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Prioleau: Simpli.fi counts 400 billing customers and 30k advertisers

Frost Prioleau · 1386 AdTech Platform Acquired by GTCR Doing "Well North of $30m in ARR" · May 11, 2019 · at 5:32

Frost Prioleau, co-founder and CEO of Simpli.fi, describes the platform's customer breakdown and distributor model.

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“So we have about 400 customers that are billing customers. We have about 30,000 advertisers, but many of our customers are media companies who have thousands of advertisers working through them.”

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