Media & Entertainment Startups

Kasagi Labo builds a platform unifying global anime and manga fandom, enabling fans to discover content and communities while helping IP owners and creators build direct relationships with audiences. The company develops virtual experiences, licensing, and merchandise services for the anime and manga industry.

4 investors

Kino Technologies builds tools for storytellers to create, distribute, and monetize "mobile TV shows" — short-form stories designed to be watched and discussed on phones. The company operates in the mobile entertainment and media space.

4 investors

Koyal develops an AI platform that generates personalized video content from scripts or audio, serving music labels, podcasters, and production companies. The platform uses agentic AI to handle multilingual workflows, lip-sync synchronization, and consistent character rendering across video sequences.

4 investors

Lapse is an iOS app that turns an iPhone into a disposable camera with a film aesthetic, connected to a friends-only photo journal. It is a consumer social photo-sharing app focused on private sharing among friends rather than public follower metrics.

4 investors

This article covers the Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction process for Oceanwide Plaza, a $1.2 billion mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles comprising residential towers, a hotel, and retail space that has remained incomplete since 2018.

4 investors

Mage is a web platform for generating and editing images and videos with AI, offering access to many base models (such as Stable Diffusion, Flux, and Veo) plus tools like inpainting, upscaling, face swap, and text-to-video. It provides tiered memberships and simple single-purpose apps for creators and general users.

4 investors

Major9 (메이저나인) is a music-centered entertainment company that runs artist management and content production, with businesses spanning movies, global content, overseas artist concerts, media art exhibitions, and musicals. It invests in cultural content and works with its artists to expand internationally.

4 investors

Measure is a social media analytics platform for brand teams managing accounts across markets, agencies, and product lines. Its AI classification layer automatically detects products, campaigns, talent, and sponsorships in posts, and its AI agent answers performance questions and benchmarks brands against competitors.

4 investors

Medallion FM is an app that lets music fans track the artists they follow, concerts and shows, and their listening activity in one place. It also offers features for artists.

4 investors

Midwest Games offers game publishing services for hire, including strategy, marketing, and production planning. It works with indie studios, established publishers, and IP holders while allowing them to retain ownership.

4 investors

Mini Studio makes personalised animated films for children in which the child becomes the star of the story, produced frame by frame by animators, musicians, and filmmakers. The films are developed with input from child-development specialists and aimed at kids and families.

4 investors

Mirelo develops generative AI models for audio processing in video production, serving both individual creators and large-scale production studios. The company builds audio intelligence systems that understand motion, timing, and texture to automate sound design workflows.

4 investors

Mixhalo provides a zero-hardware system that streams live event audio directly to attendees' smartphones in real time, offering silent sessions, live interpretation, captions, transcription, and summaries. It serves event organizers as an alternative to loudspeakers and headset rentals, integrating into event apps to increase digital engagement.

4 investors

Modal builds digital commerce software for large auto brands and retailers, enabling online vehicle transactions. Formerly known as Drive Motors, the company serves the automotive retail industry.

4 investors

Moments Lab offers an AI-powered platform that makes audiovisual media searchable at scale, helping sports teams, federations, and competitions speed up content production workflows and share content with producers, sponsors, and media outlets.

4 investors

Mosaic provides a platform for creating autonomous agents that perform video editing tasks, reducing work that typically takes hours down to seconds.

4 investors

Moxion offers a cloud platform for film and video production that lets crews share camera footage and metadata ("instant dailies") with their teams within seconds of recording. It provides tools for viewing, annotation, collaboration, secure screeners, and metadata-based sorting across devices, aimed at film and video production teams.

4 investors

Music AI develops AI-driven music and audio technology, offering a platform of over 50 stackable audio solutions—such as stem separation, chord recognition, lyrics transcription, and generative music tools—delivered via cloud APIs and embedded SDKs. It serves businesses (record labels, agencies, technology firms, developers) as well as musicians and creators, the latter through its Moises consumer app.

4 investors

Musiio applied artificial intelligence to catalog music at scale, automatically tagging tracks and powering search and playlist generation. Its tools were aimed at record labels and streaming services that needed to sort through large libraries and speed up curation. The company was acquired by SoundCloud in 2022.

4 investors

Nakamoto builds digital treasury management solutions with a focus on security, transparency, and innovation for financial institutions and organizations managing digital assets.

4 investors

New Tales is an independent video game publisher that partners with game studios and develops its own game IPs, offering go-to-market and community marketing services. It also operates an internal development studio, Emeteria, based in Lyon, France, working on an Action-Adventure RPG.

4 investors

Noise Media Group is a social-first marketing agency that provides strategy, creative content production, and media buying, working as an embedded extension of client teams. It runs multi-market social and performance campaigns for brands, having scaled 85+ brands across 20+ markets on three continents.

4 investors

numberFire provides sports analytics, predictions, and betting content covering leagues such as the NFL, MLB, and NCAA basketball, including odds, best bets, player props, and fantasy sports advice for bettors and fantasy players.

4 investors

Nyle is a Japanese company providing digital marketing services—including SEO and content marketing—alongside app-related products and AI training programs such as its practice-focused "With AI Academy". It also operates the "Appliv" app discovery media and awards.

4 investors