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AppNexus
Operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising
At a glance
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Sector
- Marketing
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning AppNexus.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former AppNexus employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MIMiSaludEst. 2021
Wendy JohanssonUnited States
SASpark AdvisorsEst. 2020
Alex ZhangUnited States
JEJeevesEst. 2019
Sherwin GandhiUnited States
HIHighbeamEst. 2020
UTUthanaEst. 2022Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where AppNexus was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2015. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across AppNexus's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where AppNexus deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
AppNexus's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about AppNexus on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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