69 Best Publishing Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Publishing 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 231 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $79.1m.

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

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Medium (company) logo

Medium (company)

An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.

1

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

Reddit logo

Reddit

Reddit is an online platform for social news. It allows communities to submit links, create content, and discuss any topic of their interest.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

Permutive logo

Permutive

Company providing user behavioral analytics for revenue optimization for websites and smartphone applications

7

Funding Rounds

$124.0m

Money raised

Scopely logo

Scopely

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

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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BenchSci

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

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Fandom platform

Fandom is the world's largest entertainment and gaming fan platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$141.2m

Money raised

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Yewno

Yewno is a company that has built AI technology for research and idea generation.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

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WaveOne

WaveOne is a Mountain View, California-based digital media company that utilizes artificial intelligence for video compression. It was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Casetext

Casetext is an AI legal research technology company. It was acquired by Thomson Reuters Corporation in June 2023.

7

Funding Rounds

$64.3m

Money raised

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Yieldify (company)

Yieldify is a website and mobile personalized engine no-code software for e-commerce brands used for improving sales conversion rates.

4

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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Narrative Science

Narrative Science is a Chicago-based business intelligence company using artificial intelligence and synthetic media systems to generate narratives around business data rather than dashboards.

7

Funding Rounds

$42.9m

Money raised

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NewsWhip

NewsWhip is a predictive media monitoring tool founded in 2011 by Paul Quigley.

7

Funding Rounds

$35.3m

Money raised

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Mendel.ai

Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

7

Funding Rounds

$65.4m

Money raised

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Inkitt

Inkitt is a digital publishing platform that uses a computer algorithm to predict book success based on reader behavior.

6

Funding Rounds

$137.9m

Money raised

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Meta (academic company)

Artificial intelligence company specializing in big data analysis of scientific and technical literature.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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XanEdu

XanEdu is a publishing company that offers custom course materials.

1

Funding Rounds

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Novel Effect

U.S-based company developing interactive mobile application for children book readings.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Swiftype

Swiftype is a company building search software for enterprises, websites and applications. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator.

5

Funding Rounds

$22.2m

Money raised

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Issuu

Issuu is a company founded in 2006 by Martin Ferro-Thomsen, Ruben Bjerg Hansen and Michael Hansen.

3

Funding Rounds

$51.3m

Money raised

Inkling logo

Inkling

Inkling is a company that develops a mobile learning enablement platform for businesses.

7

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

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Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a social networking website founded in 2008.

5

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

Bigpoint Games logo

Bigpoint Games

Bigpoint Games is an Hamburg-based company founded in 2002.

2

Funding Rounds

$460.5m

Money raised

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Parse.ly

Parse.ly is a company founded in 2009.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.1m

Money raised

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Submittable

Submittable is a company providing a cloud-based submission management platform for magazine, journal and book publishers. It participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.

5

Funding Rounds

$72.8m

Money raised

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Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Limited

Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Limited is an Edinburgh-based developer of optical molecular imaging technology.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

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BibliU

BibliU is an educational content platform that provide eTextbooks that work for academic libraries.

4

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social network to manage research, showcase work, and connect and collaborate with other researchers.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Wattpad

Wattpad is an online community themed around reading and writing founded in 2006 by Allen Lau.

6

Funding Rounds

$117.8m

Money raised

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Bitly

Bitly is a link management platform provider, helping enterprises optimize their digital operations with a variety of integrated social and digital marketing tools.

9

Funding Rounds

$96.1m

Money raised

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Zinio

Zinio is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2001 by Richard A. Maggiotto.

4

Funding Rounds

$37.4m

Money raised

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Snapplify

Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions by establishing a marketplace for digital education content, related educational services, and devices.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Onswipe

Onswipe is a New York City-based company founded in 2010 by Jason L. Baptiste.

3

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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SocialFlow

SocialFlow is a New York City-based company founded in 2009 by Mike Perrone.

5

Funding Rounds

$28.2m

Money raised

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Prismic (company)

A software company offering a headless content management system for editing online content.

1

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Days of Wonder logo

Days of Wonder

Days of Wonder is an american board game publisher founded in 2002 by Eric Hautemont.

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

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Zeetta Networks Limited

Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks

5

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Graphicly

Graphicly is a company founded in 2009 by Micah Baldwin.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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iSize Technologies

iSize Technologies is a London-based machine learning and artificial intelligence video compression company.

6

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

Money raised

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Papertrail

Papertrail is a company founded in 2010 by Eric Lindvall.

4

Funding Rounds

$641.2k

Money raised

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Perlego

Perlego is an AI-powered subscription-based digital online library founded in 2017 by Gauthier Van Malderen.

5

Funding Rounds

$43.3m

Money raised

Goodreads logo

Goodreads

Goodreads is a social website and book catalog website founded in 2007 by Otis Chandler.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

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MPP Global

Accelerate revenues with digital intelligence. Cloud Identity Management CRM & eCommerce

2

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

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Sonar

Sonar is a signal-based platform aimed at helping sales, marketing and growth teams monitor their target accounts for outreach opportunities, at scale.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.3m

Money raised

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PastBook

Online photobook to bring a collection of your photos across networks together into one place.

2

Funding Rounds

$19.9k

Money raised

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theSkimm

theSkimm is a New York City-based company founded in 2010 by Danielle Weisberg.

3

Funding Rounds

$25.4m

Money raised

Zmags logo

Zmags

Zmags is a Boston-based company founded in 2006.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.8m

Money raised

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Quietly

Quietly is a company founded in 2012 by Dario Meli.

3

Funding Rounds

Insticator logo

Insticator

Insticator is a company founded in 2012 by Zack Dugow.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Marquee logo

Marquee

Marquee is a company founded in 2015 by Katrina Brickner, Luke Dupont and Alex Cabrera.

1

Funding Rounds

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Populr.me

Populr.me is a company founded in 2011 by Nicholas Holland, Jared Scheel and Daniel Nelson.

2

Funding Rounds

$475.0k

Money raised

Wonderbly logo

Wonderbly

Wonderbly is a company founded in 2012 by Asi Sharabi.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

Contentoo logo

Contentoo

Contentoo is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Ron van Valkengoed.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

Storify logo

Storify

Social networking service

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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LiveIntent (advertising company)

LiveIntent is a New York-based company founded in 2009.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

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AX Semantics (company)

AX Semantics is a Stuttgart-based publishing company developing an artificial intelligence system for generating content and capable of copywriting for content producers.

3

Funding Rounds

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The Athletic

A web and app subscription for local and national sports coverage

4

Funding Rounds

$562.3m

Money raised

Plastic Logic logo

Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic is a Dresden-based company.

5

Funding Rounds

$195.7m

Money raised

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SatoshiPay

SatoshiPay is a blockchain company founded in 2014 by Alexander Wilke.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

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DoubleRecall

DoubleRecall is a company providing a recall based advertising platform and monetization solution for online media and mobile publishers. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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Compass News

Compass News is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Mayank Banerjee.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Story Chief logo

Story Chief

Content marketing automation software that simplifies the creation, planning, and distribution of content across multiple channels.

3

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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Gjirafa

Video content and e-commerce platform for the Balkans built on an Albanian language specialized search engine.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

Money raised

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IRIS.TV

IRIS.TV is a company founded in 2013 by Field Garthwaite, Robert Bardunias and Richie Hyden.

1

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

Open Road Integrated Media logo

Open Road Integrated Media

Open Road Integrated Media is a company founded in 2009 by Jane Friedman.

2

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

Dynamic Ideas logo

Dynamic Ideas

Dynamic Ideas is a company which publishes technical books through Dynamic ideas Publishing and offers transportation management tools through Dynamic Ideas Routing. The company offers AI and analytics consulting and products as well

8

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Yahaha

A UGC social entertainment platform. In Yahaha, anyone can create, modify, share, collaborate and have fun with 3D content.

1

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

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24symbols

24symbols was founded by Aitor Grandes, Angel Luengo, David Sánchez and Justo Hidalgo in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

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Booktrack

Booktrack is a company founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised