Interview with Levanta CEO Ian Brodie
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Last week, Volition Capital announced that we led a $20 million Series A investment in Levanta , a leading affiliate marketing platform for Amazon sellers.
In this edition of the Volition View, we are excited to feature a conversation with Levanta CEO, Ian Brodie , where we discuss the company's founding story, why they decided to partner with Volition, and more.
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Interview with Levanta CEO Ian Brodie
Below is an excerpt from Volition Press's conversation with Levanta CEO Ian Brodie. Click here to read the full conversation on the Volition Capital website.
Volition Press: It is great to meet you Ian and congratulations on the funding round! How would you describe Levanta, and what is the company’s founding story?
Ian Brodie: Absolutely. This is actually the Levanta founding team’s second affiliate marketing company together. We started our first company right at the beginning of the pandemic, Grovia, which was an affiliate recruitment software and services company. We grew Grovia to around 26 employees and then got an awesome acquisition offer from Acceleration Partners which we ended up taking. This deal was not only a big win for the founders but also the employees and investors as most of the employees at Grovia are still there. That’s how you can tell an acquisition actually went well – when the employees stay!
While we were working on Grovia post-acquisition, we really started to notice this important gap in the affiliate marketing ecosystem. Specifically, D2C companies for decades have had the ability to start their own affiliate programs, recruit their own content creators, publishers etc. as well as establish their own payout model. However, for Amazon sellers this was just not the case. Amazon does in fact run their own affiliate program, but it is not something that is made available to the actual individual seller. Amazon doesn’t enable the seller to go in and own those relationships, build direct agreements with the exact content creators that they want to work with, and set their own commissions. In short, Levanta was created to fill this gap and create the D2C affiliate experience for Amazon sellers.
VP: Would you say that Levanta found Product-Market-Fit early in the company’s journey?
IB: I would say that this was an immediate product-market-fit situation. We raised a...
Click here to continue reading the conversation with Ian!
Volition Edge: GTM Center of Excellence Webinar
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If you're in the Volition portfolio and missed this fantastic session, be sure to check out the recap on Volition Edge in the link below.
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Volition Award: Volition Capital Named Founder Friendly Investor
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