Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Los Angeles (LA) based Media and Entertainment companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Media and Entertainment industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Los Angeles (LA) Media and Entertainment Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Pluto TV
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Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America.
NTWRK
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NTWRK is the definitive live streaming video commerce platform developed specifically for Gen Z and Millennials.
WAVE.tv
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WAVE.tv is a sports media company for digital native fans.
Loot Crate
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Loot Crate develops a fan-based commerce and community platform.
Macro
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Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market.
360VUZ
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360VUZ is an immersive virtual video mobile app that enables users to teleport from their smartphone in 360°
Moment House
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Premium digital live platform for artists and creators
Maple Media
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Maple Media is a mobile media, advertising, and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading, consumer apps.
Hidden Leaf Games
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Hidden Leaf Games is making a 3-on-3 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game called Fangs.
Emerge
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We’re bringing touch and emotion to extended reality experiences — bridging the distance between you and what matters.
Theorycraft Games
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Theorycraft Games operates as an independent game studio.
FanVestor
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FanVestor is a FINRA-regulated crowdfunding platform that enables entertainment and sports celebrities to capitalize on their fanbases.
Exploding Kittens
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Exploding Kittens is a card game for people who are into kittens, explosions, laser beams, and sometimes goats.
OpenDrives
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Open Drives builds network attached, shared storage solution for high resolution image and video workflows.
Entertainment Data Oracle (EDO)
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Entertainment Data Oracle(EDO) is a data, measurement, and analytics company.
Hello Sunshine
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Hello Sunshine is a media company that is dedicated to female authorship across all storytelling platforms.
Wonder Dynamics
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Wonder Dynamics develops and combines AI technology with storytelling.
Passionflix
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Passionflix is a a streaming service that’s all about romance.
Legion M
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Legion M is a fan-owned entertainment company producing a slate of movies, TV, and digital content.
Whatifi
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Whatifi is the storyhacking app where friends watch original movies together, crack jokes, and decide what happens next.
Ryff
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Dynamic digital brand integration and story telling using AI and visual computing.
Jubilee Media
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Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
Shots Studios
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Shots Studios is a Los Angeles-based, data-driven entertainment company that produces online comedy and music videos.
Vana
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Leading recommendation engine and compliant marketing platform for the legal cannabis and CBD industry
Two Bit Circus
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Two Bit Circus is an experiential entertainment company helping brands tell their story through immersive, public installations.
Breitbart News Network
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Breitbart News Network offers real-time access to news and analysis sources online.
Tellie
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Empowering creators through immersive entertainment
Magnopus
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Magnopus is an entertainment company creating content, design, art, and technology to create experiences.
Crypt TV
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Crypt TV is an operator of an online video platform intended to produce and distribute scary video content.
Upcomer
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Making it easy and more engaging to follow esports.
Arsenic
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Arsenic Magazine is a by-the-people, for-the-people, online lifestyle and culture magazine based in the Arts District.
Vault AI
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Vault AI uses artificial intelligence or AI to create a system of prediction of content.
Ranked® Media & Technologies
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A technology & creative company building tomorrow’s consumer and enterprise products.
New Form Digital
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New Form is developing original series and investing in digital content.
Giggl
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Giggl provides a secure way for people to connect online through sharing content using virtual browser instances.
Luxury Travel Hackers
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LTH shoots travel content with influencers and makes vacations bookable via social media.
Millennium Entertainment
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Millennium Entertainment – Theatrical Film/Movie Distribution Company based in Los Angeles, CA
Speakr
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Influencer Marketing and Talent Management Enterprise Platform
TeamDom
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TeamDom is a media conglomerate that builds brands, stories, celebrities, and businesses around teen entertainment and media.
ClutchPoints
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ClutchPoints is a mobile app for sports that focuses on NBA, NFL, and MLB games.
AwesomenessTV
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AwesomenessTV is a next generation media company serving the global Generation Z audience
Wiredrive
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Wiredrive is a secure media sharing and collaboration service for marketing teams, agencies, and production companies.
FanSifter
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FanSifter is a fan data management platform to help rights-holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase sales of tickets, music, etc
The Chernin Group
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The Chernin Group is a multi-stage investment firm that seeks to invest in and build these best-in-class companies.
All Def Digital
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ALL DEF DIGITAL is a premium, multi-platform digital media company and entertainment hub
Hello Giggles
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HelloGiggles is a website and media brand that covers pop culture, love, friendship, news and other topics important to women.
AIR.TV
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AIR.TV enables the distribution and monetization of viral videos on websites.
Duuple
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Duuple is a Mobile App/Social Media Platform enabling users to raise money and awareness for various causes by posting/accepting challenges.
Dooya
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Dooya is an ad-supported internet video syndication and distribution company.
Matter
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Matter is the first market network focused on musicians. We help creatives leverage their community and content to make more $ from commerce
ClixTV
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ClixTV is a digital media company that provides watch video across all media platforms.
ZigZag
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Create Together, Trend Together! ZigZag is the new social media app that helps you make viral videos with friends.
TalentX Entertainment
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TalentX Entertainment operates as a premier social media monetization and talent development company.
HOLLYFY
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MediaTech + FinTech SaaS. Predictive machine learning models for brand marketers and entertainment creators.
That’s No Moon
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That’s No Moon is a content creation company that provides products and services for the entertainment industry.
Stage 32
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Stage 32 is the world’s largest online platform connecting and educating the global entertainment industry.
Omnia Media
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Omnia Media is a digital studio that creates original content with its talent network which does 2B+ views/month in Gaming and DIY.
Wisecrack
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Wisecrack is a Los Angeles-based digital first media collective run by comedians,
Voltaku
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Voltaku is a cross-platform content company laser-focused on unifying the film, gaming, and digital media worlds.
PANIQ ROOM
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America’s fastest growing escape room franchise
Five Vectors
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A next-gen media company using a data-driven approach to build, distribute and monetize assets through 3rd party and o&o outlets.
ModelSquared™
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ModelSquared™ uses live video and crowdfunding with AI to scout for the trendiest models
Tiger Beat
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Tiger Beat is an American teen fan magazine marketed primarily to adolescent girls.
Collaction
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We’re a social network that solves the big monetization problem, through a business model totally aligned with the interests of creators.
babystep.tv
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babystep.tv’s aim is to inspire parents. There is extensive research about childhood development, but few have access to it.
Hero Ventures
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Hero Ventures develops and produces live entertainment experiences.
VC Mobile Entertainment
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VC Mobile Entertainment develops mobile, PC, console, and online games.
What’s Up Moms
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What’s Up Moms is dedicated to providing fast-paced videos that are not only helpful, but also fun to watch.
YourListen.com
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YourListen.com is a social music and audio platform allowing users to upload, listen, discover and share content without limits.
Delair Studios
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The best immersive sound for entertainment.
Party Earth
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Party Earth is a global media and entertainment company providing reviews of social venues and events in U.S. and European cities.
Roqovan Studios
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Roqovan Studios is a brand new game development studio focused on making games and content for emerging virtual reality platforms.
TunesMap
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TunesMap is a Los Angeles-based startup dedicated to helping you interact with the world around your favorite music.
Veeps
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Veeps is the livestream concert platform for the music industry.
Varriant
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Varriant is an independent media company that delivers engaging and fun content to a global audience.
Space Oddity
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Space Oddity is a content studio exploring technology and culture.
Razzball LLC
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Fantasy Sports Community and Daily Projections
Curate
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Curate is a vetted marketplace for companies to discover, message & hire qualified freelancers.
Create Music Group
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Create Music Group is a music technology company providing rights management, syndication, and distribution platform.
Buzz Media
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Buzzmedia is an entertainment publisher focused on pop culture, music, and celebrity content.
Legacy Entertainment Partners, LLC
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Motion picture production company, tech based prop design, and entertainment business consulting.
AXS
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AXS is a company whose core values reflect a culture that celebrates individual differences and respect of one another.
Streamland Media
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Streamland Media supports films, as well as episodic and interactive entertainment, through its businesses.
Brave Media
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Brave Media is a multi-platform entertainment company that is focused on creating high octane content with purpose.
Crooked Media
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Crooked Media is a place for political news, analysis, and to figure out how you can get involved.
The Shade Room
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The Shade Room is a media company that offers celebrity and entertainment news on an hourly basis.
INOV8 Media
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INOV8 Media develops a platform of live fantasy challenges, social contests, mobile apps and news/blog pages.
MERRY JANE
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MERRY JANE is the definitive cannabis resource on culture, news, video, food and style dedicated to expressing a new cannabis mentality.
We Are The Mighty (WATM)
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WATM is the military community’s premier media and entertainment brand.
Digital Domain
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Digital Domain creates transportive experiences that entertain, inform, and inspire.
Levity Entertainment Group
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Levity Entertainment Group is an entertainment company that provides talent management services.
MusicMind
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MusicMind is a social music platform with embedded augmented reality that provides brands and artists with content distribution services.
Sonoro
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Sonoro is a global media company creating premium, Spanish-language audio content.
