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Whop

Whop is a commerce and payments platform where people sell paid communities, courses, software and other digital products, with a marketplace for discovery.

  • Owned audience and monetisation
  • Palo Alto, United States
  • Founded 2021
  • Independent

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What Whop does

Sellers on Whop set up a storefront for memberships, courses, software and community access, and Whop handles checkout, payments and payouts. A marketplace helps buyers find these products. The company now pitches itself to 'business operators' and offers ready-made business templates, a command-line tool that lets AI agents run a store through prompts, and a recommendation engine trained on transaction data.

ForCreatorsSmall businesses

Products

  • Whop storefront and paymentsHosted checkout, card and wallet payments, billing and payouts for digital products and memberships.
  • Business BlueprintsTemplates that let a new operator launch a ready-to-sell business in a few clicks.
  • Whop CLI and MCP connectorsTools that expose Whop's API to AI agents so a business can be run through prompts; launched July 2026.
  • Economic IntelligenceRecommendation engine that suggests each business's next move; paid as an extra share of the revenue it generates.

How it uses AI

  • Command-line tool and MCP connectors make the Whop API usable by any AI agent; the company reported over 350,000 calls a day.
  • Economic Intelligence, a decision engine trained on millions of transactions that recommends the highest-return next step for a business.

Milestones

  1. $17M Series A; about 1 million customers and 3,000 sellers at the time.
  2. Tether invests $200M; CEO says the deal values Whop at $1.6B.
  3. Whop CLI launched so AI agents can run businesses on Whop.
  4. $200M Series D at a $5.1B valuation, led by Sequoia and Shopify Ventures.

Sources

  1. Whop Announces Funding Round at $5.1B Valuation, Led by Sequoia and Shopify Ventures (opens in a new tab), PYMNTS newswire (submitted by Whop), 27 Oct 2026
  2. Gen Z founder Steven Schwartz's Whop platform has minted 650 millionaires (opens in a new tab), Fortune, 14 Jun 2026
  3. Whop, an online marketplace for digital goods, raises $17M (opens in a new tab), TechCrunch, 20 Jul 2023
  4. Tether Investment Values Whop at $1.6 Billion as Stablecoins Go Mainstream (opens in a new tab), PYMNTS, Feb 2026
  5. Fees (opens in a new tab), Whop
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