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Apr 2018
As an experienced advertising agency, BrandVerge helps brands reach their full potential through strategic, audience-focused campaigns. Our data-led approach ensures we create relevant campaigns and place messaging where it will resonate most. We partner with brands to drive real impact – optimizing conversions, expanding reach, building lasting engagement, and consistently growing results across all touchpoints.
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Jun 2014
Dextro is a venture-backed computer vision company building an API to enable developers and businesses to analyze and draw insights from the objects that appear in their photos, videos, or streams. We allow users to extract actionable categorizations and statistics from their datasets without requiring developer knowledge of machine learning or computer vision. We provide businesses with specific, actionable statistics about their videos, images, and streams. A learning system, Dextro’s API gains specificity each time it completes a query. Unlike tagging services, Dextro provides developers with answers to targeted questions regarding their datasets. Our technology powers the next generation of vision-enabled apps, robots, smart devices, and data analytics tools. We have raised $1.71M from investors that include Two Sigma, Yale, RRE, Esther Dyson, and the cofounders of Medidata and Skype.
We’re a small, highly technical team of computer vision engineers and researchers from UPenn GRASP Lab, Yale, IIT Delhi, Microsoft, and iRobot. Our engineers take on high level responsibilities: every engineer owns a part of our processing pipeline and is responsible for its architecture and design. Rather than adding simple features to an existing codebase, engineers must answer hard, green-field problems to expand the capabilities of our API. The complex challenge of solving the core Dextro AI problem requires rigorous experimentation and development, and we tax our engineers to their potential. Pioneering the nascent field of visual data analysis, engineers at Dextro dedicate themselves to their work. That said, we all come together each week for Friday Happy Hours and Tuesday Trivia. Our team is filled with people who are as passionate as they are skilled.
We are based in the SoHo neighborhood of NYC and are always hiring for great people to join our team.
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2021
Board Member
Jun 2021
The Geopath brand is a powerful symbol of change.
We are no longer an old-fashioned billboard ratings bureau. We are an agile, integrated, passionate, forward-looking organization. We are the OOH industry standard that is powering a smarter OOH marketplace through state-of-the-art audience location measurement, insights and market research innovation.
Geopath generates standard audience measurements for out of home media. Currently, we provide our members with demographic-specific impressions, rating points, and reach & frequency measures for over a million pieces of out of home inventory in our database. We also establish and supervise practices for the collection, recording, authentication, and verification of traffic and other data related to the measurement of audience location.
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May 2021
The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) is the national trade association for the entire out of home (OOH) advertising industry. OAAA represents over 800 members, including leading media companies, advertisers, agencies, ad-tech providers, and suppliers, which comprise over 90 percent of the industry. OOH media includes billboards, street furniture, transit, place-based media, and digital formats (DOOH) across every sector of the channel. OAAA is the unifying voice for the industry, the authoritative thought leader, and the passionate advocate for advancing OOH advertising in the United States. The legislative unit of OAAA advocates for the responsible growth of OOH with federal, state, and local governments. OAAA-member media companies donate over $500 million annually in public service advertising. Founded in 1891, OAAA is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York City.
2018
Investor
Apr 2018
As an experienced advertising agency, BrandVerge helps brands reach their full potential through strategic, audience-focused campaigns. Our data-led approach ensures we create relevant campaigns and place messaging where it will resonate most. We partner with brands to drive real impact – optimizing conversions, expanding reach, building lasting engagement, and consistently growing results across all touchpoints.
2014
Investor
Jun 2014
Dextro is a venture-backed computer vision company building an API to enable developers and businesses to analyze and draw insights from the objects that appear in their photos, videos, or streams. We allow users to extract actionable categorizations and statistics from their datasets without requiring developer knowledge of machine learning or computer vision. We provide businesses with specific, actionable statistics about their videos, images, and streams. A learning system, Dextro’s API gains specificity each time it completes a query. Unlike tagging services, Dextro provides developers with answers to targeted questions regarding their datasets. Our technology powers the next generation of vision-enabled apps, robots, smart devices, and data analytics tools. We have raised $1.71M from investors that include Two Sigma, Yale, RRE, Esther Dyson, and the cofounders of Medidata and Skype.
We’re a small, highly technical team of computer vision engineers and researchers from UPenn GRASP Lab, Yale, IIT Delhi, Microsoft, and iRobot. Our engineers take on high level responsibilities: every engineer owns a part of our processing pipeline and is responsible for its architecture and design. Rather than adding simple features to an existing codebase, engineers must answer hard, green-field problems to expand the capabilities of our API. The complex challenge of solving the core Dextro AI problem requires rigorous experimentation and development, and we tax our engineers to their potential. Pioneering the nascent field of visual data analysis, engineers at Dextro dedicate themselves to their work. That said, we all come together each week for Friday Happy Hours and Tuesday Trivia. Our team is filled with people who are as passionate as they are skilled.
We are based in the SoHo neighborhood of NYC and are always hiring for great people to join our team.
2011
CEO & Co-Founder
Jul 2011
Vistar Media is the home of out-of-home (OOH). Out there, in the streets, ad space intersects time and place. It’s a part of life.
OOH campaigns inform, entertain, attract - and they can change the course of someone’s afternoon. At Vistar Media, we facilitate that serendipity hundreds of thousands of times a day
Our goal is simple: to help marketers leverage OOH’s unique ability to motivate and delight. Persuade and captivate. Stand out and blend in. Through our truly intelligent platform that hosts the world’s most extensive OOH inventory, we provide the scale, data and expertise that allow brands to capture a better kind of attention. We believe that OOH is both timeless and future-proof. Why? Because it speaks to the human need to look up and around, but it’s always evolving and improving, infusing novelty into everyday life and opening up new opportunities.
With Vistar, OOH is not only the most enduring channel in media, it’s also getting better every day. We’ll see you out there.
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