DEV/CON DETECT, INC.
TAMPA, FLORIDA

Las Olas Venture Capital is a new Florida-based early stage fund that invests in startups in a variety of industries. Our mission is to find outstanding entrepreneurs in non-obvious places and maximize their impact by connecting them to networks of capital, talent, and customers in well-established startup ecosystems. “Cyber security is a challenge for businesses of all sizes. In the digital advertising industry alone, it is estimated that $8.5B will be lost to fraud this year. DEV/CON systematically addresses for the first time the vital needs of digital ad distributors. We are very excited to be partnered with Maggie Louie, DEV/CON Co-Founder and CEO” GAN Ventures is the investment arm of GAN, a highly curated community of accelerators, partners, and investors. Economic and social prosperity occurs around the world because startup founders are making a lasting, positive impact in their communities through creating jobs, revenue, and companies that become local institutions which is why GAN Ventures invests in early-stage companies all over the world in cities large and small. Every year, 71,000 applications come into GAN Accelerators and only 1,100 startups are accepted into programs. GAN Ventures chooses 15-20 companies to invest in across this community each year. Because of this scope, the GAN Ventures portfolio represents some of the best early-stage companies in the world. On an individual level, GAN Ventures invests in startup founders that are passionate, mission-driven, self-aware, and solving a real problem in a big market. Maggie’s deep experience in the publishing industry gives her insight and passion for solving the very real problem of advertising revenue theft and fraud. From this experience, DEV/CON has developed an incredibly promising and innovative SaaS product with valuable IP to provide AdTech Security to a massive market hungry for solutions. “AdTech Security is in a massive market with significant demand for solutions. Already, we are seeing the benefits of solutions that have caught criminals who are taking money away from publishers. Maggie and the entire Dev/Con Detect team have built a great product and are on the right mission to help online publishers fight fraud and theft and to preserve their ability to serve the public through professional journalism. GAN Ventures is proud to be an investor and aligned not just in DEV/CON the company, but in Maggie and her team as people.” Off The Grid Ventures is a pre-seed and seed investment firm helping “off the grid entrepreneurs” get onto the Silicon Valley “grid”. We work with many foreign and/or women founders launching disruptive B2B Tech and fintech businesses to help them find the right product-market fit, build winning teams and succeed in their fundraising efforts. “We are excited to support DEV/CON in its mission to fight Ad fraud and put Ad revenues back where they belong: the Publishers.” (Benjamin Orthlieb, Managing Partner) “DEV/CON has identified a major source of lost revenues for publishers, and is helping them to proactively combat ad fraud. Given the sometimes razor-thin margins displayed by publishers, this can be a real game-changer for their businesses. Arguably, DEV/CON’s solutions are an integral part of of the efforts we must all do to protect quality journalism and democracy.” (David Mes, Managing Partner, Off The Grid Ventures). Start Co. is a venture development organization that supports great founders in building impactful businesses. Premium and programmatic advertising from trading desks and exchanges are the life blood of digital media and agencies. But what happens when reporting doesn’t reconcile with revenue? What are business leaders supposed do when their Adsense income isn’t matching up with impressions? Or when their reporting questions are left unanswered? That’s where Dev/Con comes in. Dev/Con’s comprehensive audit services and SaaS identify the source of revenue declines and leakage, saving its customers millions of dollars each year.