Creator Economy Startups

Hera is an AI-powered motion design tool that generates animated videos from text descriptions. It serves creators and marketers who need to produce product launch videos and other promotional content.

1 investor

HeroSpark is a Brazilian platform for selling and delivering online courses and digital products, offering an integrated checkout (SparkPay), Netflix-style members area, video hosting, page editor, and a student/creator app. It targets digital entrepreneurs, marketers, and content creators looking to launch and scale digital products.

1 investor

HeySummit is a platform for creators and educators to plan, host, and monetize online, in-person, and hybrid events such as webinars, workshops, and multi-speaker conferences. It provides a dashboard with templates, automations, and monetization tools including ticket sales, donations, subscriptions, and payment installments.

1 investor

Super was a community fundraising platform that let creators and individuals group charitable organizations into a "Super Fund" and invite their followers to give monthly or one-time donations, with curated charity vetting, tax reporting, and optional creator tips. The platform, which partnered with Our Change Foundation to process US tax-deductible donations, has shut down.

1 investor

Hiberworld was a platform for creating and sharing multiplayer online worlds and games. The service has shut down, and the team states it is building a new product to replace it.

1 investor

Hipclip builds AI-powered software that assists human content creators in producing and distributing original content more efficiently. The platform combines human creativity with AI capabilities to streamline content production, business operations, and distribution workflows.

1 investor

Holomate is a portable MIDI controller compatible with popular audio and video DAWs, letting users create beats and music. It targets musicians and digital artists interested in music production.

1 investor

Holonet Creator is a browser-based web platform for creating and sharing immersive 3D experiences, using generative AI, Gaussian Splatting, and other AI modules to build virtual worlds from prompts or digital twins from scans. It targets XR and 3D content creators.

1 investor

Holoworld is an app store for AI agents where users create interactive worlds, virtual characters, and IPs, launch community fundraising campaigns, and run 24/7 AI livestreams. It offers tools such as Ava Studio for text-to-video creation, HoloLaunch for AI-native IP fundraising, and an Agent SDK/API for building and hosting virtual characters, targeting creators in the web3 space.

1 investor

Honeycommb is a white-label community platform for launching a branded social network with web, iOS, and Android apps that the owner controls. It serves creators, brands, coaches, podcasters, membership businesses, and organizations, offering features like member profiles, groups, events, livestreaming, and membership subscriptions for monetization.

1 investor

Hoplix is an on-demand print production and fulfillment platform that enables sellers to transform their product ideas into businesses without managing production or logistics. The company serves print-on-demand entrepreneurs and creators in Italy.

1 investor

HopShop converts fashion creators' Instagram content into shoppable storefronts. Its AI matches items shown in posts to purchasable products and tags them automatically, letting followers buy the pieces they see.

1 investor

Hovercast is a live streaming engagement platform that lets creators and event organizers interact with audiences across multiple platforms simultaneously, featuring chats and donations on screen and adding gamification points and badges. It also provides custom-branded event pages with ticketing, registration, chat, and a photo booth for events such as fundraisers, festivals, concerts, and product launches.

1 investor

Howl is an affiliate marketing and commerce platform for content creators, offering tools to manage affiliate links, launch customizable storefronts, negotiate brand deals, and access retail media ad budgets. It handles payment processing and provides commission tracking and analytics for creators of any audience size.

1 investor

Humant Life operates a platform for licensing influencer stock photos and videos, letting brands, media, and advertising agencies search and repurpose creator content by mood, influencer, object, or spoken words. It uses AI-based curation and recognition tools across a library of influencer video and photo content.

1 investor

Humanz operates an AI-powered platform combining organic influencer advocacy programs with paid/performance media, letting brands discover, manage, contract, pay, and measure creators in one workflow. It serves marketing teams and creators, offering creator ads, white-labeled communities, AI-generated ad variants, landing pages, and full-funnel attribution.

1 investor

Humeo is an applied AI lab focused on creative intelligence, building generative tools for video and media creation. Its first product is a video agent that lets users prompt to create, edit, and scale content for creators and the broader creator economy.

1 investor

HustleSasa provides tools for planning and running live entertainment events, serving artists, creators, and event organizers across Africa. The platform supports the execution of live experiences and events.

1 investor

HykeComic is a global platform focused on vertical-scroll, full-color manga optimized for smartphones. It distributes Japanese manga worldwide through its global delivery app.

1 investor

HypeAuditor provides an influencer marketing platform for brands, offering automated tools to analyze, plan, track, and report on campaigns. Features include competitor campaign analysis, brand safety vetting of influencers, audience affinity analysis, brand-mention search, and influencer relationship management.

1 investor

Hyperfy is a no-code platform that enables users to build and deploy custom AI products powered by models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, with pre-built agents for sales, content creation, analysis, and business operations. The platform handles hosting, payments, and API management, allowing creators to launch and monetize AI applications in minutes.

1 investor

HyperPad is a visual game development app for iPad that enables users to create 2D games without code using a visual coding interface. The platform serves beginners, educators, students, and indie developers who want to build and publish games while retaining 100% of royalties.

1 investor

ibble is a platform for creators to build free or paid communities where fans can join conversations around podcasts, music, art, and other content using text, video, audio, and photo replies. It also lets creators offer subscriptions, accept tips, sell merch or tickets, and host events, Q&As, and giveaways natively.

1 investor

Icons8 offers a library of stock design graphics — icons, illustrations, photos, 3D models, and music — alongside design apps and AI tools such as background removal, image upscaling, and AI-generated profile pictures. It serves designers and developers looking for reusable graphics and creative automation tools.

1 investor