Creator Economy Startups
1,723 companies tagged Creator Economy, with their investors and founders.
WaveAI is a team of researchers developing generative AI for music. The company focuses on applying AI to musical creation.
2 investors
Wavlake is a platform for musicians and podcasters to publish and distribute audio content across multiple platforms while receiving direct bitcoin payments from listeners. The service handles hosting, feed syndication, and universal distribution using open standards.
2 investors
Webedia is a media-tech group operating in online entertainment, producing and distributing digital content across platforms for creators, producers, broadcasters, and brands. Its activities span content distribution, digital media and brand publishing, creator/influencer management, and audiovisual (TV and digital) production, with operations in more than 15 countries.
2 investors
Webtoon Today is a webtoon studio and agency that offers data analytics for webtoons, a free self-publishing platform for creators to post work and gauge reader response, and marketing tools for insights, ad campaign execution, and performance measurement. It serves webtoon creators and studios/agencies with data-driven analysis and marketing solutions.
2 investors
Wowzi operates a platform that lets brands automate and scale creator/influencer marketing campaigns by matching them with thousands of pre-vetted creators across multiple channels. It also generates market and customer insights through its influencer network, serving brands and organizations across Africa.
2 investors
WordPress.com provides managed WordPress hosting with unmetered bandwidth, security protection, a global CDN, and storage, alongside tools for building websites, registering domains, running newsletters, and blogging. It serves creators, bloggers, and site owners who want to publish content and grow an audience on the web.
2 investors
Xillions provides AI-powered tools for marketing teams to enable audience participation in brand co-creation, generating user-generated content and first-party data while maintaining brand consistency. The platform helps brands gather engagement signals, preference data, and conversion insights through collaborative content creation.
2 investors
Eksab Gaming is a gaming platform created by content creators from the MENA region. The platform is described as launching soon and features play and in-platform coins.
2 investors
Yarn is an AI-powered video creation platform that helps startup teams produce content at scale using generative talking heads, product demo automation, and AI-assisted editing. The platform serves sales, marketing, and go-to-market teams who need to create personalized video content quickly.
2 investors
YouTube is an online video-sharing platform where people can watch, upload, and share videos and build communities around their stories.
2 investors
ZBD (Zebedee) is a fintech platform that handles the full money lifecycle in games, covering player deposits, in-game value transfers, real-money rewards, and instant payouts to players and creators. It offers game studios a single integration for payments, programmable rewards, and end-to-end KYC/AML compliance, backed by US Money Transmitter Licenses, EU EMI & MiCA licenses, and Visa Direct certification.
2 investors
Zenter was a startup that built web-based presentation software for creating and sharing slideshows online. Acquired by Google in 2007, where its technology contributed to the presentations feature of Google Docs (later Google Slides).
2 investors
Zoog is a visual communication platform where families create personalized animated videos featuring stories, songs, and educational content to share with loved ones across distances. The app automatically applies filters, effects, and music to enable users of all ages to create professional-looking videos with minimal effort.
2 investors
Space Oddity is a music creative group that supports artists and musicians with creative and campaign work in the music industry. It positions itself as a partner helping artists succeed and reach audiences.
2 investors
A studio that produces webtoons across genres including action, romance fantasy, and drama, listing works with their credited writers and original authors. The page functions as a portfolio of comic titles.
2 investors
CAPSULE is a content marketing and fan economy company that works with KOLs, YouTube/Instagram/TikTok creators, VTubers, and anime IPs, and has run marketing campaigns across gaming, FMCG, beauty, consumer electronics, finance, and e-commerce industries. It offers brand marketing services and creator/IP monetization through community management, ad placement, collaborations, merchandise, and offline events.
2 investors
Creema operates a creator empowerment platform and related businesses, serving creative professionals and artisans. The company builds marketplaces and services in the creator economy space.
2 investors
GOKKO (ごっこ倶楽部) is a Japanese entertainment company that produces vertical short dramas for platforms like TikTok, and operates a short-drama studio (studio505) and a vertical short-drama app called POPCORN. Based in Tokyo, it creates high-quality, low-cost content and holds Japanese records for short-drama viewership.
2 investors
Studio Eurygraph is a Japanese company that produces articles, operates media, develops and runs web services, and engages in publishing. It offers content creation, media operation, web service development, and publishing services.
2 investors
G-ANT Inc. provides custom block figurine design and manufacturing services that convert 2D illustrations into 3D buildable block models using voxel technology. The company serves content creators and fans in the creative economy who want to design and assemble personalized character figures.
2 investors
株式会社indent develops writing tools and platforms for authors of novels, manga, scripts, and game scenarios, including the "Nola" writing tool, the "Nola Novel" submission site, an e-book self-publishing service, and the short-story site "Prologue." It also operates a studio connecting authors with companies, offering original-work production, contest operation, and novel/manga commissioned production, primarily in Japan.
2 investors
Audiostock is a Japanese online marketplace offering royalty-free music, sound effects, voice, and songs (over 1 million tracks) for commercial use in video, YouTube, games, apps, ads, and broadcast. It connects a network of 40,000+ music creators with buyers via single purchases or subscription plans, and offers API, dataset, and licensing options for businesses.
2 investors
Utoniq operates "UDom," a fandom platform that lets artists, athletes, and entertainment brands run paid fan communities and issue "digital-real" trading cards and member-only content and online lotteries. It serves creators and rights holders such as musicians, VTubers, and theme parks in the Japanese entertainment and fan-engagement market.
2 investors
divRIOTS builds Figma plugins, browser extensions, web tools, and APIs that convert web pages, images, and various file formats (PDF, PSD, AI, and others) into fully editable Figma designs, and export Figma frames to HTML code. Its tools serve designers and developers working in Figma who need to import existing content or move between design and production code.
1 investor