Media Tech AI Startup Jobs

ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice technology platform, offering ultra-realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and audio AI tools used by content creators, enterprises, and developers worldwide. The company has grown to over $330M in annual recurring revenue and serves customers across 45+ countries including Deutsche Telekom and Revolut.

Creates generative 3D and video models that capture the real world and render cinematic scenes from text or images.

Suno is an AI music generation platform that enables anyone to create original songs from text prompts. Based in Cambridge, MA, it has reached $200M in annual revenue and is one of the fastest-growing generative AI startups.

AI-powered advertising company creating and optimizing digital ad campaigns for brands with creator growth focus.

Bending Spoons is a technology company that acquires and scales consumer apps through AI-driven optimization. Its portfolio includes Evernote, Remini, Meetup, Splice, and recent acquisitions of AOL, Vimeo, and Eventbrite, valued at $11B.

Runway is an applied AI research company and pioneer of generative media tools, building AI-powered software for video, image, and multimedia content generation. Best known for text-to-video and image-to-video models used by filmmakers and content creators.

Strava is a social fitness platform that tracks running, cycling, and other athletic activities via a mobile app and connected GPS devices. Founded in 2009, it connects over 150 million athletes worldwide in a social network where they share routes, achievements, and compete on leaderboards. The company earns revenue through a premium subscription tier and has expanded into AI-driven training tools.

AI-powered presentation platform that helps teams create presentations, documents, and interactive websites in minutes, replacing traditional tools like PowerPoint with intelligent automation and serving over 70 million users globally.

Meshy builds generative AI tools for creating production-ready 3D models and textures from text or images for game, XR, and creative workflows.

A web-based platform that provides mobile game developers with integrated commerce, live operations automation, and payment solutions.

Story provides AI-native blockchain infrastructure for registering, licensing, and monetizing intellectual property across the internet.

Odyssey is an AI lab building interactive video and world models that generate real-time, explorable scenes for new media.

AI-enabled image editing app offering background removal, retouching, and batch editing services, processing 5 billion images annually and serving over 150 million downloads for e-commerce and social media content creators.

An AI video generation platform specializing in video creation and AI avatars, enabling businesses to create professional videos at scale with generative AI.

Playground develops AI-native creative tools for generating and editing visual assets, with a focus on fast ideation workflows for designers and marketers.

Agentio is an AI-native ad platform that enables brands to buy creator-led advertising as easily and scalably as Meta or Google ads. The platform automates sourcing, pricing, contracting, delivery, and measurement of creator marketing campaigns across YouTube and other platforms. Over 100 leading enterprise brands including Uber, DoorDash, and CashApp have shifted paid media budgets to creator campaigns built on Agentio.

Generative design software for fashion and consumer brands to rapidly create on-brand visual concepts.

Duetti is a New York-based music financing platform that buys catalog rights and individual master/publishing tracks from independent artists, using data-driven valuations to price deals. Artists receive upfront cash while Duetti monetizes and markets the acquired catalogs. Founded in 2022, it has since expanded into publishing catalog deals and new funding programs for indie creators and songwriters.

Posh is a New York-based events, ticketing, and social-discovery platform (posh.vip) that lets organizers create, sell tickets to, and grow communities around live events while users discover experiences via a 'Netflix-style' feed. It has issued ~25M tickets across ~50,000 organizers and ~8M users. This is distinct from posh.ai, the conversational/voice-AI provider for banks and credit unions.

Beauty brand behind viral Wonder Blading lip products; tech-infused cosmetics.

Black Forest Labs is a generative AI company that created FLUX, one of the most advanced open-source image generation models, and previously pioneered Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Founded by machine learning researchers Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, and Andreas Blattmann, the company builds powerful creative AI models from labs in Freiburg, Germany and San Francisco. Valued at $3.25 billion after raising $300 million in Series B funding, Black Forest Labs is at the forefront of generative media technology.

