Amobee
Amobee is a mobile advertising technology company providing solutions and services for large advertisers, publishers and operators. Amobee has a proprietary platform that supports existing and emerging mobile ad formats on any mobile, internet-enabled device, including gaming platforms.
The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices in London, New York City, Los Angeles, Argentina, and Singapore. The Amobee R&D center is in Herzliya, Israel.
Amobee has run mobile advertising campaigns worldwide, serving global brands such as eBay, Nokia, Skype, and Telefónica.
History
Amobee was founded in May 2005 by Gil Shulman, Saul Rurka and Zohar Levkovitz. It went live in June 2005. One year later, the company recruited Roger Cameron Wood, a mobile industry veteran, who established the company's U.S. presence in San Francisco.
In 2009, Amobee purchased media company RingRingMedia in order to expand their advertising customer base, enabling mobile media owners to sell advertising space to companies on a collective basis. At the time of acquisition, RingRingMedia bought more than $2 million (£1.2 million) of mobile media a month, serving more than 4 billion ad impressions a month.
In July 2011, Trevor Healy, formerly of JAJAH was appointed Chief executive officer. Zohar Levkovitz will stay with Amobee as Vice Chairman.
Amobee was acquired by Singtel in March 2012 for $321 million.
Investors
Amobee has financial backing from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Globespan Capital, as well as strategic investments from Motorola, Cisco and leading operators, Vodafone and Telefónica.
Awards
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Northern California Award Winner
- AlwaysOn - OnMobile Top 100 Winner (2008, 2010)
- World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneer (2010)
- Business Insider - World's Most Valuable Startups (2010)
- Red Herring 100 - North America – Winner (2010)
- Intercontinental Finance Magazine - Company of the Year, North America (2010)
- Frost & Sullivan - Best Mobile Advertising Technology (2009)
- Tie50 - Leader in Innovation, Ingenuity and Management Excellence (2009)
- E&Y and Globes - Most Promising Company (2008–2009)
- In November 2008 Globes, the Israeli financial newspaper, voted Amobee the most promising startup of the year 2008.