Media & Entertainment Startups

Boostable provides advertising tools that enable sellers and brands to promote listings on marketplaces while collecting performance data. The platform serves marketplace operators seeking to increase seller engagement and retention.

3 investors

BoxCast provides live video streaming hardware and software, including pocket-sized encoders, a proprietary streaming protocol, OTT apps, and cloud-based audio mixing tools for broadcasters. It serves houses of worship, sports organizations, local governments, and businesses running live events, webinars, and broadcasts.

3 investors

Brat (ZATV) is a studio producing online TV networks and YouTube-focused content aimed at Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences, combining TV-quality production with digital distribution. It also runs agencies for creator growth, influencer talent, and monetizing movie clips, and partners with advertisers on brand campaigns.

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

Bright Moments was a global generative and AI art project (2021-2024) that turned NFT minting into live, in-person events across cities including Venice Beach, New York, Berlin, London, Mexico City, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Venice, Italy. It minted nearly 20,000 on-chain artworks from 150 artists and created the 10,000-piece CryptoCitizens collection.

3 investors

Buy Me a Coffee provides a payment and membership platform for creators to earn direct income from fans and offer exclusive content. The platform serves independent creators across various creative fields as an alternative to advertising-based income models.

3 investors

ByThen offers an AI text-to-video generator that turns a topic or written script into a full-length video, automatically producing visuals, narration, music, and editing up to 30 minutes long. It is aimed at content creators who want to produce and publish videos from text.

3 investors

Caelus is a chip design company that develops high-performance ADC/DAC integrated circuits, including high-precision SAR ADCs and high-speed ADCs, using its own patented technology. Its products serve industries such as industrial automation, energy, instrumentation and measurement, data acquisition, communications, and medical imaging.

3 investors

Captions is an AI video editor that automatically transforms raw footage into fully edited videos with cuts, overlays, captions, and music. It serves content creators, marketers, and video producers who need professional-quality videos without manual editing expertise.

3 investors

Catalog is a platform where musicians sell their music directly to fans, with artists getting paid at the moment of purchase. The site also publishes editorial content such as artist interviews.

3 investors

Cathedral Studios is a video game publisher and developer whose flagship title is The Bornless, a horror first-person shooter, and which runs an indie development label called Little Bird. It focuses on creating gaming experiences across the horror and indie categories.

3 investors

CGHero is a freelance production platform that connects companies with a global network of vetted 3D artists, engineers, and producers to deliver 2D, 3D, animation, VFX, digital twins, and real-time projects. It offers either fully managed production teams or direct access to specialist talent across studios and brands worldwide.

3 investors

Chptr turns the obituary data funeral homes already collect into televised and radio obituary announcements that air on local news stations for at least three consecutive days, along with slideshows, heirloom films, and social remembrance products. It serves funeral homes across US media markets nationwide, with production and family communication handled for them.

3 investors

Chronicle Studios operates an agentic AI platform that uses audience analytics (its CultureDB) and audience simulation to automate social media strategy, content optimization, cross-platform distribution, and audience discovery for creators, studios, and brands. It also develops original IP and media franchises—spanning animation, games, podcasts, music, and webcomics—through data-driven creator partnerships.

3 investors

Clipchamp is a web-based video editing platform that lets users create videos in the browser with recording tools, templates, and AI editing features, serving creators, educators, and businesses. Founded in Australia in 2014, it was acquired by Microsoft in 2021 and is now part of the Microsoft 365 suite.

3 investors

Clipdrop offers AI-powered image editing tools including background removal, object cleanup, image upscaling, and text-to-image generation. The platform serves creators and developers through both direct web tools and an embeddable API for product integration.

3 investors

Cloutdesk offers an agent-first platform that lets AI agents run influencer marketing operations through MCP, REST API, and CLI interfaces, covering workflows like talent selection, campaign operations, terms negotiation, e-signature, and reporting. It is built for agencies, brands, and talent representatives, and includes a human dashboard for supervising and auditing agent actions.

3 investors

Cocreate is a software tool for video post-production professionals that automates editorial workflows by reading slates, syncing audio, detecting multicams, building stringouts, and generating Premiere or Avid projects. It serves editors, DITs, post supervisors, and production managers in film and television production.

3 investors

Concept Art House is an art outsourcing studio for game developers, producing character designs, 2D and 3D assets, animation, and VFX for AAA, mobile, and trading card games. In recent years the studio has expanded into NFTs and Web3/metaverse art for brands and IPs.

3 investors

3 investors

Cox Enterprises is a family-owned holding company, founded in 1898, with operations spanning automotive services, broadband and communications, greenhouse agriculture, clean technology, conservation, media/journalism, and outdoor adventure. It also invests in emerging technologies and startups aligned with sustainability goals.

3 investors

Dalcomsoft is a company whose site promotes a mobile service inviting users to "meet your star on mobile," indicating a mobile entertainment or fan-engagement application. The page provides no further detail about the product or its market.

3 investors

Dashverse operates an AI-native production platform for creating short-form serialized content, with tools called Frameo.AI and DashReels that generate short dramas ("microdramas") from scripts or video. The company builds a full-stack system for generative media and serialized storytelling, with a focus on India's creator ecosystem.

3 investors

Datanomik offers a platform for centralizing, analyzing, and optimizing corporate investment portfolio management across multiple institutions. The platform provides real-time visibility into performance, automates allocation decisions based on rules, and helps identify inefficiencies to maximize returns net of taxes and fees.

3 investors