—Amino (Formerly Curren-C): This startup hopes to use blockchain technology to improve online ad billing and tracking.
—msg.ai: Someone's going to figure out how to help marketers navigate chatbots and messaging and artificial intelligence using technology. It may be this company.
—Omnivrt: This firm wants to bring ad tech like automation to virtual-reality ads.
—Adswizz: There's potentially a big opportunity to bring programmatic advertising to digital audio, and this company is making a push.
—Catch and Release: This company promises to help ad-agency creatives produce more visual ads at scale.
—VidMob: This firm makes it easier to crank out social-video ads quickly by connecting marketers to a stable of producers.
—IFTTT (If This Then That): This may be the company that helps marketers and media companies connect the dots between the growing number of digital in-home devices like Alexa and Google Home.