Digital advertising platform for retail brands with real-time data infrastructure
F11 operates a programmatic advertising platform for brick-and-mortar retailers, built on a modern data stack (Snowflake, Iceberg, Kafka, Flink, dbt) that reveals infrastructure-first ambitions. Active projects around streaming ingestion, lakehouse platforms, and drive-to-store measurement signal a shift toward real-time attribution and measurement—moving beyond traditional digital ad serving. Heavy hiring in data (5 roles) and product (4) indicates the company is scaling analytics and measurement capabilities faster than core engineering.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Product
F11 is a German adtech company founded in 2014 that serves retail chains and CPG brands with a multichannel digital advertising platform. The product spans digital-out-of-home, online video, display, and mobile, unified under a programmatic buying interface with KPI-based billing. The company operates from Gießen, Hessen, with 51–200 employees and active hiring across Germany, Italy, and Spain. Internal priorities center on building real-time data pipelines, implementing an open lakehouse architecture, and developing drive-to-store measurement tools—infrastructure work that supports richer attribution and campaign analytics.
Snowflake for the data warehouse, Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris for lakehouse capabilities, Kafka and Flink for real-time streaming, dbt for transformation, and Looker, Tableau, and Power BI for analytics and dashboarding.
Real-time streaming ingestion and pipelines, an open lakehouse data platform, drive-to-store measurement, ETL/ELT processes, and SaaS metrics dashboarding for strategic and ad hoc analysis.
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