68 Best Streaming Media Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Streaming Media Startups

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There are 143 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $49.8m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$60.7m

Money raised

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

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5

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$215.0m

Money raised

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

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5

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$250.0m

Money raised

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

3

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$115.0m

Money raised

Atmosphere is an Austin, Texas-based streaming TV service for businesses, offering audio-optional TV programming with closed-captioning.

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3

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$10.3m

Money raised

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.

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6

Funding Rounds

$208.3m

Money raised

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

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8

Funding Rounds

$293.8m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Faceit is an independent competitive gaming platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$134.2m

Money raised

Videology is a New York City-based company founded in 2007.

5

Funding Rounds

$6.2m

Money raised

vidIQ is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Robert Sandie, Todd Troxell and James Cross.

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Popshop Live is an e-commerce platform.

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3

Funding Rounds

$26.5m

Money raised

A consumer electronics company with a device for sharing and streaming content. It was founded in 2007 and was located in New York City.

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Funding Rounds

$5.7m

Money raised

Flickstree is a Mumbai, Maharashtra-based video streaming platform.

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2

Funding Rounds

$19.3m

Money raised

Houseparty is a San Francisco-based developer of a group video chat application for face-to-face social media and connection.

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3

Funding Rounds

$130.0m

Money raised

Cadence is a company founded in 1998.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

Zype is the enterprise video content management system that enables organization to distribute video everywhere.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

Big Frame is an online collection of online resources.

3

Funding Rounds

$10.7m

Money raised

MUBI is a company founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel.

1

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Streamup is a live streaming community for music

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$4.9m

Money raised

Ateme is a Vélizy-Villacoublay-based video compression company.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

VHX is a video distribution platform.

1

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$3.8m

Money raised

A company with a platform consisting of podcast-style audio courses. It was founded in 2013 and is located in Los Angeles, California.

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2

Funding Rounds

$10.9m

Money raised

StyleHaul is a company founded in 2011.

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$40.0m

Money raised

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1

Funding Rounds

$235.0k

Money raised

Seed&Spark is a New York City-based company founded in 2012 by Eve Cohen, James Kaelan, Erica Anderson and Emily Best.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

Instrumental is a digital media company in London founded in 2013 by Abi Hanna, Charles Mindenhall and Conrad Withey.

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3

Funding Rounds

$18.7m

Money raised

A podcast aggregation platform for audio news, sports, and entertainment podcasts.

3

Funding Rounds

$31.5m

Money raised

An online platform for live sports, music, news, podcasts, and internet radio.

1

Funding Rounds

$36.0k

Money raised

A company offering a platform for connecting and monitoring camera systems.

1

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$15.0m

Money raised

Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

CAPE is a company that was launched with the aim of building software that unlocks the potential of commercial UAVs.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

TVU Networks is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2005.

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A technology company offering a video streaming-based social media platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

Pray.com is a Santa Monica, California-based company founded in 2016 by Steve Gatena.

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2

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Revl is a company developing and manufacturing smart action cameras founded in 2015 by Jennifer Roebuck, Aryn Hurst-Clark and Brandon Stephens.

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$6.0m

Money raised

Lightstream is a cloud-based live streaming software.

2

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$6.1m

Money raised

An online content consumption platform using artificial intelligence to deliver a unique content feed to each user.

2

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$4.3m

Money raised

LENS Immersive is a Sydney-based artificial intelligence company offering services for the delivery of 4K, virtual reality, and augmented reality video.

2

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$37.0m

Money raised

Vooks is a library of storybooks with accompanying animation, read-aloud narration, music, sound, and read-along text.

3

Funding Rounds

$9.4m

Money raised

VAULT is a predictive Insights Platform for the Media Industry founded in 2015 by David Stiff, Ziv Ayalon and Nir Tzachar.

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1

Funding Rounds

$767.0k

Money raised

Vokle was a Santa Monica-based company which built a live town hall platform enabling speakers to broadcast their live videos and audios to a virtual auditorium of viewers.. The company ceased operations in 2012.

1

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$3.2m

Money raised

Visbit is a Sunnyvale, California-based company founded in 2015 by Elaine Lu.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.6m

Money raised

Paperchain is a blockchain company founded in 2019 by Daniel Dewar, Dave Tomaselli and Rahul Rumalla.

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Big Think is a company founded in 2008.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

GIBLIB is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2016 by Jihye Shin, Brian Conyer and Jason Han.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Switchboard Live is a Philadelphia-based company founded in 2016 by Rudiger J. Ellis, Joshua Sachs and Jason Kotte.

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1

Funding Rounds

$340.0k

Money raised

Yactraq Online is a company founded in 2011 by Jehangir Daruvala.

1

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$3.7m

Money raised

GawkBox is a startup located in Seattle, WA. The company primarily offers users an ads based service to allow the transfer of real money donations to video game streamers. Users can download apps or watch ads in order to earn "Goins", which can be used to purchase Twitch subs or onstream stickers.

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$100.0m

Money raised

JW Player is a New York City-based company founded in 2004.

2

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$3.6m

Money raised

A company offering personal cloud computer designed and built for developers

1

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$83.3m

Money raised

Big Fish Games is a Seattle-based company founded in 2002 by Paul Thelen.

3

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

Pixvana, Inc. was a Seattle-based start-up offering a mixed-reality video processing and delivery platform. The company was active from 2016 to 2019.

1

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$1.0m

Money raised

Pivotshare is an Irvine, California-based company founded in 2010.

5

Funding Rounds

$102.0m

Money raised

Lightbend Reactive Platform is a production-grade JVM runtime & toolset

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1

Funding Rounds

$300.0k

Money raised

Georama is a Chicago-based company founded by Nihal Advani.

1

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$1.3m

Money raised

EEVO is a Brooklyn-based company founded by Alejandro Dinsmore, Casey Hancock, Matthew Griffiths and Harris Gordon.

1

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$12.0m

Money raised

Spredfast is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2008.

1

Funding Rounds

$575.0m

Money raised

TaTaTu is a social entertainment platform that rewards users when they watch and share photos and videos.

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2

Funding Rounds

$8.1m

Money raised

InteliVideo is a company founded in 2013 by Bradley Brown.

4

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$211.3m

Money raised

StreamElements is a company founded in 2017 by Doron Nir.

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2

Funding Rounds

$16.3m

Money raised

Arena is a company founded in 2017 by Paulo Martins.

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2

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

BoxCast is a Cleveland-based company founded in 2013 by Gordon Daily.

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1

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Evue Technologies is an artificial intelligence company developing recruitment technologies for businesses, education organizations, and placement agencies.

3

Funding Rounds

$259.0m

Money raised

Caffeine is Redwood City, California-based broadcast company creating and distributing live and interactive content.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Moment House is a digital live platform for artists and creators.

3

Funding Rounds

$9.5m

Money raised

MediaPlatform is a Beverly Hills, California-based company founded by Eric Pulier.

2

Funding Rounds

$177.0m

Money raised

Pixellot uses AI to automate the end-to-end video capturing and data collection for streaming and coaching in 15,000 fields and venues.

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