Creator Economy Startups

Winks provides interactive micro-apps that embed directly inside X (Twitter) posts, letting audiences buy tickets, subscribe, book services, or complete crypto actions without leaving their feed. It serves creators, brands, and businesses looking to convert their X audience into customers, offering a done-for-you build service alongside a low-code builder and SDK.

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Wise provides software for running cohort-based courses and online group tutoring programs, with built-in live sessions, automated recordings, attendance, reminders via email and WhatsApp, and engagement tools like leaderboards, badges, quizzes, and polls. It also offers analytics and reporting for tutors managing multiple cohorts and one-on-one or group sessions under their own brand.

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Relish operates a platform that connects brands with local creators to drive measurable marketing outcomes such as store visits, sales, and customer loyalty. The company targets brands of various sizes seeking authentic, locally-driven marketing campaigns.

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Wisecut is an AI video editing tool that turns long videos into short clips, generating automatic cuts, captions, translations, reframing, and background music. It serves content creators and media teams, offering automated clip creation and scheduled publishing from connected YouTube channels.

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Wisecut is an AI video editing tool that turns long-form footage into short-form clips, automatically detecting highlights, generating captions and translations, removing silences, and adding background music with audio ducking. It offers storyboard-based editing that lets users edit videos through transcribed text, aimed at content creators and businesses producing video content.

1 investor

WithLIVE is a live video-call app that connects fans with artists, idols, voice actors, and other performers for one-on-one video conversations. Fans select a date, bid points, and start a private LIVE call with their chosen cast member.

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Wondercraft provides an AI-powered platform that enables content creators to produce audio content such as podcasts, audiobooks, and ads by typing, with support for multiple languages and AI-generated voices. The platform is designed for storytellers, marketers, and content creators worldwide who need affordable, professional-quality audio production without technical expertise or specialized equipment.

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Wonder Works Studio develops roleplay and social games on next-generation platforms such as Roblox, using influencer-driven marketing to grow player audiences. Its titles include Traitor, Overlook RP, and branded experiences like David Guetta DJ Party and EDC - Insomniac World Party.

1 investor

WriterDuet is a screenwriting application that lets writers draft, format, and collaborate on scripts in real-time, with cloud syncing, offline editing, version history, and import/export of Final Draft, PDF, Word, and Fountain files. It supports multiple script formats such as screenplay, stageplay, comics, and podcast, and includes features like text/video chat, comments, read-only sharing, and production reports.

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Written Word Media offers book promotion services and memberships for authors, including discounted promotions, early access to promo dates, and VIP support. It serves independent and self-published authors looking to market and sell their books.

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WYLD is a mobile app that connects content creators and nano influencers with Indian brands, letting them apply to marketing campaigns, get paid via UPI bank transfers, and earn cashback across 200+ brands in food, fashion, and lifestyle. It also gives creators access to brand events, shoots, and creator summits across India.

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Ximalaya is a Chinese online audio platform offering on-demand audio content, podcasts, and audiobooks, with a membership subscription and creator tools for uploading and editing audio. It also provides an open content platform, smart audio hardware, in-car audio services, and an enterprise version for employee learning.

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Personal website of Ximena Vengoechea, an author, illustrator, and UX researcher who publishes books, articles, and a newsletter, and offers speaking and consulting services. The site features her writing, illustrations, UX research work, and a project called The Life Audit.

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Xposure Music offers funding for musicians and maintains an artist roster and funding deals. The page shown is a form for artists to submit funding requests.

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Yellow Jacket Videogames is an Andalusian video game studio that develops narrative-driven games and gamification experiences centered on cultural heritage, literature, and art. The studio creates interactive experiences for both independent gamers and cultural institutions such as museums.

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Yolando is an AI platform that helps content teams generate on-brand, discoverable content at scale while maintaining a distinct voice. It learns a brand's communication style to produce high-performing content that avoids generic output.

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YouArt provides a platform for monetizing AI-generated original content and artworks, enabling creators to sell their digital creations.

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Your Art Beat is a creative network and contact point offering tools and resources related to arts, culture and creativity.

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YourTunes is a digital music distributor that publishes artists' releases to over 50 streaming platforms and online stores and monetizes their music on YouTube Content ID, UGC platforms, and social media. It offers artists release scheduling, daily streaming statistics, quarterly payouts, playlist pitching, AI-generated music publishing, and a Telegram streaming mini-app, aimed at independent artists and labels.

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YousicPlay offers online music courses taught by professional musicians, covering piano, guitar, violin, drums, and vocals. It sells lifetime, self-paced video lessons to individual learners seeking direct instruction from well-known performers.

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YOYO is an AI-native marketing group in Southeast Asia that helps brands grow through creator/influencer collaborations, generative-AI content, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to improve brand visibility in AI search results. Its products include Geopher.ai, which tracks brand mentions across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude, and POPSTAR, an influencer marketing platform.

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Zealous is an AI-powered content marketing platform that automatically converts recorded content such as podcasts and Twitter Spaces into repurposed marketing assets including transcripts, audiograms, videos, and social media posts. The platform serves content creators, communities, and social media marketers seeking to efficiently repurpose their live and recorded content across multiple channels.

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Zebracat is an AI platform that automatically generates fully edited videos — including script, visuals, voiceover, AI avatars, and captions — from text or audio input. It targets creators, marketers, and businesses making social media videos, ads, and explainer content without professional editors.

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Zerply is a platform for computer graphics, visual effects, and animation professionals to build portfolios, signal availability, and track jobs, while letting studios discover and hire vetted, production-ready talent. It serves CG artists and hiring studios in the visual effects and animation industry.

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