Namo Media

Namo Media, Inc.

Founded	February 2013
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Founder(s)	Gabor Cselle, Nassar Stoertz, Tural Badirkhanli
Industry	Mobile advertising / Native advertising
Available in	English

Namo Media was a technology startup providing in-stream advertisements for mobile applications. It was acquired by Twitter in June 2014 for between $50M^[1] and $100M.^[2]

It was founded by former Googler employees Gabor Cselle, Nassar Stoertz, and Tural Badirkhanli, who raised $1.9M in seed funding from investors that included Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Betaworks.^[3] Cselle had sold his previous startup reMail to Google in 2010.^[4] Namo Media's advertising SDK for Android and iOS allowed developers to integrate native advertising into applications with streams of content,^[5] and was the first to implement server-side location control of native ads.^[6]

Namo Media's location control technology was integrated into Twitter's MoPub advertising solutions in October 2014.^[7]

References

1. Lunden, Ingrid (5 June 2014). "Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
2. Koh, Yoree (5 June 2014). "Twitter Buys Native Ad Specialist Namo Media". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
3. Ha, Anthony (18 March 2013). "DrawChat Creator Launches His Mobile Ad Startup Namo Media, Raises $1.9M Round Led By Google Ventures". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
4. Gannes, Liz (20 January 2014). "Google Buys reMail iPhone App for Gmail". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
5. Namo Media: Quickstart integration instructions
6. Ha, Anthony (20 January 2014). "Namo Media Brings More Flexibility To Native Mobile Ads, Announces Former Facebook VP Badros As Advisor". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
7. Weil, Kevin (8 October 2014). "Easier tools to create and manage native ads via MoPub". Twitter Advertising Blog. Retrieved 8 October 2014.