Next Media Accelerator

Next Media Accelerator, established in 2015 and located in Hamburg, Germany, is an independent accelerator that focuses on early-stage media technology startups from Europe, Israel, and the United States. Funded by over 30 media outlets in Germany and Austria, NMA aims to invest in innovative solutions that disrupt the media landscape. The accelerator targets various sectors, including business products, services, consumer products, consumer services, information technology, and software as a service (SaaS). Through its investments, Next Media Accelerator seeks to foster the development of groundbreaking technologies that can transform the media industry.

Lumma, Nico

Managing Partner

49 past transactions

musicube

Seed Round in 2021
musicube is an AI metadata and music search company.

Medieninsider

Seed Round in 2021
Medieninsider is an information service medium focusing on media change in terms of content, technology, and business, and reaction to digitalization. It focuses on the economic, content-related, and cultural development of journalistic media. It also covers journalistic debates with exclusive reports, analyses, comments, and interviews.

ReachTeens

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Consulting media companies for Gen-Z

musicube

Pre Seed Round in 2020
musicube is an AI metadata and music search company.

Followistic

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Followistic helps online publishers create lasting relationships with their audience. They offer services that include reader engagement, data analytics, and others.

Monfluence

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Enabling e-commerce for social media influencers

Klipworks

Seed Round in 2020
Klipworks is a foolproof video platform, for you to plan, record and share your videos. Capture ideas in minutes, engage your audience in seconds.

Moderne

Convertible Note in 2020
Moderne is a platform for advertising agencies and in-house creative teams that provides tons of highly tailored creative ad ideas and insights to feed creative minds as well as offers a digital workspace to make brainstorms more effective.

Sceenic

Seed Round in 2019
Sceenic provides solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its Watch Together technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience. Sceenic is a private company funded by R/GA Ventures and NMA.VC.

Cinuru Research

Seed Round in 2019
Cinuru Research is a data analytics company for the movie industry, offering AI-powered digital loyalty systems to cinemas and data-driven online campaigns to film studios. We reimagine the way movies are marketed in the Netflix age by bringing the potential of recommender algorithms to cinemas, leveraging deep taste profiles from our cinema loyalty app Cinuru to identify most likely audiences for any given film. We then help cinemas and studios to target moviegoers more efficiently, drastically reduce waste in campaigning, and bring more people to the theater.

LAMA

Seed Round in 2019
LAMA is providing video interviews as a service. We help businesses produce personalized video interviews in minutes, for a fraction of the cost of a professional video team. Users can conduct an interview directly through our app, and seamlessly integrate the video on their websites, blogs etc. We also have our own magazine, where we help entrepreneurs promote themselves and learn from each other.

Voimada

Seed Round in 2018
Voimada is an online platform that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to convert speech to text. With the power of Machine learning, voice recognition, speech to text we build an AI powered technology helps to transcribe audio, and video. Voimada is an handy tool for professionals and academicians.

Cinuru Research

Seed Round in 2018
Cinuru Research is a data analytics company for the movie industry, offering AI-powered digital loyalty systems to cinemas and data-driven online campaigns to film studios. We reimagine the way movies are marketed in the Netflix age by bringing the potential of recommender algorithms to cinemas, leveraging deep taste profiles from our cinema loyalty app Cinuru to identify most likely audiences for any given film. We then help cinemas and studios to target moviegoers more efficiently, drastically reduce waste in campaigning, and bring more people to the theater.

Shuut

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Shuut simplifies video advertising on social media for small businesses by making it faster, affordable and efficient.Powerful marketing doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. Video is the most engaging advertising format today. Have a minute and a phone? Shuut lets you make a great video of your business and publish it to hundreds of people nearby. With one click.

The Distriqt

Pre Seed Round in 2018
THE DISTRIQT is an entertainment platform with original video content for female millennials. DISTRIQT committed to engaging content in an ad-free environment and produce formats for intelligent, urban women, which you can experience bundled in one place - a district. DISTRIQT content is target group-relevant, non-fiction entertainment, close to the reality of life, the mind and the heart. DISTRIQT content channels are made up of edutainment (entertaining knowledge transfer on everyday issues), socialtainment (a stirring, humorous look at social change), and emotionality (an artistic, free exploration of the feelings we all share).

