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Rocket Fuel

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Rocket Fuel delivers the only programmatic media-buying platform at big data scale that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI. Rocket Fuel’s Advertising That LearnsTM technology powered 894 advertisers in 2012, and empowers media teams to focus on strategy, not spreadsheets. Awarded #4 on Forbes’ 2013 Most Promising Companies In America list, Rocket Fuel was founded by online advertising veterans and rocket scientists from NASA, Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, and DoubleClick. Rocket Fuel employs over 350 people in 18 offices worldwide including New York, London, Toronto, and Hamburg.

Recent Milestones

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  Rocket Fuel received $50M in Venture Round funding. (6/28/12)
  Posted 6/28/12 at 6:24pm via finsmes.com
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  Rocket Fuel received $6.6M in Series C funding. (4/4/11)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 12:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Rocket Fuel received $10M in Series B funding. (9/22/10)
  Posted 9/22/10 at 6:49pm via rocketfuelinc.com
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  Rocket Fuel added Yoav Shoham as Advisor. (6/23/10)
  Posted 10/25/10 at 2:31pm
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  Rocket Fuel received $3.2M in Venture Round funding. (12/11/09)
  Posted 12/9/09 at 7:00pm via rocketfuelinc.com
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  Rocket Fuel added Mark Torrance as CTO. (9/15/09)
  Posted 6/20/11 at 11:04am
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  Rocket Fuel received $6.8M in Series A funding. (8/1/08)
  Posted 8/16/09 at 7:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Rocket Fuel added Abhinav Gupta as VP Engineering and co-founder.
  Posted 8/16/09 at 7:41pm
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  Rocket Fuel added George John as CEO and co-founder.
  Posted 8/16/09 at 7:41pm
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  Rocket Fuel added Richard Frankel as President and co-founder.
  Posted 8/16/09 at 7:41pm
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  Rocket Fuel added Eshwar Belani as VP Products & Business Development.
  Posted 5/9/11 at 10:30pm
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  Rocket Fuel added Peter Bardwick as CFO.
  Posted 9/29/11 at 6:07pm
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  Rocket Fuel added Eric Porres as CMO.
  Posted 3/30/12 at 10:33am
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  Rocket Fuel added Calton Chan as SVP Sales, North America.
  Posted 3/30/12 at 10:33am

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Screenshots

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Above: Rocket Fuel Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 12/25/10

Above: Web site
Uploaded: 4/3/12

Sources

1. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Rocket Fuel Secures $3M in Venture Funding to Boost Operations and Technology Growth (rocketfuelinc.com) [edit]
3. Rocket Fuel Calls Out to Nokia and Teams Up with Northgate for $10M Venture Funding. (rocketfuelinc.com) [edit]
4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Rocket Fuel Secures $50M in Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]