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Helping brands take back the Internet since 2010
Kevel offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
"Kevel is a great partner, and we recommend them to anyone building a custom ad platform."
Chief Digital Officer, Bed Bath & Beyond
Grow your business with our award-winning product and team
Insider.com's Hottest Ad Tech Company (2021)
Best Monetization Platform (2021)
MarTech Breakthrough Award Gold Winner
AdExchanger Best Publisher Tech (2020)
Inc.com Best Workplaces
SaaS Awards - Best SaaS Platform
Most Innovative Company of the Year
Titan Awards - Best B2B Software
G2Crowd Top Ad Serving Tech
TBJ's Best Places to Work
Fortune.com Best Place to Work
Company of the Year
Business Intelligence Company of the Year
Top API Innovator (2019)
Stratus Award Finalist for Cloud Computing
Best in Biz Gold Winner
Software of the Year
Cloud Awards Finalist - Best SaaS Platform (2019)
Feel confident working with an industry-certified partner
AWS Select-Tier Tech Partner
Approved Google Ad Technology Provider
Official IAB Member
Soc 1 Type II Certified
We're proud sponsors of API and industry conferences across the globe
Strangeloop
API World
Lead Dev
Clojure Conference
Product Camp
Gluecon
Shoptalk
Digiday Publishing Summit
Digiday Retail Summit
Meet the Leadership Team
James Avery
CEO & Founder
Chessy West
CFO
Tim Ewald
CTO
Tushar Kirtane
VP of Product
Sandy Grason
Chief of Staff
James Avery
James Avery is the founder of Kevel and serves as its CEO. He was the co-founder of TekPub, which helped developers learn from high-quality screencasts. He has been writing code and starting companies for the past 20 years, while also writing books for O'Reilly, Wrox, and Microsoft Press. Additionally, he serves as an advisor to startups including Blockthrough, Lazarus, and more through TechStars MetLife Accelerator.
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Our Story
Kevel began as Adzerk in 2010 when software engineer James Avery wanted better tech for managing his network’s ads. While initially being JavaScript-based, Kevel quickly focused on server-side API ads as the future of the Internet.
Soon, Kevel offered not just an API ad server, but infrastructure tools for companies to build their own ad products. Now, Kevel's product is a suite of APIs aimed at helping you drive revenue and take back the Internet from the ad tech giants.
Our Values
Kevel is an inclusive workplace. We are mothers, fathers, veterans, students, LGBTQ, immigrants with one goal in common — we want to help you take back the Internet from the ad tech giants.
- Make the Internet a better place. We help innovative brands build user-friendly, privacy-focused ad platforms.
- Be open. We are dedicated to open source and sharing our knowledge.
- We are all adults. We reject micromanagement and trust our employees.
- We delight our customers. We strive to delight our customers - and our customers' users.
- Embrace diversity. We fight to empower underrepresented groups.
- Deliver innovation. We maintain a culture of engineering and creative problem solving.
- Always be crushing. We focus on delivering value and crushing it.
Locations
Durham
San Francisco
