Gaming

18Birdies is a San Francisco-based golf technology company founded in 2014 that has built one of the most widely used golf performance apps in the world. The platform combines a GPS rangefinder with h

Activision Blizzard is one of the world's largest video game publishers — producing blockbuster franchises including Call of Duty (the top-grossing franchise in gaming history), World of Warcraft (the

Adobe Analytics is Adobe's enterprise digital analytics platform providing real-time behavioral intelligence across web, mobile app, streaming, and connected device touchpoints — delivering advanced s

Aimlabs (developed by StateSpace) is a gaming performance technology company founded in 2017 by Wayne Mackey and headquartered in Boardman, Ohio. The company's flagship product is the Aimlabs platform

AIVideo.com is a US-based AI video production platform — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with seed funding from Unpopular Ventures and Simma Capital closed February 2025 — providing an all-in-one AI-powe

Alienware is a Miami, Florida-based premium gaming hardware brand — owned by Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) since 2006 acquisition for $60 million — producing high-performance gaming PCs (desktops and

Amazon Music is the music streaming service of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) — available at no additional cost to Amazon Prime subscribers and as a standalone subscription at $10.99/month — offering

Amazon Prime Video is Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) subscription streaming video service — included with Amazon Prime ($139/year or $14.99/month) or available standalone ($8.99/month) — providing on-demand

Animoto is a New York-based DIY video creation platform that has served small businesses, marketers, educators, and consumers since its founding in 2006. The platform pioneered the template-driven vid

api.video is a cloud video API platform built for developers who need to embed video upload, processing, and playback into their applications without operating video infrastructure. The API covers the

Apple Music is Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) subscription music streaming service — offering 100 million+ song catalog, lossless audio quality (Apple Lossless, 24-bit/192 kHz), Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos

Apple TV+ is Apple's subscription video streaming service providing original movies, series, documentaries, and children's programming — exclusively Apple Originals without the back-catalog library of

Arc XP is a cloud-based digital experience platform developed and operated by The Washington Post — providing content management (headless CMS), video management, e-commerce, subscriptions, audience a

Artificial Agency is a game AI company building a behavior engine for non-player characters (NPCs) in video games. Founded by researchers from Google DeepMind, the company applies frontier AI techniqu

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) is the gaming-focused sub-brand of ASUSTeK Computer Inc., a Taiwanese multinational electronics and hardware company founded in 1989 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

AvatarOS is an AI platform company specializing in the creation and operation of lifelike 3D digital avatars for gaming, entertainment, and enterprise applications. The company was founded by the crea

aXiomatic is a gaming and esports investment and ownership group founded in November 2015 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company's primary strategy is to acquire controlling interes

Beamable is a Boston-based game services company that provides a Unity-native live game services platform designed to help game studios build, operate, and monetize live-service games without leaving

Beehiiv is a newsletter and creator media platform founded in 2021 by Tyler Denk, Benjamin Hargett, and Jake Hurd — three alumni of Morning Brew who built and scaled one of the most successful newslet

BetMGM is a U.S. online sports betting and iGaming operator formed as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain PLC, launched in 2018 and headquartered in New Jersey. Leveraging the

BetRivers is a U.S. online sportsbook and iGaming brand operated by Rush Street Interactive (RSI), a Chicago-based gaming company founded in 2012 by Neil Bluhm and Greg Carlin. RSI operates BetRivers

Biteable is an Adelaide, Australia-based video creation platform focused on helping businesses produce animated explainer videos, presentation videos, social media ads, and internal communications con

Brightcove is a cloud video platform providing video hosting, streaming, publishing, and monetization infrastructure for media companies, publishers, enterprises, and marketers who need professional-g

Build A Rocket Boy is an independent video game studio founded in 2016 by Leslie Benzies — the former President of Rockstar North and one of the lead developers behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise —

Caesars Digital is the online gaming division of Caesars Entertainment, the largest U.S. casino-hotel operator. Launched following the 2020 merger of Caesars Entertainment and Eldorado Resorts, the di

Cameo is a consumer platform founded in 2017 that enables fans to purchase personalized video shoutouts directly from celebrities, athletes, musicians, comedians, and creators. Users browse talent pro

Campfire 3D is a mixed reality collaboration platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, and backed by Y Combinator. Founded to address the workflow friction that hardware design and engineer

