Patreon

Patreon, Inc. is a San Francisco-based platform that lets creators earn recurring income by offering perks to paying patrons. It also lets them sell individual digital products. It earns money by taking a percentage of creator earnings, roughly 5–12% depending on plan, plus payment processing fees. It reports more than $10B in lifetime creator payouts, over $2B a year flowing to creators and 25M+ paid memberships (2025). It raised about $412M in total, including a $155M Series F led by Tiger Global in April 2021 at a $4B valuation. It is a creator-economy company, not an AI company.