Progress Ventures is a sector-focused investment fund, specialized in the advertising, commerce, marketing, and media technology markets. We capitalize on a legacy of transactional work in these markets and the network built from two decades of M&A advisory work from Progress Partners. We use our expertise and relationships to actively add value to our portfolio, taking a hands-on approach to accelerate its growth.

Our experience leading the transformation of advertising, commerce, marketing and media technology sits at the heart of our investment ethos. This transformation is driven by commercial and financial guidance. As strategic investors, we not only want to help our companies grow commercially, we also appreciate and provide financial guidance to best prepare and propel our early-stage to growth-stage investments. We help our investments interpret market dynamics in the context of their businesses to proactively anticipate financial head-winds and accelerate growth.

We utilize the full resources of our ecosystem, including direct access to our extensive expert network of  Executives-in Residence – an esteemed group of  professionals bringing relevant experience and insights. Together we are available to solve difficult problems, connect with a global network, discover top talent, and provide perspective with the singular goal of helping our portfolio strengthen and grow their businesses.

Additionally, our portfolio companies are able to take advantage of our extensive capital markets expertise, especially helpful for longer term capital planning. Our relationships, knowledge, and skill have the benefit of helping our companies navigate the myriad of financing options as they scale.

 

 

  • Progress Partners

    As a full-service merchant bank, Progress Partners’ services support companies at every stage of maturity and lifecycle. The investment banking team applies its extensive experience of market digitization dynamics, marketing monetization strategies, and changing consumer behaviors––established in the Adtech and Martech sectors––to adjacent sectors that are being transformed by technology.

  • Progress Ventures

    Progress Ventures is an early-stage to growth-stage, sector-specialist fund investing in B2B advertising, marketing, and media technology companies. Investing since 2008, the team brings deep expertise in the disruptive technologies transforming the industry, focused on data management, AI & ML, Measurement & Analytics, and Media Automation.