About us
Start.io is a leading sell-side omnichannel advertising platform powered by real-time mobile audiences. What does that mean?
Start.io is sell-side—we primarily help mobile app publishers make money with their apps. Every day, we deliver hundreds of millions of ads to more than 500,000 active mobile apps.
Start.io is omnichannel—we deliver many types of high-performing ads, to help publishers earn the most money possible from their apps.
Start.io is powered by real-time mobile audiences—we deliver ads to more than 2 billion people per month, and gather privacy-compliant, first-party mobile data signals. We use artificial intelligence to process this data, which we package into audience segmentation solutions for brands and advertising agencies.
Start.io was launched in 2010 by cofounders Gil Dudkiewicz and Ran Avidan, and today has offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Beijing, the U.K., Ukraine, Poland, and India.
Our Mission
Empower publishers and marketers by providing AI-driven, effortless advertising solutions using an end-to-end platform.
Join Us
At Start.io (formerly StartApp), we are looking for talented, passionate people who want to help us shape the future of decision-making in business. Together, we can build success for our customers and partners, for Start.io as a company, and for your professional and personal aspirations.
Gil Dudkiewicz, Co-Founder and CEO of Start.io, is a serial entrepreneur. He was previously the Entrepreneur In Residence at the Cedar Fund. Prior to Start.io, he was the CEO of SweetIM, which he joined as a pre revenue company with five employees. During his tenure, Gil led the company to high profitability, and to winning the Technology Rising Star Award by Deloitte Fast 50 Competition. SweetIM was acquired by Perion Network (NASDAQ: PERI) in November 2012. Gil was also the founder and CEO of MyDTV/MeeVee, a personalized TV Guide and TV search. Gil holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).
