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Reacher

reacherapp.com

Reacher automates TikTok Shop creator discovery, outreach, campaign management, and affiliate analytics for brands.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
8 active roles
Jobs checked 23h ago
Sales TechAI Agent / AutomationB2B SaaS

About

Reacher builds an AI-powered platform for brands and marketing teams to automate creator marketing, especially TikTok Shop affiliate programs. Its product centralizes creator discovery, outreach, CRM, sample management, campaign analytics, and content strategy, differentiating it through automation across creator-marketing workflows.

Market

Reacher competes in TikTok Shop affiliate and creator-marketing software, positioning itself as an AI-powered operating system for brands and agencies that need to discover, recruit, manage, and measure creators at scale. Its differentiation is the combination of AI creator discovery, official TikTok Shop integration, multi-channel outreach—including Gmail automation—lifecycle CRM, and programmatic data access, whereas alternatives such as Cruva emphasize community building and competitor intelligence or focus more narrowly on outreach and analytics.

Target Customers

Reacher targets TikTok Shop brands and agencies, particularly DTC/e-commerce operators running high-volume affiliate or creator programs and seeking rapid scaling. Likely buyers include affiliate marketing, influencer marketing, e-commerce, and agency campaign managers.

At a Glance

Problem

Reacher addresses the operational bottleneck behind TikTok Shop affiliate sales: brands and agencies must discover relevant creators, contact them across multiple channels, manage samples and relationships, and determine which partnerships actually generate revenue. Without dedicated infrastructure, this work is spread across spreadsheets and fragmented tools, while slow outreach and poor creator selection waste staff time, product samples, shipping costs, and affiliate budget. The central use case is scaling a TikTok Shop affiliate program without scaling manual creator-management labor.

The economic pain is especially acute when samples go to creators who never publish content. Reacher frames creator fulfillment and partner quality as levers for reducing sample waste and shortening the path from creator outreach to GMV. Its most compelling use case is therefore a growing brand or agency that needs to recruit and activate large numbers of creators while preserving visibility into sample efficiency, affiliate attribution, and profitability.

Product / Service

Reacher is a SaaS platform purpose-built for TikTok Shop affiliate operations. It combines AI creator discovery, automated multi-channel outreach and follow-ups, a creator relationship-management system, sample-request handling, affiliate campaign analytics, social intelligence, creative guidance, and P&L reporting in one dashboard. Users describe the type of creator they want; Reacher ranks creators using content, audience, and performance signals, then helps launch personalized outreach through TikTok messages, collaboration invites, email, and sample requests.

The delivery model is self-serve software with a free trial, paid plans beginning at $199 per month for the Starter tier, and custom enterprise plans. The benefit is workflow automation and operational visibility: Reacher claims to replace dozens of manual hours each week, while allowing brands to track creator journeys, GMV, affiliate ROI, samples, and campaign performance. Its official site also offers demos and positions the product as an official TikTok Shop Partner.

Market

Reacher competes in TikTok Shop affiliate-management and influencer-marketing automation, a segment of marketing technology and AI-enabled SaaS. Direct alternatives include Cruva, Colaba, Euka, and UpTk, while Shoplus, Kalodata, and FastMoss compete more heavily around creator or product analytics; brands can also use TikTok Shop's native Affiliate Center. Reacher differentiates around an integrated workflow spanning AI discovery, high-volume outreach, CRM, attribution, intelligence, and profitability reporting rather than focusing only on community management, outreach, or analytics.

The company appears commercial rather than pre-revenue: a PitchBook profile lists its funding timeline as “Generating Revenue” and reports $500,000 raised, although it does not provide a current revenue figure. Reacher's own site claims more than 1,000 brands, a 3.4-million-plus creator database, and a #1 position in the TikTok Shop App Store. Its published customer examples report $1.08 million in affiliate GMV for Free Soul and $76.36 million in summed portfolio GMV across 47 connected shops for the agency Favored; these are customer outcomes and should not be read as Reacher's revenue.

