Analysis
AppsFlyer has raised more than $1 billion in a Series E round at a $2.7 billion post-money valuation, according to Axios and Crunchbase. The capital comes from four of the world's largest advertising platforms -- Google, Meta, Unity and Moloco -- each of which acquired a minority, non-exclusive stake.
The logic is independence. AppsFlyer measures and attributes mobile advertising performance for more than 15,000 brands, and its pitch is that attribution must be neutral and trusted -- not controlled by any single ad seller. As AI systems increasingly decide how ad budgets are spent and optimized, the signals feeding those systems become, in the company's framing, the most consequential infrastructure in the industry.
Financially, AppsFlyer is no story stock: the San Francisco-based company runs roughly $500 million in annual recurring revenue with positive cash flow and about 1,300 employees. CEO Oren Kaniel reiterated that AppsFlyer intends to go public eventually, casting the round as a step on that path rather than a substitute for it -- and adding another well-scaled candidate to a thawing IPO pipeline.