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CreatorUp

Los Angeles, US · Founded 2012 · 84 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors

CreatorUp is a "Studio as a Service" that produces digital content—live-action video, animation, XR, live-streaming, and interactive media—using a global network of creators and subject matter experts combined with its Daisy generative AI platform. It serves businesses, educators, and content creators through bundled or à la carte services and an eCommerce store of content solutions.

Also known as CreatorUp

Founders & leadership

CreatorUp was founded in 2012 by Sara Akhteh.

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Sara AkhtehFounder

Investors · 3

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

CreatorUp 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.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

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.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Content solutions in CreatorUp StoreJan 2024900 solutions
Creators and subject matter experts in networkJan 20248,000 people
Videos produced for McGraw Hill SHARPEN appJan 20241,200 videos

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

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.