69 Best Entertainment Startups in United States to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Entertainment Startups in United States

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There are 80 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $76.8m.

Last update to the database: Jun 17, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$910.0m

Money raised

An end-to-end blockchain and NFT solution for video games.

2

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$7.0m

Money raised

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

$2.0b

Money raised

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

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3

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$20.0m

Money raised

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

3

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$216.3m

Money raised

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.

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3

Funding Rounds

$95.5m

Money raised

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

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3

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$60.0m

Money raised

Zora Labs is a marketplace for non-fungible tokens.

7

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$610.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

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

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$4.5m

Money raised

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

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$5.0m

Money raised

Sound.xyz is a company that provides the songs of musical artists in the form of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

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8

Funding Rounds

$33.8m

Money raised

Apptopia is a company founded in 2011 by Eliran Sapir.

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$5.0m

Money raised

Blockade Games specializes in integrating blockchain and alternate reality components into puzzles and games.

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Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Light Field Lab is a technology company making holographic ecosystems founded in 2017.

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$1.5m

Money raised

The Creative Technology Studio for Web3 Artists and Fans.

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Funding Rounds

$209.0k

Money raised

SnowShoe is a company founded in 2010 by Claus Moberg.

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Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

8tracks is an internet radio and social network that streams specific song playlists that contain at a minimum eight tracks

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Funding Rounds

$605.0k

Money raised

A company that participated in the W11 cohort of Y Combinator

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$5.2m

Money raised

MediaSpike is a company founded in 2012 by John McCrea, Blake Commagere and Daniel Dodd.

3

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$130.0m

Money raised

Cadence is a company founded in 1998.

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Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

rct AI is a build Metaverse with AI generated content founded in 2018 by Xiankun Wu.

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Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

Wonder OS provides the world's first Android-based platform built for seamless, all-in-one play.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.7m

Money raised

Piper is a San Francisco based STEAM education technology company and creator of the Piper Computer Kit.

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2

Funding Rounds

$7.7m

Money raised

Chromatik is a company founded in 2010 by Matt Sandler.

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Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Kongregate is a company founded in 2006.

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$16.8m

Money raised

Ninja Metrics is a company founded in 2009 by Dmitri Williams.

3

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

Red Tricycle is a company founded by Jacqui Boland, Craig Zingerline and Dan Zaner.

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4

Funding Rounds

$333.0m

Money raised

Triller is a New York-based company that focuses on an AI-Powered video app and social platform.

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$13.0m

Money raised

Current Media is a blockchain ecosystem that is designed to allow users to choose how they stream media

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Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

Graphicly is a company founded in 2009 by Micah Baldwin.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

Pixowl is a company founded in 2011 by Arthur Madrid.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0k

Money raised

Anywhere.FM provides a cloud-based platform for uploading, playing and sharing music. Imeem acquired Anywhere.FM in 2008.

3

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

Gameflip is creating the commerce engine for the gaming Metaverse

1

Funding Rounds

$36.0k

Money raised

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

1

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$1.2m

Money raised

Dwell is a company founded in 2000.

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Motion Math is a company founded in 2010 by Gabriel Adauto.

3

Funding Rounds

$126.0m

Money raised

N3TWORK is a company founded in 2013 by Neil Young, Bob Stevenson, Erik Lammerding, Steve Detwiler and Alan Yu.

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$2.5m

Money raised

World's First Blockchain Gaming Ecosystem.

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$200.0k

Money raised

CashBet is a cryptocurrency iGaming platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.8m

Money raised

Players' Lounge is a company founded in 2019 by Austin Woolridge, Zach Dixon and Dan Delaney.

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3

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Lightstream is a cloud-based live streaming software.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.1m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$103.8m

Money raised

Candy Digital is a company founded in 2009 by Gregory Balestrieri.

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Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Sagewise is a new start up that serves as a safety net for smart contracts and resolve disputes using blockchains and cryptocurrency.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Humtap is a San Francisco-based synthetic media company offering an artificial intelligence system for creating music and music videos.

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Funding Rounds

$67.5m

Money raised

Lumos Labs is a company founded in 2007 by Kunal Sarkar.

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1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

Habit Labs is a company providing a system of personal health recommendation technology.

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3

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

1HUDDLE is a company founded in 2015.

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Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

A company offering personal cloud computer designed and built for developers

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Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

MoPix is a company founded in 2011 by Ryan Stoner.

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Funding Rounds

$8.1m

Money raised

InteliVideo is a company founded in 2013 by Bradley Brown.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.5m

Money raised

Blavity is a company founded in 2014 by Jeff Nelson, Jonathan Jackson and Aaron Samuels.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Rapchat is a United States-based company founded in 2018.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

The Ready Games Network (RGN) is building mobile-first Web3 tools and technologies to democratize access to game creation.

1

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

Zigazoo is a developer of a mobile application for streaming short videos for kids.

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DeepStream VR, Inc. is a company founded by Howard Rose.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

CodeMonkey is a company founded in 2014 by Yonatan Schor.

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2

Funding Rounds

$8.6m

Money raised

Lucid Sight is a company founded in 2015.

3

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

Religion Of Sports is a company founded in 2017 by Tom Brady.

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2

Funding Rounds

$13.5m

Money raised

Sanlo is a company founded by William Liu.

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Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

The Last Gameboard is a United States-based company.

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Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Buckmasters is an entertainment and media company aiming to preserve ethical hunting and to promote intelligent, practical wildlife and habitat management and conservation.

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Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

2

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Stickery is a United States-based company.

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Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

Barstool Sports is a company founded in 2003 by David Portnoy.

2

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

Khush is a company founded by Prerna Gupta.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Zencastr is an online platform for recording and editing podcasts founded in 2014 by Josh Nielsen.

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