Captions is the dominant mobile-first AI video editing platform, serving 10 million+ global creators who produce 3 million AI-edited videos monthly. The company raised $75 million in growth financing

Carry1st is a mobile gaming and digital content company founded in 2018 by Cordel Robbin-Coker, Lucy Hoffman, and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu, headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. The company operat

Catapult Sports is a performance analytics company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with significant operations in Chicago that develops GPS and inertial wearable devices for athlete monitoring,

Chaos is a Sofia, Bulgaria-based visual technology company founded in 1997 by Vladislav Slavov and Peter Mitev, originally known as Chaos Group. The company develops V-Ray — the world''s most widely u

Chartbeat is a real-time content analytics platform used by digital publishers, news organizations, and media companies to understand how audiences engage with content — tracking page views, time on p

Cinapse is a Y Combinator-backed production management platform that digitizes the analog workflows of film and television production — providing Hollywood crews, studios, and production companies wit

Cleeng is a subscriber retention and management platform designed specifically for broadcasters, sports rights holders, and OTT operators running subscription video businesses at scale. The platform's

Cloudinary is a cloud-based media management platform that handles the entire lifecycle of images and videos in web and mobile applications: upload, storage, transformation, optimization, and CDN deli

Coherence is a Stockholm-based multiplayer game development platform that dramatically lowers the barrier to building online multiplayer games for Unity developers by automatically generating the netw

Comcast Corporation is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based media and technology conglomerate — listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: CMCSA) — operating as the largest US cable company (Xfinity cable, internet, and

Dacast is a professional live streaming and video-on-demand hosting platform designed for businesses, media organizations, and event producers that need reliable broadcasting infrastructure without th

Decart is an Israeli-American AI startup that develops real-time generative models capable of producing interactive video at zero latency. Founded less than two years before its August 2025 funding an

Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform founded in 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy and headquartered in San Francisco, California, originally designed to give gaming commu

DraftKings is a Boston-based digital sports entertainment and gaming company founded in 2012 by Jason Robins, Matthew Kalish, and Paul Liberman. Originally a daily fantasy sports platform, DraftKings

DreamCraft is a generative AI game creation company that is democratizing game development by allowing anyone—regardless of programming skills—to build, customize, and share 3D games using natural lan

Dream Games is an Istanbul-based mobile gaming company that has become one of the most successful independent game studios in the world. Founded in 2019 by alumni of Peak Games (acquired by Zynga for

EA Sports is the sports games division of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) — producing the world's most-played sports video game franchises including EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA, after the FIFA license di

ego AI is a San Francisco-based AI company building persistent, intelligent AI characters for gaming environments — creating non-player characters (NPCs) that exhibit human-like reasoning, memory, and

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is a Redwood City, California-based global interactive entertainment company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: EA) as an S&P 500 Communication Services component — develop

Engage XR is an enterprise virtual collaboration and training platform headquartered in Waterford, Ireland. Founded in 2017 and listed on the Euronext Growth Market, Engage XR develops a platform that

Epic Games is a Cary, North Carolina-based gaming and technology company best known for Fortnite (the world's most-played battle royale game with 100+ million registered accounts) and Unreal Engine (t

ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is the dominant US sports media company — providing 24/7 live sports coverage, breaking news, analysis, and original programming across linear TV ch

Evolution is a Swedish B2B iGaming company founded in 2006 and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, providing live dealer casino games and RNG content to online casino operators worldwide. The company develops

Facebook is Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ: META) flagship social networking application — the world's largest social network with 3.3+ billion daily active people across Meta's family of apps (Facebook, Ins

Fanatics Inc. is the world's largest retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise, operating a global commerce platform that serves fans of every major professional and collegiate sports league.

