A platform cooperative, or platform co-op, is a business model in which a cooperatively owned, democratically governed business establishes a two-sided market through a computing platform, website, mobile app, or protocol to facilitate the sale of goods and services. It is presented as an alternative to venture-capital-funded platforms because it is owned and governed by the people who depend on it most, including its workers and users, rather than by outside investors. Platform cooperativism is the broader intellectual movement that advocates for the model's development, objecting to the idea that technology alone is by default the answer to social problems and instead promoting the building of a shared digital commons alongside support for worker organizing and social and ecological sustainability.
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Platform cooperativism proposes cooperative, worker- or user-owned governance as an alternative to the venture-funded, investor-owned platform business model.
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