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Prodege

2030 E Maple Avenue Suite 200, El Segundo, CA, 90245, United States

Overview

Prodege offers marketing, data, and analytics solutions that enable brands and agencies to gather insights, target audiences, acquire customers, boost engagement, and drive loyalty. The company leverages reward programs to deliver cash back and rewards for everyday online activities and its consumer properties reach more than 120 million members worldwide. Since launching in 2008, Prodege’s reward programs have delivered more than $1.8 billion in rewards. Management — including CEO Chuck Davis and Founder & President Josef Gorowitz — will remain in place and continue as significant investors. Prodege plans to use the new investment to support rapid organic expansion and a targeted acquisition strategy. The platform positions itself as a partner for brands seeking data-driven customer acquisition and engagement solutions. Prodege’s Swagbucks is an online rewards platform that provides brands, advertisers and marketers a way to reward members for everyday web discovery activity, including searching, shopping, entertainment, discounted offers, surveys and games. The platform offers gift cards from more than 300 e‑commerce stores, including Amazon, Wal‑Mart, Target, Starbucks and PayPal. The company has distributed over $60 million in free gift cards to consumers since its 2008 founding. Prodege has been profitable since 2010. In 2013 the company reported $53 million in revenues, up 51% from 2012. The business is led by newly named CEO Chuck Davis and president Josef Gorowitz (founding CEO) and is based in El Segundo, California.

Total raised
$60M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
May 2014

Industries

  • Advertising
  • Analytics
  • Digital Media
  • Gift Card
  • Market Research
  • Mobile
  • Search Engine
  • Virtual Currency
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    May 2014

    $60M

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