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Upwave

Marketing analytics for the world's biggest brand marketers

upwave.com
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
11-50
B2B

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

Upwave is a San Francisco-based, remote-first brand outcomes measurement platform for advertisers and agencies. It measures Brand Lift, Brand Reach, and Brand Optimization across CTV, digital, social, linear, retail media, and streaming audio, and it has added an AI agent called Bayes for insights and reporting.

Primary product

Brand Outcomes Measurement Platform

Founded

2012

Headquarters

1160 Battery Street East, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94111

Team size

30-40

Work style

Remote

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Brand outcomes measurement / marketing analytics

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
New York, New York, United States

Business model

SaaS
enterprise software
subscription software
analytics/measurement platform

Funding

Stage

Series B

Total raised

$21.8M

Latest round

Series B · Jul 2018

Latest amount

$14M

People & investors

Leadership

Chris Kelly

Founder & CEO

Ajey Bhir

CFO

John Bulgrin

Chief Revenue Officer

George London

Chief Technology Officer

Jess Armstrong

Chief Marketing Officer

Jon Stewart

EVP, Customer Success & Analytics

Kendra Ingram

VP, People Operations and Talent Acquisition

Jeremy O'Brien

VP, Product

Investors

Alexis Ohanian
Auren Hoffman
Bloomberg Beta
Conductive Ventures
Dan Beltramo
Eric Roza
Garry Tan
IDG Ventures
Industry Ventures
Initialized Capital
Jonah Goodhart
Marcy Simon
PivotNorth
Ridge Ventures
SoftTech
Tom Chavez
Uncork Capital
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Upwave describes itself as a caring, curious, action-oriented team with values like Unusually Caring, Bias Toward Action, Intellectual (not just Intelligent), Upwave Matters, and Play Nice with Others. The company emphasizes remote collaboration, virtual team events, DEI, and community giving.

Work style

Remote

Visa sponsorship

No

Compensation

A recent senior engineering posting listed a base salary of $150,000-$175,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Public salary bands beyond that posting are not disclosed.

Benefits

Open PTO
401(k)
100% employer-paid health insurance
100% employer-paid dental insurance
100% employer-paid vision insurance
personal professional development budget
work-from-home equipment stipend
parental leave
FSA
internet reimbursement
cell phone reimbursement
health and wellness stipend

Product & market

Pricing

Quote-based enterprise SaaS / request-demo sales motion.

Differentiators

  • —Only company focused entirely on measuring and optimizing brand lift driven by advertising
  • —Cross-channel brand measurement across CTV, digital, social, linear, retail media, and audio
  • —Real-time measurement and optimization during live campaigns
  • —Privacy-safe, census-representative methodology
  • —AI agent Bayes for campaign insights and reporting
  • —Self-serve integrations with major ad platforms and partners

Technology

Python
Kotlin
Java APIs
React
Vue
Angular
AWS
DynamoDB
MySQL
Presto
Kubernetes
S3
Lambda
EMR
Kinesis Firehose
Terraform
Claude Code
Cursor
GitHub Copilot

Customers

IRIS.TV
Viant
Paramount
Wondery
Future Today
Westwood One
UM Worldwide
GumGum
Microsoft
Clorox
MNTN
Ogury
Kargo
Walmart Connect
Madhive

Competitors

Kantar
Nielsen
VideoAmp
Adelaide
SurveyMonkey
Qualtrics
QuestionPro
Typeform

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

US$10M-$20M

Estimated monthly visits

21.2K

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

peopleops@www.upwave.com800-736-0025

Latest news

Upwave and MNTN Automate Real-Time CTV Brand Lift

Upwave / GlobeNewswire · Jun 2026

Upwave announced an expanded integration that embeds native brand-lift tracking into MNTN’s workflow, enabling faster in-flight optimization for CTV campaigns.

Upwave and MNTN Expand Partnership to Scale Brand Outcomes

Upwave / GlobeNewswire · Jun 2026

Upwave deepened its partnership with MNTN to make Brand Lift measurement easier and more self-serve inside the MNTN platform, backed by data from nearly 50 campaigns and more than 1 billion impressions.

Upwave Wins “Generative AI Innovation Award” at 8th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards

GlobeNewswire · Jun 2025

Upwave won an AI Breakthrough Award for Bayes and its AI Campaign Insights Reports, highlighting its genAI-driven reporting and optimization capabilities.

New Upwave & IRIS.TV Report Shows Contextual CTV Ads Drive Lift Throughout the Brand Funnel

EIN Presswire / GlobeNewswire · Apr 2025

Upwave and IRIS.TV released a report showing contextual CTV campaigns outperformed norms on awareness, recall, and favorability.

Upwave Welcomes Peter Daboll to its Advisory Program

Upwave / GlobeNewswire · Nov 2024

Upwave added advertising-measurement veteran Peter Daboll to its advisory program to support product and strategy.

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