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Passes, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022 · ~11-50 employees
LAST FUNDING
$17.6M
Series A

Passes allows creators to monetize their content and build direct relationships with their audience through subscriptions, messaging, and exclusive content.

Funding history

RoundAmount
Series A$17.6M
SEC Form D filed
May 10, 2024

About Passes, Inc.

How much funding has Passes, Inc. raised?

Passes, Inc. has raised $17.6M in total funding. The most recent round was Series A.

Where is Passes, Inc. headquartered?

Passes, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

What does Passes, Inc. do?

Passes allows creators to monetize their content and build direct relationships with their audience through subscriptions, messaging, and exclusive content.

What problem does Passes, Inc. solve?

Creators have built real audiences but lack an easy way to turn that following into sustained income across multiple revenue streams.

What's Passes, Inc.'s solution?

Passes is a platform where creators monetize content and fans through memberships, paid DMs, 1:1 calls, livestreams, group chats, and merch, with tools like a content vault, mass DMs, and a smart scheduler.

What makes Passes, Inc. different?

Creators keep up to 90% of what they earn (platform takes 10%), which the site claims is the best rate in the industry, alongside lower fees and instant payouts versus competing platforms.

What makes Passes, Inc. notable?

Founded by Lucy Guo, co-founder of Scale AI, who became the youngest self-made female billionaire.

Industry
B2B
Founded
2022
HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Employees
~11-50
Raised
$17.6M
Stage
Series A

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