StackAdapt

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

StackAdapt is a Toronto-founded, privately held ad-tech company providing an AI-powered programmatic advertising and marketing orchestration platform. It helps brands and agencies plan, buy, optimize, and measure campaigns across multiple digital and owned channels, with machine learning, contextual targeting, creative, and analytics.

Primary product

StackAdapt Marketing Platform: a self-serve, multi-channel demand-side/programmatic advertising platform spanning display, native, video, connected TV, audio, digital out-of-home, in-game, email and related planning, targeting, creative, optimization and measurement workflows.

Founded

2014

Headquarters

Toronto, Ontario, Canada — 200 Bay Street, South Tower, Unit 2103

Team size

1,000–2,000 globally; public sources report 1,787 as of June 2026, while StackAdapt's own company page previously said 1,200+

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AdTech / programmatic advertising / marketing technology

Offices

Toronto, Canada

New York, United States

Boston, United States

Chicago, United States

Los Angeles, United States

Calgary, Canada

London, United Kingdom

Singapore

Business model

Self-serve SaaS-like advertising platform

Programmatic media buying and demand-side platform fees

Managed and platform-enabled campaign services

Data, audience targeting, creative and measurement solutions

Enterprise marketing orchestration

Funding

Stage

Private, growth-stage / late-stage venture; reported unicorn after 2025 financing

Total raised

$537M

Latest round

Growth capital / Series B (database classification) · Feb 2025

Latest amount

$235M

Growth capital / Series B (database classification)

Feb 2025 · Teachers’ Venture Growth / Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

$235M

Private equity / growth investment

Jan 2022 · Summit Partners

$300M

Series B / investment

Mar 2018

$2.4M

Series A

Jan 2016 · Plaza Ventures

$1M

Seed

Sep 2014

$900K

People & investors

Leadership

Vitaly Pecherskiy

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Yang Han

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Ildar Shar

Co-founder; former CEO; Board-level strategic support

Blaine Fitzgerald

Chief Financial Officer

Mehmet Shah

Chief Financial Officer (reported in some company databases; likely superseded by Blaine Fitzgerald)

Christian Gerron

Chief Revenue Officer (reported by company databases)

Investors

BDC Capital

Intrepid Growth Partners

Plaza Ventures

Summit Partners

Teachers’ Venture Growth / Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Work & culture

StackAdapt describes a values-driven, diverse and inclusive culture emphasizing transparency, empathy, professional growth, ownership, collaboration and leadership principles of being all-in, acting as force multipliers and championing culture. Engineering materials emphasize flexible, remote-first/distributed work, internal mobility and client-informed iteration. Employer reviews are mixed-to-positive but should be treated as directional rather than authoritative.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Public job postings signal competitive salary plus equity for some roles, retirement matching/savings, comprehensive benefits from day one, paid time off, mental-health support and home-office reimbursement. Country and role-specific compensation ranges were not consistently publicly disclosed. StackAdapt UK Limited appears on a UK sponsor register; U.S. H-1B sponsorship was not established from the evidence reviewed.

Benefits

Health, vision and dental benefits

Lifestyle spending accounts

Work & Wander flexible-work policy

Global WeWork All-Access pass

Work-from-home equipment/budget reimbursement

Professional development, conferences, courses and books

Programmatic courses and certifications

Mentorship and training/onboarding

Parental leave

Mental-health platform

Retirement / RRSP / 401(k) / pension savings depending on country

Paid vacation, personal-care days and birthday off

Equity for some roles

Product & market

Pricing

Public evidence indicates a self-serve platform and media-buying model, generally based on campaign/media spend and platform/service economics; detailed public rate cards were not found. StackAdapt advertises plans and packages but does not expose a universal price list.

Differentiators

—Unified cross-channel buying across CTV, DOOH, display, native, audio, in-game and email
—AI and machine-learning optimization at large scale
—Self-serve interface designed for speed and accessibility
—In-house platform and contextual/audience targeting
—Creative Studio and measurement/attribution capabilities
—Vertical solutions for B2B, healthcare, political and travel
—Ivy AI assistant and newer AI workflow integrations
—Remote-first global operating model and strong engineering/data-science emphasis

Technology

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Scala

Python

GraphQL

Redis

Amazon Redshift

Machine learning and AI

Apache Airflow

PyTorch

Kubernetes/Argo CD (reported technology-stack data)

Customers

Brands and advertisers

Advertising agencies

Retail and e-commerce marketers

Travel and tourism organizations

Healthcare and pharmaceutical marketers

Financial-services marketers

Political campaigns

B2B marketers

Media and entertainment companies

Digital marketers needing cross-channel measurement

Competitors

The Trade Desk

Google Display & Video 360

Amazon Ads

Basis Technologies

Yahoo DSP

Simpli.fi

Madison Logic

Smartly.io

Quotient

Seedtag

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $500M annually according to TechCrunch sources; third-party company databases report materially lower and conflicting estimates, so treat $500M as an estimate rather than audited revenue.

Latest news

StackAdapt Announces AI-Powered Marketing Capabilities Through Ads in ChatGPT Pilot

Business Wire · May 2026

StackAdapt said it was participating as a technology partner in an early ChatGPT advertising pilot, extending its platform into conversational-AI ad inventory.

StackAdapt Brings Campaign Intelligence Into Claude and Other AI Workflows With Launch of MCP Server

Business Wire · Apr 2026

StackAdapt announced general availability of an MCP Server connecting campaign configuration, performance metrics and creative assets to AI tools such as Claude.

StackAdapt Partners With Experian to Supercharge First-party Data Activation for Advertisers

Business Wire · Feb 2026

The partnership expanded StackAdapt–Experian first-party-data activation and measurement into the UK.

StackAdapt Secures $235M USD Investment Led by Teachers’ Venture Growth

Business Wire · Feb 2025

StackAdapt raised $235M led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, with Intrepid Growth Partners participating; the company said the raise brought total investment above $500M.

Canada's StackAdapt snaps up $235M for its AI-based programmatic platform

TechCrunch · Feb 2025

TechCrunch reported the financing, described the platform's channel coverage, and cited sources estimating approximately $2.5B valuation and $500M annual revenue.

Jobs and careers at StackAdapt

63 jobs at StackAdapt

Ad Operations Specialist

On-site

Ad Operations

Canada

3d ago

On-site

Full-time