Social Media Advertising Startup Compass Labs Raises $6M From NEA And Presidio

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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Thursday, February 16th, 2012
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Compass Labs, which aims to provide targeted advertising on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, has raised $6 million from NEA, and Presidio Ventures. This brings the startup’s total funding to $12 million.

Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt two years ago, the startup provides a self-service advertising platform called CLIQ (Compass Labs IQ) that allows brands to serve targeted social media ad campaigns on Twitter and Facebook.

Compass Labs says that the startup differentiates itself from other social advertising options because it has created technology to identify audience segments in granular manner. For example, brands can target advertising based on household income. Founder and Google and Yahoo veteran Dilip Venkatachari says that the startup analyzes public data and mines look alike models to enhance advertising.

The new funding will be used towards product development and sales and marketing.


Company: Compass Labs
Website: compasslabs.com
Launch Date: 2009
Funding: $12M

Compass Labs provides a self-service or fully managed advertising platform called CLIQ (Compass Labs IQ) that makes targeted, scalable social media ad campaigns easy to execute and measure for agencies and brands.

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