Mobile Advertising Startup GoldSpot Media Raises $12 Million

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Thursday, April 7th, 2011

GoldSpot Media, a privately held startup that specializes in mobile rich media and video advertising solutions this morning announced that it has closed $12.05 million in series B funding from Exa Ventures and Berg Enterprises. The company earlier raised $3 million.

GoldSpot Media offers a mobile ad platform called miSpot, a self-serve solution for publishers and advertisers to create, manage, distribute and track mobile ad campaigns – both in-app and mobile web – across a wide variety of smartphone and tablet platforms.

Customers include Hewlett-Packard, Audi, Toshiba, KIA Motors, Brother and more.

The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional sales offices in New York and Japan, and an R&D center in Bangalore, India.

Company: GoldSpot Media
Launch Date: 2006
Funding: $17.1M

GoldSpot Media is the leader in scalable mobile rich media advertising solutions for all smartphones and tablets. miSpot, our award-winning, cloud-based mobile rich media advertising platform, is the only open and universal mobile ad platform that delivers a selfserve environment to create, distribute and measure rich media campaigns across any publisher or ad network. Optimizing video and rich media files, miSpot transforms existing online and TV creative assets into mobile rich media. Advertisers extend their campaign and brand presence from...

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