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Levanta is a company.
Levanta has raised $21.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at Levanta.
Levanta has raised $21.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Levanta offers a unified platform for e-commerce brands to manage creator and affiliate marketing programs. Its technology centralizes partner recruitment, product sample distribution, performance tracking, and payout management. The platform supports businesses across major marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify, leveraging influencer and affiliate networks.
Ian Brodie, Rob Schab, and Spencer McKenney co-founded Levanta in 2022. Their insight arose from the complexities e-commerce brands faced in scaling creator and affiliate relationships. Drawing on their expertise, the founders aimed to deliver a simplified, integrated solution for these crucial digital marketing functions.
Levanta serves e-commerce brands and agencies expanding market presence through creator and affiliate partnerships. The platform empowers businesses to build effective marketing initiatives, broaden their audience, and drive sales. Levanta's vision is to be the premier solution for brands optimizing integrated creator and affiliate marketing strategies.
Key people at Levanta.
Levanta has raised $21.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $20.0M Series A in November 2024.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2024 | $20M Series A | Volition Capital | 1984 Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Eytan Elbaz, Jonathan Zweig, Nick Green | Announced |
| Dec 1, 2023 | $1M Venture Round | — | — | Announced |
Levanta has raised $21.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Levanta's investors include Volition Capital, 1984 Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Eytan Elbaz, Jonathan Zweig, Nick Green.
# Levanta: Creator-Driven Commerce for Amazon Sellers
Levanta is an affiliate marketing platform that connects Amazon sellers with creators, influencers, and publishers to drive sales through performance-based partnerships.[1][2] Founded in 2023, the company has rapidly established itself as a trusted partner for marketplace sellers by enabling them to tap into creator-driven commerce—a channel that leverages the growing influence of content creators in digital commerce.[1]
The platform solves a critical problem for Amazon sellers: accessing high-converting traffic through affiliate partnerships without the operational burden of managing these relationships directly. For creators and publishers, Levanta offers ownership of seller relationships and favorable commission structures (pay-for-sale or pay-for-click models) with a 14-day attribution window.[1] The company has already gained traction with top-tier Amazon brands including HexClad, Kitsch, MaryRuth, Caraway, and MANSCAPED, and is projected to generate $286 million in annualized gross merchandise value (GMV) for its sellers based on recent 30-day performance.[2]
Levanta was founded in 2023 by Ian Brodie (CEO), Rob Schab (Chief Marketplace Officer), and Spencer McKenney (Chief Technology Officer)—a team with deep expertise in affiliate marketing and technology.[2] The founders previously launched and scaled Grovia, an affiliate recruitment software and service provider, which they sold to Acceleration Partners in 2022.[2] This prior success gave them both domain knowledge and credibility to build Levanta as a next-generation platform purpose-built for the Amazon ecosystem.
The company's emergence was well-timed: Amazon opened its ad-attribution API and introduced brand referral bonuses that incentivize sellers to drive off-platform traffic to Amazon, creating the exact market conditions Levanta needed to thrive.[4] This policy alignment has been instrumental to the platform's rapid adoption.
Levanta is riding two powerful trends simultaneously: the creator economy and the retail media explosion. While the affiliate marketing industry itself is valued at approximately $12 billion, the broader retail media market—which Levanta's infrastructure could eventually serve—comprises nearly one-fifth of global ad spend and is roughly 10 times larger.[4]
The company's timing is particularly strategic. As Amazon and other retailers increasingly monetize their first-party data and customer relationships, platforms that efficiently connect sellers with demand-generation partners become critical infrastructure. Levanta's success demonstrates that there is significant demand for tools that professionalize and scale creator partnerships in commerce—a market that was previously underserved by legacy affiliate networks.
The platform also benefits from Amazon's strategic interest in incentivizing off-platform demand generation, which drives traffic back to the marketplace. This alignment of incentives creates a favorable environment for Levanta's growth, though it also represents a potential vulnerability if Amazon's policies shift.[4]
Levanta's $20 million Series A funding round led by Volition Capital (announced November 19, 2024) signals strong investor confidence in the creator-driven commerce thesis.[1][2] The capital will accelerate platform expansion, enhance capabilities, and support geographic growth.
Looking ahead, Levanta's trajectory will likely be shaped by three factors: (1) continued growth in creator-driven commerce and influencer marketing budgets, (2) Amazon's ongoing commitment to affiliate incentive programs, and (3) the company's ability to expand beyond Amazon into broader retail media partnerships. If successful in the latter, Levanta could evolve from an Amazon-specific tool into a foundational platform for creator-seller connections across retail—a significantly larger opportunity that would justify investor enthusiasm and position the company as essential infrastructure in the creator economy.
