Media & Entertainment Startups

TotallyAwesome operates a youth-first digital engagement and advertising platform in the APAC region, providing brands access to COPPA-compliant, youth-safe apps, sites, games, and videos. It curates and matches advertising placements for kids, Gen Z, and families while focusing on online safety and compliance.

2 investors

TouchTunes operates a network of over 95,000 connected jukebox and game devices in venues, offering music and games such as darts through a companion mobile app. The company provides in-venue entertainment for bars and social spaces.

2 investors

An independent educational resource publishing plain-language guides about DeFi lending, crypto borrowing, NFT-backed loans, and onchain yield, including the associated risks. It offers explainers covering topics like liquidity pools, collateral, interest rates, and platform risk.

2 investors

True Tickets provides a secure digital ticket delivery platform for arts and cultural venues, using continuously-refreshing dynamic QR codes to reduce fraud and duplicate scans, along with rules-based ticket sharing and resale controls. It integrates deeply with Tessitura CRM to reveal "shadow audience" attendees who received shared tickets and to enable in-ticket messaging and marketing.

2 investors

TrueShort produces original movies and series designed for viewing on mobile phones, offered exclusively through its own platform. The company operates in the short-form mobile entertainment and streaming media space.

2 investors

Tubular provides social video intelligence and measurement, giving media companies, brands, and agencies a unified view of audience interests and content trends across platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitch. Its database covers billions of videos across millions of topics to help teams shape content strategy, identify creators and influencers, and improve campaign ROI. It is part of Chartbeat, Inc.

2 investors

Tuned Global provides B2B music streaming technology for enterprises and startups, offering cloud-based backend infrastructure, catalog ingestion, APIs, curation, and AI-driven metadata tagging to help clients launch and operate music, audio, and video streaming services. Its offerings serve markets including inflight entertainment, kids' streaming, and digital fitness classes.

2 investors

TVbeat provides a platform for TV advertising that helps cable operators and networks manage fragmented inventory and audiences through an audience-first marketplace approach.

2 investors

Virtua operates a Cardano-powered metaverse where users create avatars, race vehicles, and explore interactive environments, alongside Bazaa, a decentralized NFT marketplace built on the Vanar blockchain. The platform lets users buy, sell, and trade dynamic NFTs with on-chain utility across games and metaverse experiences.

2 investors

Uberduck provides AI-powered text-to-speech, voice cloning, and music generation tools for creators, musicians, and marketers. The platform enables users to generate synthetic vocals, create custom voices, and produce AI music tracks across 70+ languages.

2 investors

UC is a mobile browser and content app offering AI-powered web search, cloud storage with 10GB of free space, personalized news aggregation, and access to a large library of e-books and web novels. It targets consumer mobile users, combining search, file backup, and entertainment reading in one application.

2 investors

Unit1 Studio produces virtual concerts and avatar-based live performances, creating digital doubles of artists and combining LED display, lighting, sound, and post-production technologies for stage and screen. It works with entertainment industry partners to build virtual stages and live show experiences.

2 investors

Unrivaled is a professional women's basketball league featuring WNBA players across multiple clubs, offering games, player content, standings, and merchandise. The organization signs players to multi-year contracts and runs seasonal competitions with broadcast coverage.

2 investors

Unscript offers AI-generated product explainer and video ad tools that turn a product URL or script into tailored video creatives, with support for dubbing videos into other languages. It targets enterprises and brands across industries such as banking, finance, and insurance for marketing, educational, and customer-communication content.

2 investors

UPROXX is an online media publication covering music, entertainment, film, TV, sports, and lifestyle/culture, producing articles, interviews, rankings, and event coverage. It also runs branded content and live events (e.g. concert series) through UPROXX Studios.

2 investors

Userfox provides email automation software that helps companies reduce user churn by sending targeted messages triggered by user behavior, including welcome sequences, inactivity alerts, and custom-defined events.

2 investors

Utility Dive is an industry news publication covering the U.S. electric utility and power sector, reporting on topics such as grid operations, energy regulation, renewables, data center demand and utility finances. It serves professionals in the energy and utility industries.

2 investors

UTURN Entertainment is a digital content platform and the largest Arabic Multi-Channel Network, producing original entertainment, sponsored, and branded content along with shows and IPs across gaming, sports, lifestyle, and comedy. It serves brands and young audiences across the Middle East, with a focus on Saudi Arabia, distributing across TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat.

2 investors

V-Nova develops hierarchical, compute-aware data formats (such as MPEG-5 LCEVC, SMPTE VC-6, and PresenZ) that structure visual data including images, video, and point clouds for both human and AI processing. Its technologies serve media and entertainment, XR, defense, robotics, smart cities, automotive, and medical imaging across video compression, immersive media, and multimodal vision AI.

2 investors

Valossa builds multimodal video AI that watches, listens to and reads video content to generate transcripts, captions, metadata, summaries, highlight clips, and brand and content detection, offered through products like Valossa Assistant, Transcribe Pro, and Ad Scout. Its conversational, agentic video tools serve media companies, broadcasters, advertisers and creators, with EU-based processing aimed at the European market.

2 investors

Vaunt develops sports competitions and media content blending athletics with pop culture, featuring professional athletes and entertainment icons for a modern fan audience.

2 investors

VeeFriends creates collectible trading cards, digital assets (NFTs), and merchandise featuring character-based intellectual property. The company operates a marketplace and community platform where collectors can acquire, trade, and burn NFTs to unlock exclusive physical collectibles, events, and prizes.

2 investors

Versos connects to existing cloud storage (S3, Cloudflare, etc.) to analyze, structure, and make large video libraries searchable at the file and frame level, then builds and delivers AI-ready datasets against granular training specifications. It serves video library owners and studios looking to license and monetize archives to AI companies and model developers, with chain-of-custody, rights, and provenance tracking.

2 investors

VinePair is an online media outlet publishing news, guides, and editorial coverage about wine, beer, spirits, and other alcoholic beverages for drinks enthusiasts and industry followers.

2 investors