AI-powered advertising platform Alembic emerges with $9.5M

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Alembic, a startup establishing advertising software program that correlates buyer interactions to uncover insights, today announced that it raised $9.5 million. KB Partners and OCA Ventures contributed the seed round capital, which Alembic says will be used to help development as the startup emerges from stealth.

Marketers face increasingly tough challenges as the pandemic disrupts the regular flow of small business. Advertising budgets have fallen to their lowest recorded level, dropping to 6.4% of firm income in 2021 from 11% in 2020, according to Gartner. At the very same time, more than a third of marketers say that generating higher-excellent leads remains one of their biggest barriers to results.

“The company started just under three years ago in November of 2018 and the initial team includes multi-exit leaders from Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, WP Engine, The Wall Street Journal, and Qualcomm,” Alembic cofounder and CEO Tomas Puig told VentureBeat through e-mail. “Alembic was really based on our team’s experience in scaling companies and, frankly, from our own pain and suffering.”

Alembic auto-ingests information from a quantity of channels spanning internet and mobile app site visitors, social networks, news outlets, and sources of transaction and conversion information. The platform retailers the extracted facts and then applies algorithms to analyze, normalize, and classify the information just before adding context. Finally, Alembic transforms and displays the information into summaries and metrics.

Data-driven insights

According to Puig, Alembic can ascertain the effectiveness of the persons hired to market discovery, as effectively as their worth, down to an person post. The platform can also quantify the return on investment and dollar worth of inserting person brands into strategic channels, like sporting events, games, and influencers.

“[We use an internal] machine learning-based forecasting tool [and dataset] … to provide reliable predictions for customers. The dataset is reconstructed from the moving totals of social media metrics, providing insights previously unavailable,” Puig explained. “This reconstruction and forecasting requires months of data, and customers with a sufficiently large enough audience to make these discoveries against … For an enterprise organization, this dataset typically runs billions of rows a year.”

Alembic’s “time-series reconstruction” technologies tracks weblog posts, articles, and videos for years to provide layers of understanding. It also integrates with Google Analytics, providing information context and tying it back into other actions and activities.

“With the pandemic, we have really seen an acceleration in the need for our tools and the types of strategic intelligence we provide. Our customers tell us they have a deep need to accelerate their understanding of what value and impact the entire marketing, brand, and media footprint is providing,” Puig stated. “In addition to audience behavior changes and a move towards digital, so many things are changing for marketers. This includes Apple’s IDFA and iOS identity rules, email open by default, removal of behavioral targeting, ad-blocked behavior and no-advertising environments like streaming and gaming, and so much more. It’s a massive wave of change at a time when the amount of data available is decreasing.”

Eighteen-employee Alembic, whose buyers consist of CakeWorks and Beyond Meat, is tapping into an AI-powered advertising segment that could develop in worth to hundreds of millions of dollars in the next couple of years. According to Bright Edge, 60% of marketers intended to use AI to create a content advertising approach in 2018. And a current report forecasts that the use of advertising automation will improve by 104% as AI-driven tools increase the productivity of back-workplace workers.

“Our gross margin is healthily above the standard for publicly traded companies at over 80%,” Puig added. “Many of our users do over a billion impressions a year on social media alone and some do over a billion impressions a month. We have over 200 major, high-impact brands bringing data into the platform, such as Beyond Meat, several major league sports teams, $100 million-a-year-in-revenue software-as-a-service companies, and household-name actors and musicians.”


Originally appeared on: TheSpuzz

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