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 offers an AI-powered platform for managing partnership marketing programs, unifying affiliate, creator/influencer, and customer referral programs in one dashboard. It provides tools for partner discovery, recruitment, contracting, payment, tracking, fraud protection, and performance optimization for brands.
Upfluence22 shared keywordsUpfluence is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that lets ecommerce brands discover creators, run and manage campaigns, track sales and ROI, and pay creators in one system. It integrates with tools like Shopify, WooCommerce, Klaviyo, and Amazon, and includes an AI co-pilot called Jaice that recommends creators and drafts outreach.
Modash20 shared keywordsModash is an influencer marketing platform that helps brands run creator campaigns end-to-end, from influencer discovery to reporting. It handles product gifting at scale, affiliate links and discount codes, attribution, automated payouts, and integrates Shopify data for reporting.
Activate Fellowship20 shared keywordsActivate operates a fellowship program for entrepreneurial scientists who develop hard technology ventures. It provides training, networks, and support to science-based founders across various stages of development.
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.