Newark Venture Partners

A new startup called BranchLab, which was launched earlier this year by three ad tech vets, wants to help pharma brands and health care providers apply more targeting to their TV ad campaigns – but without using actual identifiers. On Thursday, BranchLab announced the completion of a seed funding round.

The audio advertising market is heating up, and investors are getting in on the action. Audio analytics platform Veritonic announced Tuesday it raised $7.5 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to date to $14 million. The company will use the funds to further its audio measurement and attribution capabilities and to grow its engineering and sales staff, said Veritonic founder and CEO Scott Simonelli.