ArcSpan Raises $5.2MM to Accelerate Publisher Audience Data Monetization with AI, Identity and Quality Curation Tools

Funding will accelerate expansion of AI-powered audience tools, contextual quality scoring, and premium demand curation solutions

NEW YORK, July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcSpan, the leading publisher-first audience monetization platform, today announced it has raised $5.2 million in a Seed Extension round. The capital will support ArcSpan's mission to help digital publishers maximize revenue by transforming first-party data into high-performance, advertiser-ready audience and curation solutions.

The funding round, backed by both new and existing investors, underscores growing demand for publisher-centric data platforms that deliver actionable audience segmentation, content intelligence, and direct monetization tools as the industry transitions beyond third-party cookies.

"Publishers are sitting on powerful audience signals but lack the tools to efficiently activate and monetize them," said Art Muldoon, Co-Founder and CEO of ArcSpan. "This investment enables us to fast-track our AI development and scale new capabilities like contextual quality scoring, audience curation, and turnkey PMP activation, all while putting publisher control at the center."

ArcSpan will use the funding to accelerate development and go-to-market efforts for several new innovations:

• Audience Builder 3.0 – AI-powered segmentation and modeling engine for real-time, agentic audiences
• PMP Activation Hub – pre-qualified publisher deal packaging and campaign enablement with SSP and DSP integrations
• ArcSpan QualityCloud^™ and AQI – contextual and ad placement quality scoring for inventory curation, planning, and optimization

Since launching the ArcSpan AMS enterprise data platform in 2023, ArcSpan has partnered with leading media companies and SSPs to streamline the path from data to demand. The AMS platform's Triple-A Framework – Aggregation, Amplification, and Activation – gives publishers a simplified yet powerful approach to harnessing first-party data and driving premium yield.

"We believe ArcSpan is solving one of the most pressing problems in digital media – how to enable scalable, high-fidelity targeting and monetization of publisher audiences and first-party data signals for advertiser outcomes," said Al Muzaurieta, Co-Founder at Good Apple. "Their vision, expertise, and traction in the market made this a compelling investment."

With this raise, ArcSpan plans to expand its product, data science, and publisher success teams while deepening integrations across the advertising ecosystem.

To learn more about ArcSpan or to explore partnership opportunities, visit www.arcspan.com.

About ArcSpan

ArcSpan is an AI-powered audience monetization platform built for premium publishers. Through its Audience Monetization System (AMS), ArcSpan builds stronger data signals, activation outcomes, and comprehensive programmatic analytics to unlock the full value of their first-party audience data. Headquarted in NYC, with an office in London, ArcSpan partners with digital media leaders to drive performance, transparency, and control across the programmatic landscape.

SOURCE ArcSpan Technologies