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Popular Pays

Popular Pays is a YC Winter 2015 (W15) company. Based in Chicago, IL, USA. Team of 37.

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About Popular Pays

GPAgent's own fund-neutral profile, written from public information. Updated Oct 4, 2026.

Summary

Popular Pays builds software that connects brands with content creators and influencers to produce and manage marketing campaigns. Brands use a dashboard to communicate directly with creators, coordinate multi-platform campaigns, and track performance, replacing ad-hoc outreach and manual campaign management. The product serves marketing teams that need a structured workflow for sourcing, briefing, and collaborating with creators at scale.

Go-to-market

Brands and marketing teams are the buyers, accessing the platform through a self-serve dashboard while creators join via a dedicated iOS and web app.

From the Y Combinator listing

How Popular Pays describes itself in Y Combinator's public directory. Original listing (opens in a new tab)

Software for collaborating with content creators and influencers

Popular Pays is a platform connecting content Creators with Brands who want content to tell their stories. We’re tech-forward, with an in-house built iOS and web app (for creators) and dashboard (for brands) that delivers direct communication & powerful statistics to help you run a multiplatform campaign. To find out what we’re about, visit our website: www.popularpays.com.

Facts

Industry
B2B / B2B -> Marketing
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Team size
37
Status
Acquired
Stage
Growth

Founders (2)

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