Creator Economy Startups

Skoutli operates an online platform for finding and booking locations (such as homes and spaces) for creative projects and productions, connecting space owners with producers and other creative professionals.

2 investors

Skyword is a content marketing platform that helps organizations build content strategy, find and manage creative talent, and create and distribute content at scale. The platform serves enterprise brands and marketing teams seeking to produce, localize, and measure the performance of content across global audiences.

2 investors

Slipstream provides a music catalog for content creators in entertainment and media, offering tracks that can be licensed across any platform globally. The company partners with independent artists and uses AI tools to help creators discover music that fits their content.

2 investors

Social Snowball is a platform for managing word-of-mouth marketing, including affiliate, referral, and influencer programs, from a single place. It targets DTC and ecommerce brands, offering tools such as Safelinks to control discount codes and features to organize creators and community members.

2 investors

Songscription converts audio files into sheet music and MIDI notation. The platform serves musicians and music educators seeking to transcribe songs.

2 investors

Sonilo is an AI audio generation platform that creates licensed music and sound effects from video or text prompts, and translates and re-voices video speech into multiple languages. It serves video producers, game developers, and content creators, offering plugins for engines like Unity, Godot, Unreal/Fab, Roblox, and Defold as well as an Adobe Premiere Pro integration and a developer API.

2 investors

SoundBetter is an online marketplace where musicians and artists hire music production professionals — including mixing and mastering engineers, singers, songwriters, producers, and session musicians — for remote collaboration. Users describe a project, receive proposals from vetted pros, and pay through the platform once work is completed.

2 investors

Soundry.ai provides AI tools for DJs and music producers to remix songs and create samples in various styles. The platform serves music creators looking to generate production-ready audio content.

2 investors

Engine Room Recording Company is a project recording and rehearsal studio run by musicians for musicians and creatives. It is a bookable music production space listed on the Soundspace platform.

2 investors

Spellbrush is a generative AI studio that develops anime-style video games and is the team behind niji・journey, an AI art generation tool. The company explores how AI can assist human artists in creating art for games.

2 investors

Splash is an interactive online music creation platform that uses AI to let users generate and collaborate on music through features like text-to-singing and generative text-to-music. The platform enables creators to build on each other's mixes socially and also operates a music-focused virtual experience on Roblox.

2 investors

Spotter invests capital in top long-form YouTube creators and connects brands with those creators' engaged audiences. It operates in the creator economy, working with YouTube talent and advertisers.

2 investors

Spreadshirt runs an online platform for designing and buying custom apparel and accessories, offering over 250 customizable products and a marketplace of designs by independent creators. It also serves businesses, clubs, and creators with corporate teamwear, white-label shops, and merchandise selling tools.

2 investors

SquadCast is an in-browser cloud recording studio for podcasts and video content, recording each participant locally in separate tracks and auto-uploading the files to the cloud for download in wav, mp4, webm, and mp3 formats. It serves creators, producers, podcasters, and YouTubers, offering guest links with no required downloads or accounts.

2 investors

STAAGES is a music production and artist services company offering recording mastering, publishing, artist management, album launches, and video production to musicians and artists.

2 investors

StageKeep is a productivity tool for choreographers and producers that manages the creation, organization, and review of dance formations, rehearsals, and performances. It enables teams to synchronize music with formations, visualize choreography, and coordinate logistics and communication for stage productions.

2 investors

Stan is a creator store platform, referred to as "Your Creator Store," aimed at creators. The page requires JavaScript, so only limited information is available.

2 investors

StarNews is a platform that lets African content creators monetize their audiences through mobile carrier billing, distributing content via mobile operators so users can subscribe and pay without credit cards. It serves creators and mobile operator partners, focusing on the creator economy across African markets.

2 investors

Station was a service to help creators find new revenue and is now part of SpotsNow, which connects shows with advertisers to fill ad space and get paid. The page states Station is pausing operations while being integrated into SpotsNow's ad-focused platform.

2 investors

Steg.AI trains deep learning models for watermarking and data poisoning, offering access through APIs, web applications, and integrations with creative software and document storage platforms.

2 investors

Steno.ai builds AI digital twins of influential leaders that enable one-on-one conversations with audiences at scale. The platform creates hyper-realistic AI replicas that can provide personalized guidance, advice, and authentic interactions between creators/leaders and their followers.

2 investors

Stickerbox is a creative tool for children that converts voice input into customizable stickers they can color and share. The product targets kids and focuses on fostering imagination through hands-on, scroll-free interaction with generative AI technology.

2 investors

Stormy is an AI workflow automation platform that handles creator outreach, negotiation, and campaign management for marketing teams. It integrates with Gmail, Google Sheets, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and team chat to automate follow-ups, track deliverables, and surface only decisions requiring human approval.

2 investors

Story2 teaches storytelling skills to help individuals craft personal narratives for college admissions, career transitions, and professional growth. The company uses a proprietary neuroscience-based framework called The Moments Method® to guide users through finding, shaping, and telling compelling stories.

2 investors