Dino Bongartz

BlackVenture

Dino Bongartz studied economics at the University of Marburg. During his studies, in 2001he founded mediasquares GmbH and established the company among the top 5 German online advertising companies over the next few years. mediasquares customers include publishers and advertisers such as Axel Springer, Coca-Cola, NBA.com, Vodafone and sport1.de. In 2005 he sold mediasquares GmbH to the Stock Exchange listed marketer adpepper AG, where he continued to work as Managing Director until 2007. In 2008 he started Jogo Media, an international player for in-game advertising. In the years that followed, he was an investor in MarTech companies such as smartclip and Kush TV. In 2013 he founded The ADEX GmbH, the leading European provider of data management technologies, with customers such as Otto, Orange Telecom and ebay. He sold The ADEX to the ProSiebenSat.1 Group in 2017 and was Managing Director of the MarTech division until 2022. Since 2022 he has been leading the private equity company BlackVenture in Berlin, whose funds invest in the areas of cyber security, blockchain and AI.

Represented in the following tracks at the d3con:

2022 STAGE II: First-Party Data Activation
2022 STAGE II: The Future of Digital Marketing
2019 MAIN STAGE: Innovation Track
2019 STAGE II: Founders' Panel
2018 STAGE II: Expert panel on Data, Log-in and Consent Alliances
2018 MAIN STAGE: Panel of experts: Programmatic 2018
2018 STAGE II: Programmatic Forensics: The Discovery of HyphBot
2017 PUBLISHER/VERMARKTER TRACK: Header bidding Aftermath
2017 PUBLISHER/VERMARKTER TRACK: Market & investors panel
2017 PUBLISHER/VERMARKTER TRACK: Technology Provider Challenge
2016 PUBLISHER/VERMARKTER TRACK: Germany as Pioneer for Transparency and Quality (BVDW)
2016 ADVERTISER TRACK: Adblocker panel: combat, ignore or render superfluous?
2016 ADVERTISER TRACK: Expert panel: Programmatic 2016
2015 ADVERTISER TRACK: 5x5x5 best practice
2015 ADVERTISER TRACK: Data providers' panel
2015 WORKSHOPS: How do I use data in DSPs?
2015 PUBLISHER/VERMARKTER TRACK: Adblocker panel: Combat, ignore or make unneccesary?
2014 PUBLISHER/VERMARKTER TRACK: Entrepreneurs' Panel
2012 TRACK 2: DSP Demand Side Platforms Panel