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The Last Word: How LTK’s Amber Venz Box Launched Her $2B Company with $236

Dallas-based LTK helped create the creator economy when it launched in 2011, launching a new category that monetized Instagram and allowed lifestyle creators to become entrepreneurs. It was valued at $2 billion just 10 years later. But when Venz Box first started the company, she had only $236 in her bank account, according to Fortune Magazine.
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Dallas-Based LTK Launches Social Media Advertising for Brands
by | Mar 31, 2023
The new LTK Boost advertising solution lets brands amplify creator collaboration content directly from the creator’s social media handles. The Dallas-based global creator marketing platform says that will lead to "higher engagement and conversion."
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Shopping Platform LTK Hires First Chief People Officer
by | Nov 18, 2022
LTK has influencer retail operations on five continents and recently expanded its presence into new markets. The company continues to aggressively expand its operations to accelerate the growth of its three-sided marketplace focused on creators, brands, and shoppers.
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Dallas-Based Creator Economy Pioneer LTK Raises $300M from SoftBank
by | Nov 22, 2021
The investment values LTK, formerly rewardStyle, at $2 billion. The fashion-forward tech innovator plans to use the capital to rapidly grow its team and accelerate its multifaceted, influencer-driven marketplace for creators, brands, and shoppers.
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Dallas-Based rewardStyle Expands Its Billion-Dollar LIKEtoKNOW.it App With Video Shopping

by | Sep 10, 2020
The influencer-driven LIKEtoKNOW.it app is rewardStyle's fastest-growing product. 5,000 retailers—from Chanel to Walmart and Adidas to Ulta—were integrated in the new LTK Shopping Video feature at launch.
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Startup Couples: rewardStyle’s Amber & Baxter Box on Balance and Finding Success—Together
by | Feb 26, 2019
North Texas' entrepreneurial power couples, this time the founders of rewardStyle, talk about life, balance, and finding success in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Steve Case at Rise of the Rest in Dallas: Investors Should Focus on Why it Will Work
by | May 8, 2018
The AOL co-founder's traveling tour, designed to spur more growth in entrepreneurial ecosystems around the nation, made its first 2018 stop in Dallas Monday. Steve Case encouraged attendees to "seize the moment," and get engaged with helping local startups.
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Amber Venz Box, CEO and Co-founder, rewardStyle
7 Master Innovators and Their Secret Weapons
by | Jan 31, 2018
They are fearless North Texas masterminds with a history of revolutionizing their industries: Joshua King, Amber Venz Box, Lance Crosby, Paul Bettner, Walter Voit, Joshua King, Will Rosellini, and Dave Copps. They share “secret weapons” and lessons learned — as well as the technology to watch.
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On Tap: The Great Seed Bomb, Lunch With HuffPost Founder & Dallas Networking Mixer

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RewardStyle’s Social Influencers to Spur $1B in Retail Sales
by | Sep 20, 2017
RewardStyle influencers point their followers toward products in their posts, which in turn can impact retailers' online traffic, and, hopefully, translate into sales. 
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RewardStyle App Turns Screenshot into Shopping List
by | Mar 9, 2017
Users of LikeToKnowIt can shop for clothing items, accessories, and home decor by simply taking a screenshot of the item.
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3 Things We’re Reading: UNT App Helps Users Navigate Airport Terminals
by | Jun 10, 2016
Every day Dallas Innovates staffers scour websites looking for the most interesting stories about innovation and creativity.
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