Sales & marketing

Heyzap

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Heyzap is a premier mobile ad network that helps millions of users discover apps they love. Heyzap’s SDK for Android and iOS apps allows both well-established app producers and innovative indie developers to monetize and bring their apps to a wide audience. It currently provides advertising, publishing, mediation, and cross-promotion services to mo

Overview

Heyzap is a premier mobile ad network that helps millions of users discover apps they love. Heyzap’s SDK for Android and iOS apps allows both well-established app producers and innovative indie developers to monetize and bring their apps to a wide audience. It currently provides advertising, publishing, mediation, and cross-promotion services to mobile developers worldwide.

Heyzap is based in San Francisco and was founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Sales & marketingAPI platformDevelopersDevelopersAdvertising

Founders & team

Immad Akhund

Founder/CEO

Now: CEO, Founder Mercury.com - banking for startups Was: PT Partner @YCombinator , Founder Heyzap (YCW09), Founder Clickpass (YCS07). Investor: @nurxapp, @RappiColombia, @airtable 100+

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Jude Gomila

Founder/Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur and backer. P26 (Ultrametric), Golden (a16z, Founders Fund, DCVC backed, acq '24), W09 (Heyzap - acq '16). Backer of 18+ unicorns from seed. Investor into airtable, gusto, carta, mercury (first cheque), benchling, astra, astranis, ginkgo bioworks, Ironclad (first cheque), Linear (first cheque), Stoke Aerospace (first cheque), human interest, Apollo, Boom and many others. Previous: Founder of Golden (acq comply advantage 2024), Co Founder of Heyzap (acq Fyber 2016)

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
11team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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