Digital Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the release of Episode Five of our Fireside Chat Series, a weekly video program hosted by DCA Senior Investment Banker Andrew Daniel. Each week, Andrew holds hour-long conversations with world class Founders, CEOs and Entrepreneurs in which guests share their stories, experiences and insights while contemplating key market trends and events in a discussion-based format. 

In our fifth episode, Andrew speaks with Kendall Clark, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stardog. Stardog is a reusable, scalable knowledge graph platform that enables enterprises to unify all their data, including data sources and databases of every type, to get the answers needed to drive business decisions. Stardog’s enterprise customers include Fortune 500 companies in finance, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media and government. 

Andrew and Kendall discuss the evolution of enterprise data access and insights as well as how the diversity of data use-cases creates an advantage for the knowledge graph. They also discuss how capital often focuses on data driven insight platforms, frequently overlooking  the data that powers key insights. Lastly, they discuss artificial intelligence and machine learning as long existing tools to generate enterprise insights.

Watch Episode Five on YouTube or listen to the audio anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Digital Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the release of Episode Four of our Fireside Chat Series, a weekly video program hosted by DCA Senior Investment Banker Andrew Daniel. Each week, Andrew holds hour-long conversations with world class Founders, CEOs and Entrepreneurs in which guests share their stories, experiences and insights while contemplating key market trends and events in a discussion based format.

In our fourth episode, Andrew speaks with Matthew Roche, Chief Executive Officer of Extole. San Francisco based Extole is an enterprise advocacy and referral platform that helps brands turn customers into advocates in order to harness the power of online sharing to the benefit of their bottom line. Extole enables marketers to connect with millions of advocates, scaling word-of-mouth to acquire new customers and increase loyalty using their greatest competitive advantage: their customers.

Andrew and Matthew discuss the role of advocacy, referral and loyalty solutions within the MarTech stack, the evolution of the customer journey and the rift between data driven and execution driven solutions. They also discuss the dynamics of the MarTech landscape, the strategic acquirer environment and the fragmentation of AdTech and MarTech.  

Watch Episode Four on YouTube or listen to the audio anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Digital Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the release of Episode Three of our new Fireside Chat Series, a weekly video program hosted by DCA Senior Investment Banker Andrew Daniel. Each week, Andrew holds hour-long conversations with world class Founders, CEOs and Entrepreneurs in which guests share their stories, experiences and insights while contemplating key market trends and events in a discussion based format.

In our third episode, Andrew speaks with Vijay Chittoor, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blueshift. San Francisco based Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. It’s SmartHub CDP uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. Through unified data, omnichannel orchestration, intelligent decisioning and unmatched scale, Blueshift gives brands all the tools to seamlessly deliver 1:1 experiences in real-time across the entire customer journey. 

Andrew and Vijay discuss the current state of CDPs within the MarTech landscape, and the development of a MarTech stack 2.0, a creation that will depend on increased data agility and the adoption of SmartHub technology. They also discuss the paradigm shift from channel-centric to customer-centric marketing that focuses on the consumer experience, a shift that has recently been accelerated by COVID-19. 

Digital Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the release of Episode Two of our new Fireside Chat Series, a weekly video program hosted by DCA Senior Investment Banker Andrew Daniel. Each week, Andrew will be holding hour-long conversations with world class Founders, CEOs and Entrepreneurs in which guests will share their stories, experiences and insights while contemplating key market trends and events in a discussion-based format.

In our second episode, Andrew speaks with Yan Liu, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TVision. Founded in 2014, TVision is the leader in TV performance metrics – an advertising technology firm that delivers real-time performance metrics for marketing effectiveness and efficiency. The Company uses cutting edge technology to measure what was once unmeasurable – how people really watch TV, enabling brands, networks and data partners alike to reduce waste and drive marketing results. 

Andrew and Yan discuss the evolution of TV measurement from audience to attribution, connected TV, the development of TV advertising technology, COVID-19 catalyzed shifts in consumer consumption habits and the potential for consolidation within the TV ecosystem.

Watch Episode Two on YouTube or listen to the audio anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Digital Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the launch of our new Fireside Chat Series, a weekly video program hosted by DCA Senior Investment Banker Andrew Daniel.
 
Each week, Andrew will be holding hour-long conversations with world class Founders, CEOs and Entrepreneurs in which guests will share their stories, experiences and insights while contemplating key market trends and events in a discussion based format. This series is designed to be highly informative and diverse, bringing guests from across a variety of sectors and business profiles to our audience.
 
In our inaugural episode, Andrew speaks with Shobhit Shukla, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Singapore-based Near. Founded in 2012, Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people and places, processing data from over 1.6 billion monthly users across 44 countries. The Near Platform powers data-driven marketing and enrichment offerings through a suite of SaaS products, allowing users to leverage audience, spatial, retail and other data in a privacy-led environment.
 
Andrew and Shobhit discuss the evolution of data intelligence from geospatial insight to enhanced and broadened data visibility, the role of a data first identity platform in the MarTech stack and the future of customer data in an increasingly noisy ecosystem.
 
Watch Episode 1 on YouTube or listen to the audio anywhere you listen to podcasts. Episodes will be released on a weekly basis going forward.
 
Should you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to reach out to Andrew at [email protected] or respond directly to this email.

Jay MacDonald, the Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Capital Advisors speaks with senior banker, Andrew Daniel about the CDP landscape.

Jay MacDonald, the Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Capital Advisors speaks with Diego Meller, Founder and CEO of Jampp

Jay MacDonald, the Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Capital Advisors speaks with Frost Prioleau, Founder and CEO of Simpli.fi.