Creator Economy Startups

MixMob operates a gaming universe centered around MixMob: Racer 1, a multiplayer card strategy racing game where players compete, earn in-game currency, and participate in tournaments. The platform combines gaming with prediction mechanics and user-generated content creation features.

4 investors

Mugafi presents itself as a platform centered on turning ideas into intellectual property, with messaging about ideas becoming IP and mindshare becoming ownership. The page provides no concrete detail about its product, customers, or industry.

4 investors

Music AI develops AI-driven music and audio technology, offering a platform of over 50 stackable audio solutions—such as stem separation, chord recognition, lyrics transcription, and generative music tools—delivered via cloud APIs and embedded SDKs. It serves businesses (record labels, agencies, technology firms, developers) as well as musicians and creators, the latter through its Moises consumer app.

4 investors

Opendorse operates a platform for athlete influencer marketing, connecting brands with college and student athletes to run full-service endorsement campaigns at scale. It serves brands seeking athlete partnerships and athletes monetizing their name, image, and likeness.

4 investors

OpenSponsorship operates a digital marketplace that connects professional athletes with brands seeking authentic sponsorship partnerships. The platform uses analytics and AI-based matching to facilitate and manage marketing relationships across sports globally.

4 investors

Pillar offers a business platform for content creators and talent managers to run and monetize their work, including NIL (name, image, likeness) deals. It serves the creator economy with an all-in-one creator store.

4 investors

Pixels operates an online game and platform where players farm, manage land, and build communities while owning their in-game progress and digital collectibles via blockchain. It offers a web3 gaming ecosystem with a $PIXEL token for staking, rewards, and gameplay boosts, and lets creators build games that integrate digital collectibles around existing IP.

4 investors

Podcast Network Asia (PNA) is a podcast production and network company that produces and distributes podcasts, offering creators services such as audio editing, transcriptions, show notes, and promotional assets. Founded in 2019, it focuses on Filipino voices with a catalog of 300+ shows and has expanded to Indonesia and the United States, and also operates Serye FM, an app for premium Filipino audio dramas.

4 investors

Poko provides payment infrastructure that connects traditional payment methods to blockchain networks, allowing cryptocurrency wallets, games, and applications to let users buy crypto or digital assets with local currency. The platform aggregates multiple onramp providers to reduce costs and increase transaction success rates.

4 investors

Poolday.ai builds Creator-3, an AI video production agent that generates finished, fully editable video projects from existing footage or a text prompt using a multi-agent system that orchestrates over 100 generative models. It is available via a video editing interface or API integration for individuals and teams, with users able to add custom editing rules through text inputs.

4 investors

Portal Gaming provides a single-login platform for generating game assets and creating games, aimed at game developers and creators. It runs recurring game jams and asset-creation events with prize pools.

4 investors

Raspberry.ai provides a design and marketing platform where teams create custom branded assets using AI models trained on a company's unique aesthetic. The platform unifies design, product, and marketing teams with secure, private infrastructure for enterprise customers.

4 investors

Recraft is an AI-powered image generation and editing tool designed for professional designers, illustrators, and marketers to create and iterate on original images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics. The platform emphasizes precise text rendering, consistent brand styling, and graphic design generation capabilities for creative professionals.

4 investors

Revl is an experience technology company that produces AI-edited video souvenirs and the Revl Arc smart action camera. It serves consumers capturing action footage, offering automated video editing as a service.

4 investors

Scatter is the developer of Depthkit, software for volumetric filmmaking and 3D video capture. The company is an Emmy award-winning team that pioneered volumetric filmmaking tools for creators.

4 investors

Seed&Spark is a crowdfunding and distribution platform for creators of storytelling projects, including filmmakers, writers, musicians, podcasters, and other performers. It offers education, personalized feedback, creator rewards, and distribution partnerships to help creative campaigns raise funds and build audiences.

4 investors

SendOwl is a platform for selling digital products—including media files, software, courses, and subscriptions—with flexible checkout options that integrate into existing websites and tools. The platform serves creators, small businesses, and enterprises seeking secure delivery, affiliate management, and payment processing without platform lock-in.

4 investors

Shortbread develops AI-powered tools for creators to produce serialized visual stories (comics and web series) faster and at lower cost, then distributes them directly to consumers via a mobile platform. The platform combines an AI studio for rapid narrative creation with a reader destination featuring romance and dark fiction series.

4 investors

SHOWROOM operates a live-streaming service where viewers interact with performers in real time through gifting and comments, aimed at supporting entertainers and creators. The Japanese company also runs VR live and vertical video platforms and produces entertainment IP and branded content for businesses.

4 investors

Sideqik is an influencer marketing platform that lets brands discover creators, manage campaigns and creator relationships through custom workflows and automated communications, and track performance with real-time reporting and attribution. It draws on streaming and social data to help brands optimize creator program ROI and monetization.

4 investors

Simplecast is a podcast hosting platform offering publishing, distribution, analytics, and monetization tools, including embeddable web players, a website builder, multi-show team management, and a developer API. It serves podcasters and developers building audio publishing and listening applications.

4 investors

Sonomo buys music catalogs from artists, offering valuations based on streaming performance and paying within days of signing. The company handles legal transfers and catalog maintenance while artists retain publishing royalties and freedom over future releases.

4 investors

Sound Credit is a platform for managing works-in-progress music projects, offering file sharing, lossless streaming, version control, role-based access, and organization of credits, publishing splits, and metadata. It serves music creators, producers, engineers, and songwriters, and supports metadata exports to industry organizations like BMI, ASCAP, The MLC, and SoundExchange.

4 investors

Soundbrenner manufactures in-ear monitors designed for musicians for practice, performance, and studio use. The company offers multiple models featuring noise isolation, ergonomic design, and audio clarity.

4 investors