Media & Entertainment Startups

Gakugeki develops CROSSIA, an AI and extended reality fan experience platform for official entertainment intellectual property including manga, anime, virtual YouTubers, and characters. The platform enables fans to meet, interact with, and photograph characters while allowing IP holders to protect brand identity and distribute experiences globally.

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Tohokushinsha Film Corporation is a comprehensive creative production company handling TV commercials, promotions, graphic and web production, audio/subtitle localization, film and TV program production, licensing, satellite broadcasting, and online streaming. It serves advertisers and media/entertainment clients, primarily in Japan.

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Nishinippon Shimbun operates a Japanese-language regional news website covering the Kyushu area, publishing articles on local incidents, economics, politics, and community events. Its coverage focuses on Fukuoka and the broader Kyushu region of Japan.

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Monogatari Transport (物語運輸株式会社) discovers Japanese traditional crafts, regional specialty products, and local experiences and promotes them to international audiences through storytelling, video, and e-commerce. The company focuses on revitalizing Japanese regions and introducing their culture to overseas markets, serving both global consumers and inbound tourists to Japan.

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Lizhi is a web-based audio content platform that provides recording technology services, information storage space services, and internet live streaming for audio creators and listeners in China.

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3N Outdoor Media is an out-of-home (OOH) advertising company that operates outdoor media such as bus benches, billboards, and bin ads for local businesses and cities. It serves businesses seeking outdoor advertising exposure and municipalities looking to communicate with residents, focusing on the Miami-Dade County, Florida area.

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5th Planet Games is a gaming company listed on Oslo Axcess. The page provides contact information for investors and financial community inquiries.

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5X Media is a media company that manages, partners with, and produces content for creative talent across scripted, unscripted, and digital verticals, using emerging technologies and global markets. It operates as a combined studio and talent management/agency business serving actors, producers, and creator-economy influencers.

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Adhoc Studio is a game developer that makes story-driven games featuring player choice and consequence. Its debut title, Dispatch, released in fall 2025, is a character-driven narrative game with player agency.

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Advanced AI Applications, Inc. builds a streaming platform and creator tools that let people use AI to produce, distribute, and monetize short-form vertical video series. It aggregates multiple AI video generation models into a single interface for creators.

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The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) is a membership community of roughly 30,000 guides, tour operators, lodges, travel advisors, tourism boards, destination marketing organizations, outdoor educators, gear companies and travel media focused on sustainable tourism. It connects members virtually and in person to develop solutions supporting responsible and profitable travel businesses.

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The Affinity Project is the parent company of Sourcebase.ai, an AI-powered document intelligence platform for journalists, researchers, and analysts that makes every answer traceable to its verified source material. It operates at the intersection of AI and media, focused on trust and verifiability.

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ANB Media publishes editorial content and advertising around toys and family entertainment trade shows and licensing events. The company serves toy retailers, manufacturers, and licensing professionals in the industry.

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ASOTU (Automotive State of the Union) is a media brand for the retail automotive industry, producing a daily automotive email newsletter, a docuseries about car dealerships, and branded merchandise. It aims to build community and shift the culture and perception of car dealerships.

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Atma Sciences was a company focused on interactive experiences. The company has since wound down operations.

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Audible Magic provides platforms with a B2B music catalog and services for licensing, content delivery, automated content recognition (ACR), and rights administration. It serves social media, gaming, fitness, and other platforms, acting as an intermediary between rights holders such as labels and publishers and digital media platforms.

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BioCentury provides news, analysis, and data covering the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

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Ballyhoo Media is a waterway advertising company that turns ferries, water taxis, and digital boats into out-of-home media platforms for brands, and produces experiential events on the water. It also provides digital communication platforms for passenger vessel operators and municipalities, operating across U.S. waterfront cities.

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BKFC (Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship) is a bare-knuckle boxing promotion that stages live fight events and offers live streaming plus an on-demand library of past fights. It serves combat sports fans through ticketed events and a subscription video platform.

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Believe Entertainment Group is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning production studio that develops and produces documentary series, scripted films, animated kids programming, and audio content for platforms including Peacock, PBS, YouTube, and Audible. The studio is based in New York City.

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BetterStory offers a mobile reading app featuring interactive, choice-based stories where readers take on the role of the main character. It uses an in-app coin system and reports a readership of over 50,000 users.

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POSSIBLE is a global business events platform that brings together leaders and brands from marketing, technology, and culture sectors to explore industry innovation and thought leadership.

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Benchlight Science is a publication that explains the vocabulary and concepts used in biotechnology and life-science research. It targets students, curious readers, and non-specialists with plain-English definitions of terms, measurements, and research methods.

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BLACE operates a marketplace connecting event planners with unique venues and vendors across New York City and Los Angeles. The platform enables users to discover and book event spaces alongside complementary services for social, corporate, and production events.

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