Freepik is an AI-powered design resource platform providing stock images, vectors, templates, and AI image generation tools. Serving over 100 million users globally, it is backed by EQT Private Equity and has offices in Malaga and San Francisco.

Whop is a social commerce and software marketplace that helps creators and internet businesses sell digital products, memberships, and community access with integrated payments and growth tools.

Descript is an all-in-one video and podcast editing platform that makes editing as easy as editing a document. It offers text-based editing, screen recording, transcription, and AI-powered tools for content creators and media teams.

Pika develops consumer-first generative video tools that let users create and edit short-form videos from prompts, images, and clips through an intuitive AI-native workflow.

Fantasy sports and sports gaming platform (best ball, pick’em, sportsbook).

Comfy develops ComfyUI, an open-source node-based platform for generative AI that enables creators to build visual AI workflows, used by over 1 million creators at companies like Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Tencent.

A24 is an independent entertainment company producing and distributing films, television, and related consumer media products.

Mirelo builds AI for generating sound and audio layers for videos and games.

Bluesky is a decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, giving users control over their social graph and enabling an open, interoperable layer for social applications. Founded as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2021, it has grown to tens of millions of users as an open-protocol alternative to X, letting users choose their own algorithms, moderation tools, and data portability.

Platform for creating a digital you—an AI persona trained on your content and style for Q&A and interactions.

Sekai (incorporated as Versa Inc) is a Sunnyvale, CA-based AI platform founded in 2024 by Lucky Zhang and Arthur Cheung, a founding member of TikTok. The platform lets users create, play, and remix AI-generated mini apps via text prompts, with over 15 million mini apps created and more than 200,000 generated daily.

Topaz Labs develops AI-powered image and video enhancement software used by over a million customers including Apple, Netflix, and NASA. Their tools offer upscaling, denoising, sharpening, and video restoration up to 8K resolution. Founded in Dallas, Texas, the company grew revenue 1,200% since 2018 and won an Emmy Award for its technology.

AI video generation platform that creates lifelike animated characters by combining text, image, and audio inputs.

AI design tool helping teams prototype product ideas with AI-powered UI generation from concept to production

Bonfire Studios is an independent video game studio in Irvine, California developing Arkheron, a team-based PvP game. Founded by veteran game developers, the studio focuses on creating multiplayer worlds and live game experiences with a hybrid, craft-oriented development culture.

Flora is a node-based AI design tool and infinite canvas platform for creative professionals. The platform allows designers to build and automate creative workflows using a visual node orchestration layer, enabling creation of images, videos, and other media assets. Used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, Pentagram, and Lionsgate.

Intro is a marketplace for booking one-on-one video calls with in-demand experts across business, wellness, design, and lifestyle categories. The platform connects users with celebrity advisors and industry professionals for personalized advice sessions.

Recraft is a text-to-image model and design platform for photorealistic assets, vector generation, custom brand styles, mockups, and collaborative creative workflows.

Wonder Studios is an AI-native film and content production studio harnessing generative AI to develop original films, music videos, and branded content. Founded in London with offices in New York and Los Angeles, the studio works with a community of over 200 AI-native filmmakers and has produced its first AI-generated anthology series.

Ares Interactive is a mobile game studio focused on AI-enhanced live game operations and global publishing of action and RPG titles.

Capsule builds an AI-powered video editor for work teams to create branded motion graphics and videos quickly.

GenPeach AI develops multimodal generative foundation models for human-centric image and video creation, powering digital humans, virtual influencers, and AI companions for creative industries. Founded in 2025 and based in Zurich, Switzerland (with team members in Warsaw), it is an early-stage startup backed by angels and founders from OpenAI, Meta AI, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI. Per PitchBook/Nordic9 it has raised roughly $1.5M in pre-seed funding.

Passionfroot is a Berlin-based platform that helps creators and media companies monetize their brand through sponsorship management and brand partnerships. It serves modern GTM teams to plan, run, pay, and measure creator-led growth end to end.