Founders & Leadership

Bora MutluogluFounder
Co-Founder and President
Jerry QianFounder
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Funding History

2025-08
Seed (Crunchbase classifies it as Pre-Seed)$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-31
TikTok Shop Free Samples: How to Get Them

Reacher published a guide explaining how TikTok Shop creators can request free samples and use them to grow their channels.

2026-07-28
How to Sell Items on TikTok Shop for Maximum Profit

Reacher published a guide covering product listings, storefront management, in-app shopping, video product tags, LIVE, and other TikTok Shop sales tactics.

2026-07-16
Most Followed Person on TikTok: Top 10 List

Reacher published a ranking and analysis of TikTok’s most-followed creators, encouraging brands to study leading creators and their growth strategies.

2026-07-13funding
Reacher Funding & Investors: $500K Seed Round

StartupIntros reported that Reacher had raised $500,000 in one seed funding round, reportedly completed in September 2025.

2026-07-02
Master TikTok Shop Affiliate Center: How It Works & Benefits

Reacher published a guide to the TikTok Shop Affiliate Center, highlighting its key features and ways sellers and creators can improve affiliate earnings.

2026-06-17product
The Ultimate Guide to Finding TikTok Shop Creator Partners: Your AI 'Partner Maker'

Reacher introduced its AI-assisted partner-finding concept for discovering, managing, and scaling creator partnerships to increase TikTok Shop revenue.

2026-06-10product
How to Start Making Money Through Social Media in 2026: A Realistic Step-by-Step Guide

Reacher published a creator monetization guide covering affiliate programs, analytics, creator partnerships, and its AI Creator Discovery, automated outreach, and campaign CRM tools.

2026-06-06partnership
TikTok Shop Sample Management for Creator Outreach

Reacher promoted sample-request management as a product capability, allowing teams to manage creator sample requests in a single queue. The page also identifies Reacher as an official TikTok Shop Partner.

2026-06-06product
AI Creator Search for TikTok Shop Brands - Reacher

Reacher highlighted an AI creator-search feature that lets brands describe an ideal creator and have the platform rank its creator database by profile, transcript, video, or lookalike signals.

2026-04-15partnership
Reacher's Direct Gmail Integration for TikTok Shop Outreach

A Reacher comparison article described Email Automations using a direct Gmail integration, allowing sellers to reach creators outside crowded TikTok direct messages and send links or off-platform invitations.

Active Roles

8
Software Engineer - LatamRemote$60k – $85k
Remote/Technical Account Manager/33d ago
Remote/Sales/33d ago
Remote/Marketing/33d ago
Remote/Engineering/33d ago
Remote/Sales/33d ago
Remote/Sales/33d ago
Remote/Sales/33d ago
Remote/Engineering/33d ago

Business Model

Reacher sells tiered software plans for TikTok Shop affiliate management: Starter at $199, Pro at $599, and a custom-priced Enterprise plan. It also offers free trials, demos, and discounts for fixed-term contracts or subscription volume.

Products

AI Creator DiscoveryAutomated creator outreach across TikTok DMs, Target Collab Cards, and emailCreator Relationship Management (CRM)Sample and product-request trackingAffiliate campaign and GMV analyticsReacher Data API for creators, GMV, samples, and automations

Customers

Flywheel DigitalGoli NutritionSocial Commerce ClubSocial Commerce CollectiveFavoredPortland Leather GoodsColourPopWatch and Sea BeautyFree SoulEarth ElixirClean NutraInfuseMomofuku GoodsUnder ArmourHanesLogitechHeyDude

Tech Stack

AI/ML-driven creator discovery and performance filteringTikTok Shop Affiliate Center and partner integrationsGmail integration for external email outreachREST data API with API-key and shop-ID authenticationCRM and workflow automationCreator, sample, GMV, and campaign analytics

Competitors

Cruva
Influx
Euka
UpTk
Colaba