Braze, Inc. is a customer engagement platform based in New York City, founded in 2011. Originally named Appboy, the company rebranded to Braze in 2017 to reflect its growth into a comprehensive cross-channel solution. Braze went public in November 2021 and serves over 2,000 global brands across more than 70 countries, including industries like retail, media, financial services, and travel. The platform supports 7.45 billion monthly active users and delivers over 3.9 trillion messages and actions.
Braze offers an integrated customer relationship management (CRM) platform that focuses on mobile and cross-channel marketing automation. Its core features include various messaging channels, personalization tools, and AI-driven orchestration capabilities. The platform enables marketers to collect data from multiple sources for real-time engagement, fostering customer loyalty and growth. Braze is committed to community impact through initiatives like Braze Cares and the Braze for Social Impact Fund.
AppLovin is a vertically integrated advertising technology company that acts as a demand-side platform for advertisers, a supply-side platform for publishers, and an exchange facilitating transactions between the two. About 80% of AppLovin's revenue comes from the DSP, AppDiscovery, while the remainder comes from the SSP, Max, and gaming studios, which develop mobile games. AppLovin announced in February 2025 its plans to divest from the lower-margin gaming studios to focus exclusively on the ad tech platform. AppLovin's primary tool for future growth is Axon 2, which is an ad optimizer operating within the DSP that allows advertisers to place ads according to specifiedmore
Developer of a data activation company designed to help mid-market companies leverage their customer data without extensive technical resources. The company offers to democratize data access and usage for all businesses and leverages a cloud data stack, enabling non-technical users to create, manage and send their customer audiences and events to all their activation platforms and deliver unified customer experiences without code.