Creator Economy Startups

Untitled is a cloud storage and collaboration platform for musicians to upload, organize, edit, and share work-in-progress music across devices. The service targets music creators and producers who need a secure, offline-capable workspace for their audio projects.

1 investor

Smash Media is a Japanese media company that produces original content including short dramas, web series, music-related shows, talent audition programs, and entertainment content for digital platforms.

1 investor

24karat provides a platform for brands and creators to connect digital experiences with real-world engagement, with a focus on P2P marketplace dynamics and NFT creators. It operates in the blockchain and creator economy space.

1 investor

2key built SmartLinks, shareable links running on Ethereum smart contracts that tracked how information spread and rewarded sharers with tokens, along with layered analytics on engagement and influence. The platform, developed by DcentraLab, is currently offline with plans to rebuild.

1 investor

404 GEN provides a 3D AI generator that creates 3D content from text prompts, for use in building 3D worlds, games, and AR/VR/XR experiences. It targets creators and developers looking to produce immersive 3D assets.

1 investor

8x operates a creator network for brands, having creators post marketing content from their own personal accounts in their own voice rather than from branded pages. It positions this authentic, creator-led posting as its core model for driving audience engagement and algorithmic reach.

1 investor

99designs operates a marketplace that connects businesses and organizations with freelance designers through crowdsourced design competitions and contests. The platform enables clients to crowdsource graphic design, logo design, and other creative work from a global network of designers.

1 investor

A mobile game developer based in Vancouver that creates games with social features designed to engage players through creative challenges.

1 investor

Aayats AI is a generative music tool that turns text prompts into music, assembling the team, beats, and studio needed to produce tracks in styles ranging from lo-fi to hip-hop. It targets music creators looking to generate original tracks from natural-language descriptions.

1 investor

Access Protocol is a Solana-based Web3 protocol that lets fans support creators by staking its native ACS token in exchange for exclusive content, subscriptions, and rewards. It offers SDKs and APIs for developers to integrate its staking-based content monetization model, used largely by crypto media and content creators.

1 investor

Accidental Entertainment offers music licensing, synchronization, custom music creation, publishing, and administration services for films, TV series, SVoD, commercials, brands, trailers, and video games. Through its in-house Accidental Studios, it also provides artist development, music production, and representation for composers, songwriters, and producers.

1 investor

ACON3D is an online marketplace for 3D models and digital art assets created by artists, offering downloadable content for creative and design work. The platform includes features such as product reviews, rewards points, and brand promotions.

1 investor

ACTIVATE is an influencer marketing platform that lets brands, agencies, and media companies find creators, manage relationships through an Influencer Relationship Management (IRM) tool, and track campaign performance. It combines automation with studio services and integrates with partners such as Pinterest.

1 investor

Actual.ly provides musicians and artists a link-in-bio replacement that uses trivia and quizzes to verify genuine fans and build a fan CRM with names, phone numbers, and locations. The platform lets artists engage directly with fans and market products, tours, and experiences without intermediaries.

1 investor

ACworks operates a stock material platform offering downloadable design assets, with over 16 million members, alongside editors and AI-based tools for people who want to create designs without specialized skills or expensive software. The Japanese company, with a subsidiary in Vietnam, aims to become the world's most-used material platform.

1 investor

Personal portfolio site of a photographer/image creator, Adam Dixon, who offers to produce photographs for business use. The page primarily showcases the creator's images and invites visitors to get in touch to commission work.

1 investor

Audio Design Desk is a macOS application for sound design and music creation, offering AI-powered search across a library of 70,000+ royalty-free sound effects, loops, and music cues to build audio layers for video. It includes SoundGen, a tool that generates background music and soundtracks from text descriptions of a scene or uploaded melody ideas, aimed at video creators and musicians.

1 investor

Advinz Tech offers an AI video generation platform that produces videos from text prompts or images using generative AI models and GPU-accelerated computing. It serves creators, businesses, and developers with tools for marketing, social media, educational, and product videos, plus APIs for integration.

1 investor

Aftershoot is a photo management and editing platform for professional photographers that automates culling, editing, retouching, and gallery creation. The software uses AI to help photographers process large volumes of images with consistent styling and includes client-facing gallery and print sales features.

1 investor

Ahazou provides ready-made social media content and templates for entrepreneurs and small business owners across 100+ industries, allowing them to publish daily posts, stories, and videos without hiring agencies or freelancers. The platform offers customizable content options with logo personalization and weekly publishing calendars at a fraction of traditional marketing costs.

1 investor

AIGO MEDIA is an owner-run creative studio offering branding, website development, and photography services for companies. Founded in 2019, it is based in Würzburg, Germany.

1 investor

AirLyft is a platform where users discover communities and participate in campaigns to earn rewards such as NFTs, tokens, and whitelist spots. It focuses on community engagement and reward distribution in the crypto/Web3 space.

1 investor

AITV is a platform for creating and launching AI-powered livestream "streamers" (AI avatars) via its AITV Studio, letting creators go live and multistream across platforms such as Twitch, Kick, TikTok, YouTube, and X. It uses onchain crypto mechanics with its $AITV token, allowing creators to monetize viewer interactions and audiences to earn token rewards, staking, and airdrops.

1 investor

Alboom offers an all-in-one online platform for photographers, including client photo proofing galleries for selecting and approving images, tools to sell photos, customizable website themes, and integrated payments (Alboom Pay) via PIX, credit card, and boleto. The platform targets photographers and creatives, with a Portuguese-language interface aimed at the Brazilian market.

1 investor