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Progress Ventures is the Venture Capital arm of Progress Partners, a boutique M&A Advisory firm specializing in the advertising, marketing, and media technology sectors. The sector-focused fund capitalizes on a network deeply rooted in the industry from almost two decades of direct involvement. As an organization, Progress has grown to include a digital media consulting practice, Progress Advisors, and an annual conference, Progress Connect, along with the core M&A Advisory and Venture Capital Groups. As a firm we rely on the intrinsic value of our ecosystem along with a proactive approach to sourcing opportunities on the cutting edge of advertising, marketing, and media technology.

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Apr 29, 2021

Instreamatic, which inserts interactive voice ads into audio streams, raises $6.1M Series A round

Apr 29, 2021

San Francisco, April 27, 2021 (Tech Crunch) -- Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic, which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 million in a Series A funding led by Progress Ventures, joined by Accomplice and Google Assistant Investments.

Apr 29, 2021

Apr 8, 2021

Intel Backs Video Data Firm Offering an Ad-Targeting Alternative to Cookies

Apr 8, 2021

Los Angeles, April 7, 2021 (Wall Street Journal) -- Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corp., has led a new $18 million Series B investment round in Iris.TV Inc., a data technology company that provides tools to help marketers and others understand the content of individual videos for the purposes of ad targeting and measurement.

Apr 8, 2021

Mar 30, 2021

ID5 Raises $6m in Series A Funding

Mar 30, 2021

PARIS, March 30, 2021 (ExchangeWire) -- ID5, the leading independent identity solution provider, announces a “series A” funding round of USD $6m (£4.4m). Alliance Entreprendre and Progress Ventures join existing lead investor 360 Capital Partners to support ID5 in growing its privacy-first identification service for the benefit of the whole digital advertising ecosystem.

Mar 30, 2021

Disruptel Announces $1.15 Million Seed Round to Further Develop Transformative Connected TV Viewer Experience (Copy)

Mar 30, 2021

ST. LOUIS, March 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Disruptel, the interactive TV and voice assistant innovator changing the way consumers interact with their connected televisions, today announced the completion of a $1.15 million seed funding round. PJC and Progress Ventures led the round, with the backing of notable industry investors and advisors including Mike Baker, co-founder and former CEO of DataXu (acquired by Roku in 2019), Adam Cheyer, voice assistant expert and co-founder of Siri, Andrew Olson, a senior technology executive instrumental in developing both Xfinity TV in the US and Sky Q in Europe, Bill Simmons, co-founder of DataXu, as well as other high-profile streaming video executives.

Mar 30, 2021

Jul 22, 2020

Tenovos Raises $4 million Series A Investment to Accelerate Growth and Adoption of Story Management Platform

Jul 22, 2020

New York – July 15, 2020 – Tenovos, the company helping brands tell stories that matter, today announced that it has secured a series A investment led by Progress Ventures with participation from Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Revel Partners and Dublin Capital to help the company build on increasing market momentum for its award-winning story management technology. The $4 million round will be used to scale Tenovos’ customer success strategy and invest heavily into product development for its flagship solution Active Story Management (ASM)™.

Jul 22, 2020