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Kyra

Founded 2017 · 132 employees on LinkedIn · 13 known investors

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Kyra runs influencer marketing programs for global brands, activating creators across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube and analyzing large volumes of creator video to forecast and measure campaign outcomes. It serves brands in fashion, beauty, and CPG.

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Founders & leadership

Kyra was founded in 2017 by Dev Karaca, Devran Amaratunga Karaca, and Nicholas Dart.

DKDev Karaca
Dev KaracaCEO & Co-FounderDev Karaca is the founder of Kyra, a platform that runs influencer marketing programs for global brands by identifying creators, forecasting campaign performance, and managing activations across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
DADevran Amaratunga Karaca
Devran Amaratunga KaracaCEO & Co-Founder
NDNicholas Dart
Nicholas DartCOO/CTO & Co-FounderNicholas Dart is COO and CTO at Kyra, an AI-powered influencer marketing platform that helps brands activate creators across major social networks and measure campaign performance.
SRStewart Rawle
Stewart RawleChief Commercial OfficerStewart Rawle spent over a decade working in the creator, content, and entertainment industry before joining Kyra as Chief Commercial Officer, where he has led the company to over 100% year-over-year revenue growth and scaled annual recurring revenue from under $5 million to $30 million in less than two years.
SFSteph Fadahunsi
Steph FadahunsiChief People Officer
EGEd Galvin
Ed GalvinChief Financial OfficerEd Galvin holds finance qualifications (ACMA, CGMA, CIMA, 2014) and has spent his career leading sales teams, managing operations, and serving on executive teams focused on business growth; he is currently Chief Financial Officer at Kyra, an influencer marketing platform.
SB
Sasha BessanovaChief Strategy Officer

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Kyra is an influencer marketing company that designs and executes end-to-end creator campaigns for brands, combining an in-house team of creator specialists with proprietary AI and data tooling. Its stated service set spans always-on influencer programs, campaign and product launches, paid amplification and creator ads, product seeding, and in-person (IRL) activations, with delivery covering strategy, creator sourcing, content approvals, paid execution and real-time reporting.

The company describes a data engine that tracks over 1 billion creators and analyzes more than 20 million videos per day, using video, audio, caption and visual-marker analysis to surface niche, high-performing creators. Named tooling includes Perfect Match, used for real-time creator discovery and pricing optimization, and AI-driven trend tracking across creators, content, sounds and hashtags. Additional platform capabilities cited are automated workflow management, brief-compliance checks, localization support, live campaign tracking and asset-level performance measurement, delivered through a client-facing platform and custom reporting.

Kyra also publishes an influencer marketing blog and newsletter covering industry insights, brand strategy, creator stories and product updates, with recent posts concentrated on beauty, fragrance, skincare and creator-economy trends.

Business model

Kyra positions itself as a hybrid of a specialist influencer agency and a proprietary technology platform. It sells brands full-service, managed creator programs — strategy, creator sourcing, content approvals, paid execution and reporting — delivered by in-house creator specialists working on top of its own software and data. Engagements range from one-off campaign launches to multi-year, always-on programs, and the intake form segments prospective clients by annual influencer marketing spend across bands from under $100k to more than $50m.

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Key figures

latest reported
Creators trackedJan 20261,000,000,000 creators
Videos analyzed dailyJan 202620,000,000 videos/day

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Frequently asked questions

What does Kyra do?
Kyra runs influencer marketing programs for global brands, activating creators across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube and analyzing large volumes of creator video to forecast and measure campaign outcomes. It serves brands in fashion, beauty, and CPG.
Who founded Kyra?
Kyra was founded by Dev Karaca, Devran Amaratunga Karaca, Nicholas Dart in 2017.
Who are Kyra's investors?
Kyra's investors include GMG Ventures, Torch Capital, Bonnier Ventures, LionTree, Bonnier Capital, Mercuri.vc, Metaplanet, Rainfall Ventures and 5 more.