Media & Entertainment Startups

FOX 17 (WZTV) is a local television news station serving Nashville and Middle Tennessee, publishing local, national, weather, sports, and entertainment coverage online. Its site aggregates news stories, investigative reports, video, and shopping content for the regional audience.

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The Foxtel Group is an Australian technology-led streaming and pay-television company that delivers sports, entertainment, and other content across broadcast and streaming products, reaching around one in two Australian homes. It serves consumers in Australia through its portfolio of streaming and subscription services.

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Fragment is a digital studio that builds virtual reality and augmented reality experiences, custom mobile apps, AI/machine learning features, animation, gamification, and DevOps infrastructure. It serves clients such as museums, cultural institutions, brands, and industrial companies across sectors including health, retail, finance, and entertainment.

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Framebase provides an API that abstracts away video infrastructure complexities, allowing developers to integrate video handling into applications through simple code without managing transcoding, compatibility, or content delivery networks directly.

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Framestore is a visual effects and creative studio producing work across film, episodic television, advertising, and immersive experiences. It employs around 3,000 artists and producers in offices worldwide and has developed proprietary rendering and shading technology for filmmaking.

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Frankly Media provides an integrated digital platform for media companies, broadcasters, and publishers, combining a CMS for managing live and on-demand video, photos, and multimedia stories with multi-screen publishing across web, social, and connected-TV apps. It also offers multi-platform advertising services spanning direct sales and programmatic, including server-side ad insertion.

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Frantic Films is a production company that creates television series, feature films, and documentaries across drama, comedy, variety, factual, and reality genres for a global audience. It collaborates with co-producers, creatives, and networks, with its programming sold to over 150 countries.

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Free Press Indiana is a nonprofit that builds and supports local newsrooms to provide nonpartisan, community-centered journalism across Indiana. It operates its own newsrooms and coordinates partnerships with other news organizations to close coverage gaps for residents statewide.

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indie.io is a full-service publishing and marketing platform for indie PC game developers, offering game development, QA, marketing, promotions, and distribution support from pre-launch through post-release. It operates the wiki.gg gaming wiki platform and Indie Pass, a subscription service giving players access to a curated catalog of indie titles while providing developers an additional revenue stream.

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Freedom Audio Visual is a minority-owned company providing audiovisual services for events, including audio, visual, and production support at hotel ballrooms, convention centers, and other venues. It works with event planners and businesses nationwide, offering technical directors, producers, and AV technicians.

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Freespeech provides AI-powered video translation and dubbing, automatically translating spoken content into multiple languages and generating voiceovers to help creators expand their audience globally. The platform integrates with YouTube and other content platforms, targeting content creators and media producers.

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FMS (Freestyle Master Series), operated by Urban Roosters, is a professional freestyle rap battle league that organizes competitive events, national leagues, and international tournaments across countries including Argentina, Chile, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, and Bolivia. The platform publishes news, videos, and event ticketing for freestyle competitions and related media content.

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FreeTelly operates a TV platform designed to serve as a central hub for home entertainment, information, and connectivity. The company targets households seeking a unified media and information service for entertainment, fitness, and social connection.

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Freethink is a digital media publisher that produces articles, essays, op-eds, and original video series covering science, technology, and innovation topics such as AI, biotech, longevity, robotics, and space. Its content, including series like "Hard Reset," is aimed at a general audience interested in progress and emerging technology.

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Frequency Machine helps businesses and individuals create podcasts and audio shows, offering production services to develop ideas into finished programs. Its work includes narrative and travel series formats.

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Fresh AI is a daily AI news podcast that is researched, scripted, voiced, and published entirely by artificial intelligence, hosted by an AI persona named Tallulah AI. Each episode delivers coverage of AI technology, investment, and innovation in 15 minutes or less.

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Friend MTS (FMTS) provides content security and anti-piracy solutions that monitor, trace, and disrupt piracy of live, linear, and on-demand content. It serves sports, media, and entertainment brands, drawing on a large piracy database to help them recover lost revenue.

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Fritz is an AI-driven platform that reviews, ranks, and analyzes AI tools, apps, and websites based on ethics, functionality, and innovation. It also publishes guides, tutorials, and reviews to help beginners and enthusiasts learn about AI and machine learning.

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Frndly TV is a streaming service offering family-friendly, feel-good TV channels and programming at a low starting price. It is a family-run American business targeting consumers who want affordable, clean entertainment with an easy-to-use app.

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Frontiers is an academic publisher of open-access, community-run journals covering more than 1,700 scientific disciplines, offering researchers tools to submit, publish, and share their work. It also runs Research Topics, a data management service for AI-ready publications, and a science film series for researchers and the broader scientific community.

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Frontsight is a digital media company that produces human interest stories and footage from remote and conflict-affected regions, embedding with local communities to document life in these areas. It distributes this content through its own digital platform.

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Farnam Street is a media and educational platform focused on mastering decision-making and understanding big ideas through essays, newsletters, podcasts, and books for a general audience interested in learning and self-improvement.

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FT Adviser is a news and editorial publication for UK financial advisers and planners, covering pensions, investments, mortgages, protection, tax, regulation and wealth management. It also offers CPD content, opinion pieces and industry commentary aimed at the advisory profession.

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A Japanese-language editorial web publication that profiles notable people connected to Fukuoka and the wider Kyushu region across fields such as business, art, culture, academia, and community development. It publishes an ongoing "人物図鑑" (people directory) series of interview-style articles.

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