Heysite

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Heysite redefine the way people create a website: for free, easy, in a minute and on any device.

Whyapply

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Whyapply is a new approach how to attract talent with real content and performance marketing instead of standardized job ads.

Playgorithm

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Playgorithm developed an interactive content gamification SaaS platform that creates new monetization e-commerce and distribution.

Frameright

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Control how your images appear. Everywhere. Forever. Image display on the web is dictated by channel and screen size. This means pictures don't display as intended. Whether you are a photographer, creator, developer, or business, Frameright empowers you to take over the control of one of your most important assets. At Frameright, we are dedicated to building the market-defining Image Display Control technology. IDC makes your images smart and adaptable into any container and screen, no matter where they are used. Powered by our custom AI, Frameright speeds up your workflows and futureproofs your images. And at the core of it all, you always have the final say on your story’s composition

aiconix GmbH

Pre Seed Round in 2018
aiconix GmbH an AI technology enabler and solutions provider for analysis and processing of audio-visual content. By helping our customers to enrich their audiovisual (AV) content to make it detectable, searchable and usable, we enable them to work smarter. We make the best AI solutions for content processing available to everyone and every industry.

helloguide

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Helloguide introduces a SaaS-chatbot automation platform that converts content into dialogues - for an easy way to engage the mobile audience of media, museums, events, cities and brands.

Praise

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Praise is the first social network dedicated to quality journalism. Users get quality story tips directly from their favorite publishers, publishers get a high-quality link syndication alternative to the standard content discovery platforms out there. Starting out in the Germany, Austria, Switzerland region, our company has already secured content partnerships with key players like Stern, Süddeutsche and ZEIT.

Locationews

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Locationews is a location-based article browser and publishing platform with the emphasis.

Exponenta

Seed Round in 2018
Exponenta is founded by a publisher and a data scientist in order to bring a data-driven approach to content creation. With a team of data engineers, machine learning experts and writers, we decode the complexity of virality and provide actionable insights for content creators.

YOBO

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Using YOBO App people share photos of locations and rate and categorise these places using emojis. These posts are then compiled into other users individual recommendations feed based on their current location. Over time, the app also learns the habits of its users and recommends only places that suit them personally - along with considering the weather, the time-of-day, their activity and personal preferences.

Shotcaller Media

Pre Seed Round in 2018
The Shotcaller combines high standards of traditional journalism with a huge passion for esports. The endemic esports media outlet stands for high quality think pieces & interviews rather than hit-pieces.

Zazu

Angel Round in 2017
Zazu helps teams to create immersive experiences. Our tool helps clients to use stories across their customer journey, measurably improving their retention and conversion.

Simply Aloud Ltd

Seed Round in 2017
Simply Aloud is a media company offering speaker-as-a-service solutions with real human voice. It is transforming text news stories into audio tracks with a real human voice. We make the audio news available through an audio player integrated in the publisher's website, or on Amazon Alexa. Our solution allows the user to listen to many audio news in a playlist, so they can have your daily news digest.

asap.industries

Pre Seed Round in 2017
asapOS ist a company-internal process optimizing software to manage and book freelancers in a fast and easy way. Intelligent logarithm ensures highest quality of database with a match-making process that meets the agencies' need.

23 Degree

Pre Seed Round in 2017
23 Degree is a data visualization and mapping services provider.

Breaker

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Breaker is a breaking news platform that identifies and verifies breaking information from over a million different sources.

Toby

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Think of Toby like a shopping list with AI & connected to Websites through buttons. Using AI Toby will soon be able to write your shopping list automatically since our purchasing patterns are very repetitive. Buttons on Websites allow the user to save products he likes on his list and even to discover them in brick & mortar retail stores through our location based reminders. Not too soon Toby will even be able to arrange an automated delivery to your door without you having to leave the app.

iBot

Pre Seed Round in 2017
iBot is a bot builder that allows its users to easily build and launch a fully featured chatbot on Messenger for their online store. The chatbot can then show and promote your products through chat. The only thing you have to do is to upload your product

Smobapp

Pre Seed Round in 2017
SmobApp develops a mobile app which allows for group interaction on social media platforms. SMOB focuses on group interaction, sharing pictures on challenges takes the attention away from each individual upload and brings it to the whole group.

