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Los Angeles, CA

Building a fintech platform to streamline payments, revenue splits, and financial management for the creator economy.

• Purpose-built for creators: Streamlines invoicing, payment tracking, taxes, and revenue splits.
• Major customer traction: Signed first client with $20M+ transaction volume and 10,000 users.
• Proven team: Experienced founders with fintech, adtech, and media expertise.
• Scalable model: Revenue from transaction fees and SaaS licensing to agencies and platforms.
• Expansion roadmap: International growth planned after scaling U.S. user base and transaction volume.

Teal is raising funds to expand its unified payment platform tailored to the creator economy, providing seamless earnings management, invoicing, and automated fundflows for independent workers, agencies, and platforms. Designed specifically for the needs of creators, Teal enables instant payouts, global transactions, tax management, and revenue splits, replacing outdated systems like PayPal and Stripe. With a growing sales pipeline and its first major customer signed, Teal is positioned to drive user adoption and transaction volume growth while streamlining financial operations for the rapidly expanding $104 billion creator economy.

The investment will help Teal accelerate product development, including AI integration, and support team expansion across marketing and sales to scale the platform’s reach. By focusing on direct customer acquisition and developing a white-labeled API solution, Teal plans to onboard tens of thousands of users and process over $100 million in transaction volume. The company’s ultimate vision is to become the standard for creator payments, providing a scalable fintech solution that simplifies global earnings management for a previously underserved market.

Company Info

Teal provides an all-in-one payment platform to streamline earnings, invoicing, and payouts for creators and agencies.

Teal is a payment platform designed specifically for the creator economy, offering instant payouts, automated revenue splits, digital wallets, and global payment capabilities. By eliminating outdated systems and streamlining financial operations, Teal addresses the common challenges faced by creators, brands, and agencies, helping users manage invoicing, taxes, W-9s, and brand deal tracking in a single interface.

The company targets the rapidly growing $104 billion creator economy and generates revenue through transaction fees and SaaS subscriptions for agencies and platforms. With a strong founding team experienced in fintech and media, a contracted $20M transaction volume customer, and a growing sales pipeline, Teal aims to scale quickly and expand internationally, while positioning for acquisition by major fintech or creator-focused platforms.