Creator Economy Startups

Comici (コミチ) was a Japanese web platform for reading and posting original manga and columns, offering genre rankings, editorial picks, and manga contests. The manga posting service announced its closure as of March 30.

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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.

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ConceptDrop offers Source, a platform that consolidates freelance hiring for creative, digital, and consulting work into a single contract, matching companies with vetted freelancers such as designers, writers, and animators through a dedicated account manager. It targets businesses looking to scale creative teams on demand and replace traditional procurement processes.

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Conteller is a Mexican platform that connects brands with everyday creators and their own customers for content production. Brands post briefs and then receive, store, and pay for submitted content, with payments tied to performance; the platform also provides creative sessions and handles intellectual property and personal data compliance tracking.

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Crafted is a platform and service that connects food and beverage brands with a network of food-focused creators to source user-generated content for paid ads, social media, and retail marketing campaigns. It handles creator sourcing, strategy, and content production to support brands' product launches and retail promotions.

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CoPromote is a platform where creators and founders promote each other's projects, posting their work to discover others and earn free promotion by helping peers reach new audiences. It offers cross-promotion and exposure across niches such as video, music, apps, and products.

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Corel develops creative software for individuals and businesses, including Painter for digital painting and tools for vector illustration, page layout, and photo editing. Its products serve designers, artists, and business users seeking illustration and image-editing applications.

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Keens Seoul is a K-pop dance training academy that provides skill-based training for aspiring artists ages 8-14, utilizing a flipped classroom methodology and instruction from professional trainers working with major entertainment companies.

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Covers.AI provides AI-powered music tools, including an AI voice generator, AI cover creator, lyric swap, and AI music video creator, that let users transform their vocals and produce shareable content. It targets amateur and aspiring singers and music creators looking to make viral social media clips.

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designme is a design studio that creates custom products, brands, and websites tailored to client needs.

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Craon, based in India, develops an AI-based video editing tool. Users describe what they want through text prompts, and the system assembles the raw material into a completed video.

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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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Create Academy offers curated video courses taught by renowned designers, makers, gardeners, and chefs, designed to build creative confidence and teach practical skills in creative projects, home design, and gardening. The platform serves a community of creative learners seeking to develop expertise across design, culinary arts, gardening, and related creative disciplines.

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Create Music Group provides capital, distribution, rights management, accounting, and real-time analytics to artists, labels, and music businesses. It offers in-house A&R, distribution networks, and social-first strategy for independent labels and music entrepreneurs.

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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.

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Creative Connex offers book publishing services including writing coaching, editing, proofreading, cover and interior design, illustration, formatting, distribution, and author marketing. It serves aspiring and self-publishing authors across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, children's, and business genres.

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Creative Futures Collective provides mentorship, paid work experience, and network access to emerging creative leaders from underrepresented backgrounds in the creative industries.

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Creator is a platform for influencer marketing that uses AI to discover creators, manage campaigns, and track performance. It serves brands and agencies seeking to run creator-led campaigns with measurable business impact across social media platforms.

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Node App is a platform that connects brands with creators to produce social media content and reviews. Brands post products with content briefs, ship items to creators, and receive Instagram posts and product feedback within 7 days.

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CreatorsX is a Japanese startup that appears to work in anime and film content creation, based on its hiring of anime creators, art directors, producers, and animators. It has acquired BENTEN Film Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary.

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CreatorDAO provides funding, custom tooling, and training to online content creators. It operates in the creator economy, supporting individual creators such as YouTubers and social media personalities.

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

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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.

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Creators Match operates "thinc," a platform connecting creators with businesses across Japan for creative production work including web design, banner and display ad creation, CMS builds, and campaign delivery and optimization. It also develops project-management products to reduce workload for creative teams and runs a nationwide creator network to support local talent and regional problem-solving.

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