Creator Economy Startups

Second Life is a virtual world where users explore and socialize across thousands of user-created experiences and communities such as music clubs, roleplaying groups, and virtual cinemas. It offers creator tools with Lua scripting and a marketplace where users buy, sell, and monetize virtual goods like fashion and home decor within a virtual economy.

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Secret City Trails offers curated walking experiences and discovery trails in cities around the world led by local creators. The platform connects travelers with local guides who share hidden gems, cultural hotspots, and alternative routes in destinations like Lisbon, Riga, Amsterdam, and Catania.

1 investor

SeeDAO is a Chinese community platform that combines peer learning with AI tools, enabling members to collaborate on AI projects and real-world applications like cross-border e-commerce. The platform offers members personalized AI companions, collaborative spaces, and opportunities to learn and implement AI in practice.

1 investor

Serye FM is an audio streaming platform offering original Filipino episodic stories and podcasts across genres such as drama, romance, comedy, and horror. It also runs a podcast affiliate program that pays creators per campaign.

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Setori is an AI character platform for creating and launching expressive, interactive AI characters designed for emotional connection. It targets creators and IP owners who want to bring their characters and intellectual property to life as digital creatures.

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Shanda is a platform that simplifies podcast creation and editing for content creators and knowledge sharers. The software reduces audio editing time from hours to minutes, enabling storytellers and thought leaders to publish podcasts without technical barriers.

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ShareRoot is a group of companies offering digital and social media services, including a platform to legally acquire and manage user-generated content (UGC) and brand ambassadors, a marketing agency focused on Australia's life sciences and health sectors, and a studio building web, mobile games, and VR/AR experiences. It combines digital platforms, AI tools, and subject-matter expertise to help businesses with market access, audience engagement, and e-commerce.

1 investor

Matchmade is an influencer marketing platform that connects brands and advertisers with YouTube creators, using machine learning and big data to match campaigns across over 16 million channels. It handles contracting, onboarding, and payments for both brands and creators.

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ShopLook is an online tool for creating outfit and style collages, letting users drag and drop from millions of product images or upload their own. It centers on self-expression, discovery, and a community of fashion and creativity enthusiasts.

1 investor

Shortbread is a mobile app for reading spicy romance comics and webcomic series. It offers romantic comic series to readers through an on-demand reading app.

1 investor

SHOWROOM operates a live-streaming service where viewers interact with performers in real time through gifting and comments, aimed at supporting entertainers and creators. The Japanese company also runs VR live and vertical video platforms and produces entertainment IP and branded content for businesses.

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SHOWROOM is a live streaming platform where users can broadcast and watch real-time content from entertainers, idols, musicians, and other creators. The platform enables audience interaction through virtual gifts and rankings.

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Good Lab is a brand and design agency serving early-stage, rapid-growth ventures in health, wellness, environmental sciences, and life sciences. It helps these clients develop their brand and design to build market positioning while they build their business.

1 investor

SkillPop is a community-powered learning platform offering hands-on, beginner-friendly in-person classes across Charlotte, Raleigh, and surrounding North Carolina areas. The platform covers practical and creative skills ranging from cooking and photography to art and personal growth, with instruction from local experts.

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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.

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Skye High is a branding and web design studio that creates brands, websites, and marketing collateral for thought leaders, authors, speakers, and creative entrepreneurs. Services include strategy and messaging, branding, web design and development, and book cover design.

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Skylight is a short-form video social app built on the AT Protocol, letting users control their feed and follow the people they choose. Users can sign in with an existing Bluesky account and retain ownership of their content, followers, and connections across AT Protocol-based services.

1 investor

Slogan (スローガン) is a Japanese company focused on unlocking human potential by redefining the relationship between people, organizations, and society. It promotes work rooted in intrinsic motivation and self-understanding, aiming to reconcile human values with economic performance.

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Liro is an AI-powered video editing app for content creators that automates captioning, translation, cropping, audio enhancement, and clip generation. It detects share-worthy moments in long videos and reframes them into vertical short-form content for platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

1 investor

Socedo is an OnlyFans management agency that handles account optimization, fan management, and marketing for content creators on the platform. The company aims to increase creator earnings through account audits, content strategy guidance, and social media promotion.

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Sochera AI is an AI-powered platform for generating videos, voiceovers, scripts, and marketing content from text prompts or ideas, with automated editing, subtitles, and multilingual dubbing in 100+ languages. It targets content creators, marketers, startups, and businesses looking to produce content without manual editing, and offers API integration for higher-volume needs.

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Sociable offers an AI-powered platform for social search and community management, letting users find short-form videos by detailed criteria and automate responses to comments and DMs across social media accounts. It aims to increase engagement, detect buying intent, and track how social interactions affect visibility and traffic for brands and creators.

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Social Tip runs a platform where consumers who buy a brand's product and share genuine posts about it on social media receive cash rewards, turning word-of-mouth into a marketing channel for consumer brands. It serves consumer brands and their social-savvy customers/creators, and is launching a beta in the US.

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Socialee is a mobile shopping app for beauty products that combines social media with e-commerce, letting users discover and buy makeup, skincare, haircare, fragrances, and bath & body items through shoppable video reviews. It also lets people become creators who earn commissions and rewards by posting their own product review videos and referring others.

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