Newsreps

Seed Round in 2017
Newsreps is an App based News Network. We connect News companies with App users around the world. The User Generated News contributions are important, a recent study showed that 40% of the News when the war in Syria became public was produced on a smart-phone. We offer an ecosystem where App users and News companies can connect, communicate and our back-end handles all administration. User Generated News isn´t the future - It´s the News industry of today !

Sceenic

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Sceenic provides solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its Watch Together technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience. Sceenic is a private company funded by R/GA Ventures and NMA.VC.

Stream Time

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Stream Time is scheduling and discovery application for all live streaming platforms.

Contentflow

Seed Round in 2017
Contentflow is the global Next-Gen SaaS solution for multichannel, independent live streaming for events, conferences and media coverage. Contentflow develops software for video-livestreaming your event in flawless quality to any mobile and stationary device available.

Get Who Cares

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Get Who Cares is a software development company. They offer services that include transferring apps and data to a new smartphone, adding security headers to Cloudflare workers from the dashboard, troubleshooting locked Steam content files on Windows PCs, and recording phone calls on Android.

Snappd

Seed Round in 2016
Snappd helps ecommerce brands increase engagement, conversions & revenue through mobile first video. By allowing these brands to harness the power of the Instagram story experience within their own websites, transforming the way people interact with their site. We are now expanding this, to further help brands create dedicated mobile first interactive experiences to their website to reshape the way their customers explore their product catalog. Currently working with global brands & testing with publishers that have a collective monthly reach of over 55 millions visitors.

isnotTV.com

Pre Seed Round in 2016
isnotTV.com is content and engagement for newspapers.

PushApps

Seed Round in 2016
PushApps automatically transforms your regular push notifications into a multi-optioned and dynamically optimized notifications. The PushApps SDK provides new user experience, enabling user interaction directly from the notification, real time A/B testing and beautiful layouts.

Minty

Seed Round in 2016
Minty is a global illustration on demand platform, connecting illustrators with publishers and marketers. Their team with more than 25 years of experiences working for News International or Leo Burnett has built a revolutionary licensing system, where art buyers save money and every illustrator gets a chance for future income once artwork rights expire. Their partners a include Deutsche Presse Agentur and Picture Alliance.

Spectrm

Seed Round in 2016
Make messaging your #1 CRM channel to build lifelong customer relationships. Consumer marketers use Spectrm to engage and convert customers with AI chatbots on the most popular messaging apps, like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram DMs.

Yatrus Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Yatrus Analytics provides real-time data-analytics of the political, economic and cultural systems surrounding the financial and socio-political sectors by analyzing data, from all possible sources, and providing them with added value intelligence. Organizations in those sectors have not fully utilized the value of external data. There are too many data sources and it’s too hard and time-consuming to find the truly valuable ones. They provide them with the larger networks of events, actors and their relations to put in context their internal data insights and to adapt the strategic decision-making of those organization to the chaotic and constantly changing environment.

WEPOLITICS

Seed Round in 2016
The opinion and participation platform that helps media, corporates and organizations understand what their people think.

Adtriba

Seed Round in 2015
Adtriba allows businesses to track, control and optimize their customer’s journeys, offsite and onsite, through AI and user journey analysis. Adtriba integrates user journey data across all channels - including TV ads and offline marketing campaigns - and applies machine learning to all user journey events. The results are optimization suggestions and actionable insights, allowing for cross-channel optimization of marketing ROI.

Spotgun

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Spotgun is a developer of a 2nd screen application designed to make TV commercial breaks, fun and interactive.

Nqyer

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Nqyer is influencer powered native advertisement on every major platform. Find easily highly popular and influentive social media talents, publishers and content creators via Nqyer's directory and get in contact directly. No commission, no restrictions.
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