Lean Media is a Cheterfield, MO-based audience-first programmatic media company serving the agriculture industry and businesses targeting rural audiences. It provides agribusiness and rural community online advertisers with a platform that uses advanced data analytics and proprietary programmatic media buying methods to deliver cross-device ads with high frequency, precision and control. The company is led by co-founders Beth Handrigan (CEO) and Matt Jeter. Lean Media closed $500K in seed funding led by The Yield Lab, with participation from Prosper Startup Accelerator, The St. Louis Arch Angels, a private investor from the agriculture and media industries, and Missouri Technology Corporation. The company intends to use the funds to hire additional software engineering, data science, and ad tech staff and to develop software that will strengthen its market position. The raise is positioned to support product and team growth in its core rural and agribusiness advertising market.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Feb 2018