Entertainment Startups

ClassDojo is a global community platform connecting over 50 million teachers and families to share learning moments through photos, videos, and messages. The platform serves schools and families worldwide, providing a safe online space for children to learn through play and discovery.

15 investors

Karat provides financial products and credit solutions for creators and entrepreneurs. The platform serves individual creators, talent agencies, and creator-focused businesses with tools to manage finances and access credit.

10 investors

D-ID develops an AI video creation platform that produces professional avatar videos and interactive visual agents for enterprise communication and customer experience. The platform serves organizations across industries for training, marketing, customer support, and brand messaging.

7 investors

CrowdVolt builds a marketplace platform that automates bookings and logistics for electronic dance music events and raves.

5 investors

The Ticket Fairy provides event ticketing and management software to venue operators and promoters in multiple countries, helping them handle sales, marketing, and audience analytics for live events.

5 investors

Hype is a mobile application that tracks cryptocurrency trends, memecoins, and top traders in the crypto market.

4 investors

Koyal develops an AI platform that generates personalized video content from scripts or audio, serving music labels, podcasters, and production companies. The platform uses agentic AI to handle multilingual workflows, lip-sync synchronization, and consistent character rendering across video sequences.

4 investors

Shortbread develops AI-powered tools for creators to produce serialized visual stories (comics and web series) faster and at lower cost, then distributes them directly to consumers via a mobile platform. The platform combines an AI studio for rapid narrative creation with a reader destination featuring romance and dark fiction series.

4 investors

Sumugi is a 3D creation and 2D composition tool designed for visual storytellers including comic creators, writers, and hobbyists. The platform enables users to stage scenes with 3D character posing and lighting, then arrange them into 2D comic layouts and visual narratives.

4 investors

CreativeMode is an AI-powered platform that enables players to create Minecraft mods without coding knowledge by describing their ideas. It supports both Java and Bedrock editions and allows users to share their creations or publish them to an in-platform marketplace.

3 investors

DreamCraft is a game development platform that simplifies game creation through a built-in editor and asset library, enabling individual creators without programming or art skills to develop and monetize games. The platform targets hobbyists and modders seeking to build games with significantly less complexity than traditional game engines.

3 investors

DreamRP provides AI-powered tools for creative professionals in entertainment, from independent artists to established studios, prioritizing creator vision over automated content generation.

3 investors

Eggnog develops AI-powered mobile applications for creating animated videos, marketed toward users who want to turn personal memories and shared humor into visual content.

3 investors

Eternal is a Los Angeles NFT marketplace for trading Twitch streamer clips, a Y Combinator W20 company now listed as acquired.

3 investors

Familiar builds an AI video-translation and dubbing model that combines voice cloning and full-face lip-sync in a single system, preserving tone, expressions, and background audio, with support for real-time streams. It offers an API, an MCP server for agents, and a self-serve dashboard for creators and platforms translating video into multiple languages.

3 investors

A mobile app that facilitates daily connections between creators, offering opportunities for collaborations, friendships, and dating matches.

3 investors

A platform offering interactive science lessons designed for children, featuring content from various instructors.

3 investors

Ankler Media is an independent media company covering the entertainment, media and technology industries. It publishes The Ankler newsletter and platform, delivering news and analysis about Hollywood business and industry transformation for executives, dealmakers and creative professionals.

3 investors

A subscription video platform that helps Black viewers discover and watch content created by and featuring Black creators and performers.

2 investors

Cinapse builds production scheduling software for film and television productions, helping filmmakers and production teams collaborate on schedules, budgets, and timelines.

2 investors

Plotdrive is an AI-powered writing tool designed for authors to draft novels and books faster with editorial guidance that preserves their unique voice. The platform offers real-time feedback, customizable writing prompts, and cloud synchronization to reduce friction in the creative writing process.

2 investors

Gigwell provides software tools for booking live entertainment, connecting entertainers and event venues. The platform serves the $200 billion live entertainment industry to replace manual booking processes.

2 investors

Glade develops AI agents and on-device language models for game developers to generate dynamic game environments, characters, and narratives in real time. The company serves game studios seeking to integrate generative AI into their development workflows.

2 investors

HeartByte provides a platform that uses generative AI to help fiction writers produce stories more quickly, enabling both original narratives and works based on existing fictional universes.

2 investors