Media & Entertainment Startups

Taiv operates a smart TV platform for bars, restaurants, gyms, and retail venues across North America that delivers targeted ads and custom content on in-venue screens using AI. The platform serves venue owners, advertisers, and customers by automating content delivery and ad serving across thousands of locations.

4 investors

Talkable provides a referral marketing platform that enables companies to acquire customers through rewards programs that incentivize their existing customer base. The company serves businesses seeking to grow through customer referrals rather than paid advertising.

4 investors

TalkShop.live is a live shopping platform where users watch live video streams and buy featured products directly during the broadcast, using its patented shoppable embedded point-of-sale technology. It hosts shows selling items such as signed music CDs, vinyl records, and books.

4 investors

Teads operates an omnichannel advertising platform that connects advertisers and media owners across the open internet, combining premium media inventory, data-driven creative, and predictive technology. It offers full-funnel solutions spanning branding and performance to help brands reach audiences and drive sales.

4 investors

TodayTix is an online platform and marketplace for buying tickets to theater shows and live performances, including Broadway and West End productions. It offers consumers access to a wide range of stage shows and musicals.

4 investors

A U.S. company making a productivity application for sales teams. The software tracks email and website activity and supplies templates and analytics that reps use while working deals.

4 investors

Trend is a content marketplace platform that connects brands with creators for content production. The platform provides automated project management, customer support, and full licensing rights to streamline brand content creation.

4 investors

Tubi is a free streaming platform that offers movies and TV shows across multiple genres, available on mobile, connected TV, and streaming devices.

4 investors

Twitch operates a live video platform where millions of monthly viewers watch and interact with gaming broadcasts from casual players, professional competitors, esports tournaments, and game developers.

4 investors

Vitrina is a membership-based intelligence platform for the global entertainment supply chain, offering an AI assistant (VIQI) plus a curated database of companies, content titles, and executive profiles to help users plan content acquisitions, raise production financing, and find production, distribution, and vendor partners. It serves strategy, business development, and revenue teams at studios, streamers, financiers, and producers, and also provides a white-glove concierge outreach service.

4 investors

Zefr provides content intelligence and safety solutions for digital media platforms, helping brands identify appropriate content for advertising and reducing monetization of problematic creators. The company analyzes billions of pieces of content across major digital platforms.

4 investors

Pixie Dust Technologies develops hardware products and services based on ultrasonic and sound research, including a hair care device using non-contact vibration pressure stimulation, open-ear earphones and TV speakers using gamma-wave sound, sound-absorbing materials, and indoor positioning and spatial DX platforms. Its offerings span consumer wellness devices, accessibility services for hearing and translation, and acoustic materials.

4 investors

BitStar is a Japanese company operating creator support and content production businesses, including influencer marketing solutions for brands and businesses. It works with YouTubers and other creators to build and manage marketing campaigns and content.

4 investors

Gu3 develops content and services using blockchain, XR, and AI technologies, including a crypto asset called "OSHI" and prediction-related services. The company also invests in anime production committees to expand IP for its neo-media entertainment business.

4 investors

PETOKOTO operates a Japanese-language media site about living with dogs and cats, covering topics like adopting rescue pets, pet-friendly accommodations, cat breeds, and pet goods. It also offers PETOKOTO FOODS, a domestically made, handcrafted dog food developed by the company's in-house veterinarians.

4 investors

Sally (株式会社Sally) operates "Uzu," a platform connecting players and creators of murder mystery ("madamis") experiential entertainment. The company develops and runs apps and plans events centered on the murder mystery genre.

4 investors

Chikaku (株式会社チカク) is a Japanese company that makes a consumer hardware device for sharing family media. Photos and videos captured on a smartphone are sent to the device and displayed on a television set, giving grandparents and other relatives at a distance a simple way to see updates without using a computer or app themselves.

4 investors

Uzabase builds economic and business information infrastructure aimed at supporting people making business decisions, positioning itself as a leading provider of such data services in Asia. The page focuses on the company's mission and its "7 Values" corporate culture.

4 investors

4DReplay produces multi-view and bullet-time instant replay video for live TV broadcasts, and offers an interactive OTT web platform (4Dist) where viewers can rotate and replay action from any angle in the browser. It uses arrays of cameras that auto-record and upload footage to power multi-angle replay across various sports and event verticals.

3 investors

6thMan Ventures is a venture firm made up of operators, investors, and builders that partners with founders from an early stage, focusing on crypto, fintech, media, and technology.

3 investors

AdTonos operates a digital audio advertising platform that lets advertisers buy targeted, measurable audio ads across radio, podcasts, music streaming, gaming and mobile apps, and lets publishers and streaming providers monetise their audio streams. It offers interactive audio ad technology (YoursTruly) for smart speakers and voice assistants, plus real-time ad replacement and integration tools for broadcasters.

3 investors

Aether Games develops story-driven games with a focus on strategy and world-building, with a flagship card game titled "Cards of Eternity: The Wheel of Time." It also produces animation and narrative-driven series, extending its worlds across multiple media platforms, and operates a $AEG crypto token.

3 investors

Agora provides APIs and a real-time engagement platform that enables developers to embed voice, video, interactive streaming, chat, and AI capabilities into their applications. The platform handles real-time data transmission across 200+ countries using its Software-Defined Real-Time Network.

3 investors

Airtime provides a desktop application (Windows 10/11) with tools to record, present, and share video, aimed at helping professionals and teams communicate better on camera during meetings and recordings. It targets workplace users who regularly work over video.

3 investors