. AdExchanger.com: Why get into the venture capital side of the business? Do you ever get the entrepreneurial “itch”? SL: I first got into venture capital about 10 years ago and I love my job. […]
Dan Boberg is President of Tallwave, a digital business accelerator. AdExchanger.com: Where do you see Tallwave fitting in the venture capital, angel and seed investing world? Is it competitive to these silos? Is it similar to Betaworks, for example? DB: Tallwave is a digital business accelerator that combines traditional consulting practices and start-up incubation services […]
Terence Kawaja recently announced that he will be leaving investment banking firm GCA Savvian to start his own firm, LUMA Partners. Kawaja discussed the new firm and his strategy with AdExchanger.com. AdExchanger.com: You have suggested investment banking needs disruption? Why? TK: Fundamentally, I think some aspects of the banking model are broken. Most bankers effectively […]
Andrew Weissman is founder and COO at Betaworks, which invests in and operates Internet and digital media companies. AdExchanger.com: There’s been a lot of good buzz about Betaworks recently. Why do you think that’s the case? AW: Luck? Right time at the right place? Our companies speak for themselves; to the extent there is attention […]
Gil Beyda leads early-stage investment group Genacast Ventures, a part of Comcast Interactive Capital. Genacast Ventures invested in demand-side platform Invite Media prior to being acquired by Google as announced earlier this month. Beyda spoke to AdExchanger.com about the deal as well as momentum in the space. AdExchanger.com: Were you surprised that Invite Media sold […]
For last week’s Digital Media Summit, GCA Savvian’s Terence Kawaja (maker of “A Few Good DSPs“) mashed up a music video version of Nickelback’s “Rockstar” with a range of technology and media “stars” in a sunnier update to his video from last year called Mad Avenue Blues. Do you recognize all the faces of “Tech […]
Entrepreneur and writer of the Cogblog, Brent Halliburton, has created a new type of ecosystem map showing the interconnected web of funding for ad tech companies and organizes it by broad, functional groups. Halliburton tells AdExchanger.com that he used historical data from angel investor Jerry Neumann, AdExchanger.com and TechCrunch’s Crunchbase to show “every investor that […]
Satya Patel is a Partner at Battery Ventures, a venture capital and private equity investment firm. AdExchanger.com: Battery Ventures has been around since the ’80s as a venture and private equity firm. Looking at a high level, can you take us through some of the strategy pivots the firm has made in regards to digital […]
The research arm of DeSilva & Phillips recently published a paper called “Ad Exchanges, RTB and the Future of Online Advertising” about the fast-moving, digital advertising ecoystem. You can download it here. Jay C. MacDonald, Partner, DeSilva + Phillips, discussed the research paper and today’s M&A environment. AdExchanger.com: For DeSilva & Phillips, what were the […]
