Whop
Whop is an American marketplace where creators sell access to digital products, communities, software and courses. Payments and payouts are core to the product, placing Whop in the commerce-fintech layer around neobank and payment rails.1
History
Whop grew as a hub for paid group access and digital goods, bundling discovery, checkout and seller tooling into one marketplace.
Founders
Steven Schwartz is co-founder and chief executive officer of Whop, the New York-based marketplace for digital products, memberships and creator commerce. Schwartz met co-founder Cameron Zoub as teenagers in sneaker-reselling communities, built bots and early ventures, studied at NYU Stern, and launched Whop in 2021 after graduating—bundling discovery, checkout and access control for paid digital goods.
Cameron Zoub is co-founder of Whop, partnering with Schwartz from the sneaker-bot era into the marketplace thesis. Jack Sharkey is co-founder and chief technology officer, the software engineer who helped build Whop's platform for subscriptions, communities and seller payouts at the intersection of social commerce and payments fintech.
Reception
Whop grew quickly as a marketplace for digital products and paid communities, bundling commerce and payments for creators. It is commerce-fintech infrastructure rather than a deposit neobank.
Products
Storefronts for digital offerings, subscriptions, access control for communities and payment flows for buyers and sellers.
References
- Whop operates a digital marketplace; it is not a licensed bank.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Whop?
- Whop is an American marketplace platform for digital products, communities and creator commerce with payments.
- When was Whop founded?
- Whop was founded in 2021.
- Where is Whop headquartered?
- Whop is headquartered in New York, U.S..
- Who founded Whop?
- Whop was founded by Steven Schwartz, Cameron Zoub, Jack Sharkey.
- What type of company is Whop?
- Whop is described as Private in its neobank.wiki profile.
See also
- Airwallex — Airwallex is an Australian-founded business fintech for global accounts, payments and spend management.
- Alex Johnson — Alex Johnson is the founder of Fintech Takes, a widely read fintech newsletter and podcast; he is active on X as @AlexH_Johnson.
- Alexandre Prot — Alexandre Prot is co-founder and CEO of Qonto, the Paris-based European business neobank.
- Ali Niknam — Ali Niknam is founder and CEO of Bunq, the Amsterdam-based licensed Dutch neobank.
- Ally Bank — Ally Bank is a large U.S. online bank offering deposits, loans and investment products without branches.