69 Best Entertainment Startups in United States to Watch in 2024

Machine learning platform for data scientists and engineers to help create enterprise AI.

Total Raised: $746.63M

Last Funding: $400.00M (Series E)

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

Total Raised: $550.12M

Last Funding: $0.00M (Seed)

Zynga is a provider of social game services founded in 2007 by Mark Pincus, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, Steve Schoettler and Eric Schiermeyer.

Total Raised: $35.00M

Last Funding: $25.00M (Series B)

codeSpark is a company founded in 2014.

Total Raised: $2.50M

Last Funding: $2.50M (Seed)

Ense is a company founded in 2016.

Life Aircraft is a company developing an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

A network of decentralized marketplaces and communities built on the d0xINFRA framework.

Mines of Dalarnia is a free-to-play blockchain action-adventure platform mining game.

Duck Duck Moose is a company founded in 2008 by Nicci Gabriel, Caroline Hu Flexer and Michael Flexer.

Popdust is a New York-based company founded in 2010 by Philip James.

Software company with a real-time engine and flexible real-time tools used by game developers and creators across industries and applications in 2D, 3D, VR, and AR.

Zora Labs is a marketplace for non-fungible tokens.

Clicker.com is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company founded in 2009 by Paul Wehrley.

BidAway is a company founded in 2012 by Luca Carlucci.

B2B company providing on-demand software developers, designers, and product managers.

Sirius XM Radio, Inc. is a company founded in 1990 by Kirk Coburn.

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

Splice is a New York-based company.

Sidecar is a ridesharing, delivery, and transportation news source company.

The ONE Music Group is a San Francisco-based company.

Yahoo! is an american web portal and online service provider founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang, David Filo and Robby Stein.

PopSugar is an american media and technology company founded in 2006 by Brian Sugar.

TuneGO is a Las Vegas-based company.

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

Songbird is a music player founded by Rob Lord.

Saber Interactive is a developers of interactive games in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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

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

LTK is a Dallas-based company founded in 2011 by Baxter Box.

A biotechnology and software company offering prescription digital therapeutics.

MasterClass offers online educational classes.

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

GameFly is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2002.

OpenSea is an online marketplace for buying and selling cryptocollectibles. The company is located in New York City and was founded in 2017.

VR film company founded by award-winning filmmaker Chris Milk and technologist Aaron Koblin. WITHIN has a sister company (Here Be Dragons) which produces VR films.

Machinima is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2004 by Strange Company, Third Wave Digital and Philip DeBevoise.

Chartboost is a mobile games-only ad platform founded in 2011 by Maria Alegre.

Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.

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.

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

Rec Room is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 by Nick Fajt, Dan Kroymann, Bilal Orhan, Cameron Brown, John Bevis and Josh Wehrly.

Imeem is a social media web site founded in 2004 by Dalton Caldwell, Jan Jannink and Dalton Caldwell.

Pocket Gems is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2009.

TheBlaze is an Irving, Texas-based company founded in 2018 by Glenn Beck.

Pure Digital Technologies is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2001.

Ritual is a company that produces vitamins founded in 2015.

Singular is a San Francisco-based company creating a marketing intelligence platform.

A social games for iOS and Android development company. It participated in the S10 cohort of Y Combinator

Humble Bundle is a startup company providing a platform that allows people to pay what they want for downloadable content and give portion of the payments to charities of their choice.

100 Thieves is an esports and gaming lifestyle company founded in 2017 by Dan Gilbert, Scooter Braun, Nadeshot, Matthew Haag and Drake.