Creator Economy Startups

Limelight is a B2B influencer marketing platform that lets brands find, partner with, and book ad placements across creators (newsletters, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other channels) and track campaign performance through real-time analytics. It targets marketing teams aiming to reach B2B audiences and improve visibility in AI/LLM search results.

6 investors

Looking Glass Factory builds glasses-free holographic displays that convert 2D photos and video into 3D holograms viewable without XR headsets or eye-tracking. Its products serve brands, retail and event installations, developers, and home users across a range of display sizes.

6 investors

Tooling is a US company building a co-ownership protocol paired with a social trading application. Users can form groups that pool money into a shared vault, jointly buy digital assets, and follow or copy trade ideas, while creators and financial influencers can run portfolios publicly and collect payments from followers.

6 investors

Magic Hour is an AI-powered video creation platform that enables users to generate videos from ideas without requiring extensive production expertise. The platform serves content creators, small business owners, and other individuals looking to produce video content efficiently.

6 investors

Melodics is a learning app for keys, pads, and drums that uses motivational mechanics and structured practice goals to help musicians improve their skills and timing. The platform features lessons from international artists and contemporary music education focused on genres like hip hop, techno, jungle, and EDM.

6 investors

Metafy is a platform where gaming creators host their guides, coaching, and community in one place, with per-game hubs that help players discover content and services. It serves esports and gaming creators and the players who follow them.

6 investors

Nim Video is a platform that brings together multiple AI models and tools for generating videos and images, including viral templates. It targets content creators looking to produce media from a single interface.

6 investors

note is a media platform that lets creators publish and monetize text, images, audio, and other content, supporting a range of creative activities. Operated by note Inc., its mission centers on enabling anyone to start and continue creating.

6 investors

OpenArt Worlds is an AI tool that turns a single image or text prompt into a navigable 3D environment, letting users place characters, objects, and lighting and control camera angles. It targets filmmakers, game designers, social media creators, and architects, with export to 3D Gaussian Splat format for tools like Blender and Unreal Engine.

6 investors

Overture runs game-based learning programs and AI creation challenges for students, offering guided tools to build games, movies, music, and applications.

6 investors

Oxen.ai provides a platform for creating and managing digital assets, including videos and images, with integrated generative AI capabilities and model fine-tuning for visual style customization.

6 investors

Phyllo provides normalized APIs across 25+ social platforms, offering both public (no-OAuth) and authenticated (OAuth-based) access to creator profile, post, engagement, audience, and income data on a single schema. It serves companies building social-data products such as influencer marketing platforms, social listening tools, background verification services, creator fintech, and AI agents.

6 investors

Pika provides AI-powered creative tools for making videos and images. The platform offers an AI agent interface for collaborative content creation, integration capabilities for agents, and a mobile app for applying effects to visual content.

6 investors

Playground develops AI-powered creative tools that let people design graphics without professional design skills. The company combines AI research with product design to build new kinds of image-generation and graphic-creation tools.

6 investors

Rooter operates a gaming community platform in India with over 85 million registered users, enabling purchase of in-game currency and gift cards. It focuses on publisher-centric monetization for the gaming market.

6 investors

Scopio operates a platform and mobile app that connects businesses with a global network of over 25,000 creative professionals for hiring photographers, illustrators, videographers, and graphic designers, plus a stock library of over 3 million authentic images from 172 countries. It serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and publishers to NGOs and startups.

6 investors

Sekai is an AI-powered platform where users create, remix, and share interactive mini-apps instantly without coding, ranging from utilities to games. The platform enables direct participation and collaboration through shareable links that friends can join immediately.

6 investors

Sketchfab is a platform for sharing and showcasing 3D models and artwork. It serves 3D creators, designers, artists, architects, engineers, brands, museums, and game studios who need a medium to display their 3D work beyond static screenshots.

6 investors

BDG operates a portfolio of media and publishing websites and applications that carry advertising, and it maintains guidelines governing the content and products advertisers may promote on its properties. The company sells advertising placements across its owned and operated media sites.

6 investors

STAGE is an Indian streaming platform offering original shows and movies in regional languages including Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri, and Gujarati. It focuses on regional and heartland entertainment for Indian audiences.

6 investors

StarMaker is a mobile karaoke app with 50 million users that lets singers record and share songs with AI-powered effects, pitch feedback, and vocal coaching tools. The platform enables users to participate in singing contests, earn rewards, and connect with a global community of singers.

6 investors

Status (formerly Statusphere) operates a platform that automates influencer marketing campaign management for brands while connecting creators with brand partnership opportunities. The platform handles campaign workflows, fulfillment, reporting, and content rights for influencer marketing at scale.

6 investors

StreamElements offers a chatbot for live streamers on Twitch and YouTube, providing interactive modules, mini-games, chat commands, automated moderation filters, and loyalty-based rewards. It helps streamers keep chat engaged, moderate viewers, and build a community.

6 investors

Strikingly is a website builder that lets users create mobile-optimized websites without coding or design skills, typically in under 30 minutes. It targets businesses, organizations, and individuals building personal brands.

6 investors