Top New York News + Entertainment Startups (66)

Philo is a streaming television service that's reimagining the TV experience for the modern viewer. Founded by a group of technology and product enthusiasts, we set out to build the future of television by combining the best of modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented—delivering the TV experience we've always wanted for ourselves. At our core, Philo provides an...

Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model, Character-3, which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3, the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images, video, and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral...

Trading.TV is a content-driven financial services company for the next generation of investors. Our mission is to empower anyone to achieve financial freedom by merging entertainment and fintech into a simple, but powerful social experience. The platform enables creators to produce fun, interactive and informative content that investors can easily consume, take part in and act on by trading mentioned...

VeeFriends is a contemporary entertainment company that combines art, storytelling, collecting, events and innovative technologies to build a community around a movement of kindness and positivity. The company’s mission is to scale 283 unique VeeFriends characters and their attributes to create a better world. These characters foster a sense of community and inspire creativity, self-discovery, accountability, and personal growth

Thrillist wants to help you live in the moment, make every day memorable, and find the spice of life. We’re serious about fun, we’ll try anything once, and we love to learn from locals, experts, and innovators. From off-the-beaten-path excursions to daring recipes to the best new movies to that new restaurant that just opened up, we take a free-spirited...

Molinari Media, PBC, a leading media and content business, launched FINTECH.TV to deliver the latest news and emerging trends from NYSE, NASDAQ, LSEG, and exchange studios around the world covering the exponential changes occurring in business, finance, digital assets, technology, and sustainable investments. FINTECH.TV offers two dedicated channels – the Digital Asset Report (DAR) and TheIMPACT – with additional content...

The Great Escape Room was one of the originators of the Escape Room craze that has swept the country. Opened in 2015 as a family venture, they created a new genre of entertainment that set the framework for thousands of innovative and creative artists to follow. The Great Escape Room is a real-life room escape game based on popular computer...

Mojo is an exciting early-stage startup at the intersection of sports and finance. We're pioneering groundbreaking work with complex engineering, advanced data science, sophisticated market making, cutting-edge app design, original content, and more — all designed to give fans a new way to cash in on their sports knowledge and passion. We’re led by visionary founders Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez,...

Pushkin Industries is an audio production company co-founded by Jacob Weisberg and Malcolm Gladwell in 2018. Alexander Pushkin, the Russian Romantic writer, is our inspiration. Pushkin was a hybrid, a mix of Russian, African, and French ancestry — as well as a philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. Like him, our company is curious about everything and always wants to try...

Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other - in print, in person, and online. Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as "common ground for the advancement of photography,"​ Aperture today is a multiplatform publisher and center for the photo community. From our base in...

Trendintech was founded in 2015 under the umbrella of New York-based GetU Media LLC. The major topics covered on the website are technology, science, art, and culture.

Next League is driven to become the recognized technology services leader in the sports and sports media industries. Founded by a team of digital technology experts with decades of success in the sports, media and entertainment industries, Next League is introducing a massive shift to the traditional agency and technology services company model. We are driven by the combination of growth...

Future Colossal is an experiential innovation lab based in NYC and Atlanta. Founded with a mission to create immersive experiences for commercial and artistic purposes, we explore the boundaries of technology, art, and design. Our experiences are memorable and playful, using new technologies to create both physical and virtual spaces where brands and artists can create a relationship with the...

Minly is a platform that enables the spread of positivity from (من) a celebrity to (لي) their fan, with the purpose of creating joyous and unforgettable moments through personalized experiences.

Speakable is a social action company using technology to enable smart and effective civic engagement. Our first product, Action Button, empowers readers to impact news stories that inspire them—whether by donating, signing a petition or emailing a policymaker. Our users can do more than read headlines, they can change headlines.

We believe in the unlimited potential of human creativity. In fact, it’s why we come to work every day - to create a powerful platform where anyone can broadcast and express themselves in front of a vast live audience. In a moment when social media and TV are converging, we’re proud to provide a product that fuses the experience of...

ProPublica is an award-winning independent nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account. Our investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we...

We believe in books. Every month, we find the five best new books and promote them to over 20 million people. We’re proud of our mission to help readers discover books they’ll love and to support emerging writers. Founded in 1926 and relaunched in 2015, we’re an innovative startup with a rich history and loyal user base over 400,000 active...

TSX empowers the world’s most innovative artists and brands through its immersive entertainment platform. Our entertainment epicenter in Times Square and the TSX Metaverse allow anyone, anywhere, to experience moments that define pop culture live or virtually in real time. Leveraging our team’s deep expertise and long history of disrupting the music and tech industries, we are making the world’s biggest...

theSkimm is a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We’ve made it our mission to help you live smarter. Everyday we’re breaking down the news, trends, policies, and politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives and futures – from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots...