Passes acquired Fanhouse, but some creators are apprehensive | TechCrunch

The creator monetization platform Fanhouse announced yesterday that it was acquired by Passes, a similar startup that only launched in beta in December.“We only hopped on a call maybe 36 hours ago, and then we closed the deal 24 hours ago,” Lucy Guo, the founder of Passes, told TechCrunch.Guo declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but Fanhouse is a much more established platform. Fanhouse, founded in 2020, raised a $20 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz last year, while Passes raised a $9 million seed led by Multicoin Capital, a crypto-focused fund. Passes, still in its beta phase, is only currently working with about 40 creators.Despite the speediness of the deal, not all of Fanhouse’s founders were sold. Rosie Nguyen, also a creator known as @jasminericegirl, announced her departure from the company, just hours before The Information scooped the news of the deal.“I made the difficult decision to resign from Fanhouse earlier today,” Nguyen tweeted. “I started the company...