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is the sports betting and online casino arm of Fanatics, Inc., the licensed sports merchandise and trading card giant founded by Michael Rubin. Fanatics entered sports bettin

FanDuel is the United States' largest sports betting and daily fantasy sports operator, headquartered in New York City and founded in 2009. Acquired by Flutter Entertainment (formerly Paddy Power Betf

Focal is a video content intelligence company that helps creators and media teams extract maximum value from their video recordings by automating the identification and production of short-form clips

Frameplay is an intrinsic in-game advertising platform that enables brands to place non-disruptive advertisements directly within game environments — on billboards, jersey patches, storefronts, and ot

GAN Limited is a publicly traded B2B internet gaming software company (NASDAQ: GAN) headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company provides its GameSTACK technology platform to regulated land-based c

Genies is an avatar technology company that enables users to create and deploy highly customizable digital representations of themselves across games, social platforms, and virtual environments. Its A

Genius Sports is a London-headquartered sports technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (GENI) that occupies a unique position in the sports data ecosystem as both a data rights holder

Genvid Technologies is the pioneer of Massively Interactive Live Events (MILEs) — a technology category that blends live-streamed games and interactive entertainment into experiences where large onlin

Gling AI is a specialized AI video editing tool built for YouTubers, podcasters, and video content creators who spend significant time cutting out silence, filler words, and awkward pauses from their

Google Ad Manager is Alphabet's unified ad serving and monetization platform for digital publishers — combining what were previously two separate Google products (DoubleClick for Publishers/DFP for la

Greenfly is a content distribution and digital asset management platform headquartered in Santa Monica, California that enables professional sports teams, leagues, media partners, and athlete represen

Gumlet is a developer-focused video infrastructure platform providing API-driven video hosting, transcoding, and delivery optimized for product teams building video features into web and mobile applic

Gumroad is a creator commerce platform enabling independent creators — writers, artists, educators, musicians, and developers — to sell digital products, memberships, and courses directly to their aud

Gym Class is a Los Angeles-based VR sports gaming company that has built the top-rated sports game on Meta Quest — achieving a 4.9-star rating from 58,000+ reviews and millions of global downloads wit

Max (formerly HBO Max) is the flagship streaming service of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD) — launched as Max in May 2023 after combining HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single service — prov

Heroic Labs is a London-based game infrastructure company best known for Nakama, its open-source distributed game server designed for building real-time multiplayer games, social features, and live-se

Homido is a French consumer electronics brand founded to bring virtual reality experiences to mainstream consumers through smartphone-based VR headsets — cardboard and plastic viewer frames that mount

Hudl is a sports technology company that provides video analysis, performance data, and coaching tools to athletic programs ranging from youth travel teams through professional franchises across more

Hulu is a streaming entertainment platform founded in 2007 as a joint venture among major broadcast networks and now fully owned by The Walt Disney Company. Hulu's founding mission was to bring premiu

Improbable is a UK-based technology company building the infrastructure and applications for large-scale virtual worlds, metaverse experiences, and multiplayer simulations. Founded in 2012 by Herman N

Infinite Reality (iR) is an innovation company founded in 2022 by John Acunto and Elliott Jobe that powers the next generation of digital media and e-commerce through extended reality (XR), artificial

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media platform founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in San Francisco, California, and acquired by Meta (then Facebook) in 2012 for approximat

Inworld AI is founded in 2021 by Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Kylan Gibbs, and Michael Ermolenko, headquartered in Mountain View, California. Raised over $125 million from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fu

JW Player is a video hosting, streaming, and advertising platform serving media companies, broadcasters, publishers, and enterprises that need reliable video delivery at scale with monetization capabi

Kaltura is an enterprise video technology company providing a comprehensive platform for video hosting, management, live broadcasting, and interactive video experiences across education, media, and co

Kambi Group is a leading B2B provider of sports betting services, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and publicly traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market. Founded in 2010 as a spin-off from Unibet

Kapwing is a San Francisco-based online video editing platform designed for social media content teams, marketers, and creators who need a collaborative, browser-based tool for producing video, GIFs,

Kevel (formerly Adzerk) is an ad infrastructure company founded in 2010 by James Avery to provide API-first ad serving technology that allows digital platforms to build custom, first-party advertising

Kino AI is a San Francisco-based AI-powered video post-production platform — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with seed funding from Pioneer Fund and YC — providing professional video editors, filmmakers,

Klap is a Paris-based AI video repurposing startup that emerged from Y Combinator and quickly built a following among content creators who need to convert long YouTube videos and podcast recordings in

Ko-fi is a bootstrapped creator support platform that lets fans make one-time or recurring donations and purchases directly to creators — operating as a creator-friendly alternative to Patreon with a

Krea is positioning itself as the unified creative platform for the AI era — a single interface that aggregates all major generative AI models for image and video creation (Veo 3, Kling 2.5, WAN, Runw

