About Magnetive
We are a team of entrepreneurs who have created from scratch, bought, and sold multiple companies. Our companies serviced SMB’s to Fortune 100 companies, we have reviewed thousands of business plans and we have created over a Billion dollars of sales and transactions.
About Us
Company History
Our founders have been in the trenches, building from the ground up, raising capital, managing all of the challenges of growth (including leadership, HR, sales, IT, operations, finance, customer management, product development and investor relations) and ultimately getting to exit 5 times.
We have directly worked with over 25% of the Fortune 500 as our customers over our careers and we have helped and advised others in generating over $500M in exits.
As tech entrepreneurs, we have been in the vanguard of multiple waves of digital transformation, most notably with nearly a decade of recent experience in AI.
If you are looking for experienced and battle tested advisors that have been through it all, to give your business a leg up in an increasingly challenging business landscape, give us a call.
“We love what we do – to us business is the ultimate strategic game we get to play every day.”
Expert team
Our Founders
DAN MALLIN
Managing Partner
Dan Mallin is a force in technology-based entrepreneurship, creating transformative tools that serve the needs of Fortune 1000 marketers and the agencies that serve them. Working with business partners, he’s repeatedly broken new ground in the digital marketing services space. Together, the two have grown and sold four businesses and built forward-thinking ad tech platforms that are still in use day-to-day by some of the world’s largest brands, agencies and media firms.
MARC DISPENSA
Managing Partner
Marc Dispensa invents tech solutions that give marketing and advertising agencies a competitive digital edge. He’s a visionary serial entrepreneur with a track record of bringing new ideas to life, growing emerging companies to a position of strength, and enhancing the businesses of both clients and the agencies that serve them. Besides his business leadership and innovative mind, Dispensa also has technology know-how. He has architected and developed ad tech platforms that integrate with MediaOcean, AppNexus and Google digital ad products to drive efficiencies across the media buying and selling process for some of the world’s biggest brands.
SCOTT LITMAN
Managing Partner
Scott has an immense level of experience in entrepreneurship going from startup, funding, growth and exit five times. He has received a number of honors & awards including E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Journal Titan of Technology, University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement, Smart Business Dealmakers Hall of Fame, Twin Cities Business 100 People to Know / Watch (3 times) and Minnesota Business The (Real) Power 50. Additionally, along with Dan Mallin, he founded the Minnesota Cup, the largest state wide business plan competition in the US.