Motionlead

Animated mobile ads.

y-combinatorWinter 2014Marketing & adtech 🇺🇸 San Francisco11 people

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Acquired

Alexei Chemenda · 1 founder

2026Acquired

Acquired

Team

current

Co-founders

current

Stage

Acquired

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About

Motionlead empowers advertisers and publishers to reach their audience through a unique advertising experience thanks to transparent, animated and interactive ads that come on top of native and web apps without stopping user navigation

Founder

Alexei Chemenda

Founder

Alexei Chemenda is the CRO and Managing Director, Americas for Adikteev. He joined Adikteev in 2015 when the latter acquired Motionlead, a company he co-founded in Paris. MotionLead was the first French company to ever be accepted in YCombinator. Alexei is a software engineer who now focuses on the business side of the company. Since 2015, Alexei actively invests in early stage tech companies (40+ investments to date). Alexei has been selected in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2019

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