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IQM

Voter data and programmatic political ads

Overview

IQM provides a media buying and voter intelligence platform for political campaigns. It imports voter data, matches and segments it to create target audiences, and runs programmatic digital ads tailored to districts. The platform combines data management, audience insights, and advertising services in one suite, emphasizing data security. Its goal is to help campaigns identify, understand, and reach voters more accurately while protecting voter data.

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About IQM

Simplify's Rating
Why IQM is rated
C+
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated D+ on Differentiation

Industries

Data & AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$500K

Headquarters

Town of North Hempstead, United States

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • July 2026 VoterTV+ launch directly targets the $11B midterm spending surge.
  • June 2026 Custom Voter Audiences speeds activation and improves match rates above 80%.
  • August 2026 identity-resolution award strengthens credibility with agencies buying regulated political media.

What critics are saying

  • Political ad demand collapses after November 2026, crushing IQM’s election-driven revenue.
  • Google, Meta, and CTV platforms can copy audience tools and squeeze margins.
  • Privacy regulators and platform bans can block voter-data activation, breaking IQM’s core product.

What makes IQM unique

  • IQM unifies linear, CTV, and digital political buying in one workflow.
  • VoterTV+ exposes duplicated reach and wasted spend before budgets get committed.
  • IQM’s voter-file matching and MCP integrations embed execution inside campaign workflows.

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Funding

Total Funding

$500k

Below

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Seed funding is usually the first official round after pre-seed, when a startup has a prototype or concept. It’s typically used to develop the product, test the market, and start building the team. Investors here are often angel investors or early-stage venture capitalists.
Seed Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

$3.3M
$1.5M
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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Hybrid Work Options

Company News

PR Newswire
Oct 14th, 2026
IQM and StatSocial launch six political audiences covering 67.5M people before US midterms

IQM and StatSocial have launched six exclusive political audiences to help campaigns track shifting voter interests before the 2026 midterms. The audiences are available now on IQM's programmatic advertising platform. Built from public social engagement around issues, causes, and media, they add a current view of political interests to traditional voter files. Together they cover 67.5 million people, based on StatSocial's national count as of September 17, 2026. They span the left, the middle, and the right. One person can sit in more than one audience, so the counts should not be added together. Campaigns can add geographic targeting or layer in their own voter files. "The conversation that matters is happening in places their media plans can't see," said Kris Qiu, chief executive officer of IQM.

PR Newswire
Jul 28th, 2026
IQM launches VoterTV+ to eliminate duplicate political ad spend ahead of $11B midterm race

IQM Advertising Corporation has launched VoterTV+, a cross-screen planning suite designed to help political campaigns coordinate linear and digital TV advertising. The platform aims to eliminate duplicate spending by showing where linear TV and streaming audiences overlap. VoterTV+ generates unified media plans in five minutes, allowing campaigns to identify voters unreachable through linear TV alone. The tool provides three key metrics: wasted linear reach on non-target households, deduplicated reach showing audience overlap, and incremental reach achievable only through streaming. The platform targets the 2026 US midterm elections, where political advertising spending is approaching $11 billion. It allows planners to model campaigns by district, demographics, and language before committing budgets. Plans can be exported to PDF or Excel for client approval, with approved campaigns ready to activate within 24 hours. The suite is immediately available to political campaigns and agencies.

PR Newswire
Jun 11th, 2026
IQM launches AI-powered Custom Voter Audiences tool for 2026 election targeting

IQM Advertising Corporation has launched Custom Voter Audiences, an AI-powered targeting tool for political advertisers ahead of the 2026 election cycle. The platform uses natural language processing to allow campaigns to describe desired voters and instantly generate custom, activatable audiences. Built on multi-sourced verified voter files, the system segments voters by geography, partisan lean, demographics, interests, turnout propensity and issue affinity. The AI engine analyses vast voter datasets to surface audiences most likely to influence outcomes, replacing manual sorting through pre-packaged segments. The tool integrates multiple verified data sources and applies machine learning to continuously refine targeting. IQM will measure success through audience match rates, time-to-activation, campaign budget efficiency and user adoption rates. The product launches across IQM's full network of political advertisers.

