Adocracy
Adocracy is a Bitcoin-driven programmatic advertising solution that blocks publisher ads in favor of ads that directly pay users for their attention.
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Marketing / Advertising
- Location San Francisco, CA, US
- Currency USD
- Founded November 2014
- Employees 2
- Website adocracy.io
Company Summary
Adocracy realigns the unit economics of online advertising using the Bitcoin blockchain and micropayment channels so that (A) users have a better browsing experience and are directly paid for their permissioned attention, (B) advertisers have a scalable, verifiable, and more efficient channel to reach their audiences, and (C) publishers are incentivized to satisfy their users - not their advertisers.
Team
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Christopher NunesCEOChris is a serial entrepreneur and media attorney who has served as COO of an outdoor advertising company, CEO of a fashion label with its own store, and COO of two film production companies, in addition to running a boutique entertainment law practice in Hollywood. Chris previously spent 5 years in Silicon Valley doing product management and corporate strategy for three different dotcom companies, one of which went public (INSW).
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Vikram KadiVP Software EngineeringSenior Software Engineer @ Barry Diller’s IAC (Citygrid) ; Former Senior Applications Engineer at Everbridge Inc. and Infosys; Skillset in Java, J2EE, Oracle SQL , PL/SQL, Hadoop, Glassfish, Tomcat, JBoss, Pig, Hive
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