Media Startups

The Athletic is a sports media platform that provides news, analysis, and commentary covering professional and college sports.

14 investors

Joy provides customizable wedding websites and planning tools for couples organizing their weddings. The platform combines personalized website design with organizational features to streamline the wedding planning process for couples and their guests.

13 investors

Loom is a screen recording and video messaging platform that enables users to record, edit, and share video messages with built-in AI capabilities for documentation and collaboration. The tool serves remote teams, software developers, and enterprises seeking asynchronous communication and documentation workflows.

12 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.

7 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

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

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

Product Hunt runs an online platform where users submit, browse, vote on, and comment on new tech products such as mobile apps, websites, and hardware projects. It serves technology enthusiasts, product creators, investors, and journalists, giving them a community to discover and discuss the latest launches.

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

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 app that converts lengthy journalism articles into narrated audio content using professional voice talent, allowing users to consume written news in audio format.

3 investors

Breaker is an app for discovering and listening to podcasts, with plans to offer exclusive premium audio content on a paid subscription basis to listeners and provide publishers with analytics and community engagement tools.

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

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

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.

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 is a search engine that indexes social network profiles to help users find people, including classmates, professional contacts, and acquaintances.

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

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

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 provides cloud-based storage and access to media files. The service allows users to store and retrieve photos, videos, and other media content from remote servers.

2 investors