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We are building what will be the first *killer apps* for the emerging mass medium of virtual reality. Along the way, we are also building out a set of tools for developers, including a native monetization platform, which we originally developed for mobile gaming and then recently adapted to virtual reality. Our platform reaches over 200MM monthly active users across a large network of publishers.
MediaSpike has raised over $5MM from institutional investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, prominent angel investors Naval Ravikant and Rick Marini, as well as celebrity investors Robert Downey Jr. and Nas. Our advisory board includes luminaries such as Dave McClure, Charles Hudson, Shervin Pishevar, and Gokul Rajaram.
MediaSpike has raised over $5MM from institutional investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, prominent angel investors Naval Ravikant and Rick Marini, as well as celebrity investors Robert Downey Jr. and Nas. Our advisory board includes luminaries such as Dave McClure, Charles Hudson, Shervin Pishevar, and Gokul Rajaram.
Overview
Location
United States, New York
Phone
+1 650-336-5498
Total raised
$5.2M
Investors 2
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Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 25
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| Oct 18, 2015 | Virtual reality: The last frontier in native advertising | Virtual reality is gaining so much momentum that it will soon become an avalanche of immersive experience. After Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus, a leader in the VR hardware space, huge names like Google, Apple, and Sony have jo... |
| Dec 8, 2014 | MediaSpike creates cool in-game native ads for virtual reality | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. MediaSpike specializes in doing product-placement ads that look like they’re part of a game world. Now it’s doing the same thing for vi... |
| Dec 8, 2014 | MediaSpike Gave Us A Quick Look At Native Ads In Virtual Reality | Many virtual reality enthusiasts’ worst nightmares came true earlier this year when it was revealed that Oculus was being acquired. Here was this fledgling company at the vanguard of a medium long dreamt of but only now feasible for broad c... |
| Dec 8, 2014 | MediaSpike creates cool in-game native ads for virtual reality | MediaSpike specializes in doing product-placement ads that look like they’re part of a game world. Now it’s doing the same thing for virtual reality, so that the emerging platform isn’t plagued by banner ads and other intrusive advertising.... |
| Oct 22, 2014 | MediaSpike weaves movie ads as product placements into the PicCollage photo app | MediaSpike has figured out a way to embed branded ads inside apps, much like product placements in movies. It started by injecting ads for Pepsi onto the walls of social games on Facebook, and now it is announcing that it has been able to p... |
| Oct 22, 2014 | MediaSpike weaves movie ads as product placements into the PicCollage photo app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. MediaSpike has figured out a way to embed branded ads inside apps, much like product placements in movies. It started by injecting ads ... |
| Nov 8, 2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/8/13 | Newsle, Loop Commerce, IID, Sprinklr, RapidMiner, Gainsight, Building Robotics, Tailwind, Coho Data Seed stage Espresso Logic, provided of an instant RESTful server for developers to connect web and mobile applications to external databases... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | MediaSpike Grabs $5.2M in Series A | MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Product placement specialist MediaSpike has raised $5.2 million in series A funding. >> Click here for more funding data on MediaSpike >> To export MediaSpike funding data to PDF and Excel, click here P... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | MediaSpike Raises $5.2M in Series A Funding | MediaSpike, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of a solution for product placement in social and mobile games, raised $5.2m in Series A funding. The round was led by existing investor CMEA Capital, with participation from existing investors... |
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FAQ about MediaSpike, Inc.
How much funding has MediaSpike, Inc. raised?
MediaSpike, Inc. has raised $5.2M in total across 1 funding round.
Who has invested in MediaSpike, Inc.?
Parsers VC lists 2 investors of MediaSpike, Inc., among them 500 Startups.
What has the press written about MediaSpike, Inc.?
Parsers VC has collected 25 articles mentioning MediaSpike, Inc., among them “Virtual reality: The last frontier in native advertising” (Oct 18, 2015) and “MediaSpike creates cool in-game native ads for virtual reality” (Dec 8, 2014).
Is MediaSpike, Inc. still active?
Yes, MediaSpike, Inc. is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 18, 2015.