Brainient

I started coding when I was 12 and discovered the web around 14. The first website I ever built was for a non-profit run by my sister.

As a freshman in college (majored in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science), I started a software outsourcing business and hired a bunch of my friends to help companies build websites. We had no clients, so we started bidding for projects on Rent A Coder, Elance and Getafreelancer.com. Our work was good and within a year we had built a team of 10 engineers creating web apps for companies all over the world. While creating software for others, we were also working on our own ideas.

In 2009 we had a feeling that video on the internet will be a big thing, so we built an interactive video ad server to deliver better video ads online. That product took off, so in 2009 I moved to London to raise money from investors and build a sales team. We raised $4 million in financing from a number of amazing investors, and by 2016 Brainient was the leading interactive video ad server in Europe, with customers in 20 countries and serving billions of ad impressions per month.

In 2016 Brainient was acquired by Teads, one of our clients and the largest independent video advertising marketplace in the world.