The creators’ economy addressed a generation of startups – influencer marketing companies to new social media experiences.
These startups have drawn attention and portfolios of influential venture capital and providential investors in recent years, giving rise to several unicorn assessments in space.
Check 11 VC which invest in innovative startups focused on the creator’s economy and influencers
Even if the economy resisted the evolution of tides and investments have cooled in the industries, certain startups in this sector still collect funds.
In 2024, three trends led some of the largest transactions in the creator’s economy: AI, social trade and newsletters. Several startups collected at least $ 10 million in new funding last year, such as IA startup legends or the Beehiiv newsletter platform.
Here is 17 startups creator-economy which raised more than $ 10 million in 2024
The creators themselves, like Emma Chamberlain and Mrbeast, also increase the venture capital for their companies.
See the Disclosed pitch chamber coffee used in 2024
So, how do the creator-economy startups drop these investments? Often it starts with a pitch.
Lumanu, a financial startup focused on the creator, uses a simple pitch deck which is more a “guide of conversation”, told Bi bi the co -founder and CEO, Tony Tran.
“My land is always why, what, how and why now?” Said Tran. (Read the full pitch here.)
Skye, a career coaching startup, had different pitch decks depending on the type of investor or funds to which they presented.
“I had two different versions, according to the fund,” said Jessica Wolf, CEO of Skye and one of his co -founders. “If I knew that a fund was more in the pre-series, everything on the founder, I had a bridge. But if I knew they were a person from the numbers, I would use another.”
Each startup has a different approach.
Some, like the throne, even completely abandon the Pitch game and opt for an email or a concept document.
Read it Messaging template creator-Economy Startup Throne used To secure your seed investment.
Bi spoke with founders who presented their startups to investors in their process. They broken down the pitch terraces they used to obtain millions of dollars in funding.
Read the pitch decks that have helped 40 startups on creators collect millions of dollars:
Note: Pitch decks are sorted by investment stage and round size.
Series A
- Restream, a live alternative to platforms like the Twitch belonging to Amazon: $ 50 million Series A (14 pages)
- Shopmy, an affiliation platform that allows creators to win commissions thanks to pages of destination Shoppable: 26.5 million dollars series A (23 pages)
- Posh, a startup of IRL events: $ 22 million series A (12 pages)
- Pearpop, a creator marketing platform: $ 18 million Series A (18 pages)
- Spoon Radio, A Social-Audio Startup: $ 17 million Series A (15 pages)
- Kyra, a content studio, a talent management company and an influencer marketing platform: $ 15 million Series A (20 pages)
- Allstar, a startup helping players to become social media creators: $ 12 million Series A (6 pages)
- Lumanu, a platform of commercial solutions for creators: $ 12 million Series A (8 pages)
- Hype, an organic link platform and other creators monetization tools: $ 10 million Series A (13 pages)
- Catch + Release, a startup that helps creators and daily users of content social media their content to brands: $ 8.8 million Series A (12 pages)
- Slip.Stream, a music startup focused on players: $ 7.5 million Series A (13 pages)
- Brag House, an Esports startup: $ 5 million Series A (24 pages)
Seed
- Linguana, an AI video translation startup that targets youtubers: $ 8.5 million (13 pages)
- Avataros, a startup building virtual avatars for social media, games and other immersive experiences: $ 7 million (11 pages)
- Scenario, a startup generating AI to create art and play assets: $ 6 million (8 pages)
- Authority, an online course development startup: $ 5 million (11 pages)
- DSTLRY, a startup of comics creator: $ 5 million (26 pages)
- Dharma, a travel startup for creators and brands: $ 4.7 million before series A (17 pages)
- Glystn, a community management platform fed by AI: $ 4 million (15 pages)
- Daisy, an influence marketing startup that was launched in 2024: $ 3.9 million (9 pages)
- Anima, an augmented reality startup: $ 3 million (15 pages)
- Grandstand, a sports startup working with creators of athletes: $ 2.75 million
- Seam Social, a new Social-Media Web3 platform: $ 2.5 million (10 pages)
- Spark, a digital art platform from Youtuber Moriah Elizabeth: $ 2.5 million (9 pages)
- Insense, a startup helping the brands of electronic commerce to obtain ads at low cost: $ 2.5 million before the A series (9 pages)
- Supercast, a Podcast subscription startup: $ 2 million (20 pages)
- Chartmetric, a business of musical data and measures: $ 2 million (46 pages)
- Playlist Ultimate, a musical marketing startup: $ 2 million (9 pages)
- Magroove, a musical-distribution and discovery platform: $ 1.6 million (21 pages)
- Stagetime, a professional networking startup for high -performance artists: $ 1.5 million in seeds (13 pages)
- Jubilee Media, a content studio that seeks to develop beyond YouTube and Tiktok: $ 1.1 million in seeds (12 pages)
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