69 Best Entertainment Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Entertainment Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 1,508 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $30.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $445.8m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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OpenAI logo

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

7

Funding Rounds

$18.2b

Money raised

Instagram logo

Instagram

Instagram is a Menlo Park-based photo-sharing social media platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

Mythical Games logo

Mythical Games

Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.

9

Funding Rounds

$454.1m

Money raised

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Discord

Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.7b

Money raised

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Twitch

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Clubhouse (social media company)

Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.

2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

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Vidyard

Vidyard is a company providing a video marketing platform for businesses. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

4

Funding Rounds

$60.7m

Money raised

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Hadean (company)

Hadean is a venture-backed computing technology company that aims to make the nature of computing more accessible.

8

Funding Rounds

$99.0m

Money raised

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MixMob

P2E game build on Solana blockchain. Grab your mask and start your journey - level up from card strategy battle game to full MMO glory!

2

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Chess.com

Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Overtime (company)

Overtime is an online sports streaming platform that is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

5

Funding Rounds

$215.0m

Money raised

Razer logo

Razer

Razer is a United States-based company founded in 2005 by Min-Liang Tan.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0b

Money raised

Rec Room logo

Rec Room

Rec Room is a Seattle-based augmented and virtual reality software company.

7

Funding Rounds

$194.0m

Money raised

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LiveU

LiveU is a Hackensack, New Jersey-based broadcast company offering high quality live video streaming for television, online, and social media broadcasting.

5

Funding Rounds

$250.0m

Money raised

Scopely logo

Scopely

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

SignalWire logo

SignalWire

SignalWire is a developer of an API and products platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$41.6m

Money raised

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HackerNoon

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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Singularity University

Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.

5

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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VRChat

VRChat is a virtual reality communications platform. It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.2m

Money raised

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BlueStacks

American technology company, and its android emulator for windows and mac

4

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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StoryFit

StoryFit is an Austin-based company developing a proprietary AI platform with data insights to help storytellers realize a story's potential.

6

Funding Rounds

$13.2m

Money raised

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Upland

Upland is a property trading metaverse connected to real-world addresses.

3

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Shazam logo

Shazam

Shazam is an application developed by Shazam Entertainment Ltd. The application can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device. On 24 September 2018, Shazam Entertainment Ltd. was bought by Apple Inc.

10

Funding Rounds

$138.5m

Money raised

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Genies Universe

Genies is an American avatar technology company founded by Akash Nigam and Evan Rosenbaum in 2017. Genies consumer app allow users to create fully personalized avatars to be used in apps such as Giphy, iMessage, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and more.

3

Funding Rounds

$216.3m

Money raised

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Launch House

Launch House is a physical and digital community for entrepreneurs and creators.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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CodeCombat

CodeCombat is a company providing a multiplayer programming game for learning how to to code. It teaches Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.3m

Money raised

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Big Time Studios

Big Time is a multiplayer action RPG that makes collectable NFTs accessible to everyone.

2

Funding Rounds

$110.3m

Money raised

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Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company creating programs that use deep neural networks to teach themselves how to play a variety of games like Go and chess.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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One More Game

One More Game is a Seattle-based startup that specializes in the development of online video games.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.7m

Money raised

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PlayVS

PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

3

Funding Rounds

$95.5m

Money raised

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Pinecone

Pinecone is a company developing a fully managed, cloud-native vector database, simplifying adding vector search to production applications and providing long-term memory for AI applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$138.0m

Money raised

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InXile Entertainment

inXile Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Tustin, California. It is a studio of Xbox Game Studios since it was acquired by Microsoft in November 2018.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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Mundfish

Mundfish is a game development studio specializing in the production of role playing games.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Kernel

Kernel is a neuroscience and engineering company founded in 2016, based in Los Angeles. Kernel is developing neuroprosthetics that mimic or assist brain functions for patients with neurological and degenerative brain diseases. In the long term Kernel plans to develop less invasive brain implants that can augment human intelligence.

3

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

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Unikrn

Unikrn is a Seattle-based eSports betting site. The company was acquired by Entain in 2021.

4

Funding Rounds

$41.8m

Money raised

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Rainway

Rainway is a Seattle-based developer of real-time, low-latency tools for streaming, intended for developers and organizations to develop interactive streaming.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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StartEngine

StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform. StartEngine allows non accredited investors invest online, own shares in startups and early growth companies. Over 150 Startups and entrepreneurs have been funded on StartEngine.