Phota Labs is building personalized generative AI experiences for photography, focused on making high-quality visual creation and enhancement accessible to mainstream users.

Question-and-answer platform that connects people to share knowledge across millions of topics, featuring AI-powered Poe chatbot platform

swsh is a consumer photo-sharing platform for live experiences, offering shared albums, AI-assisted photo discovery, and event community engagement tools.

A web3 gaming infrastructure platform providing wallet-as-a-service and payment rails for games.

Circle provides an all-in-one community platform for creators and brands to run memberships, content, events, and engagement workflows.

Loti AI protects major celebrities, public figures, and corporate IP from online threats specializing in deepfake and impersonation detection with advanced facial and voice recognition software that analyzes real photos, video and audio then scans the internet for infringing media with 95% takedown success rate.

MUBI is a global movie streaming platform and production company that curates and distributes arthouse and independent films.

Community-obsessed live shopping platform for rare plants, vintage decor, fashion, beauty, and unique goods through daily live shows from trusted sellers, empowering creators and collectors to build thriving businesses.

Blockworks provides crypto market data, research, and media for digital asset markets. It operates an onchain capital markets intelligence and networking platform that connects investors and businesses, and delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets and web3.

Builds sports analytics copilots that give coaching staffs real-time insights, play recommendations, and scouting workflows.

Gym Class is a leading VR sports game by IRL Studios for Meta Quest, allowing players to play basketball, baseball, and football in virtual reality. With a 4.9-star rating and 69K+ reviews, it counts the NBA and Golden State Warriors among its investors.

Multimodal AI video clipping platform that automatically finds, edits, and posts short-form social content from long videos. Used by media companies like iHeart, marketing teams, and podcasters to 10x social impressions with autonomous video workflows, custom-trained agents, and multi-platform scheduling for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X.

Beacons builds an all-in-one business platform for creators, combining link-in-bio websites, audience management, analytics, email marketing, monetization, and storefront-style tools for creator-led businesses.

Beehiiv is a newsletter platform built for growth, serving tens of thousands of publishers and reaching hundreds of millions of readers monthly. The platform provides tools for newsletter creation, audience growth, monetization through ads and subscriptions, and comprehensive analytics.

Bezi builds a collaborative 3D design platform for creating and iterating on game assets, enabling teams to design and review 3D scenes together in the browser.

Liquid Death is a better-for-you beverage brand selling canned water, iced tea, and sparkling energy with a sustainability-focused, entertainment-driven consumer brand.

Picsart is an AI-powered creative platform for photo and video editing with over 150 million monthly active users. It provides AI-driven tools for content creation, background removal, and design for both consumers and businesses.

Tella makes screen recording and async video creation tools for entrepreneurs and teams, combining capture, editing, and sharing in a single product.

Wand is an AI-powered creative canvas for drawing and visual ideation, giving artists and creators more hands-on control over generative image workflows.

Creative operations platform that helps teams automate how they collect, organize, approve, and share images and videos at scale.

A generative AI content platform for marketing that produces high-quality personalized videos, avatars, and visual assets.

Creator growth platform-AI insights on content strategy, audience building, and monetization.

AI headshots at scale-turn selfies into studio-quality portraits for teams and individuals.

AI video ads platform-generate UGC-style creatives from scripts, product links, and assets.

Async (formerly Podcastle) is an AI-powered audio and video content creation platform that helps podcasters, educators, and marketers produce professional-grade multimedia content.

Blessed is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to empowering Christian communities with cutting-edge digital technology through its app. The platform offers Bible reading, daily devotional content, guided prayers, and AI-assisted Bible Q&A features, with approximately 2.3 million monthly downloads.

Board is a face-to-face game console that blends video games with the tactile feel of board games. Built around a 24-inch interactive touchscreen that recognizes touches, gestures, and physical game pieces, it is designed for 4-6 players to gather around a table together. Founded by Brynn Putnam (founder of Mirror), Board launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at a $499 price point with 12 original titles.

