Creator Economy Startups

Collab Asia is a creator management and influencer marketing company that helps content creators grow their commercial and creative potential while connecting brands with audiences through influencer-led campaigns and video and music content. It works with creators and brands across Asian markets including Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and Korea.

2 investors

Commaful is an online platform where users publish and read short stories, poetry, fanfiction, and posts, with content organized by topics and community reactions. It functions as a community-driven storytelling and reading site for amateur writers and readers.

2 investors

Commas is a webinar platform with built-in checkout and payments, letting sellers create courses, paid communities, and live/recorded sessions where buyers can pay without leaving the room. It offers payment features including a BNPL suite, smart payment routing, subscription churn recovery, lead qualification, and APIs, aimed at online sellers, creators, and businesses.

2 investors

Concepts is a digital drawing and design tool that combines freehand sketching with CAD-like precision, offering team subscriptions for architects, designers, and creative professionals. The platform enables vector-based design work with measurement capabilities, PDF markup, and collaboration features.

2 investors

Concord is a music and entertainment company that manages artists, publishes music, operates a record label, and produces original content across theatrical and music sectors.

2 investors

Cookin provides an all-in-one ecommerce platform for independent food entrepreneurs to build online storefronts, manage orders, and process payments. The platform includes AI-enhanced menu presentation, secure payment processing, delivery and pickup coordination, and business analytics tailored for culinary professionals.

2 investors

Corite is a music platform that lets fans invest in songs and share in the resulting streaming revenue, while giving artists royalty advances, free distribution, and marketing support. It serves independent and established musicians and their fan communities, combining crowdfunding with music distribution.

2 investors

Crafter is a marketplace that connects craftspeople with customers interested in handmade and artisan products, workshops, and crafting supplies across a wide range of traditional and contemporary craft disciplines.

2 investors

CreateSafe builds software tools for the music industry aimed at artists and creators. The company's public page provides only a high-level positioning statement without detail on specific products.

2 investors

Creator Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in AI-native consumer companies and the infrastructure that supports them. Its portfolio spans consumer apps, AI models, and creator-focused products.

2 investors

Creator's X is a Japanese animation company that produces 2D and 3D animation and background art for anime and games, and develops anime production support systems and AI-based software. It works across theatrical film, TV, and pachinko/gaming machine anime, and operates several animation studio subsidiaries.

2 investors

CreatorDB is a data platform for the creator economy, using data and analytics to support work with online creators and influencers.

2 investors

Creatorden provides data-driven influencer marketing programs for brands and agencies, helping them align influencer collaborations with specific marketing objectives.

2 investors

CreatorFi provides revenue advances that give creators early access to income they have already earned, with automatic repayment that adjusts to income fluctuations and no traditional interest or debt. It positions this as financing for the creator economy.

2 investors

CrestLab develops technology tools for anime creators and production studios. The company applies AI and technology innovation to accelerate the animation production process.

2 investors

Cubee3D offers Hive, a commercial licensing platform for 3D printing sellers that bundles a commercial license, ready-to-use marketing content, training, and community access. Its plans include tiered subscriptions with a royalty-based payment option and limited authorized-seller slots.

2 investors

Culture Genesis is a media and creator company that uses agentic AI to package creator-led video into brand-safe ad inventory, route deals to agencies, verify campaigns, and pay creators automatically. It serves brands seeking General Market+ audiences and creators looking to monetize their content at scale, operating in the ad monetization and creator economy space.

2 investors

Dankkumi produces educational comic books and apps for elementary school children, featuring Korean and world history, the Three Kingdoms, and mythology presented through stories and characters with music and video content.

2 investors

Darwin CX is a SaaS platform for publishers and membership-based organizations that uses real-time customer data to improve acquisition and retention rates while reducing fulfillment costs. The company serves media companies, publishers, and membership organizations seeking to optimize subscriber management and customer engagement.

2 investors

DeepIntoThe (DIT) builds an EQ-based AI Persona Engine that creates emotionally intelligent AI personas of creators and IP holders, enabling 24/7 fan interaction across text, voice, image, and video. The platform uses a blockchain-based ecosystem for IP usage control, on-chain royalty settlement, and revenue sharing, serving creators, influencers, and the entertainment, gaming, and education industries.

2 investors

Deepstash is a platform that aggregates bite-sized insights and ideas from books, articles, podcasts, and videos to help users learn new habits, skills, and knowledge at their own pace. The platform serves individuals interested in personal development and self-improvement.

2 investors

DepositPhotos is a creative content platform offering over 332 million royalty-free images, videos, and music files, plus AI tools for generating and customizing visuals. It serves businesses and creative teams with stock content, AI training datasets, and API integrations for creative workflows.

2 investors

Design Milk is a media publication covering architecture, interior design, automotive, fashion, technology, and art, with a focus on modern design and sustainable practices. The site serves design enthusiasts and creative professionals seeking emerging talent and contemporary design inspiration.

2 investors

DesignCrowd is an online creative marketplace connecting businesses and entrepreneurs with a global network of designers for custom graphic, logo, web, and print design projects. The company also owns and operates BrandCrowd, an online logo maker platform.

2 investors