Observed Signal · Jun 17, 2026 · Funding · Source: AdExchanger · Impact: 3/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Precise.ai Raises $7M to Audit Programmatic Decisions
Precise.ai, a startup founded by ad tech veterans Spencer Potts and Adam Helfgott, raised a $7 million seed round co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Lasagna, with participation from 3C Ventures and Click Ventures. The company built a blockchain-based provenance and consent foundation and has pivoted to apply “decisioning economics” to programmatic buying: ingesting log-level DSP and ad tech data to run contribution analyses that quantify how individual targeting, bidding and supply choices affect cost and performance. Precise.ai is running six pilots with large buyers, meeting Mediaocean’s partnership team for tests, and plans to use the seed funding to prove the model with a small set of major advertisers while making senior hires. The team is currently eight people.
Introduces a novel, audit-focused approach to programmatic measurement that could increase transparency and influence budgeting and vendor accountability in programmatic buying; notable seed funding and pilots with large buyers but not a major platform policy change.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Precise.ai raised a $7 million seed round co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Lasagna.
- Participants in the round included 3C Ventures and Click Ventures (the VC firm founded by Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise).
- Founders: Spencer Potts (CEO and co-founder) and Adam Helfgott (co-founder and chief architect).
- Precise.ai pivoted from blockchain-based privacy and consent infrastructure (Qonsent + Valence Labs) to a platform that applies 'decisioning economics' to programmatic campaigns.
- The platform ingests log-level DSP and ad tech data to run contribution analysis on targeting, bid modifiers, supply paths and other inputs; the company is running six pilots and meeting Mediaocean for potential tests.
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