OwnLocal
Automated advertising to SMBs through local media (Y Combinator W10)
OwnLocal is a fast-scaling, profitable, and cash-flow positive company with extremely low churn–losing only 2 customers ever–and tracking to do $7.5MM in ARR this year.
OwnLocal automates online advertising for more than 47,000 SMBs through our 1,800+ newspaper partners in the US, Canada and Australia.
OwnLocal takes print ads & automatically converts them into SEO web ads, websites, Google SEM, social banner ads, & social-media marketing for SMBs.
Conversion & sales are done automatically–instantly producing more revenue for our publishers.
OwnLocal succeeds where others have failed because community newspapers are still trusted local brands in the small-business world.
Finally, we’re not like traditional ad tech, reselling other platforms with low margins, our average margins are 82% as we are reselling our owned and operated inventory.
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Founders
Traction
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Great company. Supports news companies witty innovative advertising products.
Funding
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statesman.comAustin startup OwnLocal, which helps small media outlets sell Web services to their advertisers, has raised new funding from investors including the Knight… -
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techcrunch.comWhen it comes to local advertising, everybody wants to replace the Yellow Pages, which makes money hand-over-fist from local merchants across the country….
Investors from previous rounds
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Entrepreneur, developer, angel, advisor. Founded 2 startups. Connector of good people. I try to pay-it-forward by advising and helping as much as possible.
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Investor
73 Deals + Unicorn Beepi. Founder@CustEx: Brands pay to hear what Customers Want. x-COO@Western Digital-Connex@UIUC@USC@Stanford
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Founder/CEO of @500friends (YC, Crosslink, @Intel). Founding GP of Retail Growth Fund. Seed in @Zencoder, @Hipmunk, @Homejoy, @Boost Media, @Firebase + more
Incubator
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Employees
Past Employees
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Director of Operations
Doctoral educated professional with start-up experience. Skilled in relationship building, fundraising, public speaking. Efficiency/quality are a priority.
Advisors
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They’re building the software companies need. It’s not hip photo-sharing software, but it makes money because it’s something people want, which is a beautiful (although maybe not sexy) thing.
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Partner at @Y Combinator. Cofounder, Posthaven. Co-founder of @Posterous (Acquired by @Twitter). Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
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Attorneys
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Partner at gunder.com. I like to think I’m pragmatic but I can be irrational (mostly when it comes to seeking out a quality cup of coffee).
Board Members
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Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
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