Media & Entertainment Startups

XL8 offers MediaCAT, a cloud-based AI machine translation and localization platform for media and entertainment content, providing transcription, translation, subtitling, and quality checks. It serves language service providers, movie studios, content owners, streaming platforms, educational institutions, and freelance translators, with translation engines trained specifically on media and colloquial dialogue across 45 languages.

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A Russian business award program recognizing entrepreneurs and business leaders across regions of the Russian Federation, aimed at honoring outstanding business achievements and promoting entrepreneurship and charitable activity. It serves as recognition by the business community of successful company executives.

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Xposure Music offers funding for musicians and maintains an artist roster and funding deals. The page shown is a form for artists to submit funding requests.

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kiwami, inc. develops and operates digital products including the "xR Cast" VR virtual store-clerk solution, the "Ratel AI" AI solution, and glasses-free VR technology. The company also produces promotional and video content and builds smartphone apps and systems.

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XroadMedia develops a personalization platform that helps streaming operators, media companies, broadcasters, and service providers recommend content and target advertising to consumers. The platform optimizes user engagement and monetization through dynamic interface personalization and targeted notifications.

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XYZ Films produces and develops feature films and other filmed entertainment, with a catalog including titles such as Havoc, Mandy, The Raid, and BlackBerry. It operates in the film and media production industry.

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Y/n is a mobile app where users navigate interactive stories by playing a character whose text choices affect plot outcomes and character relationships, with access to millions of user-created stories spanning romance, mystery, and other genres.

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Yabiladi is a news and information portal focused on Morocco and the Moroccan community, publishing articles on topics such as national news and weather. It serves Moroccan readers and the Moroccan diaspora.

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Yallakora is an Arabic-language sports news website covering football leagues and competitions, including Egyptian, English, Spanish, Italian, Saudi, and Turkish leagues, as well as international tournaments. It publishes match reports, transfer news, player statistics, and offers a companion mobile app for following sports events.

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Yardbarker is a digital sports and entertainment news portal that curates and produces real-time coverage, analysis and commentary, aggregating articles from its in-house writers and hundreds of independent sports publishers. It distributes content on its website, social media, third-party syndicators like MSN.com, and sports newsletters for a general sports fan audience.

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YBVR provides a streaming platform that lets audiences watch live events through multiple synchronized feeds, including immersive 360/180 video and traditional 2D, with interactive viewer control. Its patented delivery technology aims to maintain visual quality at low bandwidth across devices.

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A website publishing entertainment content in Indonesian, including reviews of Hollywood films and sequels.

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YES Network is a regional sports media company that owns exclusive broadcast rights to the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets, offering live games, original sports programming, and streaming services across multiple platforms. The network serves sports fans in the New York metropolitan area with access to basketball, baseball, soccer, and college sports content.

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YOAKE entertainment is a Japanese company working in the entertainment sector with blockchain applications, including use cases on Sony Ventures' "Soneium" blockchain platform. Its representative director presented entertainment implementation examples at GITEX Europe 2026.

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Yodo1 provides a platform for indie developers and mobile game studios to monetize, distribute, and scale games across global markets. The company offers tools and expertise to optimize game growth and unlock access to rapidly-expanding audiences worldwide.

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YouArt provides a platform for monetizing AI-generated original content and artworks, enabling creators to sell their digital creations.

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Nextory is a digital platform for streaming audiobooks and e-books across Europe, offering millions of titles across various genres and languages. The service makes written content accessible to readers and listeners on mobile devices and tablets.

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The company offers a virtual event platform where attendees join a recreated venue or conference environment using avatars to interact with others, engage with exhibitors, and watch live-streamed keynote presentations. It positions itself as an alternative to video conferencing tools with an emphasis on measuring attendee engagement.

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Youku is a Chinese online video streaming platform offering TV dramas, films, anime, variety shows, documentaries, children's programming, and sports, with free and VIP membership tiers. It serves general Chinese-language audiences with licensed and original content.

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Youlicit provides a Firefox browser plugin that uses crowdsourced recommendation data to suggest related websites based on content a user is viewing or browsing interests, while also enabling users to discover others with similar topic preferences.

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Your Art Beat is a creative network and contact point offering tools and resources related to arts, culture and creativity.

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YourQuote is a social platform where Indian users publish and share short-form written content, with a userbase of approximately 2.5 million writers.

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YourTunes is a digital music distributor that publishes artists' releases to over 50 streaming platforms and online stores and monetizes their music on YouTube Content ID, UGC platforms, and social media. It offers artists release scheduling, daily streaming statistics, quarterly payouts, playlist pitching, AI-generated music publishing, and a Telegram streaming mini-app, aimed at independent artists and labels.

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YouScan, headquartered in Cyprus, develops social media monitoring tools focused on lead generation. Its software scans large volumes of public posts and applies natural language processing to identify messages signaling purchase intent for particular products or services. Sales and marketing teams use the results to contact prospective buyers directly.

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