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Motionlead

Animated mobile ads.

Y CombinatorWinter 2014AcquiredB2BMarketingAdvertising

What they do

Problem

Advertisers and publishers struggle to engage audiences effectively in mobile environments without disrupting the user experience.

Solution

Motionlead provides transparent, animated, interactive mobile ads that overlay native and web apps while allowing users to continue navigating.

Who it's for

Advertisers and mobile app/web publishers seeking higher-engagement ad formats.

Founders

Alexei Chemenda
Founder

Alexei Chemenda is the CRO and Managing Director, Americas for Adikteev. He joined Adikteev in 2015 when the latter acquired Motionlead, a company he co-founded in Paris. MotionLead was the first French company to ever be accepted in YCombinator. Alexei is a software engineer who now focuses on the business side of the company. Since 2015, Alexei actively invests in early stage tech companies (40+ investments to date). Alexei has been selected in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2019

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