Creator Economy Startups

Dots is an end-to-end payouts platform that enables companies to pay and track payments globally across 190+ countries through 300+ payment rails, including bank transfers, mobile money, and digital wallets. The platform provides API-first integration with compliance features such as identity verification, sanctions screening, and automated tax form collection and filing.

5 investors

DSTLRY is a publisher focused on comic books and graphic content for creators. The company aims to create a more equitable and sustainable model for comic book creators.

5 investors

Dynepic operates a skills-based platform offering on-demand learning, mentorship, and credentialing tools for individuals and creators in a knowledge-based economy. The company leverages enterprise and government-grade infrastructure originally built for military training systems to enable immersive learning experiences and help users build sustainable income from their expertise.

5 investors

Easol provides an all-in-one commerce platform for experience businesses, letting creators sell experiences directly on their own websites with booking, payment, and marketing tools. It is aimed at experience creators and operators selling experiences online.

5 investors

Ejen2u provides a digital platform and tools (including EjenGO, EjenVenture, and the WEMAP entrepreneurship training program) to support agent-based sales businesses. It serves headquarters, stockists, and agents involved in agent/reseller distribution networks.

5 investors

FCTRY LAb is an end-to-end footwear studio in Los Angeles that takes shoe concepts from sketch to finished product under one roof, pairing 3D design and fast sampling with hand-built craftsmanship. It works with athletes, artists, indie founders, and brands to design, prototype, and release their own sneakers and boots.

5 investors

Flick provides software for creating feature-length films using AI, enabling users to maintain narrative coherence, character consistency, and cinematic control throughout the production process rather than generating brief disconnected clips.

5 investors

Fourthwall is a platform that lets content creators build branded storefronts with video memberships, offering native 1080p video hosting, embedded video support, and subscription tiers for exclusive content. It serves creators, podcasters, and artists who want to monetize video-on-demand content, digital downloads, and community perks while generating recurring revenue.

5 investors

Genius operates an online music encyclopedia where a community, an in-house creative team, and artists annotate and explain song lyrics and the stories behind music. The service reaches over 100 million people monthly through Genius.com and other platforms where music fans gather.

5 investors

GlobalComix is a digital platform for reading and discovering comics, manga, and webtoons from publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, as well as independent creators. It offers a subscription membership, downloads, forums, commissions, and creator tools for publishing content.

5 investors

Groover is a platform that connects independent music artists with curators, playlist programmers, radio stations, and record labels for promotion and feedback. Artists upload tracks and pitch them directly to selected industry professionals who provide guaranteed responses within one week or credits are refunded.

5 investors

Vox Media is a premium media company that operates editorial brands such as New York Magazine, Vox, The Cut, and Vulture along with the Vox Media Podcast Network, and it sells advertising solutions, in-house branded content, events, and social media offerings to advertisers. It serves consumer audiences and brand advertisers primarily in the US media and publishing market.

5 investors

Hippo Video is a video creation platform using agentic AI to turn text, documents, and prompts into videos with lifelike avatars and multilingual voiceovers in 30+ languages. It serves sales, marketing, learning & development, and customer support teams, offering personalized video campaigns, digital twin avatars, and analytics, plus HippoRev, a variant built for hotel group sales.

5 investors

HITRECORD is an online platform where people create art collaboratively, contributing to shared projects and creative "Class Projects" alongside a community. It began as founder Joe's personal creative outlet and grew into a collaborative production community.

5 investors

HustleSasa operates a platform for managing and scaling live entertainment and sports events across Africa, giving event creators branded storefront URLs to sell tickets directly to fans and offering financial services such as cash advances. It serves over 4,000 clients across six African countries.

5 investors

idilio.tv is a mobile streaming app for Latin American microdramas — original short-form vertical series with 1-to-3-minute episodes, available on iOS and Android. It produces its own serialized originals in Spanish for Latino audiences and distributes them across more than 50 countries, monetizing through ad-supported coins, coin packs, and a monthly subscription.

5 investors

Ignite Tournaments is a mobile app that lets content creators run esports tournaments, launch community membership tiers, deliver digital assets, and track fan participation through leaderboards. It serves creators, influencers, their fans, and brand sponsors, and handles recurring memberships and payouts across many currencies and countries.

5 investors

Insense is a platform for creating and scaling user-generated content (UGC) and influencer marketing campaigns, offering a self-service creator marketplace and managed services for end-to-end campaign management. It serves DTC brands, mobile apps, and advertising agencies, with features including creator sourcing, automated contracts, payments, content licensing, and integrations for TikTok, Meta, and Shopify.

5 investors

Kapwing is a web-based video creation and editing platform designed for marketing teams to produce, repurpose, and scale video content across multiple channels. It provides AI-powered tools for automating tasks like subtitle generation, video repurposing, and content creation, along with collaboration features for team-based workflows.

5 investors

Koo.bz develops manufacturing technology for footwear production, combining expertise in apparel design and additive manufacturing to build a scalable footwear factory in the United States.

5 investors

Later is a platform for influencer marketing, social media management, and creator commerce that helps brands plan content, run campaigns, and track performance alongside creators.

5 investors

Linden Lab operates Second Life, a virtual world where users can create, socialize, and conduct economic activity, and Tilia, a licensed money services business that facilitates virtual economy transactions.

5 investors

LottieFiles offers tools and a library for creating, managing, optimizing, and shipping lightweight animations across websites, apps, presentations, and social media. It serves designers, developers, and enterprise teams with a motion design workflow, an animation library, and integrations with design and developer tools.

5 investors

Loupe Art operates a streaming platform for visual art, offering curated original artist content and ambient art and music channels across connected TVs, web, and commercial spaces. It serves artists seeking global distribution and audiences seeking access to contemporary art, positioning itself at the intersection of fine art, design, and digital entertainment.

5 investors