Helping brands take back the Internet since 2010
Kevel (previously Adzerk) offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
"Kevel is a great partner, and we recommend them to anyone building a custom ad platform."
Chief Digital Officer, Bed Bath & Beyond
Grow your business with our award-winning product and team
AdExchanger Best Publisher Tech Finalist (2020)
Inc.com Best Workplaces
Software of the Year
G2Crowd Top Ad Serving Tech
TBJ's Best Places to Work (2020)
Fortune.com Best Place to Work
Association of National Advertisers - B2 Gold Award (2020)
Business Intelligence Company of the Year
Cloud Awards Finalist - Best SaaS Platform (2019)
Stratus Award Finalist for Cloud Computing
Best in Biz Gold Winner
Great Place To Work Certification
Top API Innovator (2019)
Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year
TBJ's Best Places to Work (2019)
Cloud Company of the Year
Company of the Year
API Solution of the Year
Feel confident working with an industry-certified partner
AWS Select-Tier Tech Partner
Approved Google Ad Technology Provider
Official IAB Member
Soc 1 Type II Certified
We're proud sponsors of API and industry conferences across the globe
Strangeloop
API World
Lead Dev
Clojure Conference
Product Camp
Gluecon
Shoptalk
Digiday Publishing Summit
Digiday Retail Summit
Meet the Leadership Team
James Avery
CEO & Founder
Chessy West
CFO
Ron Nelson
VP of Sales
Bo Liu
VP of Customer Success
Tim Ewald
VP of Engineering
Tushar Kirtane
VP of Product
Chris Shuptrine
VP of Marketing
James Avery
James Avery is the founder of Kevel and serves as its CEO. He was the co-founder of TekPub, which helped developers learn from high-quality screencasts. He has been writing code and starting companies for the past 20 years, while also writing books for O'Reilly, Wrox, and Microsoft Press. Additionally, he serves as an advisor to startups including Blockthrough, Lazarus, and more through TechStars MetLife Accelerator.
Tekpub Zerk Media O'Reilly Dr. Dobbs Max Foundry
Our Story
Kevel began as Adzerk in 2010 when software engineer James Avery wanted better tech for managing his network’s ads. While initially being JavaScript-based, Kevel quickly focused on server-side API ads as the future of the Internet.
Soon, Kevel offered not just an API ad server, but infrastructure tools for companies to build their own ad products. Now, Kevel's product is a suite of APIs aimed at helping you drive revenue and take back the Internet from the ad tech giants.
Our Values
Kevel is an inclusive workplace. We are mothers, fathers, veterans, students, LGBTQ, immigrants with one goal in common — we want to help you take back the Internet from the ad tech giants.
- Make the Internet a better place. We help innovative brands build user-friendly, privacy-focused ad platforms.
- Be open. We are dedicated to open source and sharing our knowledge.
- We are all adults. We reject micromanagement and trust our employees.
- We delight our customers. We strive to delight our customers - and our customers' users.
- Embrace diversity. We fight to empower underrepresented groups.
- Deliver innovation. We maintain a culture of engineering and creative problem solving.
- Always be crushing. We focus on delivering value and crushing it.
Locations
Durham
San Francisco
