Media & Entertainment Startups

Summit builds a curated community of leaders across various fields, centered on shared values and in-person events such as weekend retreats featuring outdoor activities, dining, talks, and programming. Membership is interview-based, and the company also operates programming tied to Powder Mountain, a ski resort and town.

1 investor

SunMedia is an advertising technology company that combines creativity and technology to build engaging ad formats and contextual targeting for reaching relevant audiences. It offers video ad formats and contextual intelligence tools for advertisers.

1 investor

Suno is an AI music generation platform that turns text prompts into complete original songs with vocals, lyrics, and full production across genres in under a minute. It serves first-time creators through professional producers and songwriters, offering free and paid tiers with features like stem separation, commercial use rights, and a generative audio workstation.

1 investor

Sunrise.am is a web tool that provides accurate sunrise, sunset, and daylight timing information for locations worldwide. The service targets travelers, photographers, outdoor enthusiasts, and everyday users who want quick access to sun timing data for planning and navigation.

1 investor

Sunscoop.com is an Indonesian news website publishing articles across categories such as trending topics, entertainment, politics, business, technology, health, lifestyle, and food. Content is written and rewritten by a team of contributors and aimed at Indonesian readers.

1 investor

Suntrica is an informational resource offering guides, expert insights, and product reviews about solar energy, battery storage, and renewable energy solutions. It serves homeowners and businesses looking to adopt solar power, covering topics such as installation, cost-benefit analysis, and government incentives.

1 investor

Superhood is a location-based, privacy-preserving social platform that aggregates local news, events, deals, and community information from various sources and translates it into the user's language. It serves local residents, businesses, publishers, and organizations, and operates without mandatory account registration or user tracking.

1 investor

Supermama is a digital platform providing parenting and lifestyle information for mothers, covering health, education, and family management. The platform offers tools to help mothers organize tasks and time, alongside a community for mothers to share experiences.

1 investor

Superpowered develops an interactive audio development platform for desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded devices. The platform serves developers, product teams, and technology organizations building audio applications.

1 investor

Supertone is a platform that enables musicians to find and share audio samples with collaborators worldwide. The service helps producers and musicians discover samples and collaborate on music production.

1 investor

Sureel builds generative AI tools for music and visual art creation that attribute generated work to original artists and creators. The platform enables content creators, media rights holders, and AI companies to collaborate while ensuring transparent credit and commercial rights protection.

1 investor

Svbtle is a publishing platform for writers to organize, develop, and share articles and ideas. The platform emphasizes a distraction-free writing and reading experience with a focus on design and content preservation.

1 investor

Silicon Valley Daily is a free news publication covering business and technology developments in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, with no subscription or registration required.

1 investor

Sverve operates a self-service influencer marketing platform built primarily for small businesses. It maintains profiles of social media influencers covering audience size, subject areas, follower demographics and retailer affinities, and lets brands run campaigns, issue payments and measure results across channels from one interface.

1 investor

Swaybox Studios is a film production studio that creates long-form storytelling using practical puppetry techniques for the big screen. Founded in 2014, it employs a team of over 150 animators, fabricators, designers, and other artists.

1 investor

Swipeline is a Turkish-language online media outlet that publishes news about startups, technology, venture capital investments, and the tech industry. Its coverage includes topics such as mobile gaming studios, AI models, and startup funding rounds.

1 investor

FEST is a public diplomacy initiative in which consulates, embassies, and government and diplomatic organizations host a two-week series of cross-stakeholder events in a city to highlight a country's innovations and foster international collaboration. Its programs connect arts and cultural organizations, science and technology institutions, universities, industry and startup networks, and social impact groups through exhibitions, workshops, gatherings, exchanges, and screenings.

1 investor

cloudSwXtch is a software-based network switch that enables multicast, lossless packet flows, and real-time media distribution across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments without requiring code changes. It serves media and broadcast organizations that need standards-compliant (IGMPv2/3, SMPTE 2110) network infrastructure across distributed infrastructure.

1 investor

SYKY was a fashion platform that built a community and showcase environment for designers, featuring avant-garde and digital fashion work. The company has announced it is winding down operations.

1 investor

Symphony (Cue + Simmy) is an AI-powered music marketing platform that uses named agents to handle smart links, pre-save campaigns, ad planning, and fan outreach for artists and labels. It replaces manual marketing tool operation with autonomous agents that execute strategy, manage spend, and learn from each release cycle.

1 investor

Sync develops lipsync technology that edits and syncs mouth movements in video to match audio across multiple languages, working on content including movies, podcasts, games, and animation. It offers API access, studio tools, and proprietary watermarking to verify whether a video was modified using its technology.

1 investor

Startup Digest is a curated email platform that connects founders and entrepreneurs with locally relevant startup events, resources, and content tailored to their interests. Operated by Techstars, it works with regional curators to deliver handpicked startup news and learning materials to subscribers in their area.

1 investor

Syng makes Cell Alpha, a "Triphonic" spatial sound speaker system that creates a room-filling, immersive soundfield, controlled via the Syng Space app with support for Apple AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect. The consumer audio hardware product targets home listeners and can be scaled with multiple Cells and mounted on floor stands, table stands, or ceiling mounts.

1 investor

Synthesia is a US company building video editing software aimed at vloggers and other frequent video producers. Its tools include automated real-time editing and jump-cut features, 4K footage import, cloud storage, and cross-platform access, with the goal of reducing manual editing time.

1 investor