Media & Entertainment Startups

Staytuned provides audio content distribution and streaming apps for iOS, Android, and web platforms. The service enables content creators and publishers to deliver audio content to users across online and offline environments.

3 investors

STEEZY is an online dance learning platform offering step-by-step classes across styles and skill levels, taught by choreographers and instructors. It provides on-demand video lessons accessible via desktop, mobile, and TV, along with a global community for dancers.

3 investors

Flowtonik is a digital audio workstation for macOS that lets music producers use natural language to generate parts, edit clips, mix, and control the timeline, alongside hands-on waveform, automation, and routing tools. Each license includes the Tonik plugin with over 300 sounds plus stem separation, and it is free to download with optional Pro and Master subscription tiers.

3 investors

Storj provides a globally distributed cloud storage platform used to produce, store, share, and stream media content. It targets media and entertainment companies with workflows for streaming video, audio production, and content distribution.

3 investors

Story.com is an AI-powered creative platform with four tools — Instamovies for turning scripts into short films, Storybook Publisher for illustrated storybooks, a timeline-based AI Video Editor, and a Storyboarding tool for visual pre-production. It serves creators making social clips, published storybooks, and feature-length films.

3 investors

StoryHub is an AI-assisted content creation platform that helps media companies and corporate editorial teams produce articles from audio, video, and interview inputs using professionally designed templates for transcription, writing, editing, fact-checking, and multilingual translation. It targets media firms, publishers, and businesses in Japan seeking to bring article production in-house and reduce reliance on outsourced writers.

3 investors

StoryTap is a video platform that helps brands collect and share authentic video stories to build trust and engagement with audiences. The company serves organizations seeking to gather and distribute real customer and community narratives.

3 investors

Informa Connect is a division of Informa that organizes conferences, training events, and professional services across specialist markets in over 30 countries. The company connects business professionals to knowledge and networking opportunities through events, academies, and information services.

3 investors

Surreal (Surr) is a social platform for discovering and sharing content such as art, music, podcasts, videos, and memes, where users can support friends, create content, and earn. It serves creators and consumers of digital media.

3 investors

Switchboard provides multichannel live video streaming infrastructure that enables organizations to broadcast simultaneously to multiple social media platforms and destinations. The platform serves public sector agencies, political campaigns, media operators, and marketing teams who need to coordinate and manage live video distribution without technical complexity.

3 investors

Switcher is a mobile live production app that enables users to create multi-camera broadcasts using existing devices like iPhones, iPads, Android phones, and professional cameras, without requiring expensive hardware or complex software. It serves creators, churches, radio stations, and organizations that need to produce professional-quality live streams on accessible technology.

3 investors

Talon is an esports, culture, and lifestyle platform operating seven professional esports teams across five Asian markets, along with its own creative studio for esports marketing, content creation, and activations. It serves brand partners and esports fans across Asia.

3 investors

A platform offering interactive science lessons designed for children, featuring content from various instructors.

3 investors

TappyToon is a digital platform that publishes and distributes officially licensed comics (webtoons) and novels, offering readers a library of translated series across multiple genres. It provides features such as collections, character chat, and free-to-read timed releases.

3 investors

Team Liquid is an esports organization that sells official team apparel and merchandise, including pro kit jerseys, jackets, and base layers, through its online store. The 2026 Pro Kit collection offers branded competition gear for fans and supporters.

3 investors

Team Whistle is a sports and entertainment media company, part of DAZN Group, that produces data-driven original content across a slate of 50+ shows and a creator network distributed on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Its in-house agency also builds platform-first content strategies for brands, leagues, and platforms to reach audiences and generate revenue.

3 investors

Tella is an all-in-one screen recording and video creation platform that enables teams to produce, edit, and share videos without switching between multiple applications. It serves teams looking to consolidate video creation workflows with features including workspace collaboration, advanced permissions, and integrations with tools like Notion, Slack, and Google Docs.

3 investors

Teller Novel is a mobile novel-sharing platform where users write and publish original fiction to build a fan base, with some works adapted into comics (comicalization). The service also features content about active authors and the creative process behind its stories.

3 investors

Texel provides a delivery platform for virtual and augmented reality content that runs over existing network infrastructure. The system tracks viewing and engagement behavior as streams play, using that data to lower bandwidth consumption and adjust which content is served to each viewer.

3 investors

Ankler Media is an independent media company covering the entertainment, media and technology industries. It publishes The Ankler newsletter and platform, delivering news and analysis about Hollywood business and industry transformation for executives, dealmakers and creative professionals.

3 investors

Bea Arthur's personal brand website promoting her upcoming book "How To Make Confidence and Capitalism Work for You" (Coming 2026). The site documents her career in mental health technology and media, including her founding of The Difference, an Alexa Skill for therapy access.

3 investors

HuffPost is a news and media outlet publishing articles, videos, and lifestyle content across topics such as current events and daily life.

3 investors

The Outline is a digital publication founded by journalists that produces original stories at the intersection of culture, power, and technology. It focuses on cultural and technology-oriented journalism for general readers.

3 investors

The Pinkfong Company creates family entertainment content and character IP, including brands such as Pinkfong, Baby Shark, and Bebefinn. It produces children's music, videos, and animated content with characters distributed worldwide.

3 investors