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LOUIS XIII · October 8, 2026

ONAR Holding Closes Advertise Purple Acquisition at $17.1M Revenue Add, $25M Pre-Money

AI-marketing holdco secures $15M initial close to fund programmatic platform with 111M consumer profiles and $6.6M adjusted EBITDA.

PublishedOctober 8, 2026
SourceBusiness Insider →
Edgar’s SEC Data profile {Actuarial Version}ONAR Holding →
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ONAR Holding Corporation closed its acquisition of Advertise Purple, a programmatic advertising platform, adding $17.1 million in annual revenue and approximately $6.6 million in adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2025. The transaction was funded through an initial $15 million financing round at a $25 million pre-money valuation, marking the largest acquisition in the AI-marketing holdco's history. The deal brings combined pro forma revenue into the mid-eight figures and delivers ONAR operational control of Bloom, Advertise Purple's proprietary data and analytics engine housing more than 111 million consumer profiles.

ONAR trades on the OTC Pink market, which means liquidity is thin and institutional participation minimal. The $25 million pre-money valuation implies the company is being priced at roughly 3.8x trailing revenue if the $17.1 million from Advertise Purple represents most of the combined base. That multiple sits below the 5x to 7x range typical for profitable martech assets with recurring client revenue, suggesting either conservative pricing discipline or investor skepticism about integration velocity. The $6.6 million adjusted EBITDA figure, if it holds post-acquisition, would place the business at approximately 2.6x EV-to-EBITDA on the financing round valuation alone, which is aggressive for a sub-scale OTC entity unless growth assumptions are material.

What matters for allocators and agency strategists is the Bloom platform. More than 111 million consumer profiles in a proprietary data layer means ONAR now controls a programmatic decisioning engine that can feed campaigns across travel, hospitality, and luxury verticals without relying entirely on third-party data marketplaces. If the integration is executed cleanly, ONAR can cross-sell Bloom's targeting capabilities into its existing client base while offering Advertise Purple's accounts access to the parent's AI-powered creative automation tools. The $4.4 million in net income attributed to Advertise Purple in the release suggests the business was operating at a 25.7% net margin, which is unusually high for a programmatic shop unless client churn is low and the tech stack is fully amortized. That margin profile will compress under public-company cost structure, but it indicates the asset was run lean.

The financing structure deserves attention. The $15 million is described as an initial close, which means ONAR is likely staging capital raises to de-risk the integration and preserve dilution control. Single-family offices and private growth funds watching the martech consolidation cycle should note that mid-market programmatic platforms with eight-figure revenue and positive EBITDA are now trading at valuations that assume modest organic growth and operational synergies within 12 to 18 months. If ONAR can demonstrate 15% to 20% year-over-year growth in the combined entity and maintain the $6.6 million EBITDA run rate, a follow-on financing round in late 2025 or early 2026 could re-rate the business closer to 4x to 5x revenue. The risk is execution drift, client overlap cannibalization, or Bloom's data infrastructure requiring material capex to scale.

ONAR now operates a programmatic advertising business generating mid-single-digit millions in quarterly EBITDA, with a proprietary data layer covering more than 111 million consumer profiles and a balance sheet recapitalized at $25 million pre-money. The next financing tranche will clarify whether growth assumptions hold.

The takeaway
ONAR's **$17.1M** Advertise Purple acquisition at **$25M** pre-money delivers **111M**-profile data engine and **$6.6M** EBITDA, testing mid-market martech consolidation pricing.

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