Defendant

Samba TV, Inc.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
2025
Top venue
D. Delaware
1 case

Company profile

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Samba TV, Inc. (formerly Free Stream Media Corp., originally Flingo) is a private, venture-backed television data and analytics company founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco. It has raised roughly $69–75M in equity from investors including August Capital, Sony, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Liberty Global and Mark Cuban, plus up to $60M in venture debt secured in December 2025. PitchBook lists ~343 employees; Axios reported ~300 in late 2025. Samba booked ~$123M revenue for the twelve months ended September 30, 2021, and filed for a $75M NYSE IPO in November 2021 before withdrawing it in May 2022. It remains private.

Samba TV's core technology is automatic content recognition (ACR) software embedded at the chipset/OS level in smart TVs across 20+ brands sold in 100+ countries. From opted-in, first-party viewership data it sells audience-targeting segments (1,000+ prebuilt, plus custom), cross-screen measurement and attribution, and identity products such as Samba TV Identity, an Advertising ID, a household identity graph, and the Screen6 cross-device graph. It has acquired Semasio (contextual targeting), Disruptel, and Wove, and divested a media-sales business in 2023.

Litigation posture: Samba is an operating company defending against patent assertion, not an active two-way litigant. The tracked data shows 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff.

Notable case: Intent IQ, LLC v. Samba TV, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-01084 (D. Del., filed Aug 28, 2025, Judge Maryellen Noreika). Plaintiff Intent IQ, a subsidiary of AlmondNet, Inc., asserts U.S. Patents 8,677,398; 10,321,198; 11,949,962; and 12,457,388, targeting Samba's platform, identity graph, ACR and attribution services. Samba moved to dismiss in February 2026; the case was consolidated for pretrial purposes with related Intent IQ/AlmondNet actions against LiveIntent, Connatix, Zeta, Criteo and others (lead case C.A. No. 24-831-MN) in July 2026. The case is in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.