Kiwify

Artur Ribas and Marinho Gomes looked at Brazil's online course market and saw a problem: creators had great content but zero infrastructure. So they built Kiwify—everything you need to create, host, and sell online courses in one platform. They're Y Combinator backed, and they've built something rare in Brazil: a full-stack solution with their own payment processor called KiwiPay that delivers card approval rates over 90 percent. That's not a typo. Ninety. Percent.

Most course platforms make you juggle third-party payment tools that reject half your sales and take weeks to pay out. Kiwify's got their own system—Pix payouts in 2 days, card payouts in 15 or 2 days—and they don't hand you off to some faceless support ticket queue. Their team responds in one minute, seven days a week, from 8am to 9pm. Real humans. No bots. They're also running the Kiwicast podcast with millions of monthly views, and they've got incentives that sound like a fever dream: make R$1 million on the platform and you and a guest get an all-expenses-paid trip to Balneário Camboriú to record your episode. Hit R$10 million and they fly you to Dubai for a week in luxury hotels, Lamborghinis, yacht dinners—the whole fantasy. These aren't giveaways. They're sales incentives that work.

Kiwify is based in Brazil and they're signing up course creators who are ready to scale. The platform handles video hosting, student management, payment processing, and delivers it all through a premium cinematic member area that looks like Netflix but for learning. If you're sitting on knowledge and want to monetize it without building infrastructure from scratch, these guys already did the hard work.