Brian Baumgart

Co-founder and CEO, Conversion Logic

Brian Baumgart is currently the CEO and co-founding investor of Conversion Logic. He started the company in early 2014 to pioneer the second generation of holistic, advanced attribution for TV and digital media. Previously, Brian was co-founder and CEO of Gradient X – a leading DSP for programmatic mobile advertising – sold company to Singtel (Singapore Telecom) in 2013. For the seven years prior to founding Gradient X, Brian was an angel investor and served on the executive team at Adconion. During this time the company grew rapidly, raising over $100m and expanding to over 26 offices in 18 countries with over 700 employees and building one of the largest multi-channel digital advertising platforms. He most recently served as chief strategy officer of Adconion Direct – company was acquired by SingTel (Singapore Telecom) in 2014 for over $235 million. Coming out of the dot com bust, Brian joined Fastclick as vice president of business development and member of the executive team, where they secured $70 million in funding and completed a successful NASDAQ IPO – sold company to Value Click (now Conversant) for over $240 million. Before Fastclick Brian launched AdMonitor for Publishers, the third party ad-serving division of L90, where they quickly captured market share, leading to its acquisition by DoubleClick. Brian graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Finance.

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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...

Startup Guide to AI Visibility Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....

Practical Uses of AI Automation for Startup Operations

Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations

In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...

New York Tech Week Mucker Sessions Recap

2025 New York Tech Week Recap Of Mucker Sessions

Last week during New York Tech Week 2025, we joined more than 1,000 events hosted by founders, investors, and VCs. This post is a full Mucker recap of the three...

Build a Customer Support Function for Startups Using AI Alex Velinov

How to Build a Customer Support Function for Startups Using AI Tools with Alex Velinov

Delivering high-quality customer support can be one of the most resource-draining parts of a startup. The good news: we’re at a turning point where founders can use AI tools to...

Zero → 100: The Exact Steps We Took to Close Our First 100 Paying Customers

Zero → 100: The Exact Steps We Took to Close Our First 100 Paying Customers

Going from zero customers to 100 in just four months sounds impossible—unless you’re a founder willing to roll up your sleeves and hustle relentlessly. I’m Gaurav Bhattacharya, co-founder of Jeeva.ai,...

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