Concord raises $3M Seed Funding

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AI infrastructure that transforms how the world buys media

Concord's three co-founders, Nathan Venezia, Nicolas Cosson and Antoine Chwalek, on a balcony in Paris

We’re backed by leading ad tech builders and top-tier VCs

Two months after launch, Concord raised a $3M seed round. Among the people behind it: the founders of companies acquired by DoubleVerify and Walmart, and the CEO of Mirakl.

  • Andreessen Horowitz

    a16z

    • Silicon Valley
    • Early backer of Facebook, Airbnb, Coinbase
  • Drysdale

    Drysdale

    • Paris
    • Day-0 software investor
    • Founded 2025
  • Motier Ventures

    Motier Ventures

    • Galeries Lafayette family
    • Tech investment arm
  • Better Angle

    Better Angle

    • Angel-backed fund
    • Pre-seed & seed
    • Since 2023
  • Scibids

    Rémi Lemonnier

    • Co-founder & CEO, Scibids
    • Exit to DoubleVerify, $125M
    • Advisor to Concord
  • Vibe

    Arthur Querou

    • Co-founder & CEO, Vibe.co
    • Streaming TV ads
    • Exit to Walmart, $1.4B
  • Mirakl

    Philippe Corrot

    • Co-founder & CEO, Mirakl
    • French unicorn
    • 450+ enterprise customers
  • Galeries Lafayette

    Guillaume Houzé

    • Galeries Lafayette family
    • Founder, Motier Ventures

Our story

Every campaign you see online was set up by someone, by hand. A trader with six tabs open, copying the same budget, the same audience, the same naming convention into Meta, then Google, then TikTok, then DV360. Checking it twice. Fixing it at midnight when one field was wrong. The industry spent fifteen years making ads smarter, and almost no time on the people who actually launch them.

Nathan saw it from the media side: he built Manadge and sold it to iHeartMedia in 2023. Nicolas and Antoine saw it from inside the machine: they ran engineering at Veepee and built the bidder at Adot, the kind of system that decides in milliseconds where an ad goes. One side had the strategy. The other had the infrastructure. Nobody had joined the two.

In January 2026, in Paris, the three of them started Concord on one conviction: media buyers should not spend their days clicking buttons and filling out forms. Their job is the plan, the judgment, the client. Execution should be something software does, checked every time, under the control of the people who own it.

Two months after launch, Concord raised $3M from founders who built and sold ad tech. Today it is a team of 12 in Paris and New York, connected to Meta, Google, TikTok, Snapchat, DV360 and Amazon. And it is just getting started.

The founders

Nathan Venezia

Co-founder & CEO

Built a media company and sold it to a NASDAQ-listed giant.

  • Exited Manadge to iHeartMedia (NASDAQ: IHRT)
  • Altice Media Group alumnus
  • Angel investor in ad tech

Nicolas Cosson

Co-founder & CTO

Has led engineering for one of Europe's largest e-commerce platforms.

  • Former CTO, Adot
  • Former Head of Engineering, Veepee
  • ENS Paris-Saclay

Antoine Chwalek

Co-founder & Head of Engineering

Wrote a real-time bidder that decides where ads go in milliseconds.

  • Creator of Adot's real-time bidder
  • Lead developer, Veepee
  • Lead developer, Immortal Game

Advisor

Rémi Lemonnier

Rémi Lemonnier

Advisor, co-founder of Scibids

Pioneered AI for media buying and sold it to DoubleVerify for $125M.

  • Co-founder & CEO, Scibids (2016)
  • One of the first AI media-buying companies
  • Investor in Concord
“Anyone who has run digital media campaigns knows the work and pressure behind them. That part has gotten far less attention than performance itself. Concord is the first team I've seen tackle it properly, combining a deep understanding of what media teams actually need with a very strong AI background.”
Rémi Lemonnier, Advisor, co-founder of Scibids

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