CreatorUp
Los Angeles, US · Founded 2012 · 84 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
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CreatorUp runs a marketplace that connects organizations with trained and certified creative talent to produce video content such as online lessons, virtual tours, live-streamed events, and product launches. It serves educators, entrepreneurs, marketers, and social impact organizations globally.
Also known as CreatorUp
Founders & leadership
CreatorUp was founded in 2012 by Sara Akhteh.
Investors · 7
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Also in the syndicate · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries ASep 2021
New Markets Venture Partners (lead), Achieve Partners, LearnStart / LearnCapital, Metavallon
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026CreatorUp is a Los Angeles-based digital content production company that markets its offering as "Studio as a Service." It produces live-action video, animation, XR, live-streaming and interactive media, and also supplies consulting and temporary help services. Production is delivered by AI-enabled teams drawing on a network of creators and subject matter experts, with CreatorUp handling project management on behalf of clients.
Alongside production work, the company operates three platform components: CreateTrack, used for project and financial tracking across client projects; the CreatorUp Store, an eCommerce catalog of more than 900 content solutions; and Daisy, a generative AI platform. Daisy 2.0 integrates multiple third-party AI engines under a single account and supports creation of presentations, translations, images, videos, music, stories and scripts, positioning AI output as human-enabled through review and input from the creator network. Services and solutions are sold either bundled or à la carte, with the company emphasizing transparent pricing and a customer portal.
Business model
CreatorUp sells content production and related creative services to organizations either as a bundled Studio as a Service engagement — which includes a dedicated team, preferred pricing and access to the CreateTrack tracking platform, the CreatorUp Store and the Daisy AI platform — or à la carte through its eCommerce store of individual content solutions.
Revenue comes from paid content production and creative services, sold as bundled service engagements or as discrete solutions purchased through the company's eCommerce platform, with pricing presented as transparent and fixed.
Traction
CreatorUp cites a network of more than 8,000 creators and subject matter experts and more than 900 content solutions in its store. For McGraw Hill, its learning and development and production teams sourced content and talent to generate more than 1,200 videos within a few months to populate the SHARPEN app. TikTok engaged the company to help new creators and influencers learn to produce content optimized for the platform, and West Coast University uses CreatorUp for recurring instructional video series for healthcare students.
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Market position
CreatorUp presents itself as a scalable creative content studio serving enterprise, education and creator clients, describing its Studio as a Service offering as award winning.
The company positions itself against other content production sources on quality, trust and transparency, including transparent pricing and a full-service customer portal, elastic capacity that can scale up or down, and a model that pairs generative AI output with human creators and subject matter experts rather than relying on AI alone.
Technology
The Daisy platform, currently at version 2.0, aggregates leading generative AI engines behind a single account and is built on generative AI technologies plus proprietary insights accumulated over more than a decade. It supports generation of presentations, translations, images, video, music, stories and scripts. CreateTrack provides project and financial tracking, and a client portal supports order and project visibility.
Go-to-market
Direct sales and inbound inquiry handled by a team of creative experts, supported by a self-serve eCommerce store for smaller or faster needs such as website, social media, event and promotional content, plus newsletter and social media channels.
Businesses, educators and content creators needing scalable digital content production; named clients include McGraw Hill, TikTok and West Coast University.
Geography
Headquartered in Los Angeles, United States, with access to a global network of talent and subject matter experts.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through CreatorUp went on to found or lead other companies.
In the news
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primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does CreatorUp do?
- CreatorUp is a Studio as a Service content producer combining a global creator network with its Daisy generative AI platform.
- Who founded CreatorUp?
- CreatorUp was founded by Sara Akhteh in 2012.
- Who are CreatorUp's investors?
- CreatorUp's investors include New Markets Venture Partners, Gaingels, Metavallon VC.
- Where is CreatorUp headquartered?
- CreatorUp is headquartered in Los Angeles, US.