Nova is the leader in Social Display, providing creative automation for agencies, brands, ad tech platforms, CTV providers, and retail media, allowing them to repurpose social creative to run programmatically, at scale, on the open web, in mobile apps, and on CTV. In the past year alone, 250+ of the world’s most successful media publishers and platforms have generated $150 million in direct-sold digital advertising revenue with Nova’s technology, activating over 15,000 campaigns in 30+ countries.

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Kunal Gupta

Founder and CEO

Kunal Gupta is an entrepreneur, investor and author.

He founded and scaled a global digital advertising AI company as Chief Everything Officer for 15 years, with teams and clients across 30+ countries.

Born, raised, and educated in Canada, Kunal studied software engineering from the University of Waterloo and artificial intelligence from the University of Oxford. He currently lives between Lisbon, Portugal and Sydney, Australia.

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