Labster is a virtual laboratory simulation platform headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, founded in 2011 to address the global gap in access to well-equipped science education. Labster creates highly

Latitude is an AI-powered gaming company founded in 2019 in Provo, Utah, by Nick Walton. The company is best known for AI Dungeon, a text-based adventure game that uses large language models to genera

Legionfarm is a Wilmington, Delaware-based esports coaching and gaming companionship platform — backed by Y Combinator (S20) with $13.5-17 million in total funding including a $6 million round in May

Lemon Slice (formerly Infinity AI) is a San Francisco-based generative video AI platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $6 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, The Chainsmo

Linum (formerly built as an AI video platform) is a San Francisco-based AI animated video creation company — backed by Y Combinator with $125,000 in seed funding in 2023 from Y Combinator, Adverb Vent

Logitech International is a Swiss-American computer peripheral and accessories company producing mice, keyboards, webcams, speakers, headsets, gaming gear, video collaboration devices, and streaming a

LootLocker is a Copenhagen-based game backend-as-a-service company that gives game developers pre-built infrastructure for the operational and social features that modern games require, without the co

Lumen5 is a Vancouver-based AI video creation platform that pioneered the text-to-video content format, enabling marketing teams and content creators to convert blog posts, articles, and written scrip

MagnaPlay is a Lisbon, Portugal-based AI-assisted game localization platform that combines machine translation with expert human translators to deliver game localization at 5x the speed and half the c

Magnite is a Los Angeles-based independent sell-side advertising (SSP) platform — the world's largest independent supply-side platform — that helps publishers, broadcasters, and app developers monetiz

Marfeel is a publisher analytics and advertising technology platform that helps digital media companies understand their audiences and optimize content and revenue performance. Founded to serve indepe

Meta Quest is Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ: META) standalone virtual reality headset line — the Quest 3 (launched October 2023, $499 for 128GB) and Quest 3S (launched October 2024, $299) offering mixed rea

Microsoft HoloLens is an enterprise-focused mixed reality headset that projects holographic images onto the physical world — enabling hands-free work in industrial, healthcare, military, and field ser

Mirelo is solving the "silent problem" in AI video generation: AI-generated videos have no synchronized, contextually appropriate sound. The company raised $41 million in seed financing led by Andrees

MobyMax is an adaptive K-12 learning platform that provides personalized curriculum across 27 subjects including math, ELA, science, social studies, and life skills, designed for use in both regular c

Momento is a serverless caching and messaging platform providing instant, zero-infrastructure Redis-compatible cache, pub/sub messaging, and leaderboard services that developers can add to application

Moon Active is a Tel Aviv-based mobile gaming studio founded in 2012 that became one of the most successful mobile game developers in the world through its flagship title Coin Master. The company was

Moonvalley is an AI video generation company building video AI models trained exclusively on licensed content — differentiating from Sora, Runway, and other video AI companies that trained on web-scra

Mosaic is an AI-enhanced creative production platform designed for entertainment studios, post-production facilities, and visual effects pipelines that manage large-scale content production. The compa

Motive.io is an XR training platform focused on industrial and field workforces, providing immersive VR simulations for jobs performed in complex, hazardous, or equipment-intensive environments. The c

Netflix, Inc. is a Los Gatos, California-based global entertainment streaming company — publicly traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: NFLX) as an S&P 500 Communication Services component — operating the worl

Niantic is an augmented reality platform company and game developer headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2010 as an internal startup within Google before spinning out as an independe

Nintendo is a Kyoto-based global gaming company that develops gaming hardware, software, and entertainment experiences — producing iconic first-party game franchises including Super Mario, The Legend

Nota is an AI newsroom toolkit built specifically for digital publishers and independent news organizations, founded in 2022 with the mission of helping journalists work faster without compromising ed

Novig is a peer-to-peer sports prediction market platform where users trade directly against each other on sporting event outcomes — rather than betting against a traditional sportsbook house that tak

Now.gg is a cloud gaming and mobile game distribution company founded in 2020 by Rosen Sharma and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The platform enables players to instantly launch and play m

nunu.ai is a San Francisco-based AI game testing and playing platform — backed by Y Combinator (W23) with $8 million in total funding including a $6 million seed in March 2025 led by TIRTA with Andree

