Media & Entertainment Startups

A social platform where users post content and discussions that are ranked by community votes, reaching hundreds of millions of monthly visitors across web and mobile applications.

37 investors

Snapchat is a mobile app for communicating with friends and family through photos and videos, featuring augmented-reality Lenses, creative sharing tools, and a personalized map for discovering places and content. It is a consumer social and media platform operated by Snap Inc.

36 investors

ByteDance builds a portfolio of digital platforms and services focused on short-form video, content creation, e-commerce, and workplace collaboration, serving creators and consumers globally. The company operates multiple products including TikTok, Douyin, CapCut, TikTok Shop, and Lark across international and China-specific markets.

33 investors

Courtyard.io is a marketplace and tokenization service that enables users to own and trade physical collectible cards on the blockchain, with options to store them vaulted, sell them, or redeem the NFT for physical delivery.

33 investors

Higgsfield is a platform for creating and generating visual content, including images, videos, and cinematic scenes using AI models. It serves creative professionals and developers building applications with tools like AI agents, automation, and a supercomputer interface.

30 investors

Carbon Health operates a chain of clinics offering urgent care, primary care, and chronic condition management, combining technology with in-person care to provide broader access to health services. It serves patients seeking everyday healthcare across acute, primary, and chronic needs.

24 investors

Overtime creates and operates new sports leagues and media IP — including OTE and OT Select in basketball and OT7 and OT Nationals in football — while producing over 150 weekly pieces of original sports content for its global audience of next-generation fans and athletes. Its revenue comes from sponsorships, brand partnerships, e-commerce, licensing, and media rights.

24 investors

Twelve Labs develops AI technology for video understanding, enabling machines to comprehend and analyze video content for applications in human-machine interaction and perception.

19 investors

Meta operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, and funds the Reality Labs division and the open-weight Llama models.

17 investors

Suno is a music creation platform that uses AI to enable users of any skill level to generate songs. The company serves musicians and non-musicians globally who want to create and experience music.

17 investors

Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking platform where users create and follow blogs, share posts, and explore content organized by topic tags such as music. It hosts a community-driven feed of text, images, and other media across interest-based categories.

17 investors

Capella Space designs, builds, and operates synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellations that provide all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation imagery at sub-0.25m resolution. It offers an automated end-to-end tasking and data delivery platform serving defense and intelligence, maritime, disaster response, and infrastructure monitoring customers.

16 investors

Cargomatic operates a marketplace that connects shippers with carriers for local freight, drayage, intermodal, LTL, and full-truckload trucking across the top 20 US ports. It offers technology-driven services including smart routing, load bundling, white glove direct-to-consumer delivery, and APIs for integration.

16 investors

Versus provides an interactive content platform that enables audiences to make predictions and express opinions about live and on-demand entertainment content like TV shows and sports. The platform uses AI to personalize interactive experiences and generate incremental revenue through contextual advertising.

16 investors

beehiiv is a publishing platform for creators, publishers, and brands to build and grow newsletters, websites, podcasts, and communities. It includes tools for content creation, audience growth, and monetization through a built-in ad network and paid subscriptions.

15 investors

Emerge is building a multi-sensory communication platform that uses a tabletop device generating an ultrasonic forcefield to let users feel on-screen content in their bare hands without controllers or gloves. Powered by Emotion AI, it aims to add touch, sight, sound, and shared tactile experiences to at-home communication across VR, AR, and smart TVs.

15 investors

Iterable provides customer communication and engagement software that enables brands to create targeted messaging experiences across email, SMS, push, and other channels. The platform serves marketing teams at enterprise and mid-market companies seeking to build data-driven customer relationships.

15 investors

Omaze runs prize draws where its community can win luxury homes, supercars, and cash prizes while raising money for charity partners. It operates as an entertainment company with a social purpose, serving consumers in the UK and Germany.

15 investors

Runway builds AI models that simulate the world by merging art and science, pioneering general-purpose multimodal simulators focused on applications in robotics, scientific discovery, and disease modeling.

15 investors

PR TIMES is a press release distribution service that helps companies distribute news releases to media and the public, with content syndicated across more than 260 partner sites. It is aimed at businesses seeking media coverage and PR marketing in Japan.

14 investors

Inc42 is an Indian startup-focused media and education company that runs hands-on training programs for founders, including courses on direct-to-consumer brand building and startup management. Its programs teach founders strategies for launching and scaling D2C brands and developing leadership skills.

14 investors

LeadGenius provides AI-powered contact intelligence and data sourcing for go-to-market teams to identify and engage target customers. The platform combines artificial intelligence with human intelligence and emphasizes ethical data practices, compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA, and fair-wage crowdsourcing.

14 investors

Moon Valley develops Marey, an AI video generation model that creates image-to-video and text-to-video content with cinematic quality, trained on licensed footage and designed for professional filmmaking and screen production. The platform targets filmmakers and creative professionals who require studio-grade quality, precise motion control, and commercially safe licensed content.

14 investors

Mux provides video infrastructure and API services for developers building video applications. The company offers APIs and tools for video encoding, playback, and performance monitoring.

14 investors