Investors Hangout
Jun 11th, 2026
IQM launches AI tool for political ad targeting.

IQM launches AI tool for political ad targeting. In the chaotic whirl of political advertising, nuanced voter targeting has always been the gold standard. But as Investors Hangout, LLC eye the 2026 election cycle, IQM Advertising Corporation might just be dropping a game-changer into the mix with their latest brainchild. Game-Changing AI precision. IQM's new offering, Custom Voter Audiences, promises a leap into the future for political campaigns. Built on bedrock fundamentals of AI and verified voter data, this product seems poised to reshape how team Quinn and others play the election ground game. Let me tell you, this ain't your grandma's voter segmentation. The technology supersedes the old, manual ways of munching through generic voter lists, bringing a nimble, AI-driven method into the spotlight. Cutting friction in campaign strategies. Folks like Vai Gupta, IQM's Chief Product Officer, aren't mincing words. "Campaigns don't have the luxury of time or guesswork," Gupta claims, and yeah, every penny counts in today's tight races. The ability to swiftly whip up targeted voter lists without wading through endless data pools? That's going to appeal to political strategists trying to hit the bullseye in a pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey world. "By combining multi?sourced, verified voter data with an AI-based intelligence layer that speeds up planning, we're giving campaigns a level of accuracy and agility they simply couldn't access before," emphasized Sanjay Vaghela, the CTO, echoing the push towards modernity. A critical election cycle looms. With 2026 shaping up to be a barnburner of an election cycle, campaigns are burdened by timelines tighter than a drum. The effective deployment of ad bucks will separate winners from the wannabes. Smart targeting, especially when driven by AI like IQM's tech promises, could mean fewer wasted impressions and stronger returns on ad spends. Investors Hangout, LLC is talking about enabling campaigns to "spend less time guessing and more time winning," as IQM puts it. It's about squeezing the most juice out of the lemon when impressions are at a premium. Setting the stage for efficient ad buys. Naturally, when you're talking about a company boasting a product that integrates multiple verified data sources - and yes, that's the magic sauce here - the implications for results are significant. Custom Voter Audiences is positioned to be a cornerstone for decision-making that is as sharp as it is speedy. Budget efficiency, real-time optimization, and enhanced voter reach: those are the promises that Gupta and Vaghela are peddling to campaigns thirsting for an edge. * Accelerated voter targeting ensures campaigns stay quick on their feet. * AI algorithms provide accuracy that wasn't possible in the past. * Verified multi-source voter files lend credibility to data-driven decisions. Without a doubt, all eyes are on IQM's new tool. In a world where time is money - campaign money - all signs suggest Custom Voter Audiences lays a foundation for advertisers to navigate the unprecedented demands of the 2026 cycle with grace and exactitude. The road ahead for political advertisers. For me, the bigger picture is this: the political advertising landscape is doing a brisk jig - and not everyone's in rhythm yet. The expectations hanging like anvils over campaigns as they connect to their voter bases are palpable. Smarter targeting technology might just be the metronome they need to hit their beats. The stakes? Hugely high. The potential payoff? The whole nine yards for campaigns keyed into data and tech advances. IQM, by rolling out its sleek, AI-powered offering, seems determined to hold the baton of precision targeting. Political advertisers might be wise to take note - and, possibly, take action, to go after those all-important voters with something sharper than yesterday's tech.

PR Newswire
Feb 20th, 2025
Iqm Advertising Corporation Makes Two Key Promotions On Its Already Accelerating Leadership Team

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IQM, the global media buying platform empowering advertisers in the most regulated verticals to use and enhance their data to make better ad buying decisions, today announced that it has promoted Darshan Khatri to Chief Customer Officer and Matthew Dybwad to Chief Revenue Officer

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