Media & Entertainment Startups

Aru operates a Japanese manga website created with contributions from manga fans, offering reviews, recommendations, feature articles, and daily "what to read today" content. The platform also links to legally licensed digital manga distribution for readers.

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alu Inc. builds web services and apps for creators, starting with the manga media and community service "Alu" developed in partnership with major Japanese publishers. The company focuses on tools that help fans support creators and works with content IP companies.

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Amaury is a French media and sports group whose activities include A.S.O (sports event organizer), the sports newspaper L'Equipe, advertising arm Amaury Media, and Team Active. It operates across sports events, sports journalism, and media/advertising.

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Amberscript provides transcription, subtitling, media localisation, accessibility, and content distribution services, combining speech-to-text software with professional language editors. It serves media and broadcasting, universities, government, legal, and healthcare customers across Europe, offering both automatic and expert-reviewed accuracy levels.

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Ambient Bookstore is an online bookstore selling fiction and other books with recommendations, discounts, and free shipping. It also offers the Ambient Books companion app that syncs ambient videos with the reading experience.

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American Hometown Media provides content, monetization, and technology products for digital publishers and online influencers, including its CuratorCrowd traffic and engagement platform and a large collection of user-submitted recipes. It serves community media groups and other online publishers in the United States.

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The Center for American Progress is a public policy research and advocacy organization that publishes reports, articles, and analysis on U.S. issues such as immigration, economy, health care, national security, climate, and democracy. It hosts events and produces policy proposals aimed at influencing American political debate.

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Ametsuchi Design is a Japanese company that uses customer experience design and digital technology to promote regional revitalization, including tools that turn ryokan (inn) guest rooms into showrooms and support local industry. It focuses on transforming tourism and promoting the appeal of regions across Japan.

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AMI is a digital entertainment network that provides jukeboxes, licensed background music, music videos, and trivia games to bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues across the U.S. and Canada. It works through operator partners and offers a consumer app, along with an advertising platform that reaches adult patrons via in-venue digital displays.

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AMIRA operates amira-welt.de, a German education and community platform for pharmacy staff (pharmacists, PTAs, PKAs and students), combining professional training with peer exchange. It also offers brands communication channels, market research, and content services to reach pharmacy teams across Germany.

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Amped makes a mobile application for discovering live events and purchasing tickets. It applies data analysis and machine learning to recommend concerts, theater performances, sporting events and local happenings, and gives performers information about who is attending and following them.

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AmpMe is a mobile app that synchronizes multiple phones to play music simultaneously, letting users combine their devices into a portable, louder sound system.

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AMS Network provides membership management software that lets organizations manage member details, renewals, invoices, equipment and facilities, and member projects and media archives. It includes custom reporting for grant applications to the Canada Council, indicating a focus on Canadian arts and media organizations.

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Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is an academic publisher of research across the humanities and social sciences, serving a global academic community. It runs a journals programme, a Dutch-language academic publishing programme, and English-language imprints such as CEU Press.

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AMTD Digital is a digital solutions platform operating across several verticals, including digital financial services, digital media, content and marketing, strategic investments, and hospitality and VIP services. It also holds digital financial licenses and invests in digital new economy companies.

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Amuse offers self-service music distribution that lets independent artists release music to major streaming services and social networks, keep their royalties, and track performance via iOS, Android, or web. It also provides artist and label services, including release strategy, catalog optimization, and revenue management, for a roster of independent acts.

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RxList is an online drug information reference that provides details on prescription medications, drug classifications, comparisons, vitamins and supplements. It offers consumer tools such as a drug interaction checker and pill identifier.

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The Museum of American Finance is a museum in Boston's Seaport district that presents exhibits on the history of American finance, ranging from Alexander Hamilton's original writings to topics like AI, blockchain, and the future of money. It offers free admission and is open to the general public.

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And We're Laughing (AWL) provides event production, brand activation, marketing, and consulting services for music festivals, independent venues, experiential events, and brands. It offers event staffing and management, immersive brand activations, value-based marketing strategies, and business development consulting across the entertainment and experiential space in the United States.

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Andi AI is an AI-powered search engine that uses proprietary indexing technology to deliver search results with fact-verified answers. It serves individual users and developers through both consumer search and API products, competing in the AI search market.

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AndThen creates human-crafted audio experiences that users navigate and control using their voice.

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Personal website of Angel Gambino, a commercial executive, founder, and advisor who helps founders, boards, and CEOs commercialize frontier technology across media, music, sports, gaming, creator economy, wellness, and AI. She offers go-to-market, growth, and M&A advisory services, speaking engagements, and runs a founder community and newsletter.

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Personal blog of tech entrepreneur and writer Anil Dash, publishing essays about technology, systems, and culture. The site has been continuously updated since 1999 and contains an archive of over 2 million words with no ads or trackers.

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Animasia is an animation studio offering pre-production, 2D/3D and hybrid animation production, and post-production services, and it creates original IPs, co-productions, and project servicing for global brands. It also handles corporate and government campaigns and distributes IPs and brands across TV, digital, streaming, and licensing.

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