Media & Entertainment Startups

Dagens industri (di.se) is a Nordic business and financial news publication offering coverage of stock markets, companies, economics, and business news, along with a subscription-based e-paper, newsletters, TV segments, and specialized market news services. It serves readers and professionals in the Nordic region, particularly Sweden.

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DIRECTV is a television and streaming service provider offering live channels, on-demand content, and sports programming. The company serves consumers with customizable channel packages including Genre Packs and traditional Signature packages.

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Docent is an art-tech company that runs a membership community connecting artists, collectors and brands, offering advisory services and curation drawing on a network of over 3,000 artists and 200+ galleries. It provides cultural guidance to members and curates contemporary art for brands, such as a project with Hôtel de Crillon during Art Basel Paris.

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Dogwood Gaming is an independent game development studio that builds PC games across genres — including psychological thrillers, party brawlers, RPGs, and visual novels — distributed mainly on Steam. The studio also develops AI tools for creating and scaling AI-controlled characters for games and educational experiences.

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Domestika is an online learning platform offering courses in creative disciplines such as design, illustration, photography, marketing, and crafts, taught by professionals through project-based lessons. It serves creative professionals and hobbyists worldwide with self-paced courses and a global community.

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Donut (Donut Media) sells branded apparel and accessories—including T-shirts, hoodies, hats, workwear, bags, and stickers—themed around cars and automotive culture. The site is the online merchandise store for the car-enthusiast media brand.

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Drug Hunter publishes educational content, molecule case studies, patent highlights, and analysis on small molecule and biologic drug discovery for medicinal chemists and pharmaceutical R&D professionals. The site covers therapeutic targets, clinical-stage molecules, and drug development strategies across oncology, neurology, and other disease areas.

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Eat App provides restaurant management software including a reservation system, table management, guest CRM and profiles, waitlists, marketing tools, and reporting. It serves restaurants and operates across multiple international markets.

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Echobox is an AI-powered social media management platform designed for publishers that automates content posting across multiple social networks by analyzing real-time and historical data to optimize timing and engagement. The platform helps publishers grow their audience and referral traffic through timing optimization and A/B testing.

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Xoilac TV is a Vietnamese-language website offering free live streaming of domestic and international football matches, with HD video, Vietnamese commentary, backup links, schedules, standings, and match predictions. It serves football fans in Vietnam.

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Ekkobar provides a platform that analyzes social media conversations and digital discussions to deliver decision intelligence for entertainment, media, and brand-focused organizations. The system identifies signals within social data to help clients understand audience perceptions and make informed strategic decisions.

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AWS Elemental provides cloud-based and on-premises media services for video processing, encoding, and delivery at scale. The platform serves broadcasters, streaming services, and media companies who need to prepare, transport, and monetize video content globally.

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Ellipsus builds a collaborative writing tool designed for creative writers to work together. The company positions its product for storytellers and writing communities.

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Enplug provides digital signage software to display communications, promotions, and menu boards on screens in physical business locations such as retail stores and car dealerships. Now part of Spectrio, its tools support up-selling, cross-selling, customer engagement, and in-store music and messaging.

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EST Media is the parent company of three Asian-focused content brands: EST Studios (development, financing, and worldwide sales/distribution of Asian film and TV), Eastern Standard Times (web-optimized video content aimed at Asian youth and the diaspora), and Established (a content studio producing ad campaigns, influencer collaborations, commercials, and experiential events for global brands). It operates in the media and entertainment industry with a focus on Asian stories and talent for international markets.

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EventX, headquartered in Hong Kong, builds a platform for running events in virtual and hybrid formats. It supports online exhibitions, job fairs and trade shows and handles registration, attendee check-in and walk-in sign-ups, serving enterprises and professional event organizers.

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EverPass is the authorized commercial provider of premium live sports content, including NFL Sunday Ticket and ESPN+ for Business, to venues such as bars, restaurants, and hotels. It also offers tools that let businesses promote specials and engage patrons on their screens to drive game-day traffic.

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Ex Populus is an entertainment company that builds games and interactive experiences for consumers worldwide, employing developers, designers, and creatives.

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A sports talent and marketing agency that represents athletes, coaches, executives, and media personalities while providing brand strategy, experiential marketing, content, and partnership services. It also offers property services including sponsorship sales, executive search, analytics, and events.

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Experiment 7 is a virtual reality games studio that develops tactical strategy games, including tabletop and board game adaptations, for VR players. It builds titles on its Magic Table platform for both solo play and multiplayer sessions with friends.

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Ezyinsights provides a real-time analytics and news discovery platform for news and photo agencies, letting them track content and image usage, run historical usage reports, detect plagiarism, and monitor engaging stories. It also helps journalists gather emerging news faster and benchmark their engagement against competitors.

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AI-powered music digital copyright detection and management platform.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) is a German news publisher providing current coverage of politics, business, sports, and culture. It offers online news articles, including a premium subscription tier (FAZ+), for a German-speaking audience.

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Felix and Paul Studios creates cinematic virtual reality and augmented reality experiences for entertainment and cultural audiences. The company produces immersive content ranging from documentaries and branded experiences to adaptations of theatrical productions and films.

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