Delivery Agent operates a multi-channel commerce platform that maps and delivers products tied to entertainment and advertising content across web, social, mobile and television. The company serves more than 350 major media and entertainment properties, including NBCUniversal, Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, Discovery Communications, A+E Networks, HBO, Showtime, UFC and the New York Knicks. Delivery Agent reports it has processed millions of entertainment-commerce transactions tied to network and cable content. Its platform and products include commerce applications, video and mobile products, interactive advertising solutions and the TV Wallet™ transaction engine. Delivery Agent plans to use the new funding to aggressively expand and manage deployment of commerce applications tied to entertainment content across connected devices, including Smart TVs and mobile. The company maintains offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Denver and London. Delivery Agent creates online marketplaces that catalogue products and merchandise appearing in movies and TV shows and enables viewers to purchase those items. The company has signed all the major networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, and MTV Networks. Its second core service indexes products that will air in episodes and sells ad packages to the brands behind those products. Delivery Agent processes entertainment-commerce transactions across traditional web, social, mobile and connected television and has processed millions of such transactions to date. The company has expanded through acquisitions, including media firm The Band and flash-sales site Billion Dollar Babes. On the financial side, Delivery Agent recently raised $35.5M in a Series E, bringing total funding to date to $107.3M. Delivery Agent is a San Francisco-based provider of shopping-enabled programming and content monetization. Its technology is deployed across more than 125 entertainment properties, including ABC, CBS, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, MTV Networks, HBO and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The company plans to extend its platform to support click-to-buy applications for online video, mobile and set-top boxes. It will use the financing to fuel global growth, build a European client base and offer U.S.-based clients opportunities to transact with audiences in international markets. Delivery Agent received $5M in venture debt from ATEL Ventures to support these efforts. Delivery Agent creates online marketplaces that catalog products appearing in TV shows and enables viewers to purchase those items through e-commerce sites it operates for networks. The company outsources e-commerce for networks so they can monetize content while keeping overhead low. Delivery Agent also coordinates advertising by indexing products that will air and selling ad packages to brands before episodes run. It has signed partnerships with major networks including ABC, CBS, NBC Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, and MTV Networks. The company recently raised a $25 million Series D, bringing total funding to $60 million. Delivery Agent plans to develop click-to-buy applications for online video and mobile, launch a click-and-buy remote control partnership with a major cable operator, and pursue international expansion into Europe and Asia. Delivery Agent provides a service and retail site, SeenOn, that lets viewers find and purchase products that appear in TV shows and movies. The company helps producers create an index of products appearing in content; that index is exposed on SeenOn so users can browse by network, show, character, and episode and buy items. Delivery Agent has developed a proprietary Shopisode video player that synchronously highlights products as they appear on screen to make videos "shoppable." The company secured a deal with Viacom giving four years of exclusive access to product-placement data from Viacom’s MTV, VH1, CMT, and Logo networks. Delivery Agent raised $18.5M in a third round of funding and has $35M invested to date. Based in San Francisco, it is targeting "hardcore consumers" and competes with services such as StarStyle.com/Entertainment Media Works.

Total raised

$89M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Dec 2012