Marketing

Marketing technology (also known as MarTech) describes any number of systems and tools that help marketers better engage with potential and existing customers.

Sub-industry

Description

AdTech

Advertising Technology (adtech) is defined as different types of analytics and digital tools used in the context of advertising.

Example: Marin Software

CRM & Sales

Startups developing tools and software for managing relationships and interactions with customers and potential customers.

Example: Pipedrive

E-commerce Solutions

Startups developing products and services that help a company conduct business electronically (its e-commerce business).

Example: Mirakl

Marketing Analytics

Startups developing tools and software to help companies derive insights and analytics from their marketing activities. To understand how their customers interact for example.

Example: 6sense


Media
Media technology is any hardware, software, or tool that is used to compose, create, produce, deliver and manage media including audio, video, images, information, interactive media, video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality environments.

Sub-industry

Description

Content production

Startups that develop tools, physical or digital products or a platform that allows, facilitates, enable users to create and share content of various type: writing, images, music, videos.

Example: GoPro

Publishing 

Startups which product or platform is about the distribution of free or paid content - text, images, music, information - such as a newsletter, self-publishing, book reviews.

Example: Substack

Social Media

Startups which product or platform is about the creation and sharing of various form of content - text, images, music - in one or more virtual communities.

Example: Twitter

Streaming

Startups that develop a streaming product of platform. In this form of media, content - video, music, audio - is constantly delivered to the end-user while being delivered by a providor. Streaming is so used to described a type of medium. Live-streaming is when this content is delivered in real-time.

Example: Quibi