Introducing CreativeCo

Your creativity, incorporated.

Build, grow and fund your CreativeCo: one umbrella for the IP you select.

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What you own

You pick what goes in.

A CreativeCo is a real company that holds the IP you choose to put in it: a lab's discoveries, an indie film, a patent portfolio, a body of art.

Everything you leave out stays yours alone. Investors co-own only what's inside, and share in what it earns.

Select your IP areasYour CreativeCo holds: Discoveries & patents · Films & series

How it pays back.

YouCreate

Make the work. Discover, write, perform, invent.

Your companyOwns the IP

Rights you choose to assign sit inside your CreativeCo.

The IPEarns

Royalties, license fees, patent income and profit shares flow in.

ShareholdersShare in it

Through distributions, and by selling shares as the IP's value grows.

How it works

You create. Backers co-own.

Humanipo works like the private market for startups, applied to creative people. Shares are issued privately, sold to verified investors and traded between them.

Step 1Incorporate

Form your CreativeCo

We set up the company and the cap table, and help you assign the IP you want inside it. You stay the founder and the majority owner.

Step 2Raise

Sell shares privately

Offer a slice of your creative future to people who believe in it. You choose when to raise and how much to sell.

Step 3Earn & trade

Share what it earns

IP income flows to the company. Shareholders can receive distributions and sell to other verified investors in scheduled trading windows.

No public prices. Valuations and trade prices are never published. Only the people in a deal see its terms.

Where it started

First we took humans public.

Humanipo began with people selling shares in themselves. The founders and backers who joined that first version are the reason the next one exists.

2008

Mike Merrill sells 100,000 shares of himself and becomes the first publicly traded person.

Humanipo v1

Creators, founders and investors let their community buy shares in them.

Now

Anyone can incorporate their creativity and share what their IP earns.

Founders

Featured on Humanipo
Amir Obè
Amir ObèRapper, singer, songwriter
Mike Merrill
Mike MerrillArtist, crowdfunding pioneer
Nicola Formichetti
Nicola FormichettiFashion designer, creative director
Chris Fong
Chris FongFounder of Xoogler.co, angel investor
Daniel Levitin
Daniel LevitinNeuroscientist, NYT best-selling author
Sheridan Clayborne
Sheridan ClayborneThiel Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30

Investors

Featured on Humanipo
Chris Messina
Chris MessinaInventor of the hashtag
Sam Lessin
Sam LessinGP at Slow Ventures, former VP at Facebook
Tristan Pollock
Tristan PollockPartner at CoolClimate Fund, ex-500 Startups
Jack Smith
Jack SmithSerial entrepreneur, investor
AJ Vaynerchuk
AJ VaynerchukSerial entrepreneur, investor
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For backers

Own a piece of the ideas AI can't make.

Back the scientists, storytellers and artists whose work will still be original in ten years. Hold equity in the company that owns their IP.

OwnershipIP-backed equity

Shares in a real company that holds the rights, recorded on its cap table.

UpsideShare in what it earns

Royalties, licenses and profit shares flow to the company you co-own.

AccessVerified investors only

Every buyer passes identity and accreditation checks.

LiquiditySecondary windows

Sell to other verified investors when a trading window opens. Prices stay private.

Incorporate your creativity.

We're accepting a small first group of founders. Tell us about your work and the IP you want to build.

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