2

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

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AVIWEST

AVIWEST is a Saint Grégoire, France-based video broadcasting solution provider offering software and hardware products for livestreaming and broadcasting. The company was acquired by Haivision Systems in February 2022.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.8m

Money raised

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Runway

Runway is an applied AI research company developing multimodal AI tools and systems for creatives.

6

Funding Rounds

$236.5m

Money raised

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Neurable

A brain-computer interface company building software and hardware products, neurotechnology tools that interpret human intent, measure emotion and provide telekinetic control of the digital world based on EEG signals.

6

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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Bambuser

Bambuser is a Software-as-a-Service company specializing in interactive live video streaming for enterprises that offer live video shopping.

6

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

Money raised

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StubHub

StubHub is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2000 by Jeff Lawson, Eric Baker, Jeff Fluhr and Shawn Kernes.

1

Funding Rounds

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Genius

Genius is a media annotation website.

6

Funding Rounds

$77.7m

Money raised

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Granicus

Granicus is an American technology company and a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners. It was founded in 1999 in San Francisco, before moving to Denver in 2014. Granicus creates websites for public organizations and US government entities, and works in legislation management.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.3m

Money raised

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Lazada Group

Lazada Group is an e-commerce company based in southeast asia founded in 2012.

5

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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Xplore

Xplore is a spacecraft development company focused on launching space missions to Mars, Venus, the Moon, and asteroids.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.2m

Money raised

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BioBeats

BioBeats is an artificial Intelligence company founded by David Plans, Nadeem Kassam and Davide Morelli.

8

Funding Rounds

$7.3m

Money raised

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RCRDSHP

RCRDSHP is a blockchain music on Flow.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Twin Suns Corp. logo

Twin Suns Corp.

Twin Suns Corp. is a Bainbridge Island, Washington-based video game development studio developing action games for console and PC.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Winzo logo

Winzo

Winzo is an India-based gaming and entertainment platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$166.0m

Money raised

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ArenaX Labs

ArenaX Labs is a company that specializes in game development.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

SoundCloud logo

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an entertainment company providing an online audio distribution platform for listening to music and podcasts.

6

Funding Rounds

$208.3m

Money raised

Newfront Insurance logo

Newfront Insurance

Newfront Insurance is a company that provides technologies that are designed to simplify brokerage processes

7

Funding Rounds

$610.0m

Money raised

NewsGuard logo

NewsGuard

NewsGuard is a company developing a browser add-on that rates news sources on their credibility; the purpose is to fight misinformation and fake news.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

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Mediachain Labs

Mediachain Labs was a Brooklyn-based blockchain company building an open and universal media library. The company was acquired by Spotify in 2017.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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Synthesia

Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.

9

Funding Rounds

$582.7m

Money raised

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Statespace

Statespace is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Jay Fuller and Wayne Mackey.

6

Funding Rounds

$49.5m

Money raised

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Formlabs

Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries

8

Funding Rounds

$267.4m

Money raised

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Esports One

Esports One, the first all-in-one fantasy esports platform with real-time predictive data, today added $4 million in additional funding led by XSeed Capital, Eniac Ventures, and Chestnut Street Ventures. Now, with new funding and new partnerships in place, the company will expand its platform access to global event organizers and support new gam...

4

Funding Rounds

$10.3m

Money raised

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JoyTunes

Platform that makes learning to play musical instruments accessible to everyone.

6

Funding Rounds

$92.0m

Money raised

CompleteSet logo

CompleteSet

CompleteSet is a company that acts as a world archive for collectibles, founded by Gary Darna and Jaime Rump.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0k

Money raised

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Mux (company)

A company providing an API allowing its users to encode, host and stream videos.

8

Funding Rounds

$293.8m

Money raised

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GamingFrog

GamingFrog is a Boca Raton, Florida-based competitive gaming platform that allows individuals and communities to compete in competitive tournaments for money.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

Gracenote logo

Gracenote

Gracenote is a company that works with entertainment data and technologies for music, videos, and sports

3

Funding Rounds

$33.4m

Money raised

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AppOnboard

AppOnboard is a company that is known for offering a no-code development platform, primarily for marketers.

3

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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SeatGeek

SeatGeek is a company founded in 2009 by Jack Groetzinger, Russell D'Souza and Eric Waller.

10

Funding Rounds

$308.9m

Money raised

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Betegy

A startup providing data- and algorithm-based statistical football predictions and up-to-date sports information.

1

Funding Rounds

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Dequency

A platform for music and visual creators to connect and collaborate on NFT art and metaverse content

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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Deezer

Deezer is a web-based music streaming service.

9

Funding Rounds

$841.3m

Money raised