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Advertising that worksfor everyone in it.

Better advertising in the moments and places that count.

Semicola is building a new way to buy and sell advertising, where every decision starts from the brand’s intent.

01

A brand is more than what it sells.

A distinctive brand is known for far more than the product that carries its name. Most of us have one we are loyal to beyond reason, or one that makes an impulse buy feel inevitable.

Brands hold memories: of places we have been, things we have done and people we think of when we see them.

Advertising should add to that meaning. Yet media is bought across channels that each have their own fields, formats and habits. A brand’s intent gets trimmed to fit, and part of what makes it distinct is lost on the way.

02

Meaning should survive scale.

A brand knows what it is trying to achieve. A publisher, creator or sponsor knows its audience and its setting. The systems in between have never held both kinds of knowledge at once; they were built to move transactions, not understanding.

Agents can hold both.

An advertiser’s agent can carry the ambition, context and guardrails of a brief. A media owner’s agent can bring what it knows about its audience and opportunities and answer with what is possible. Each side keeps its own knowledge, and together they make a better decision.

03

Understanding should travel.

That takes a shared language. Semicola is built on AdCP, an open protocol that gives agents a common way to describe advertising and talk to each other.

Semicola puts that shared understanding to work across every kind of advertising, so one brief can reach social, CTV, podcasts, publishers and out-of-home.

People still set the intent, approve the decisions and stay in control. Agents extend human judgment rather than replacing it, opening more possibilities without adding to the sameness.

More places to matter. More ways to stand apart. Never more generic.

The peoplebuilding Semicola.

  • Mara Lindqvist

    Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder

  • Tomás Ferreira

    Chief Operating Officer, Co-founder

  • Priya Natarajan

    Head of Engineering, Co-founder

  • Jonah Okafor

    General Counsel

  • Elin Sato

    Head of Product

  • Rafael Moreau

    Head of People

  • Hana Kowalski

    Head of Marketing

How we build.

  1. 01

    Start from the brief

    Every feature begins with what a brand is trying to achieve, not with a channel’s form.

  2. 02

    Build on open protocols

    AdCP and MCP underneath, so any agent can reach any seller without a bespoke integration.

  3. 03

    Keep people in charge

    Rules, approval gates and budgets are set by humans and enforced on every call.

  4. 04

    Show every decision

    Each action an agent takes is recorded, attributable and exportable.

  5. 05

    Charge for work, not media

    We take 0% of media and price intelligence by the work it completes.

About Semicola.

Semicola gives advertisers, media owners and their agents one place to buy and sell every kind of advertising, anywhere in the world — digital, social and television, audio, outdoor, print and whatever arrives next.

Advertisers bring the intent. Media owners bring the opportunities. Semicola gives agents the access to discover and act on more of what is possible.