ONE Championship is the world''s largest martial arts organization and Asia''s premier global sports media property. Founded in 2011 by Chatri Sityodtong and Victor Cui, and headquartered in Singapore

OpenBet is one of the world's largest sports betting technology providers, with its software powering some of the highest-volume sportsbooks globally, including William Hill, Ladbrokes Coral, and Sky

Opus Clip is an AI-powered video repurposing platform founded in San Francisco that automatically transforms long-form video content into short, viral-ready clips optimized for platforms like TikTok,

Overtime is a digital sports media company built for the next generation of athletes and fans, specializing in original sports content, youth athlete development leagues, and multi-platform distributi

Overwolf is a Tel Aviv-based platform company that enables developers and creators to build, distribute, and monetize in-game apps, mods, and overlays for PC games. The platform's SDK integrates direc

Pandora Media is a music streaming and radio service — owned by SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) since 2019 for $3.5 billion — providing personalized internet radio stations driven by the Music Genome Project,

Paramount Global is a major American mass media and entertainment company owning CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, the Paramount movie studio, and Paramount+ (streaming service). Formerly Vi

Patreon is the leading creator membership platform enabling artists, podcasters, YouTubers, writers, musicians, and other content creators to earn recurring revenue through paid fan memberships — offe

Peacock is NBCUniversal's streaming video service offering a combination of free ad-supported and paid subscription tiers with content from NBC, Bravo, USA Network, Syfy, E!, MSNBC, CNBC, and Universa

Permutive is a publisher data platform (PDP) that helps media companies and publishers build, activate, and monetize first-party audience data without relying on third-party cookies — providing audien

Photon Engine, developed by Exit Games, is a Hamburg-based game networking company that provides the most widely deployed real-time multiplayer networking SDK in the game development industry, support

Piano is a digital experience analytics and customer data platform that helps media companies, enterprise websites, and subscriptions businesses understand user behavior, personalize content experienc

Pictory is an AI-powered video creation platform based in Bellevue, Washington, that enables marketers, content teams, and educators to convert written content—blog posts, scripts, articles, and long-

Pixellot is an Israeli sports technology company founded in 2013, headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel. It develops AI-powered automated camera systems that capture, produce, and distribute live spor

PlayMetrics is a youth sports club management platform designed to serve the administrative and operational needs of competitive youth sports organizations — soccer clubs, lacrosse programs, basketbal

PlayStation is the gaming brand of Sony Group Corporation (TYO: 6758 / NYSE: SONY) — the global consumer electronics and entertainment conglomerate generating ¥13+ trillion ($88B+) in annual revenue —

PlayStation VR (PSVR) is Sony's console-based virtual reality platform — the PSVR1 (2016-2022) used the PlayStation 4, and the PSVR2 (launched February 2023, $549) uses PlayStation 5, featuring a dedi

Playtika is an Israeli mobile gaming company founded in 2010 in Herzliya, Israel, and listed on Nasdaq in 2021. The company pioneered social casino gaming—free-to-play mobile games that simulate casin

PlayVS is an esports infrastructure company founded in 2018 that operates organized competitive gaming leagues for high school, middle school, and college students across the United States and Canada.

Pocket Gems is a San Francisco-based mobile game studio founded in 2009 that develops genre-defining interactive entertainment for smartphones and tablets. The company is best known for two flagship t

Podcastle is an AI-powered audio content creation platform that has evolved from a consumer podcast creation tool into a three-track product strategy: Studio (consumer podcast and voice content creati

Pragma Engine is a Los Angeles-based game backend platform company that builds enterprise-grade backend infrastructure for live-service games at the scale of major studios and publishers. Unlike gener

Pragmatic Play is a leading B2B iGaming content provider founded in 2015 and headquartered in Sliema, Malta. The company develops and licenses online slots, live casino, virtual sports, and bingo prod

Prisms VR is an immersive VR mathematics curriculum company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded to address the persistent challenge of math achievement gaps among middle school student

PrizePicks is the largest daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator in North America, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The platform uses a simplified pick'em format — players select 2–

ProbablyMonsters is an independent video game holding company founded in 2016 by Harold Ryan — former president and CEO of Bungie (creator of Halo and Destiny) — and headquartered in Kirkland, Washing

Prodigy Education is a gamified adaptive learning company that provides K-8 students with curriculum-aligned math and English practice embedded within an engaging role-playing game experience. Founded

