🦄 Unicorner Startup of the Week: Creatively
 
 ✍️ Notes From The Editors  
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Job platform for creatives
 
 
Creatively wants to be the “LinkedIn of the creative world.” Its job platform offers tailored features for creatives such as portfolio-showcasing and gives companies the ability to reflect their corporate images by building specific brand pages and postings.
 
 
🔗 Check them out: creatively.life
 
 
💰 Business Model
Creatively charges brands monthly fees to add job postings on its platform.
 
📈 Traction and Fundraising
  • Raised total $19 million funding from investors like Thirty Five Ventures (Kevin Durant), The Tornante Company (Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner), LionTree, Link Ventures, Advancit Capital, and entertainment attorney Kevin Yorn
  • Since launch in May 2020, over 275,000 creatives and 2,000 brands (including Nickelodeon, Discovery, Comcast, PBS, and BritBox) use the platform
 
👫 Team
  • Gregory Gittrich, CEO: Previously Chief Commercial Officer @ SoulCycle, Publisher @ Mashable, Chief Content Officer @ Vocativ, VP Digital Media @ NBCUniversal, Journalism and Mass Communications @ NYU
  • Joe Indriolo, Co-Founder, CPO: Previously Founder @ Studio, Product Director @ Fueled, Student @ University of Scranton
  • Stacey Bendet, Co-Founder: Founder @ Alice + Olivia
 
💼 Opportunities
Be sure to mention you came from Unicorner when applying!
 
🔮 Our Analysis
Job hunting as a creative on traditional job-hunting websites can be difficult. Your resume is highly focused on your artistic portfolio, a feature that is lacking on traditional professional sites like LinkedIn or Indeed. Creatively’s solution is to offer highly tailored features to creatives and brands, allowing creatives to put their best foot forward and brands to paint an accurate picture of the styles and work they’re looking for. Some of the features it offers aren’t necessarily unique. Websites like Behance from Adobe are competitors to Creatively, and provide creatives the ability to curate a portfolio as well as apply to relevant jobs. But few platforms outside Creatively provide features that help brands find creatives, as opposed to just helping creatives find brands. Additionally, features like CreativelyPay (a same-day bank payment option) help creatives efficiently facilitate commission payments, which is especially important for creatives given how variable income can be. All this, combined with co-founder Stacey Bendet’s influential status in the designer community, makes us optimistic toward Creatively’s future redefining how creatives find jobs.
 
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🎁 Bonus Content!
Next week, we’ll be covering Ownit, an easy checkout solution for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re in touch with Jason Yoong, Head of Partnerships, and will be asking him a series of questions about the company and his role. The team is mostly ex-Amazon (Jason included) and raised an $8 million seed round last month. What questions would you like us to ask Jason? Reply letting us know.
 
 
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