John Tomich

Pub Ocean is technology company that makes digital publishing profitable. Founded by a team of people who built a top-200 Alexa site from scratch, we watched our peers obsess over pageviews at the cost of real revenue and waste hundreds of human hours each week in operations that could be automated. We saw the opportunity to create an ecosystem of businesses to amplify audience, increase yield, streamline publishers’ operations, and boost profitability. So we brought together some of the best minds in publishing and technology to make it happen. Backed by notable institutional and angel investors, Pub Ocean is headquartered in the UK with offices in New York and Poland. Our mission is to transform the online publishing industry through visibility and control.

Hexagram is a stealth native advertising platform for content distribution and monetisation. For brands: Forrester Research reports that 79% of marketers plan to generate branded content this year. As brands are now increasingly moving towards becoming digital publishers, innovative content has become a necessary way to keep companies competitive. This effort is wasted if at scale, brands can’t connect exceptional content with consumers who want to read it.

DSTLD [‘distilled’] We Separate the Necessary from the Unnecessary. With a heritage rooted in premium denim, an attitudinal staple that we believe everyone should feel like themselves in, we stand for quality over quantity and seek to create consciously minimal designs edited for everyday life. Our inherent design principles, inspired by the scientific method and creative process, motivate us to continually examine, explore, and express a distilled vision of what a core wardrobe should be. Unwavering in our pursuit of methodical expertise, we focus on purified fits, premium fabrics, manufacturing integrity and sustainability practices. Our team prioritizes a progressive perspective, and comes together with a robust blend of analytical and creative backgrounds. Our mixture of experience and thought facilitates a process driven approach to constantly improve our collections and commit to focusing on what matters most - both in our closets and in life.

Credit Keys patent-protected solutions deliver superior business credit,
 in seconds, at B2B point of purchase. Our proprietary underwriting and decisioning allows for real-time decisions for lines of credit at point of purchase. Credit Key helps merchants: - Increase revenue - Convert more customers - Lower costs - Improve cash flow - Deliver a great customer experience Credit Key’s standalone module overlays the merchant’s shopping cart, keeping users on site. Platforms currently supported: Magento, IBM, Shopify, Demandware, Onestop and custom .Net platforms.

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.

Pub Ocean is technology company that makes digital publishing profitable. Founded by a team of people who built a top-200 Alexa site from scratch, we watched our peers obsess over pageviews at the cost of real revenue and waste hundreds of human hours each week in operations that could be automated. We saw the opportunity to create an ecosystem of businesses to amplify audience, increase yield, streamline publishers’ operations, and boost profitability. So we brought together some of the best minds in publishing and technology to make it happen. Backed by notable institutional and angel investors, Pub Ocean is headquartered in the UK with offices in New York and Poland. Our mission is to transform the online publishing industry through visibility and control.