Kevel
Advertising
$62Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
$52Mlatest round · Venture round · Oct 2026 · this month
2backers · Commerce Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital
47team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -15% in a year
Overview
Kevel is on a mission to make the internet a better place. Learn more about our company history, investors, and award-winning APIs and team.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$62M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$52M
Venture round · Oct 2026 · this month
Team
47
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -15% in a year
Backers
2
Commerce Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
45/100
a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 28
Raised a round Venture round $52M · Pulse 2.0
Sep 2026
Formerly Kevel | Your audience. Your rules. Your revenue. (adzerk.com)
Jun 2
Partnership Kevel partners with Scandinavian Airlines to launch next generation travel media network · manilatimes.net
Feb 11, 2025
Acquisition Kevel Announces Acquisition of Nexta to Strengthen Its Retail Media Solution and Drive Revenue Growth for Retail Brands · Nasdaq
Jul 16, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $10M · SEC Form D
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.46%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Oct 2026 | $52M | — | Pulse 2.0 |
| Venture round | Jul 2021 | $10M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Adzerk, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
James AveryExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
42/100
Stable
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
84 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
11/01/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Leadership
50% ▼
Operations
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Hungary
Oct 2026
New location: Australia
Oct 2026
New location: Spain
Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Sep 2026
People
James Avery
Executive Officer, Director
Peter Horan
Director
Philip Lewis
Director
Tim Huntley
Director
James Douglass
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Kevel over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
Clojure
Java
Kotlin
Node JS
Cloud & platforms
Windows
AWS
GCP
Datadog
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25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
List
Graph
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Shared investors
Commerce VenturesVia a fund
Great Oaks Venture CapitalVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Kevel Raises $52 Million To Scale AI-Driven Commerce Media Infrastructure
Kevel has raised $52 million in new capital to accelerate development of its artificial intelligence-powered commerce media infrastructure and expand globally. The post Kevel Raises $52 Million To Scale AI-Driven Commerce Media Infrastructure appeared fir
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Server-Side Ad Serving: The Definitive Guide
Server-side ad serving allows publishers to request and place ads or internal promotions directly on their digital properties without the use of coded tags. While traditional ad calls involve on-page (client-side) pings, server-side calls occur outside of
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Kevel Welcomes Ad Tech and Retail Media Veteran Jaclyn Nix as Chief Operating Officer, Accelerating Retail Media Innovation
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Top 6 adtech tools this week: Tickle, Ab Tasty, Hightouch, Anonymised, Skai and Adthena
From 'save to wallet' ads to AI marketing testing agents, here's our round up of new ways to power up your tech stack.
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Kevel and Skai Partner to Expand Retail Media Reach
Skai and Kevel partner to expand access to retail media networks, empowering advertisers and retailers to scale monetization with full transparency.
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New Digital Age November 10, 2025 Michael Feeley New Business Bulletin: Doubleverify, Storyblok, VIOOH and more
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Kevel & Skai Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Retail Media Access for Global Advertisers - ExchangeWire.com
Skai, the leading omnichannel advertising platform for commerce media, and Kevel, creator of The Retail Media Cloud, today (6th November, 2025) announced
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My Road to Retail Media: James Avery, Kevel
James Avery is Founder and CEO of ad-serving API developer Kevel.We asked him how he found himself working in the retail media industry.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Durham
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff