Media & Entertainment Startups

xTension is a live streaming DX service that enables audiences to send real-time emote reactions from their smartphones during live performances and events, displayed on stage to create engagement across both in-venue and live-viewing audiences. The platform also supports monetization through QR code-based premium emotes and fan merchandise integration.

2 investors

YesVideo is a media digitization service that converts old videotapes, film reels, photos, slides, and memory cards into digital formats, DVDs, and USB, with orders processed by technicians in the United States. Its offering now operates through a platform called Capture, which connects with Google Photos for viewing and sharing.

2 investors

Yodo1 provides a platform for indie developers and mobile game studios to monetize, distribute, and scale games across global markets. The company offers tools and expertise to optimize game growth and unlock access to rapidly-expanding audiences worldwide.

2 investors

YourTunes is a digital music distributor that publishes artists' releases to over 50 streaming platforms and online stores and monetizes their music on YouTube Content ID, UGC platforms, and social media. It offers artists release scheduling, daily streaming statistics, quarterly payouts, playlist pitching, AI-generated music publishing, and a Telegram streaming mini-app, aimed at independent artists and labels.

2 investors

YouScribe is a subscription service offering unlimited access to a catalog of over 500,000 ebooks and audiobooks, including novels, comics, manga, and online press, readable and listenable across devices and offline. It serves general consumer readers and reports over 2.4 million users.

2 investors

YousicPlay offers online music courses taught by professional musicians, covering piano, guitar, violin, drums, and vocals. It sells lifetime, self-paced video lessons to individual learners seeking direct instruction from well-known performers.

2 investors

YouTube is an online video-sharing platform where people can watch, upload, and share videos and build communities around their stories.

2 investors

Yutori is a Tokyo-based "street company" that creates new-generation consumer brands by combining digital expertise with individual stories, spanning multiple genres. The company aims to expand across Asia.

2 investors

ZAIKO is an event ticketing and live-streaming platform used by organizers to sell tickets and stream concerts, festivals, club nights, performances, and tournaments, with on-demand archive access. It focuses on the Japanese live entertainment market, covering both in-person venue events and paid streaming events.

2 investors

Zebra Labs produces Hollywood-grade VR concerts for pop artists and operates an AI fan-companion agent called LISA404 that provides 24/7 interaction, fan communities, and branded merchandise. The company serves entertainment fandoms and event organizers in China, combining immersive VR shows with AI-driven fan engagement and customized AIGC video production.

2 investors

Zenter was a web-based presentation application offering PowerPoint-style functionality along with the ability to pull in content from the web and share slide shows in a public library for others to remix. The company was acquired by Google in June 2007.

2 investors

Zibra AI develops ZibraVDB, a GPU-accelerated compression and real-time decompression technology for volumetric VFX (smoke, fire, fog, explosions) that integrates into tools like Unreal Engine, Houdini, and Gaffer via plugins and an SDK. It serves virtual production filmmakers, game studios, and VFX pipelines by shrinking OpenVDB asset sizes while preserving rendering quality for real-time playback.

2 investors

Ziff Davis is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: ZD) digital media and internet company that operates a portfolio of consumer and business brands across shopping, technology, cybersecurity, and other verticals. Its holdings include RetailMeNot and IPVanish.

2 investors

Zinnia TV is a digital media platform built for storytelling and content creation. The company focuses on enabling creators and media professionals to produce and share multimedia content.

2 investors

ZipDial provides mobile marketing services built on a consumer intelligence platform. Brands use it for campaigns involving coupon distribution, friend referral programs and on-pack promotional activations.

2 investors

Zixi provides software solutions for broadcast and live video workflows, serving content owners, broadcasters, service providers, sports organizations, and OTT providers with capabilities for content contribution, satellite replacement, B2B distribution, and direct-to-consumer enablement.

2 investors

ZumoDrive was a cloud-based media and file storage service that let users access their media and files online. It operated in the cloud storage and media space.

2 investors

Observer19 is a web directory that organizes and lists websites in a fixed, browsable gazette-style structure across 22 categories, covering industries such as technology, health, finance, and gaming. Site owners can submit URLs free of charge for review and permanent listing.

2 investors

Zya is a U.S. developer of mobile music creation software aimed at general consumers rather than trained musicians. Its Ditty app and underlying technology turn text and messages into personalized songs and videos, and the platform is also integrated into third-party products across web, mobile and gaming consoles.

2 investors

Galaxy Corporation produces entertainment content by combining AI and metaverse technology with creative storytelling, distributing original Korean entertainment formats globally. The company integrates intellectual property, media, and technology to create entertainment experiences for international audiences.

2 investors

Dream Perfect Regime (DPR) is a multi-genre music and video collective that creates, directs, produces, and edits visual work and curates artists from various musical backgrounds. Based in Seoul, it focuses on producing audiovisual experiences for general audiences.

2 investors

Macovill (마코빌) is a South Korean entertainment content company that creates original character IP and produces animation, games, and comics through a media-mix strategy. Its content includes the animated comedy series "Chitabu" and a match-3 puzzle game featuring the character Bellygom.

2 investors

MUZLIVE develops KiT, a smart media format that bridges physical music albums and digital devices, allowing fans to own and interact with artist albums through smart devices. The company also offers KiT Video for DVD content and is expanding into books, merchandise, and other media formats.

2 investors

Jocoos develops SaaS software providing video transcoding, real-time streaming, and instant video editing technologies for mobile and web platforms. The company serves OTT services, live broadcasting, live commerce, VR/AR, and other video-related businesses.

2 investors