Born is an AI character company based in Berlin and New York City (formerly known as Slay). It builds AI companions designed for emotional connection and social play; its flagship app Pengu is a virtual pet that friends co-raise together, with over 15 million registered users. Since 2022 the company has launched five consumer social apps that reached #1 globally on the App Store.

Visual design platform empowering users to create professional graphics, presentations, and marketing materials with drag-and-drop interface and AI-powered features

Cartwheel builds AI animation tools that turn text, motion, and video inputs into production-ready character animation for games, film, advertising, and social content.

Community platform for fine-tuning and sharing open-source AI models like Stable Diffusion, enabling users to customize models and access a marketplace of generative AI content with over 23 million monthly visitors.

Creati Gen AI Inc. is a San Francisco-based AI creative tools company founded by Ella Zhang, best known for Creati Studio, a generative AI design and video platform with over 20 million users. In April 2026, the company raised $20M led by Redpoint Ventures to launch Buzzy, a conversational AI video editor that lets creators fix and refine video content through text commands.

AI-powered visual content generation platform leveraging computer vision technology for image and video editing, offering background removal, image enhancement, and AI content generation tools developed by LibAI team.

Real-time interactive AI platform for immersive experiences with multimodal generation capabilities achieving 3.1B valuation

Experimental AI product lab offering tools for content generation and editing across various media, including image and video generation, music composition, and photo editing

Fifth Door is an AI-driven platform that enables individuals to create, share, and play games by converting gameplay concepts into web-accessible formats. Founded by Daniel Kan (co-founder of Cruise), the company aims to democratize game creation without requiring technical skills. It has secured $20 million in seed funding and is based in San Francisco.

Flick is an AI-native filmmaking platform that gives professional creators cinematic control through an AI-native workflow built for storytelling, iteration, and artistic direction. Co-founded by award-winning filmmaker Zoey Zhang and founding Instagram engineer Ray Wang, the YC F25 startup raised a $6M seed round in May 2026 from True Ventures, GV, YC, Lightspeed, Formosa Capital, Pioneer Fund, Olive Tree Capital, and N1.

General Intuition is a public-benefit frontier research lab building foundation models for environments that require deep spatial and temporal reasoning. It starts with games as a rich training ground and aims to transfer those capabilities into the real world.

Ghost is a non-profit organization building open source technology for modern publishing. It provides a professional blogging and newsletter platform with built-in email newsletters and paid subscriptions, used by publishers worldwide.

Highscore is a cloud gaming platform that lets players run PC games from a browser or app across phones, tablets, TVs, Chromebooks, Macs, and Linux devices.

Platform for building AI-lationships offering real-time AI-powered chat, photos, and videos for self-exploration and connection with digital characters

AI chat platform for NSFW character interactions, supporting customizable and multimodal conversations with virtual characters

Kive is an AI-powered creative platform that helps brands, agencies, and freelancers organize, manage, and discover visual assets through AI-driven tagging and search. The platform supports end-to-end creative collaboration workflows from inspiration to presentation.

Kontent.ai is a cloud-native headless CMS and content collaboration platform offering API-first content management and AI-assisted workflows for enterprise marketing and development teams. Founded by Petr Palas and headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic, the company operates offices in New York, London, Amsterdam, and Sydney, serving enterprise customers across many verticals.

Lemon Slice is a research and product lab building real-time interactive AI avatars, using its own video-diffusion models to turn any single image into a character you can video-chat with live. Its Lemon Slice-2 model is offered to developers via API and embeddable web components for use cases like education, language learning, e-commerce, and corporate training. The company emerged from Y Combinator's W24 batch.

Independent research lab creating generative AI tools for image generation, known for producing high-quality artwork from text descriptions and serving over 21 million Discord community members.

AI research company building generative video models and tools for creative professionals, including its licensed Marey video model.

An AI platform helping in content creation, coding, image generation, and voiceovers with advanced generative AI capabilities.

