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Integrate closes $11 mn funding from Comcast, Liberty Global
MUMBAI: Integrate, the multi-channel performance marketing technology and solutions provider, has closed an $11 million growth equity investment from Comcast Ventures and Liberty Global in another round of funding which has also seen participation from existing Integrate investor Foundry Group.
The Series B financing will help drive the next phase of product development and also get the company closer to their goal of connecting every channel of advertising into one unified platform.
Integrate addresses the reality that audiences are more fragmented and new media is becoming more measurable, effectively shifting the $280 billion advertising market from a disconnected-channel model to an interconnected-performance model. Integrate advertisers leverage ad optimisation and audience analysis data to plan, launch, track, analyse ROI and optimise performance-advertising campaigns across both online and offline channels.
“Today‘s successful advertisers need more than an outstanding creative approach. They need an integrated distribution strategy that places their messages in front of the right eyeballs on the right devices, combined with real-time attribution data that measures the full impact per channel,” said Integrate co-founder Jeremy Bloom.
“We are extremely excited about Integrate‘s vision to become a leading, cross-channel marketplace for the purchase of performance-based advertising,” said Sam Landman, principal, Comcast Ventures. “As advertisers shift more budget towards performance buys and as audiences become increasingly fragmented, Integrate is using technology to simplify process and optimise results for their customers.”
Founded in 2010, Integrate has built a technology that automates ad serving, tracking and the attribution value for advertisers in a combination of online (mobile, display, email, social, digital video) and offline (telemarketing, television, print, radio, outdoor, billboard) channels to pursue, monitor and measure their advertising impacts.
“Integrate has been able to scale its business extremely rapidly since Foundry‘s initial funding of the business in late 2010. This rapid growth speaks to the market demand for a truly integrated platform through which marketers can manage and optimize all types of performance campaigns,” said Foundry Group MD Seth Levine.
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Inshorts Group chief Deepit Purkayastha joins IAB video council for Southeast Asia and India
The co-founder and chief executive of the short-form content platform has been inducted into the IAB SEA+India Video Council, giving India a stronger voice in shaping digital video frameworks
NOIDA: India has long been the world’s most chaotic, multilingual and mobile-first digital market. Now, one of its most prominent short-video executives is getting a seat at the table where the rules are written.
Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder and chief executive of Inshorts Group, has been selected as a member of the IAB SEA+India Video Council for 2026. Run by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the council brings together senior leaders from Southeast Asia and India to shape standards, best practices and measurement frameworks for the fast-evolving video and digital advertising ecosystem.
The timing is pointed. According to the IAMAI-Kantar Internet in India Report 2025, over 588 million Indians are now consuming short-video content, with growth increasingly driven by rural and non-metro audiences. India’s active internet user base has crossed 950 million, with 57 per cent of users now coming from rural markets. Yet the frameworks that govern how video consumption is measured and monetised were largely designed for single-language, Western markets and have struggled to keep pace with the scale, diversity and complexity of India’s digital landscape.
Purkayastha is no stranger to these debates. He already serves on the AI Council at Marketing and Media Alliance India and as co-chair of the Digital Entertainment Committee at the Internet and Mobile Association of India. His induction into the IAB SEA+India Video Council extends that influence into the global video standards arena.
Inshorts Group sits squarely at the intersection of these forces. Its flagship product, Inshorts, India’s highest-rated short news app, reaches 12 million active users with 60-word news summaries. Its sister platform, Public App, reaches 80 million monthly active users across more than 700 districts and 12 languages, serving communities that most global platforms barely register.
Purkayastha said the opportunity was about building something more representative. “India today sits at the centre of the global video ecosystem, but the frameworks that define how value is created and measured have not always kept pace with the realities of our market,” he said. “Being part of the IAB SEA+India Video Council is an opportunity to contribute to a more representative and future-ready approach, one that accounts for diversity in language, context, and user intent.”
As a council member, Purkayastha will contribute to shaping regional standards across video advertising, measurement and platform governance, with a focus on frameworks that are native to India’s multilingual, mobile-first ecosystem rather than imported from global benchmarks designed elsewhere.
For years, India has been content to play by rules written for other markets. Purkayastha’s induction is a signal that it is done waiting to be consulted and ready to start writing them.
