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.
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
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
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder; former CEO; Board-level strategic support
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
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
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
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.
Business Wire · Feb 2026
The partnership expanded StackAdapt–Experian first-party-data activation and measurement into the UK.
Business Wire · Feb 2025
Open Positions
92 jobs at StackAdapt
Senior Manager, Sales Commission
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