https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/adhawk-acquires-automate-ads/ >AdHawk is announcing that it has acquired one of its competitors, Y Combinator-backed Automate Ads. >Even if you weren’t a customer, Automate Ads may sound familiar because it was previously known as Kuhcoon, a social advertising startup co-founded by Andrew Torba, who has since been in the news for getting banned from the YC alumni network and for his social network Gab.ai, which has ties to the far-right.