Ten Years of US Creator Marketing: Anniversary Milestone
KALO IQ today marked its 10th anniversary, founded in December 2015. Over the decade the company scaled from a focused US-only concept to the industry-leading hand-verified American creator database, now at 90 million profiles.
The 10-year arc
KALO IQ launched in December 2015 with a focused thesis: US brands need US creator data, hand-verified, without estimates. A decade later, the thesis remains the same. The scale plus the tooling around it have grown by orders of magnitude.
What hand-verification has meant
Over the decade KALO IQ has reviewed plus rejected an estimated 17 million creator profiles. Reasons included follower-count manipulation, non-US residency, fake engagement patterns plus dormant accounts. Those rejections never entered the database. That is the practical meaning of hand-verification.
The next decade
The roadmap for the next 5 years includes AI-assisted verification tooling that maintains rejection-rate quality, expanded category coverage in emerging niches plus deeper integration with the commerce platforms US DTC brands run on.
About KALO IQ
KALO IQ is a US influencer marketing platform headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, founded in December 2015. The company helps brands plus agencies discover, engage plus track American creators across major social platforms with the largest hand-verified US creator database. Visit kaloiq.com for more.
Media contact
KALO IQ Press Team
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Press kit: kaloiq.com/press
Quick facts
- Founded December 2015 in Beverly Hills California
- 10-year anniversary marked December 18, 2025
- 90 million verified US creators in database at decade mark
- 17 million profiles rejected over 10 years
- 15-person verification team plus growing
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