ABOUT The team behind the network

Built by operators,
for operators.

Adlesa was founded in 2019 by a small team who'd spent a decade buying and selling performance on other networks, and got tired of the black boxes.

We think affiliate marketing got a bad name because the tools got lazy. Opaque tracking, stale payouts, cookie-cutter offers, and the same five advertisers on every dashboard. We're building the opposite. A network where every number has a source, every publisher has a real contact, and the only thing that scales faster than the dashboard is the trust between the people on both sides of it.
, The Adlesa team
2019
Founded in Munich
42
People across Munich, Berlin, Vienna and Lisbon
€68M
Paid out to publishers in 2025
0
External investors. Profitable since 2022.

A short
story.

We didn't set out to build a network. We set out to solve tracking for two advertisers who were getting burned. By 2021 we had 40. Everything since has been a consequence of that first decision: stay close to the work.

2019

Founded

Two ex-CHECK24 operators and one ex-Awin engineer rent a flat above a bakery in Munich and start writing tracking code.

2020

First 10 advertisers

Mostly fintech and travel. We learn that integration time is the real moat.

2022

Profitable

No outside capital taken. We keep it that way on purpose, it changes which advertisers we say yes to.

2023

Berlin & Vienna

Account and publisher teams open in DE and AT. Lisbon follows for engineering a year later.

2025

3,800 publishers

Real-time S2S on every account. €68M paid out. Still answering support tickets ourselves.

What we
actually believe.

Four things we don't compromise on, even when the quarter is looking wobbly.

01

Show the math.

Every number in our dashboard has a source log. If a publisher asks where €4.20 came from, we can show them the click, the session, and the conversion.

02

Pay fast.

Monthly payouts, no minimum threshold. We front the money when advertisers are late, publishers should never carry that risk.

03

Pick up the phone.

No ticketing, no chatbot gauntlet. Every advertiser and every publisher over €5k/month gets a named contact who answers within four hours.

The people
behind the work.

A small team, on purpose. Here's a slice.

Dominik Auerswald

Dominik Auerswald

CEO
Lea Auerswald

Lea Auerswald

Head of Publishers
Jakub Sommer

Jakub Sommer

Partnerships Manager
Pierre Rösler

Pierre Rösler

Performance / Operations Manager

Want to work
with us?

We're hiring across engineering, account management and creative. Or just say hi, we read every message.

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