DIVE is any brand’s “news network” – providing updates and information to environments about how a brand is performing in real time; like a “Bloomberg” for brand’s data and information.
Business name: DIVE Networks
Twitter: @divenetworks
Sector: Ad Tech
Based in: Toronto
Regions covered: North/South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia
Founders and what do each of you do?
Deborah Hall – CEO – www.linkedin.com/in/debhall
Jake Neiman – CFO – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-neiman
Oshoma Momoh – CTO – https://www.linkedin.com/in/oshomamomoh
Michael Girgis – President – https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-girgis
Who are your major backers?
Highline, BDC Canada, Freycinet Investments.
What’s the track record?
Top 15 Companies to Watch, Founders are serial entrepreneurs, started and sold many businesses.
What do they say?
DIVE is any brand’s “news network” – providing updates and information to environments about how a brand is performing in real time; Like a “Bloomberg” for brand’s data and information.
What does this mean?
Brands can now shorten the distance between reporting/news and information distribution to employees and customers.
What makes your company different from its competitors?
We use broadcast as a medium to display digital data.
Who are your clients?
Many of the world’s top brands including Unilever, Walmart, Home Depot, Scotiabank, BMW, Interpublic Group, Omincom Globally and others.
How will your company change the world?
We change the ways consumers receive information – and the pace that they get information.
Who do you compete with?
Sprinklr and others have technology that is close to what we do – also homemade solutions that require lots of man-power to deploy.
Who should be worried?
Adtech software that requires a login.
If you could choose any investor globally who would it be?
Twitter or Google globally as there are strategic reasons for this.
If you could poach any member of staff from any company in the world who would it be?
Software engineers that have passion for what they build and constantly coming back with new ideas and improvements.