Media Startups

The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company offering subscription-based written articles, podcasts, and video coverage of more than 250 professional and collegiate sports teams. It serves sports fans across the US, Canada, and the UK.

15 investors

Joy is a software platform for planning and remembering life's events, from weddings to other celebrations, aimed at consumers organizing personal milestones. It operates in the consumer events and planning software category.

14 investors

Loom offered cloud storage for photos and videos. The company was acquired by Dropbox.

13 investors

Capitol builds sovereign AI infrastructure for regulated institutions including financial services firms, professional services organizations, and government agencies. The platform transforms proprietary data into decision-grade artifacts while maintaining complete audit trails and running entirely within customer infrastructure.

8 investors

Magic Hour is an AI-powered video creation platform that enables users to generate videos from ideas without requiring extensive production expertise. The platform serves content creators, small business owners, and other individuals looking to produce video content efficiently.

6 investors

Product Hunt is an online community where people discover and share new tech products, including mobile apps, websites, and hardware projects. Members can submit, browse, vote, and comment on daily product submissions and interact directly with creators, investors, and journalists.

5 investors

Breaker is a mobile application for listening to and discovering podcasts, with plans to distribute premium podcasts through exclusive deals under a paid subscription. It also offers podcasters tools to connect with their community, gather feedback, and view analytics on content performance.

4 investors

Craze is an AI video editor that transforms creative direction into finished videos within minutes by automating planning and editing tasks for video content creators.

4 investors

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

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

Litnerd is a reading and writing application for children that combines collaborative clubs, gamified challenges, and AI-powered personalized tutoring to help kids develop literacy skills. The platform enables children to create original stories, which the app illustrates and publishes, while integrating curriculum-aligned content and learning tools designed around reading science principles.

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

Absurd is a platform that generates AI-produced videos for brand and performance advertising, enabling companies to produce professional-quality content within days rather than traditional timelines.

3 investors

Audm is a mobile subscription app that converts long-form print journalism into audio narrated by professional voice actors, letting users listen to news articles. It focuses on turning written feature journalism into digital audio content.

3 investors

Overlap provides an AI-powered platform for editing long-form videos into short-form clips and automating their distribution across social media platforms. The platform serves creators, media networks, and brands looking to scale their social video content on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

3 investors

A software tool that uses AI to adapt videos to different screen dimensions and formats without requiring new filming or reshoots.

3 investors

Ark operates a people search engine that indexes over a billion social network profiles, letting users find individuals such as old classmates, business contacts, and friends. It aggregates and organizes social information to make people discoverable online.

2 investors

2 investors

ComfyDeploy is a cloud platform for running and sharing ComfyUI workflows, letting teams install custom nodes and models, collaborate on shared environments, and deploy workflows as auto-scaling production APIs. It targets creative and ML teams that build generative AI workflows, offering GPU auto-scaling and simplified UIs so non-technical users can run complex workflows.

2 investors

Darkgrade develops a protocol enabling large language models to directly interface with image sensors, allowing cameras to understand visual information.

2 investors

Figments built narrative games, virtual influencers, AI characters, and creative tools over seven years, culminating in Plotdrive, an AI writing engine for long-form storytelling. The company worked at the intersection of emerging technology and creative storytelling.

2 investors

Kite is a screen recording tool that automatically enhances recordings with zooming, 3D animations, and device mockups to create polished product demonstration videos. It serves software companies and product teams who need to produce marketing and educational video content.

2 investors

ZumoDrive was a cloud-based media and file storage service that let users access their media and files online. It operated in the cloud storage and media space.

2 investors