PubMatic is a digital advertising technology company providing a sell-side platform (SSP) that enables publishers — news websites, apps, streaming video publishers — to programmatically sell their adv

Razer is a Singapore and San Francisco-based gaming lifestyle brand designing and manufacturing high-performance gaming peripherals, laptops, streaming equipment, and gaming payment infrastructure. Li

Reddit is the front page of the internet — a massive social media platform organized into thousands of interest-based communities (subreddits) where users share content, discuss topics, and vote on wh

Reforged Labs is an AI-powered video advertising platform for gaming companies — transforming live gaming content, gameplay footage, and existing creative assets into polished video advertisements usi

Riot Games is a Los Angeles-based game developer and publisher that transformed competitive gaming — best known for League of Legends (LoL), the world's most-played PC game by active players and the f

Riverside.fm is the professional recording infrastructure for podcasts and video interviews, used by clients including Marvel, enterprise media teams, and public figures' production offices. The compa

Roblox is a San Mateo, California-based gaming and social platform where users create, share, and play 3D experiences built by other users on the platform — operating as both a gaming engine (Roblox S

Rubbrband is an AI-powered content production platform for film and advertising — providing AI storyboarding, automated trailer and ad generation, and film launch tools that help content creators, mar

Runware is building the "one API for all AI" inference layer for visual media, providing a unified API that allows developers to run any AI image or video generation model without managing GPU infrast

Samsung Gear VR is Samsung's mobile virtual reality headset platform, developed in collaboration with Oculus (Facebook/Meta) and designed to use Samsung Galaxy smartphones as the display and processor

Sandbox VR is a location-based virtual reality entertainment company founded in 2016 by Steve Zhao and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company designs, builds, and operates premium VR

Scenario was founded to solve one of the most persistent challenges in game development: maintaining visual consistency across large volumes of AI-generated art assets. Early AI image generation tools

Scopely is a leading mobile gaming company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Culver City, California. Backed by Savvy Games Group (Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund subsidiary), Scopely develop

SeatGeek is a ticket search and secondary marketplace platform headquartered in New York City that aggregates listings from primary box offices, resale sellers, and partner ticket platforms into a uni

Second Dinner is an independent video game development studio founded in 2018 by Ben Brode and Hamilton Chu — both veterans of Blizzard Entertainment, where Brode served as lead designer of Hearthston

Second Spectrum is a sports analytics company founded in Los Angeles that applies computer vision, machine learning, and spatiotemporal analysis to broadcast and arena camera footage to generate granu

Semafor is a global digital news platform founded in 2022 by veteran journalists Ben Smith — former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief — and Justin Smith — former Bloomberg Media CEO — and headquartered in

Skydance Media is a diversified entertainment company founded in 2010 by David Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Skydance began as a f

Sleeper is a fantasy sports and social gaming platform founded in 2017 by Nan Wang and Pratyush Buddiga, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform combines traditional fantasy leagu

Smule is a social music platform and mobile application that enables users to sing solo or collaborate with others in real-time across a library of more than 14 million songs. Founded in 2008 by Ge Wa

Sonauto is an AI music generation company that allows users to create original, production-quality music tracks from text descriptions, genre specifications, and mood parameters. The platform uses gen

Songtradr is an American B2B music licensing platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The platform enables brands, content creators, advertising agencies, game studios,

Sony Group Corporation is a Tokyo, Japan-based global technology and entertainment conglomerate — listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 6758) and NYSE (NYSE: SONY) — operating across six business s

Soundry AI is a generative audio company that enables creators to produce custom sound effects and audio assets from text descriptions, transforming the sound design workflow for games, film, advertis

Spatial.io is a 3D collaboration and spatial computing platform headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2016 and having raised $50M in funding, Spatial began as an enterprise-focused AR collaborati

Splitgate is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter developed and published by 1047 Games, founded by Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian in 2017. The game's defining mechanic is real-time porta

Sportradar is a global sports data and technology company headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange (SRAD), and recognized as the largest sports data provider in th

Spotter is a creator economy company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, that provides capital and AI-powered tools to YouTube content creators. The company's core model is a

Stats Perform is a global sports data and artificial intelligence company headquartered in Chicago with offices across Europe and Asia-Pacific that collects, processes, and distributes official sports

