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Popular Pays (YC W15) — 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.

Popular Pays is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Software for collaborating with content creators and influencers. The founders listed are Corbett Drummey (Founder/CEO), Steven Wanderski (Founder/Full Stack Web Developer) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 18, 2014).

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Popular Pays

New accelerator entry · 2014-11-18 · the record

Winter 2015
batch
37
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2015
Announced2014-11-18
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size37
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Marketing
SectorsAdvertising
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedChicago, IL, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://popularpays.com

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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.

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