Creator Economy Startups

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Cratejoy provides an all-in-one platform for launching, growing, and running subscription box businesses without coding, and operates a consumer marketplace for subscription boxes. It serves subscription box merchants and shoppers in the ecommerce space.

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Craze is an AI video editor that transforms creative direction into finished videos within minutes by automating planning and editing tasks for video content creators.

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Crevo provides recruitment content planning and production services, designing and creating recruitment videos and websites from job seeker perspective to increase quality applications. The company handles everything from strategy through design and content production to help employers communicate their company and attract suitable candidates.

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Crowdly connects brands with their customer advocates to foster authentic relationships and community engagement around products.

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Cuanto provides a platform for merchants in the developing world to sell online, letting them launch a storefront, process payments, and manage fulfillment in one place. It initially focuses on Latin American merchants who sell over social media.

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Ellipsus builds a collaborative writing tool designed for creative writers to work together. The company positions its product for storytellers and writing communities.

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EmbodyMe develops AI technology to create, replicate, and manipulate digital representations of human characteristics including appearance, voice, and body movements for media production and content creation.

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Faith Tribe is a decentralized platform for fashion designers, artists, and brands to collaborate, create, and transact using blockchain technology and 3D design tools. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer commerce and NFT minting among its community of creators and buyers.

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Favorited provides tools for creators to make live content more interactive and engaging with their audiences. The platform helps creators earn money and build community through live streaming engagement features.

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Feed.fm provides licensed music APIs and SDKs for developers to integrate background music, short-form clips, and wellness content into applications. The company handles music licensing, royalty reporting, and rightsholder compliance across video creation, fitness, wellness, and educational platforms.

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Fish Audio provides AI voice generation and cloning software that creates studio-quality synthetic voices with emotional control and multi-language support. The platform serves creators, developers, and enterprises with tools for video narration, audiobooks, voice agents, and real-time applications.

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Flagcat Studio is an animation and illustration studio that produces ambitious series while redesigning the traditional production pipeline to protect artists' wellbeing. It develops drawing software that automatically colorizes line art using pre-set character designs.

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FLORA is an AI creative platform that brings text, image, and video generation models together on a single canvas, letting creative teams ideate, iterate, and scale production-grade assets in one workflow. It serves professional creatives in film, fashion, advertising, branding, photography, and design, and includes an AI agent called FAUNA plus reusable workflows called Techniques.

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Forem is open source software for building online communities in any niche, powering DEV, a community where software developers share knowledge and collaborate. DEV has partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH), a developer programs platform.

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Foriio is a free portfolio platform for creators to upload, showcase, and share their work with built-in features for crediting collaborators and documenting production processes. The platform serves freelance and professional creators across design, photography, and other creative fields.

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Gener8tor is an investment accelerator that provides $100K in funding and 12-week mentorship to high-growth startups, accepting five to six companies per cohort. The program offers curated connections to a global network of 100+ mentors, technologists, corporate partners, and investors to support rapid scaling.

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Gumroad is a platform that enables creators and entrepreneurs to sell digital products and services directly to customers, including video lessons, subscriptions, and informational products. The platform provides payment processing, storefront customization, and integration capabilities for independent sellers.

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HAAWK provides music rights management services—including YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram Content ID administration, UGC monetization, copyright enforcement, and reporting—for record labels, music publishers, and production music libraries. It also operates self-service and adjacent platforms: Identifyy for independent rights holders, KeyframeAudio for micro sync licensing of production music, and Diistro for digital music distribution.

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Hashnode is a free blogging platform built for developers and engineers, offering features like code syntax highlighting in 25 languages, LaTeX, Markdown support, custom domains, headless publishing via API, and GitHub sync. It lets developers start a blog, publish technical content, and build a readership on a domain trusted by search engines.

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Heartbeat is an all-in-one platform for community builders to run memberships, courses, events, and payments on their own branded website, with channels, live rooms, DMs, and a member directory. It includes an AI assistant (Pulse) that sets up channels, courses, offers, workflows, and signup pages, and integrates with tools like Zoom, Stripe, and Zapier.

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Hidden Door builds an online roleplaying game that lets players explore and remix fictional worlds to create custom narratives. The company, focused on fan-oriented interactive storytelling, uses AI-driven story experiences centered on creativity and authorship.

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Hologram provides creative tools that enable anyone to produce and distribute short-form video content, removing barriers related to appearance, equipment, or budget. The platform serves digital creators and content producers across social media and entertainment platforms.

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Horao Group (HGL) offers ENGAGE, a subscription, membership and rewards platform with a built-in social network, e-commerce, gamification and AI tools for sports organizations, brands and creators to build communities and generate new revenue and audience data. Its clients include projects for motorcycle riders (FIM), resto-mod car clubs, medical cannabis/CBD buyers, and the Pride movement.

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