Vungle Inc
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| name           = Vungle Inc
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| type           = Private
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| hq_location_city =  San Francisco, California
| industry       = Mobile advertising
| website        = Vungle homepage
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Vungle Inc is a mobile marketing platform, primarily focused on video advertising. Vungle is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

History 
The company was founded in 2011 by Jack Smith and Zain Jaffer, initially incorporated January 2011 in London, United Kingdom as Vungle Limited, the company moved to San Francisco in August that year, at which time the company was reincorporated as Vungle Inc.

The company participated in AngelPad's third accelerator cohort in fall 2011 and went on to raise $2 million seed funding round soon after graduating.

In 2012, digital media website Mashable produced a documentary-style video series covering the lead-up to the company's launch.

In August 2013, the company announced a $6.5 million Series A funding round, which was followed in February 2014 by a $17 million Series B investment. Investors include Google Ventures & AOL Ventures,

In February 2017, the company announced that it had hit a $300 million run rate.

In July 2019, Vungle was acquired by Blackstone, with sources saying that it represented a $750+ million all cash deal.

In September 2019, Moody's reported that Vungle had a gross revenue of about $430 million for the year up to June 2019. On September 30 2019, Blackstone announced that it had completed the acquisition of Vungle and Jeremy Bondy had been appointed as the company’s COO.

Features
App publishers looking serve video ads from Vungle by including Vungle's SDK in their apps. Publishers get paid in exchange for serving ads inside of their apps.

Advertisers use Vungle's ad network and ad exchange to serve video ads inside of apps, primarily to drive app installs.

Competitors offering similar features include companies like AppLovin, AdColony and Flurry.