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Agentio
Agentio is an AI-native advertising platform that lets brands buy, run, and measure creator ads at scale. Founded in 2023 by former Cameo president Arthur Leopold and former Spotify engineer Jonathan Meyers, it automates the end-to-end creator campaign lifecycle - matching brands with relevant YouTube (and now Meta) creators, briefing, brand-safety checks, contracting, payments, and real-time performance tracking. The company positions creator media as a programmatic channel, aiming to do for sponsored content what DoubleClick did for display advertising. It has raised $56.3M total, including a $40M Series B led by Forerunner in November 2025 at a $340M valuation.
1stCollab
1stCollab is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered influencer marketing platform (YC W23) that automates the entire creator-campaign workflow - sourcing creators, outreach, negotiation, contracts, payments, and taxes - while optimizing for ROI. Founded in 2022 by ex-Pinterest leaders Leon Lin, Varun Bansal, and Andrew Liu (with Carina Cater leading influencer strategy), it connects thousands of creators each week with brands like Notion, Character AI, Quora, Framer, and Gamma, letting marketers do in hours what once took teams months.
Quinn
Quinn is a Santa Monica-based audio erotica platform - often described as a 'Spotify for erotica' - that turns intimate, narrative-driven stories into 15-to-20-minute immersive audio experiences. Founded by Caroline Spiegel and built primarily for women and underserved audiences, Quinn pairs a creator-driven content marketplace with an ever-growing roster of professional voice actors and Hollywood celebrities. With roughly 300,000 users, over 900,000 TikTok followers, and around $5M in annual recurring revenue, it has reframed adult content around imagination, storytelling, and discreet listening rather than the visual mainstream.
Caroline Spiegel
Caroline Spiegel is the founder and CEO of Quinn, a Santa Monica-based audio erotica platform built around female-centered, imagination-first storytelling. She started the company in 2019 as a Stanford senior after her own recovery experience convinced her that the mental, non-visual side of intimacy was a market nobody served well. Quinn has grown into a creator marketplace and celebrity-voiced studio with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, more than $12 million in annual recurring revenue, and a roster of name actors lending their voices to original audio.
Glimmer
Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter) is an all-in-one global creative collaboration platform that connects enterprise brands with a vetted network of 50,000+ creators and production companies across 192 countries. It combines a creator marketplace, an enterprise production management platform, and managed services, having processed over $125M in payments for clients including Meta, CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery, Bloomberg, and Starbucks.
Ryan Hollander
Ryan Hollander is the CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the all-in-one creator management platform connecting enterprises with 50,000+ vetted creators, production companies, and agencies across 192 countries. Headquartered in New York, Glimmer manages billions in corporate content spending and has produced content for clients including Meta, CNN, Bloomberg, Hearst, and Airbnb. Hollander leads the company through its evolution from a video production marketplace into a full-stack creative workforce platform backed by $11.9M in total funding.