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Clickfacts
http://clickfacts.com/Last activity: 21.07.2020
Active - Reference to Leading Click Fraud Ad Protection Software
ClickFacts is a Malware Software Solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media. Its automated plug and play malware discovery solution tests online ads (SWFs & 3rd Party Ad Tags) and web pages within websites to ensure they do not distribute malware onto users’ computers (which can lead to identity theft). Its moderation software solution monitors websites to ensure the ads running on them are free of inappropriate content (e.g., nudity, racism), and its Ad Buddy product provides to advertisers real-time continuous monitoring and a complete history of where their ads have run. ClickFacts Inc. was founded in 2005 by Mikhail Ledvich, Mikhail Gurevich, and Greg Gurevich in Boston Mass, with initial funding by YCombinator. It is now based in San Francisco, California.
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
51-200
Investors 1
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| Sep 15, 2010 | Over 1.3 Million Websites Host Malware – Don’t Be One of Them | As a follow-up to our article “What You Need to Know About Malvertising:” Dasient saw a spike in the number of websites hosting malware in Q2 of this year, according to the security-as-a-service company’s Q2 Malware Report. According to Das... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | What You Need to Know About Malvertising | On September 14, 2009 New York Times readers were automatically redirected to a site hosting malmare thanks to an ad containing malicious code. On July 15 2010, TweetMeme was the victim of a similar attack and began sending its users to a “... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009 Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment fund, announced this week that it raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital, and angel investors. The fund, which has invested in 40 startups per... |
| Jan 8, 2007 | Fraudwall, an anti-click fraud company, raises millions | Updated Ron Conway, a well-known Internet investor, and entrepreneur Jim Pitkow have co-founded a company to stop advertising fraud online. They’ve invested an undisclosed amount of millions, alongside other angel investors. The secretive P... |
| Dec 10, 2006 | Paul Graham – Under the Microscope | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Paul Graham, as a combination of investor and uber geek, is a unique figure in the web industry. There’s an increasing trend of entrepreneur-friendly blogging among investors; Guy Kawa... |
| Nov 17, 2006 | Google digest: Start-page, Calendar, click-to-call, IRows, click-fraud, GooTube | Here’s this week’s roundup of news from the valley’s juggernaut, Google. Now it wants to take over your company’s start-page — This latest tool is for companies using Google’s online applications. Details here. Of couple, this sounds a lot ... |
| Nov 14, 2006 | ClickFacts, a new company countering click-fraud | (Updated with response from Google, and a counter-response from ClickFacts) ClickFacts, a San Francisco start-up, may be worth looking at if you’re an advertiser plagued by click-fraud. Click-fraud is the bane of the Internet: Web site owne... |
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What has the press written about Clickfacts?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Clickfacts, among them “Over 1.3 Million Websites Host Malware – Don’t Be One of Them” (Sep 15, 2010) and “What You Need to Know About Malvertising” (Sep 9, 2010).
Is Clickfacts still active?
Yes, Clickfacts is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.