• Sector
    Services
  • Investment year
    2023
  • Status
    Realised

Brainlabs provides a single solution marketing model bringing together technology, biddable agency services and consultancy. Notable clients include leading brands such as Formula1 and TUI.

Founded in 2012, the company has grown organically from one to 240 people in just seven years. It has also been placed 1st in Deloitte’s Tech Track Fast 50, 5th in the Financial Times fastest growing companies in Europe, 5th in the Sunday Times Best Small Companies to Work For, and Master of Marketing Agency of the Year two years in a row.

CEO, Daniel Gilbert, left Google to set up Brainlabs in his parents’ attic, having seen an opportunity to disrupt the marketing industry with an innovative, scientific approach. Since the original Livingbridge investment, Brainlabs has acquired Distilled, a leading SEO agency, and Hanapin, a US-based search marketing agency.

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Livingbridge announces exit of Brainlabs 

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Brainlabs acquires Social Ad Creative Studio Consumer Acquisition

Stephen Allan joins Brainlabs as full-time chairman to drive global expansion

Stephen Allan joins Brainlabs as full-time chairman to drive global expansion

Brainlabs acquires international Amazon agency Molzi

Digital marketing experts Brainlabs have today announced their latest addition to the agency, the full-service Amazon specialist, Molzi. The move is Brainlabs' third acquisition this year.

Brainlabs acquires Google Marketing Partner agency MediaNet

Livingbridge Investee Company Brainlabs Completes Acquisition

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, is pleased to announce that portfolio company Brainlabs has acquired User Conversion, a conversion rate optimisation agency.

Brainlabs completes two acquisitions

“I can’t wait to see what bringing these two fantastic teams together can do for our clients.  These are our first steps towards our vision of creating the agency model of the future: no silos, no departments, just brilliant teams centred around clients, allowing us to deliver best-in-class digital marketing.”

Daniel Gilbert, CEO, Brainlabs

Havas Media UK chief Matt Adams joins Brainlabs as Managing Director

“Matt is what I would describe as hungry but humble and has a level of ambition that matches what we have for the business, which is to grow exponentially,”

Daniel Gilbert, CEO of Brainlabs

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