Oboe is an AI-powered adaptive learning platform that creates personalized courses from user prompts, delivering educational content through articles, podcasts, quizzes, and interactive games.

Omi is a 3D AI-powered virtual photography studio for generating realistic product images and marketing content.

AI companion platform with 2 million monthly users featuring personalized uncensored interactions through text chats, voice calls, image generation, and emotional feedback systems

Particle is an AI-based news reader that summarizes stories, tracks developing coverage, and gives users conversational news exploration tools.

Perch is a reading app that aggregates blogs, newsletters, and Substacks in a single place — no emails, no browser tabs, no paywalls. Built by GM Labs, the app features AI-powered audio narration, personalized recommendations, and a Daily Digest. It aims to make reading free by sharing advertising revenue with writers.

AI-powered photo editing platform offering tools for background removal, image upscaling, and automatic photo retouching to enhance visual content for e-commerce, advertising, and social media.

Podimo is a subscription-based podcast and audiobook platform based in Copenhagen, offering exclusive and curated audio content across multiple European markets. The platform enables creators to monetize their content while giving listeners a premium, ad-free experience.

Proof of Play builds onchain game infrastructure and consumer gaming experiences for decentralized game worlds and player-owned assets.

Cloud-based AI-powered image editing platform offering face swapping, video editing, image upscaling, watermark removal, and background removal tools

Real-time interactive design and animation tool that enables designers and developers to create functional, ship-ready graphics with open-source runtimes that run fast and store small.

Riverside is an online recording and editing studio for podcasts and video content, delivering studio-quality audio and video through local recording technology. Powered by AI-driven editing features including automatic transcription, clip generation, and magic enhancement.

Sequel.io is a low-code embedded video platform that enables brands to host webinars and online events directly on their own websites.

GenAI game development platform building the Rho Engine to revolutionize video game creation, enabling developers to use AI for character design, NPC interactions, and game customization, backed by Netflix, Dell, and a16z.

Shofo is building the world's largest indexed video library — described as 'Common Crawl for Videos' — by continuously crawling and labeling public video content from social platforms like TikTok. It sells custom, multi-stage annotated datasets (object detection, activity recognition, semantic segmentation, reasoning annotations) to AI labs for pre-training and fine-tuning. Part of Y Combinator's W2026 batch.

A collaborative 3D design platform that runs in a web browser, enabling users to create interactive 3D experiences for web and mobile without coding.

Submagic is an AI-powered short-form video editing platform that automates caption generation, B-roll insertion, and visual effects for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Founded in 2023 by David Zitoun, it reached $8M ARR with a team of ~13-22 people while remaining fully bootstrapped, serving 4M+ creators worldwide.

Subtle Computing builds Voicebuds, AI-powered earbuds that isolate a chosen speaker in noisy environments to make in-person conversations clearer and more accessible.

Things Inc. creates Rooms, a platform for building interactive 3D spaces through drag-and-drop, editable objects, and code. The browser and iOS tool won a 2024 Apple Design Award and lets users design 3D rooms, games, and interactive experiences collaboratively.

Tollbit provides a content monetization platform that enables websites to protect and monetize their content by allowing AI bots and data scrapers to pay for licensed access, creating a sustainable content ecosystem.

AI-powered transcription service using OpenAI Whisper technology to convert audio and video into searchable, editable transcripts with 99.8% accuracy across 98+ languages, offering automated summaries and exports.

Easy-to-use online video editing platform for creating stunning videos, adding subtitles, and growing audience with professional tools

Warmer is a consumer support platform that connects people facing a challenge with someone who has lived through it. The product turns lived experience into practical advice, conversation, and community support rather than scripted coaching.

Global job platform transforming how people connect with work, offering employer branding solutions, job matching, and media content. Merged with Otta in 2024 to expand globally.

Free AI content detection tool designed to distinguish between AI-generated and human-written text with advanced detection algorithms