Activate
Founded 2008 · 3,644 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
ACTIVATE is an influencer marketing platform that lets brands, agencies, and media companies find creators, manage relationships through an Influencer Relationship Management (IRM) tool, and track campaign performance. It combines automation with studio services and integrates with partners such as Pinterest.
Investors · 7
White Star CapitalLondon · $500K – $7M
AntlerreportedSingapore · $3M – $10M
Bessemer Venture PartnersreportedRedwood City · $5M – $100M
Khosla VenturesreportedMenlo Park · $5K – $50M
NVIDIAreportedSanta Clara
Peak XV PartnersreportedTrianon · $100K – $10M
Also in the syndicate · 1
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Competitors · 7
by search overlapImpact29 shared keywordsimpact.com provides a partnership management platform that helps enterprises optimize and manage various types of business partnerships across multiple channels. The company serves growth-focused organizations looking to scale through technology-enabled partnership strategies.
Upfluence22 shared keywordsUpfluence provides a platform for influencer marketing that helps brands connect with content creators and manage campaigns. The platform serves brands and marketing teams across multiple geographies.
Modash20 shared keywordsModash provides a platform for influencer marketing teams to automatically track creator content and campaign performance across social media, with integrated Shopify sales attribution to measure ROI without manual data collection.
Activate Fellowship20 shared keywordsActivate builds community and programs to help scientists and engineers commercialize breakthrough research into real-world solutions. The organization supports science entrepreneurs through fellowship programs, mentorship, and networks that connect them with funding and resources to navigate from laboratory discovery to market impact.
Insense15 shared keywordsInsense is a platform for creating and scaling user-generated content (UGC) and influencer marketing campaigns, offering a self-service creator marketplace and managed services for end-to-end campaign management. It serves DTC brands, mobile apps, and advertising agencies, with features including creator sourcing, automated contracts, payments, content licensing, and integrations for TikTok, Meta, and Shopify.
Later13 shared keywordsLater is a platform for influencer marketing, social media management, and creator commerce that helps brands plan content, run campaigns, and track performance alongside creators.
Sprout Social13 shared keywordsSprout Social offers a social media management platform with AI, automation, integrations and analytics tools for marketing teams. The product helps teams manage social content, customer interactions, workflows and performance reporting from a single platform.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Activate do?
- ACTIVATE is an influencer marketing platform that lets brands, agencies, and media companies find creators, manage relationships through an Influencer Relationship Management (IRM) tool, and track campaign performance. It combines automation with studio services and integrates with partners such as Pinterest.
- Who are Activate's investors?
- Activate's investors include White Star Capital, Antler, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA, Peak XV Partners.