BlueKai Raises $21 Million For Online Target-Marketing Data Exchange

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Monday, February 1st, 2010

BlueKai, an online auction-based data exchange, has raised $21 million in funding from GGV Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures. This round of funding brings the startup’s total funding to $35 million.

Launched in 2008, BlueKai aggregates data from shopping and research activities across the Internet and provides this data on-demand for marketers, ad networks or publishers to boost the quality and scale of their ad targeting initiatives. Data buyers include many of the top ten US online ad networks. The new funding will be used to further product development. In particular, BlueKai is looking to incorporate realtime technologies into its platform.

The company recently launched an analytics feature that offers deep insight into consumer shopping behavior on the web. lBlueKai faces competition from fellow data exchange eXelate.

Company: BlueKai
Website: bluekai.com
Launch Date: 2007
Funding: $35.1M

BlueKai is the world’s first and only complete enterprise data activation solution for intelligent marketing. BlueKai offers its customers a system for managing and activating all their 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data in all marketing and customer engagements. BlueKai represents the only end-to-end SaaS solution for marketers and publishers looking to maximize their cross-channel marketing efforts and create a proprietary solution for unlocking reach, scale and efficiency using data. BlueKai leads the data-driven marketing space...

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