Drake Star Acts as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Spiketrap on its Sale to Reddit

LOS ANGELES | September 1st, 2022 – Reddit has acquired audience contextualization SaaS company Spiketrap. Drake Star acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Spiketrap and its shareholders.

Spiketrap has a proven track record for empowering brands and platforms to better understand and engage audiences through AI-powered contextual analysis and tools.

“Our goal has always been to contextualize language at scale and in real-time to help creators, brands, and platforms genuinely understand and meaningfully engage their audiences,” said Kieran Fitzpatrick, CEO and Co-founder of Spiketrap. "We're looking forward to scaling these efforts even further as part of Reddit." Kieran added, “Drake Star was a fantastic M&A advisor to Spiketrap and was instrumental in achieving this outstanding result. We are very pleased with the outcome and excited about joining Reddit.”

Michael Metzger, Partner at Drake Star, commented: "It was a privilege working with the Spiketrap team and facilitating an amazing outcome. The acquisition will help bring Reddit’s audience contextualization and monetization capabilities to the next level”.

Drake Star Team: Michael Metzger, Mohit Pareek

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