A Decade of Data Innovation
Our culture is driven by passion, integrity, and empowerment. We have fun, solve challenges, and take pride in the powerful data that we provide to our customers.
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Our Data & Engineering teams are at the forefront of location data applications, working together to solve challenges for our business and our clients.
Leading the Market Since Day One
2010
Founded with a vision of location as a service
2011
Introduced location data as an effective audience targeting tool
2012
Launched industry-first measurement metric, Place Visit Rate
2014
Developed robust location analytics for understanding people and places
2016
Introduced proprietary data licensing service to meet market needs
2018
Optimized & validated visits against leading truth sets
2019
Redefined market understanding with Dynamic Trade Areas
2020
Launched Social Distancing dataset to monitor national reemergence
Award Winning Workplace
PlaceIQ is proud to be recognized by Crain’s Business as a Best Place to Work for seven consecutive years! We were also named one of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies in North America in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500.





The people behind the places
Some of our favorite work perks include peer recognition programs, competitive salary and benefits, social events, snacks galore, and unlimited vacation.
CORE VALUES
What Drives Us
Drive Innovation
Execute with Excellence
Work with Passion & Integrity
Embody Our Culture
Empower Our People
LEADERSHIP
Meet the Team

Duncan McCall
CEO & Co-Founder
BIO
Duncan McCall is the CEO and co-founder of PlaceIQ, the leading location-intelligence company that helps brands make better marketing and business decisions.
As a serial innovator, Duncan is credited with inventing the concept of joining movement data to a dynamic map of the real world to offer new context for a new level of understanding – allowing brands, marketers, and enterprises to transform their insight into customers and markets. PlaceIQ’s data is harnessed for mission critical business strategies by the top companies in retail, dining, auto, and more. Duncan is also a widely sought-after speaker on the topic of leveraging location-intelligent data.
Prior to PlaceIQ, Duncan founded and led a venture backed consumer Internet business with the goal of enabling and empowering users of location aware devices. Duncan also built and led IS Solutions Inc., a premier Silicon Valley based System Integrator. His time spent working on RFID and universal positioning startups would later be the foundation on which PlaceIQ was built. Outside of the startup world, Duncan has also made an impact for one of the world’s largest organizations in working for ExxonMobil, in the UK and Asia.
Matt Novick
COO
BIO
Matt got his advertising start serving in both the finance and sales operations organizations at AOL. While at AOL, Matt held numerous positions where he was charged with everything from analyzing sell-through rates and CPMs to organizing sales expenditures and revenue. Before AOL, Matt worked as a business consultant at IBM in the government projects group. Matt received his MBA in finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business and his BA in economics from The George Washington University.
Drew Breunig
EVP, Strategy
BIO
Drew joined PlaceIQ after spending the better part of a decade crafting brand and media strategies for advertising agencies and their clients, including HP, Glaxo Smith Klein, EA and Boost Mobile.
Eddie Smith
SVP, Revenue
BIO
Eddie has over 20 years experience building data & technology companies within the digital world. Prior to PlaceIQ, Eddie worked at Twitter as Head of Ads API, growing Twitter’s Ads API ecosystem from zero to producing hundreds of millions in transaction revenue annually, in addition to leading Twitter’s business development team. Before Twitter, Eddie was Chief Revenue Officer with Topsy, where he led sales, business development and marketing disciplines which brought to market world-class analytics and search solutions leveraging social data. Previous positions include senior product & business development roles with USA Data and DoubleClick.
Eddie holds a master’s degree in Advertising from Florida State University.
Dan Maxwell
SVP, Product & Technology
BIO
Dan holds a MBA concentrated in Finance from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Manik Khanna
VP, Business Development & Monetization
BIO
Manik holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Southern California in Electrical Engineering and Signal Processing.
Investors
PlaceIQ is proud to be backed by the following group of prestigious investors. We are grateful for their support as we continue to innovate and expand our location intelligence offerings.










Board of Directors
Duncan McCall
CEO & Co-Founder, PlaceIQ
Harry D’Andrea
General Partner, Valhalla Partners
John Hadl
Managing Partner, Archer Venture Capital
George Bell
Senior Partner, Archer Venture Capital
Casey Tansey
General Partner, US Venture Partners