Steam is the world's largest PC gaming distribution platform, developed and operated by Valve Corporation, which was founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Valv

Storyboarder is an open-source storyboarding software application developed by Wonder Unit that helps filmmakers, animators, and video creators quickly visualize their stories through sketched boards,

Strivr is an immersive VR training platform headquartered in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015 from Stanford University research on immersive learning. Strivr focuses exclusively on enterprise

Submagic is an AI-powered short-form video editing platform designed specifically for the demands of social media content creation, with a strong focus on animated captions, viral text hooks, and visu

Subsets is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based AI retention automation company — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $1.65 million in pre-seed funding in February 2024 led by Upfin with participation from YC, C

Substack is a publishing platform that enables writers, journalists, and creators to publish newsletters and build subscriber communities with integrated payment infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Chr

Sync. (also known as Sync Labs) is a San Francisco-based generative video AI company that develops industry-leading lip-syncing technology — enabling creators, media companies, and enterprises to modi

TagMango is a Bengaluru, India-based creator monetization and digital business platform — backed by Y Combinator (W20) — providing Indian creators, coaches, educators, and subject matter experts with

Take-Two Interactive Software is a leading American video game company producing some of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed video game franchises — Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar Ga

Talespin is an XR learning and talent development platform headquartered in Culver City, California. Founded in 2015, Talespin builds immersive VR and AR learning experiences designed to develop inter

Tencent Cloud is the cloud computing division of Tencent, one of China's largest technology conglomerates with revenues exceeding $80B annually. Launched in 2013, Tencent Cloud was built on the infras

Tencent Gaming is the games division of Tencent Holdings (HKEX: 0700) — the Shenzhen-based technology conglomerate — making Tencent the world's largest video game company by revenue, generating approx

thatgamecompany is an independent video game studio founded in 2006 by Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, known for creating emotionally resonant, artistically distinctive games that explore human conne

The Ankler is an independent trade publication covering the entertainment industry — Hollywood studios, streaming platforms, talent agencies, production companies, and the business of entertainment —

The Interface is an entertainment technology company building platforms and tools for creating AI-native interactive experiences that go beyond traditional video games or linear content. The company's

Theorycraft Games is an independent multiplayer game studio founded by veterans from Riot Games, Blizzard, and other top studios, with a mission to create deep, socially-driven competitive games. The

The Trade Desk was founded in 2009 by Jeff Green and Dave Pickles, veterans of AdECN (acquired by Microsoft), to build a demand-side platform giving media buyers transparent, data-driven access to pro

The Walt Disney Company is one of the world's largest entertainment and media conglomerates, founded on October 16, 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Oliver Disney in Los Angeles, California, now headquar

TikTok is a short-form video social media platform developed by ByteDance, a Chinese technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Beijing, with TikTok's international operations based in Lo

TMRW Sports is a sports and entertainment company co-founded in 2022 by golf legends Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy alongside business partner Mike McCarley, former president of Golf Channel. The compan

Topaz Labs develops AI-powered video enhancement software — upscaling, noise reduction, motion deblurring, and frame interpolation — that has become the industry standard for professional video post-p

Trackman is a Danish sports technology company headquartered in Vedbaek, Denmark that develops Doppler radar and camera-based tracking systems used in professional golf, baseball, cricket, and several

Transistor is a podcast hosting platform designed for businesses, agencies, and prolific creators who operate multiple podcast shows and need a single account that scales across all of them. Unlike mo

Trendex is a sports betting and fantasy sports analytics platform providing statistical modeling, injury news, matchup analysis, and data-driven betting insights for recreational and serious sports be

TSM (Team SoloMid) is an American esports organization founded in 2009 by Andy "Reginald" Dinh and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Originally founded around competitive League of Legends, TS

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Veritone, Inc. is a publicly traded enterprise AI company founded in 2014, headquartered in Irvine, California (NASDAQ: VERI). Led by co-founders Chad Steelberg (CEO) and Ryan Steelberg (President). F

Viagogo is a global secondary ticket marketplace founded in 2006 by Eric Baker — who also co-founded StubHub — and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The platform enables buyers to purchase tickets

Vimeo is a video hosting, sharing, and streaming platform that positions itself as the professional-grade alternative to YouTube — providing ad-free video hosting with customizable player, privacy con

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