Admiral Secures $19M in New Funding, Led by Harbert Growth Partners, Reaching $28M Total Raised to Save the Free Internet, One Publisher at a Time
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Admiral, The Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) Company, has secured $19M in new funding, led by Harbert Growth Partners. This brings Admiral's total capital raised to $28M. The company plans to use this infusion to expand its Revenue, Product, and Customer Love teams, grow internationally, and enhance its AI-powered marketing automation for media publishers.
Admiral's VRM platform serves thousands of premium publishers worldwide, including CNBC, Hearst, New York Post, and Paramount. The company's AI-powered modules cover various aspects of publisher-visitor relationships, from revenue analytics to consent management. Admiral also announced a partnership with The Trade Desk's OpenPass and added new members to its Board of Directors.
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- Secured $19M in new funding, bringing total capital raised to $28M
- Expanding teams and international presence
- Serves thousands of premium publishers including major media brands
- Partnership with The Trade Desk's OpenPass
- Addition of experienced board members from Harbert Growth Partners and Birchmere
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News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, TTD gained 2.17%, reflecting a moderate positive market reaction.
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CBS Sports, CNBC, Gannett, Hearst, NASCAR, New York Post, Paramount, Rotten Tomatoes,
Harbert has a proven track record of identifying and funding industry leading software companies, including AI-powered customer experience platform Clarabridge (acquired by Qualtrics), location based intelligence software platform MapAnything (acquired by Salesforce) and field service software platform Payzer (acquired by WEX). Bridge Bank has been helping innovators in the tech sector bring industry-leading ideas to their next stage of development, from startup to IPO and beyond, for more than 20 years.
With this infusion, Admiral will serve publishers even better with larger Revenue, Product, and Customer Love teams, expand internationally, and build on its lead in AI-powered marketing automation for media publishers, copyright access control, and 1st-party data innovations. Harbert's and Bridge Bank's funding and strategic resources will help Admiral grow publisher revenue worldwide.
Admiral's Visitor Relationship Management platform builds relationships, revenue, and retention for thousands of premium publishers and networks worldwide including CNBC, Hearst, New York Post, Paramount, Rotten Tomatoes,
- Measure: Revenue Analytics
- Recover: Adblock Recovery
- Transact: Paid Subscriptions, Donations, Memberships
- Connect: 1st-Party Data Collection, Segmentation, and Activation
- Convert: Email Acquisition, Registration, Social Growth, Mobile Downloads, & Content Recommendation
- Consent: CMP (GDPR/GPP)
"We're pleased to partner with Admiral to provide them with a flexible and customized venture debt solution," said Blake Reid, senior director, in Bridge Bank's Technology Banking Group. "We look forward to supporting Admiral in their mission to provide visitor relationship management tools and expertise to help publishers navigate the evolving digital landscape toward The Authenticated Web."
Last week, Admiral announced a partnership with The Trade Desk's OpenPass. The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) has their own successful history of working with Bridge Bank. The bank played a contributing role to The Trade Desk's growth, ultimately resulting in their IPO in 2016.
Admiral also completed a strategic move to bolster its leadership team, adding Wayne Hunter, Managing Partner of Harbert Growth Partners, and Birchmere Partner Sean Ammirati, former COO of ReadWriteWeb and Founder/CEO of mSpoke (acquired by LinkedIn), to its Board of Directors.
"We followed Admiral's progress for years and kept seeing more top media brands adopt their solution," said Wayne Hunter, Managing Partner of Harbert Growth Partners. "General purpose marketing automation platforms like Hubspot, Salesforce, and Adobe Marketing Cloud aren't built to help media publishers grow 1st-party visitor relationships, data, and revenue, so Admiral's AI-powered VRM is filling the gap quickly."
"The core business model of the Internet is shifting from an adtech paradigm to a martech paradigm — The Authenticated Web — and publishers need help, fast," said Dan Rua, CEO and co-founder, Admiral. "Relationships drive revenue, and publishers that embrace that reality will survive and thrive for decades to come. The key is delivering the right offer, to the right visitor, at the right time, and AI-powered VRM makes that possible with zero dev lift. We couldn't have hoped for a better lead partner than Harbert at this stage in Admiral's journey. We're incredibly proud of the team and what we've accomplished for our customers, but we've still got plenty of work ahead."
"Admiral predicted the importance of visitor relationship management ahead of much of the industry," said Rob Beeler, Founder & CEO of Beeler.tech and Head of Ad Operations at Golf.com. "With Google now throwing their weight behind 'user choice', Admiral's strength in visitor journeys and 1st-party data will help more publishers than ever. I'm excited to see smart money flow to such a quality team and publisher-first mission."
To learn more about Admiral Visitor Relationship Management, please visit https://getadmiral.com.
About Admiral
Admiral (https://www.getadmiral.com/) the Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) Company, helps thousands of digital publishers worldwide grow visitor relationships and revenue. Admiral's AI-powered SaaS platform solves several monetization challenges digital publishers face, with visitor journeys that include: registration walls, paywalls and paid subscriptions, donation management, advanced adblock analytics and revenue recovery, GDPR/GPP privacy consent, email acquisition, 1P data collection, social growth, and more.
About Harbert Management Corporation and Harbert Growth Partners
Harbert Management Corporation is an alternative asset manager with approximately
Harbert Growth Partners ("HGP") seeks to generate superior returns for their investors by identifying and investing in promising emerging growth stage technology companies. The HGP Investment Team combines substantial investment, advisory, and operating experience with capital and networking contacts to support great entrepreneurial teams in successfully executing their growth plans. Currently investing out of HGP V, HGP's prior funds include exits to a distinguished list of strategic acquirers including, among others, Amazon, GE, GSK, Medallia, Philips, Qualtrics, Salesforce, Sophos, Target and WEX. For more information, visit: www.harbert.net
About Bridge Bank
Bridge Bank, a division of Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, delivers relationship banking that puts clients at the center of everything. Founded in 2001 in Silicon Valley, Bridge Bank offers a full spectrum of tailored commercial banking solutions with specialized expertise focused on life sciences and technology and innovation companies at every stage in their life cycle, from startup to IPO and beyond. With offices in major tech hubs across the country, Bridge Bank delivers the reach, resources and market expertise that make a difference for its clients. Bridge Bank also serves the private equity and venture capital communities by providing banking solutions for portfolio companies and funds, plus banking solutions for small to mid-size businesses in the Bay Area. Bridge Bank is part of Western Alliance Bancorporation, which has more than
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