SVB FINANCIAL GROUP BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2014) - Fiksu (www.fiksu.com), a data-driven mobile ad tech company, today announced it secured $10 million in mezzanine debt funding from Silicon Valley Bank. The company plans to use the funding to continue to support further global expansion and ongoing development for the company's award winning Programmatic Mobile Demand Platform. This financing comes on heels of the announcement that the company surpassed $100 million in annual revenue and hired Kenneth Goldman as CFO.
Fiksu experienced exceptional growth this year, adding over 100 employees bringing the employee count to almost 300 and driving over 1 billion client downloads in nine months, accelerating the company's trajectory as the leader in mobile marketing. Fiksu counts leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Disney, The New York Times, Dunkin' Donuts, Groupon and Topps among the customers it works with to optimize mobile ad targeting and enhance campaign performance.
"This has been a banner year of domestic and international growth, marquee customer wins and unprecedented revenue milestones for Fiksu," said Kenneth Goldman, CFO, Fiksu. "This financing enables us to continue to capitalize on the burgeoning market opportunities before us, and the partnership with Silicon Valley Bank -- with its proven history of success working with high tech innovators -- will certainly help us to reach our expansive growth goals."
In addition to offices in San Francisco and Northampton, Massachusetts -- and overseas in London, Finland, Singapore, South Korea and Japan -- the company is doubling its office space in its Boston headquarters and recently opened new U.S. offices in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Fiksu expects to continue aggressively expanding its global workforce in the coming year.
"It is our pleasure to work with Fiksu, and other innovative companies around the world that are leading their industries, as they reach new levels of success and pursue ambitious goals," said Dan Allred, market manager, of Silicon Valley Bank in Boston. "Our aim is to help the Fisku team move its business forward quickly with the right financing, connections and global services it needs as the company expands globally and prepares for its next phase of growth."
Fiksu has previously raised two rounds of equity funding from Charles River Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.
About Fiksu
Fiksu is the leading provider of mobile marketing products. A data-driven mobile ad tech company, the power of Fiksu is fueled by information assets from over 3.3 billion app installs and 4.7 trillion marketing events tracked across 1.7 billion devices. The company's patent-pending Programmatic Mobile Demand Platform applies intelligent technology to proprietary big data to master ALL the challenges of mobile advertising -- including tracking, optimization, media buying and integration. This cohesive approach spans the entire mobile ecosystem and ultimately delivers the best marketing performance. Additionally, Fiksu offers FreeMyApps®, the world's largest app discovery platform where users are rewarded. Based in Boston, Mass., Fiksu is venture-backed by Qualcomm Ventures and Charles River Ventures. More at www.fiksu.com, @Fiksu, and on the Fiksu blog.
About Silicon Valley Bank
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