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Vietcetera Media is a media company based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, founded in 2016. It focuses on publishing online news content that covers a variety of topics, including business, lifestyle, culture, fashion, and entertainment. The company aims to connect modern Vietnam with a global audience by providing insightful briefings on Vietnamese affairs, society, and business. Through its digital platform, Vietcetera Media enables readers both within and outside Vietnam to stay informed about relevant events and trends, fostering a better understanding of the country.
Zaiko Pte Ltd. is a Singapore-based ticketing company that operates a white label platform designed for event organizers and digital media companies. Founded in 2019, Zaiko provides a comprehensive solution that enables users to create, manage, and sell tickets for a variety of events, including festivals, club events, exhibitions, sports, and tourism packages. The platform not only facilitates ticket sales but also offers live streaming options, allowing organizers to broadcast their events directly to fans under their own branding. Zaiko's innovative approach includes a unique paid live streaming and video-on-demand service, consolidating both online and offline ticketing functionalities within a single platform. This positions Zaiko as a versatile partner for artists, performers, and event organizers looking to enhance audience engagement and streamline their ticketing processes.
Majarra is an Arabic online content provider that operates a subscription platform focused on the online content industry. The platform offers a wide range of topics, including management, science, technology, psychology, general health, and finance. By providing access to these subjects, Majarra aims to empower users to make better-informed personal and professional decisions.
Loco, a live trivia game show app. Loco offers an interactive trivia game show that lets users answer 10 multiple choice questions and win money in real time. The game’s prize money is Rs 10,000 and winners can get their reward directly into their Paytm account. The live quiz covers topics such as current events, technology, food, sports, religion, politics, music, movies and history, according to information available on its Google Play store page.
Zaiko Pte Ltd. is a Singapore-based ticketing company that operates a white label platform designed for event organizers and digital media companies. Founded in 2019, Zaiko provides a comprehensive solution that enables users to create, manage, and sell tickets for a variety of events, including festivals, club events, exhibitions, sports, and tourism packages. The platform not only facilitates ticket sales but also offers live streaming options, allowing organizers to broadcast their events directly to fans under their own branding. Zaiko's innovative approach includes a unique paid live streaming and video-on-demand service, consolidating both online and offline ticketing functionalities within a single platform. This positions Zaiko as a versatile partner for artists, performers, and event organizers looking to enhance audience engagement and streamline their ticketing processes.
NewsBytes is an innovative media technology company based in Ghaziabad, India, specializing in the creation and distribution of news content through an AI-powered platform. The company offers a unique online application that presents news in a timeline format, enabling users to access information efficiently. It distinguishes itself as the only media technology company in India capable of producing high-quality content in multiple languages with minimal human intervention. NewsBytes operates as a hybrid entity, combining a consumer-facing media platform with a B2B technology division that licenses its content creation technology to other businesses. This dual approach addresses the challenges of content production in the media market, making it a significant player in the industry.
MinuteMedia is a digital sports media and technology company that focuses on content creation and distribution. Established in 2011 and headquartered in London, it operates an online platform that enables fans and social influencers to create, publish, and share sports content across various formats, including articles, videos, and interactive media. The company supports a diverse range of digital media brands, including 90min, which caters to football enthusiasts, and 12up, which focuses on U.S. sports. Additionally, MinuteMedia offers DBLTAP, a platform for e-sports content, and Mental Floss, known for its engaging lifestyle content. With a commitment to innovation, MinuteMedia delivers over 1,000 pieces of curated content daily in multiple languages, serving a broad audience that includes advertisers, publishers, and Fortune 500 companies.
Tamatem Inc. is a mobile gaming studio and publishing company headquartered in Amman, Jordan, with an additional office in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2013, Tamatem focuses on developing and localizing games for Arabic-speaking smartphone users, addressing a significant market gap. The company collaborates with international studios and developers to publish various genres, including MMO-RPG, strategy, racing, puzzle, and trivia games, ensuring these titles are culturally relevant for the Arabic gamer. With a strong emphasis on localization, user acquisition, and monetization strategies, Tamatem has successfully published over 40 games that collectively have garnered more than 50 million downloads. As a leader in the MENA market, Tamatem's expertise aids in enhancing game visibility and revenue potential for its partners.
Zaiko Pte Ltd. is a Singapore-based ticketing company that operates a white label platform designed for event organizers and digital media companies. Founded in 2019, Zaiko provides a comprehensive solution that enables users to create, manage, and sell tickets for a variety of events, including festivals, club events, exhibitions, sports, and tourism packages. The platform not only facilitates ticket sales but also offers live streaming options, allowing organizers to broadcast their events directly to fans under their own branding. Zaiko's innovative approach includes a unique paid live streaming and video-on-demand service, consolidating both online and offline ticketing functionalities within a single platform. This positions Zaiko as a versatile partner for artists, performers, and event organizers looking to enhance audience engagement and streamline their ticketing processes.
spokenlayer converts printed content and publications into audio. It allows clients to submit their articles using its self-guided API so that the company takes the content from the clients and finds suitable voice for narration thereby enables listening the content using mobile, Web, or in the car. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
Kiswe Mobile, Inc. is a media packaging and technology company that specializes in live media solutions for sports and entertainment content owners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New Providence, New Jersey, Kiswe develops an application that allows users to discover, direct, watch, clip, and share live videos from their smartphones. The company's flagship product, CloudCast, leverages cloud-based technology to enhance the production and broadcasting of live events. Kiswe's solutions are utilized by major broadcasters, media companies, sports and eSports leagues, and music labels, including notable clients such as BTS, the NBA, and the PGA Tour. With additional offices in Europe and Asia, Kiswe aims to connect at-home viewers with live events and in-venue fans through interactive video experiences that foster social engagement and loyalty.
Nexd Ou, a technology company, provides mobile media advertising solutions. Its solutions include Adcanvas self-service platform that allows agencies, brands, and publishers to create lightweight ads; and managed services to design, deliver, and manage ads from concept through to delivery and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with sales offices in Berlin, Vienna, and New York. It has a development hub in Tallinn, Estonia.
As of April 26, 2019, operates as a subsidiary of Nikkei Inc.
Helping online publishers evaluate, benchmark and rank content and authors' performance across platforms and languages
The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.
MinuteMedia is a digital sports media and technology company that focuses on content creation and distribution. Established in 2011 and headquartered in London, it operates an online platform that enables fans and social influencers to create, publish, and share sports content across various formats, including articles, videos, and interactive media. The company supports a diverse range of digital media brands, including 90min, which caters to football enthusiasts, and 12up, which focuses on U.S. sports. Additionally, MinuteMedia offers DBLTAP, a platform for e-sports content, and Mental Floss, known for its engaging lifestyle content. With a commitment to innovation, MinuteMedia delivers over 1,000 pieces of curated content daily in multiple languages, serving a broad audience that includes advertisers, publishers, and Fortune 500 companies.
Asoko Insight is Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments looking for research on Africa’s key private sector landscapes. Users can access industry reports, supply chain analyses, and a database of companies to help with origination, business development and due diligence. The company's local research analysts, based out of several regional offices, work with executives and data partners to monitor corporate data from key companies in the region. As Asoko consolidates their footprint in the largest economies, they are also expanding data collection operations to surrounding countries across the continent.
Gremi Media S.A. operates in the media business in Poland. It operates as a media platform in the business-finance-law segment. The company publishes Rzeczpospolita, an economic and legal daily, and liberal conservative newspaper; Gazeta Gieldy i Inwestorów “Parkiet”, a specialized daily newspaper to the stock exchange and the whole capital market; and Uwazam Rze Historia, a monthly magazine presenting the facts from the past, historical figures, and the foundations of modern times. It also operates rp.pl, an online portal in the business-finance-law segment; parkiet.com, a portal for people who invest and/or save money and to know the level of profit generated by their mutual funds, the types of bonds worth buying, or the kinds of deposits and insurance to choose; historia.uwazamrze.pl, a portal for people interested in history, facts, and sensational events from the past; and eKiosk, an online newsstand with digital press, which various electronic versions of newspapers and magazines. In addition, the company provides legal services. Further, it organizes conferences and debates on various topics, such as capital markets, finance and management, energy, real estate, law and taxes, pharmacy, IT, or marketing; and training sessions, seminars, and workshops. Gremi Media S.A. is based in Warsaw, Poland.
Underdog specializes in assisting companies with their digital transformation needs, focusing on the sports industry. The firm distinguishes itself through its unique content creation and creative capabilities, which are tailored to meet the diverse goals of its clients. By collaborating closely with a variety of organizations, Underdog aims to enhance their digital strategies and overall performance, ensuring they effectively navigate the evolving landscape of sports and entertainment.
Atlas Obscura Inc. is an online magazine and travel company that serves as a comprehensive guide to unique and unusual destinations around the world. Founded in 2009 by Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras, the company is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. Atlas Obscura allows users to explore a vast array of curious sites, including miniature cities, glass flowers, and unusual architectural wonders. The platform features user-generated content alongside editorial articles that cover various topics, including history, science, food, and travel. Additionally, Atlas Obscura highlights events in major cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., fostering a community of explorers eager to discover the world's hidden gems.
Syte develops a product discovery platform designed to transform the way people search and shop online. It is a provider of visual AI technology that aims to improve retailers’ site navigation, product discovery, and user experience by powering solutions that engage and convert shoppers. The B2B enterprise's solution includes camera search, augmented site search, personalization engines, and smart in-store tools, empower shoppers to discover and purchase products instantly. Their camera solution enables shoppers to take a picture of a product that inspires them and search for visually similar products within a retailer’s site. Up to date, Syte has raised $71 million from investors including Viola Ventures, LG Tech Ventures, NHN Ventures, Kreos Capital, Naver Corporation, Commerce Ventures, Storm Ventures, Axess Ventures, La Maison, MizMaa Ventures, Magma, Naver Corporation, Line Corporation, Reimage Ventures, North Base Media, and KDC Ventures. In 2014, Helge Voss, Idan Pinto, Lihi Pinto Fryman, and Ofer Fryman established Syte in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv.
Helping online publishers evaluate, benchmark and rank content and authors' performance across platforms and languages
OpenSlate is the premier global source of brand safety and contextual analytics for digital video content. Founded in 2012 by CEO Mike Henry, OpenSlate is the only company that can comprehensively measure the brand suitability of digital content for advertisers and also identifies the most-effective content for their campaigns. They provide advertisers with brand-suitable targeting solutions, as opposed to simply monitoring for after-the-fact exposure to inappropriate content. Their technology, data expertise, and proprietary analytics were developed specifically to support the needs of the world’s largest digital video platform — YouTube — and are extensible to all video content across the web. Our platform is used by every major advertising holding company, as well as the world’s largest advertisers. OpenSlate was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.
The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.
Duta Software India Pvt Ltd. is an emerging international media company founded in 2015 and headquartered in both Chennai, India, and Silicon Valley. The company develops an online platform that delivers breaking news, sports updates, entertainment news, and devotional content to millions of subscribers globally. Duta utilizes popular mobile messaging apps, including WhatsApp and Telegram, to provide engaging and interactive services. With a leadership team of experienced tech entrepreneurs and backing from venture capitalists who have invested in prominent companies, Duta has quickly established itself as a fast-growing startup in the media sector. The company also operates newsrooms in the USA, India, and Spain to enhance its global reach.
STEP Group is a leading digital and new media company in the Middle East with a house of modern news and entertainment brands.
Pocket Aces Pvt. Ltd. is a technology-driven digital entertainment company based in Mumbai, India, founded in 2013. It focuses on mobile video content and aims to engage the 400+ million Indians online. The company operates several content channels, including FilterCopy for short videos, Dice Media for long-form narratives, and Gobble for food and lifestyle content. Additionally, it offers Loco, a live and interactive esports platform that has rapidly gained popularity, boasting over 15 million registered users. Pocket Aces reaches more than 50 million viewers weekly and generates approximately 500 million video views monthly. It became the first digital company in India to secure a multi-show deal with Netflix in 2018. With a diverse content library, Pocket Aces syndicates its programming across various platforms, including Ola Play and Reliance Jio, as well as international services like Youku Tudou and Bytedance. The company is recognized for its creative capabilities and has collaborated with major advertisers, enhancing its profile in the digital entertainment landscape.
Underdog specializes in assisting companies with their digital transformation needs, focusing on the sports industry. The firm distinguishes itself through its unique content creation and creative capabilities, which are tailored to meet the diverse goals of its clients. By collaborating closely with a variety of organizations, Underdog aims to enhance their digital strategies and overall performance, ensuring they effectively navigate the evolving landscape of sports and entertainment.
Cielo24 Inc. is a company based in Santa Barbara, California, that specializes in cloud-based captioning solutions tailored for online education, enterprise, government, news, and entertainment sectors. The company's platform transforms unstructured media data into searchable formats, generating indexes, transcripts, and captions that enhance the discoverability of multimedia content. Cielo24 focuses on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that are customized to meet the needs of its clients, enabling them to achieve better return on investment by improving content reach and compliance with accessibility standards. The company also provides foreign language transcription services in a variety of languages, thereby broadening the accessibility of educational and media content.
OpenSlate is the premier global source of brand safety and contextual analytics for digital video content. Founded in 2012 by CEO Mike Henry, OpenSlate is the only company that can comprehensively measure the brand suitability of digital content for advertisers and also identifies the most-effective content for their campaigns. They provide advertisers with brand-suitable targeting solutions, as opposed to simply monitoring for after-the-fact exposure to inappropriate content. Their technology, data expertise, and proprietary analytics were developed specifically to support the needs of the world’s largest digital video platform — YouTube — and are extensible to all video content across the web. Our platform is used by every major advertising holding company, as well as the world’s largest advertisers. OpenSlate was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.
IDN Media is the leading multi-platform media company for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia. Our vision to bring positive impacts to society. We want to democratize access to accurate, balanced, useful, and positive information and ultimately, to become the voice of Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia.
IDN Media operates IDN Times, Popbela.com, Popmama.com, Yummy, IDN Creative, IDN Event, and IDN Creator Network.
Funcastic
Seed Round in 2016
Funcastic claims to be India’s first branded mobile podcast aggregator and allows users to listen to the content of their choice via the app.
OpenSlate is the premier global source of brand safety and contextual analytics for digital video content. Founded in 2012 by CEO Mike Henry, OpenSlate is the only company that can comprehensively measure the brand suitability of digital content for advertisers and also identifies the most-effective content for their campaigns. They provide advertisers with brand-suitable targeting solutions, as opposed to simply monitoring for after-the-fact exposure to inappropriate content. Their technology, data expertise, and proprietary analytics were developed specifically to support the needs of the world’s largest digital video platform — YouTube — and are extensible to all video content across the web. Our platform is used by every major advertising holding company, as well as the world’s largest advertisers. OpenSlate was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.
Spectrm Publishing UG operates a conversational marketing platform designed to facilitate lead acquisition and enhance customer engagement through messaging applications such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Falkensee, Germany, with an additional office in New York, the company provides an AI-driven end-to-end chatbot platform that includes features like conversation automation, intent understanding, customer segmentation, remarketing automation, and engagement analysis. Spectrm's platform is utilized by notable clients including Red Bull, Telekom, CNN, and Ford, enabling businesses to quickly launch conversational commerce initiatives and generate valuable insights.
Cielo24 Inc. is a company based in Santa Barbara, California, that specializes in cloud-based captioning solutions tailored for online education, enterprise, government, news, and entertainment sectors. The company's platform transforms unstructured media data into searchable formats, generating indexes, transcripts, and captions that enhance the discoverability of multimedia content. Cielo24 focuses on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that are customized to meet the needs of its clients, enabling them to achieve better return on investment by improving content reach and compliance with accessibility standards. The company also provides foreign language transcription services in a variety of languages, thereby broadening the accessibility of educational and media content.
Helping online publishers evaluate, benchmark and rank content and authors' performance across platforms and languages
Leena AI develops a human resource management platform that transforms employee experience with conversational AI. Its platform operates as an AI-powered HR assistant providing instant responses to employee queries over chat and voice, enabling organizations to get access to a platform which resolves HR services queries fast and improve the employee experience.
The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.
PlanetGoGo aims to bring personalized content to the user's phone. GoGo is a personalized content hub powering the android phone lock screen. The app is packed with amazing features Get the latest in News, humor and deals Earn Talktime every time you read a story Easy recharge mechanism The company is founded by a solid team of entrepreneurs who have worked in the mobile, content and advertising space in the past.
Nameless Network creates smart video programming for the smart phone generation. We’re like the Discovery Channel reimagined for a young, internet-savvy mobile media consumer. We create and distribute programming that reaches over 300 million young people each month. Our audience of 10+ million subscribers is 90% mobile and 85% under 34 years old.
We have developed the world's smartest content summarisation algorithm, which can learn & improve on it's own.
Asoko Insight is Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments looking for research on Africa’s key private sector landscapes. Users can access industry reports, supply chain analyses, and a database of companies to help with origination, business development and due diligence. The company's local research analysts, based out of several regional offices, work with executives and data partners to monitor corporate data from key companies in the region. As Asoko consolidates their footprint in the largest economies, they are also expanding data collection operations to surrounding countries across the continent.
Cielo24 Inc. is a company based in Santa Barbara, California, that specializes in cloud-based captioning solutions tailored for online education, enterprise, government, news, and entertainment sectors. The company's platform transforms unstructured media data into searchable formats, generating indexes, transcripts, and captions that enhance the discoverability of multimedia content. Cielo24 focuses on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that are customized to meet the needs of its clients, enabling them to achieve better return on investment by improving content reach and compliance with accessibility standards. The company also provides foreign language transcription services in a variety of languages, thereby broadening the accessibility of educational and media content.
Duta Software India Pvt Ltd. is an emerging international media company founded in 2015 and headquartered in both Chennai, India, and Silicon Valley. The company develops an online platform that delivers breaking news, sports updates, entertainment news, and devotional content to millions of subscribers globally. Duta utilizes popular mobile messaging apps, including WhatsApp and Telegram, to provide engaging and interactive services. With a leadership team of experienced tech entrepreneurs and backing from venture capitalists who have invested in prominent companies, Duta has quickly established itself as a fast-growing startup in the media sector. The company also operates newsrooms in the USA, India, and Spain to enhance its global reach.
The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.
Atlas Obscura Inc. is an online magazine and travel company that serves as a comprehensive guide to unique and unusual destinations around the world. Founded in 2009 by Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras, the company is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. Atlas Obscura allows users to explore a vast array of curious sites, including miniature cities, glass flowers, and unusual architectural wonders. The platform features user-generated content alongside editorial articles that cover various topics, including history, science, food, and travel. Additionally, Atlas Obscura highlights events in major cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., fostering a community of explorers eager to discover the world's hidden gems.
inkl works with the world's top publishers, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Bloomberg, Washington Post and others - to create the world's most efficient news experience - without paywalls, clickbait or ads. We created inkl for people who need to know what's happening around the world but either don't have the time to visit multiple news sites, or don't want to buy multiple news subscriptions.
El Cambur is a network digital media and services enterprise committed radically to the political center. This center is ignored by the mainstream media. The team is focused on digital media and propose essential reading agenda about the country and the world. A media made with quality information presented in short texts based on data, graphics and audiovisual. The team wants to create essential text, data, graphics and audiovisual content to This will generate debate on ideas, create different products in the area of communication and political sociology, and propose solutions.
El Meme is a news and entertainment outlet based in Argentina, incorporated in 2014. The platform identifies and monitors trends to help audiences understand global events and their relevance. It boasts a network of over 10,000 professionals, including writers, creatives, filmmakers, and communication and design experts. El Meme reaches more than 30 million millennials monthly across the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. The company provides digital content production services, such as content marketing and native advertising, while also specializing in distribution to targeted audiences through programmatic buying and social media.
Datami is a developer of a mobile engagement platform designed to offer a diverse range of network-aware mobile marketing methods. The company's mobile engagement platform scale clients mobile marketing business and consumers to access and earn mobile data, enabling clients to earn more revenue.
GKillCity is a digital, countercultural citizens’ communication project. It was founded in 2011, in Guayaquil, and 152 editions have been published since, with contributions of over 290 collaborators from all over the world. New media in Ecuador is almost unexplored, and Gkillcity.com wants become the iconic digital media of Ecuador. It aims to create more audio content and mobile applications, and also make use of digital TV channels.