creator-monetization
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Exly
Exly is an all-in-one business platform for coaches, trainers, consultants and creators to launch, sell and manage knowledge products - courses, webinars, workshops, e-communities and 1:1 consultations. Spun out of the YC W19-backed startup MyScoot, the Delhi-based company gives solo experts a no-code website, built-in CRM, payment collection and marketing tools so they can run the business side of their practice without stitching together five different apps.
Stipop
Stipop is a sticker infrastructure company that lets any app add a searchable library of 150,000+ stickers with a single line of code, through its API and SDK. Founded in Seoul by roommates-turned-cofounders Tony Park and Daniel Cho, it grew a marketplace of thousands of global artists, powered sticker features for Google, Microsoft Teams, Canva and Adobe, and joined Snap's Yellow accelerator and Y Combinator (S21). It has since expanded toward monetization tools for character-IP creators and AI chat products.
Top Road
Top Road is a Sydney-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that gives creators no-code payment and analytics tools to turn custom GPTs into revenue-generating apps inside the OpenAI GPT Store. Its GPT Tools action lets builders add subscription paywalls, collect emails, whitelist users, and track usage - without writing code. The company says it has enabled more than USD 300K in subscription revenue for GPT builders.
Nexus
Nexus is an Austin-based software company that helps video game publishers build and run native Support-a-Creator programs. Its platform gives live service games a 'creator program in a box' - API-driven creator codes, sales attribution, creator storefronts, and managed global payouts and taxes - so studios can reward the streamers and content creators who drive in-game purchases, engagement, and retention. Customers include Capcom, Hi-Rez Studios, and Another Axiom, and the company raised a $10M Series A in January 2023 led by Griffin Gaming Partners.
Captain.tv
Captain.tv (formerly Stream Captain) is a San Francisco game studio building a new category it calls streamer-led games - free-to-play titles designed for a live streamer to host and play alongside thousands of their viewers on Twitch and YouTube. Its flagship, Stream Raiders, lets a broadcaster act as captain while the audience drops units onto a shared battlefield. Viewers buy and gift cosmetic items, and a revenue-sharing model pays creators directly. Backed by a $10M Series A, Captain.tv grew to more than 25,000 streamers and over 1.5M viewers and has paid out more than $1M to streamer partners.
Hubla
Hubla is a Brazilian creator-economy platform that lets creators sell and manage digital products - online courses, memberships, mentorships, e-books and paid WhatsApp/Telegram communities - through an all-in-one checkout, payments and member-management system. Founded in 2020 as ChatPay and rebranded to Hubla in late 2021, the São Paulo company processes payments (PIX, card, boleto) and takes a fee on each sale. Backed by Kaszek and Y Combinator, it has grown into one of the country's larger 'Shopify for creators' players and is now leaning into AI sales agents.
Manychat
Manychat is a no-code chat marketing platform that lets businesses and creators automate conversations across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, SMS and email. Built around a visual drag-and-drop Flow Builder, it turns DMs, comments and messages into automated lead capture, sales and support flows. Founded in 2015 and now used by roughly 1.5 million customers in 170+ countries, Manychat sends billions of messages a year and has driven more than $10 billion in user sales. In 2025 it raised $140M led by Summit Partners to push deeper into AI-driven customer engagement.
Created by Humans
Created by Humans is a San Francisco startup building a licensing marketplace that lets authors and other creators sell the rights to their work for AI training, reference, and transformation - and get paid for it. Founded by former Scribd CEO Trip Adler, the platform lets rights holders claim their books (by ISBN or upload), set the terms under which AI companies may use them, and track usage and payments, positioning licensing as an alternative to lawsuits between creators and AI developers.