Insense
Palo Alto, US · Founded 2014 · Delaware corporation · 157 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
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Insense 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.
Also known as Insense
Founders & leadership
Board
Investors · 5
Also in the syndicate · 2
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$2.3M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2016–2022
- Undisclosed amountPre-Series AAug 2022
AvanTech Ventures, Flyer One Ventures, Metropolis Ventures, Trestle Partners
Source ↗
▶$2.3MraisedDec 2016 · 3 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Andrew KauDirector
- Noureddine TayebiExecutive Officer, Director
- Hing WongDirector
- Offering amount
- $3M
- Amount sold
- $2.3M
- First sale
- Nov 2016
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2014
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Insense operates an influencer and user-generated content (UGC) marketing platform that lets brands source creators, brief them, license the resulting content, and distribute it across organic and paid social channels. The platform combines a vetted creator marketplace of more than 100,000 creators across 35+ countries with an influencer outreach tool that draws on a database of over 7 million Meta and TikTok influencers and uses AI-assisted, personalized outreach workflows.
Campaign types supported include UGC production (edited and raw footage), product seeding, organic influencer posts, Meta Partnership Ads (formerly whitelisting), TikTok Spark Ads, and affiliate and TikTok Shop programs. Operational tooling covers creative brief templates, automated legal agreements, automated creator payments, a Payments & Copyrights workflow that records perpetual content usage rights on approval, performance tracking, and a Shopify integration for bulk shipping details in product-seeding campaigns. The company states that brands typically receive creator applications within 48 hours and first content assets within 14 days, and that automation can save more than 40 hours per month.
Business model
Insense is offered in two delivery modes: a self-service SaaS-enabled creator marketplace where brand teams run campaigns themselves with a free trial available, and managed services in which the Insense team handles end-to-end campaign management from strategy and creative concepts through execution and optimization. Managed services are sold as customizable packages scoped through a consultation call, and brands can combine both models.
Traction
The website cites more than 3,500 DTC brands, mobile apps, and advertising agencies as customers, a marketplace of over 100,000 creators in 35+ countries, a database of over 7 million Meta and TikTok influencers, and an influencer activation rate above 20% in product-seeding campaigns. A customer testimonial references a relationship of more than five years.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Presents itself as an influencer marketing and creator-ads platform serving performance-oriented consumer brands and agencies, offering both software and managed campaign execution.
Positioning emphasizes vetted, responsive creators who complete an onboarding and education program and actively use the company's mobile app, fast turnaround (applications within 48 hours, content within 14 days), lifetime content usage rights, and a single workflow spanning UGC, influencer, affiliate, TikTok Shop, TikTok Spark Ads, and Meta Partnership Ads campaigns.
Technology
The platform provides marketplace filters for creator matching, AI-powered personalized influencer outreach, brief templates, automated contracts and payments, a Payments & Copyrights rights-recording workflow, performance tracking, one-click requests for Meta Partnership Ads account-level access, delivery of TikTok Spark Ads codes, and a Shopify integration. Creators are onboarded through an education program and use an Insense mobile app.
Go-to-market
Inbound acquisition through the company website, with self-service free trial sign-up, product demo bookings, and free strategy calls for managed services prospects.
Direct-to-consumer brands, mobile app publishers, and advertising agencies; the company states it is used by more than 3,500 such customers.
Geography
Creator network spans 35+ countries, with the site highlighting Canada, the UK, the USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, and Italy.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 10
by search overlapCompanies competing with Insense for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- Insenseinsense.pro · web
1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Insense do?
- Insense is a creator marketing platform connecting brands with vetted UGC creators and influencers for paid and organic social campaigns.
- Who are Insense's investors?
- Insense's investors include Flyer One Ventures, Geek Ventures, Trestle Partners.
- How much funding has Insense raised?
- Insense has disclosed $2.3M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Insense headquartered?
- Insense is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.











