Creator Economy Startups

Camera360 is a photo editing application offering over 1,000 style filters and intelligent tools for users to enhance and edit images across portrait, landscape, food, and other scenarios. The platform serves social media creators and casual users who want to edit photos without requiring professional design skills.

1 investor

CAMPFIRE operates one of Japan's largest crowdfunding platforms, letting individuals and creators raise funds with no upfront cost to realize projects, products, and creative work. It also offers community-based recurring funding, an SPA-style product commercialization service, and support for applying for government subsidies.

1 investor

Cantina is a platform for creating and interacting with AI-powered social characters that can chat, perform, and engage with users. Creators build and share these characters on a community-driven marketplace where they attract interactions and followers.

1 investor

Canvas N is a total entertainment group that produces digital cultural content, including Korean Wave media across multiple platforms. The company operates art-tech platforms, new technology solutions, and VFX services for the global entertainment market.

1 investor

Capte is an AI-powered video editing tool that automatically generates subtitles, translates them into dozens of languages, and creates multiple short clips from a single video for social media. It offers customizable subtitle styles with effects, emojis, themes, and platform-specific safe zones, with HD and 4K export, aimed at content creators.

1 investor

Capture One provides digital photo editing and management software for creative professionals and photographers. The platform enables users to process, edit, and export high-quality images at scale.

1 investor

CaptureNoire offers Lightroom presets designed specifically for deep skin tones, delivering vintage film-inspired color grading and effects. The collection includes ten individual presets with various vintage film looks and effects for photography workflows.

1 investor

Cardboard is an AI-powered video editing platform that automatically finds key moments in footage, generates captions and dubbing, and produces multi-format videos optimized for different platforms. It serves content creators and video production teams who need to reduce editing time.

1 investor

Cardinote offers a mobile app that helps guitarists record, understand chords, and compose music. The platform caters to musicians at all skill levels seeking tools to improve their playing and songwriting abilities.

1 investor

Cartcam is a mobile shopping app that gives shoppers discounts in exchange for creating short video reviews of products, and generates revenue through brand partnerships that fund those discounts. It targets deal-seeking consumers and mobile creators while providing brands with user-generated review content.

1 investor

Castos is a podcast hosting platform that allows creators to publish unlimited episodes across multiple shows for a flat monthly fee, with native WordPress integration and automatic YouTube publishing. It serves podcasters seeking transparent pricing without penalties for audience growth.

1 investor

CEEK is a blockchain-based platform that turns creators' videos, music, posts and digital art into tokenized digital assets that can be streamed, sold, licensed and traded across VR, AR, mobile, desktop and smart TVs. It serves creators, artists, sports teams and fans, combining a rights marketplace, real-time token payments, and virtual metaverse venues ("CEEK City") on the Binance Smart Chain.

1 investor

An independent freelance web designer and developer offering website design and development, logo and branding, and animation services to brands and businesses. Operated by a single practitioner based in Hove, Brighton.

1 investor

ChannelMeter offers a creator management platform that handles onboarding, contracts, analytics, sales, and automated payouts for the networks, brands, and collectives that work with content creators. It serves the creator economy globally, supporting payment processing across multiple currencies and countries.

1 investor

Knot is a hardware device that connects USB MIDI controllers to Stratus synthesizers and other MIDI-capable instruments. It bridges standard MIDI controllers with USB MIDI devices through dual TRS MIDI jacks.

1 investor

Chaotix.ai is a platform that uses generative AI to enable anyone to create, share, and play games collaboratively without requiring coding skills or game development expertise. The platform targets casual creators and gaming enthusiasts by providing an accessible, social experience for game creation and discovery.

1 investor

Megaphone (at chartable.com) is a podcast hosting and monetization platform that lets creators and publishers distribute episodes to podcast apps, insert dynamic ads, and access the Spotify Audience Network. It also provides analytics and promotion tools to help podcasters grow their audience and revenue.

1 investor

Ramble is a mobile app for large-scale, host-led group chats run by podcasters, athletes, sports teams, and other public figures, functioning as a "second screen" during shows and events. It offers community channels, live audio/video, polls and games, automated moderation, and monetization tools that let hosts keep most of the ad, subscription, and fan revenue generated by their audiences.

1 investor

ChatCut is an AI-powered video editing tool that lets creators generate and edit videos through an AI agent while retaining manual control in a pro editor. It offers skills and features such as motion graphics, AI avatars, voice cloning, AI voiceover and music, background removal, and access to multiple image and video generation models.

1 investor

Chatie is a story platform designed for mobile readers that presents narratives through chat bubble formatting, allowing readers to follow character dialogue and emotional development scene-by-scene. The platform enables both readers to discover stories across genres like romance, fantasy, and thriller, and creators to publish works using mobile-friendly creation tools.

1 investor

A platform for selling digital products such as ebooks, courses, presets, and software with automatic file delivery and Stripe-based payments. It serves creators and digital product sellers who want to monetize their content without building a storefront or managing fulfillment.

1 investor

Chef's Roll is a media and content platform that features culinary professionals, restaurant operators, and food industry personalities through articles, interviews, and coverage of culinary events and conferences.

1 investor

Chela Media is a creator-led production studio that produces micro-budget films, digital content, podcasts, and marketing campaigns for independent creators and audiences seeking alternative entertainment outside traditional media gatekeepers. The company operates a cross-platform content engine distributing work across film, social media, audio, and publishing channels.

1 investor

Child Nation is a digital platform of interactive, artist-created adventures for children aged 7 to 11, accessed via internet-enabled devices through QR codes on signage in parks and libraries or via school collections. It guides kids through personalised, imaginative activities that prompt physical exploration and creative engagement with real-world spaces.

1 investor