Top Digital Entertainment Startups in 2024

Volley builds the best voice-controlled games and entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, smartphones, and Fire TVs. Popular Volley voice games include Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, and The Price Is Right. Our voice apps are used by millions of people every month. We believe voice control will become the main way people access entertainment in their bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and cars, and our goal is to become the "Netflix of Voice" for this emerging category of devices. Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. We're a 60+ person hybrid remote/in-person company, headquartered in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. While we work to make home entertainment more accessible and engaging, we like to have fun along the way, with team lunches, Friday happy hours, and very active #food and #pets slack channels. If any of this sounds fun to you (we promise it is), come join us! Read more about Volley's culture and mission here: volleythat.com/post/volley-mission-culture-and-what-we-create

Tubi is the future of movie and TV consumption, with the largest library of streaming movies and TV shows available for free! Scratch that—we're not just the future, we're the present, too. Tubi has partnered with leading Hollywood studios including Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM to curate an extensive programming guide available on mobile, web, and connected TV devices like iOS, Android, Roku, Xbox, Playstation, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and more. Check out New Releases, see What's Trending, make plans for Movie Night, or browse through our diverse array of categories to find something that fits your mood. We bring the world movies and TV while never charging a cent. Tubi TV: Now Playing, No Paying.

fuboTV. The most sports for the least money. fuboTV carries over 40,000 live events: MLB, EPL, NFL, NBA, NHL and other high profile sporting events. fuboTV is available on Roku, Samsung TV, Kindle fire, iPad & Android tablets. Xbox and phone apps will be available in January.

Wattpad connects a global community of 80 million readers and writers through the power of story. we discover untapped, unsigned, and talented writers and connect them to global multi-media entertainment companies.

Skillz is the leading marketplace platform that helps players discover mobile games and compete against other players around the world. At the same time, the company helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz has hosted over 2 billion tournaments entries for 30 million mobile players worldwide and distributes over $60 million in prizes each month. Headquartered in San Francisco and Portland, the company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports leagues and franchises including the investment arm of the NFL and owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets and Sacramento Kings. Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

Boom Entertainment is a technology company that is fueling the biggest winners in sports betting and online gaming. Working with professional sports leagues, media companies, and leading casino operators, Boom provides technology and games to many of the biggest names in the industry -- NBC Sports, Barstool Sports, Penn National Gaming, 8AM Golf, YES Network, Rush Street Interactive, DraftKings, Golden Nugget, and many more. As a company, we are looking for driven dreamers who want to make an impact on this industry and the world. We want people of integrity who are open to learning and willing to challenge the norm. We want people who are curious, reliable, empathetic, and obsessed with quality. Boom has two main verticals, Sports Products and Casino Games. Our Sports Products include world-class free-to-play games and technology for our partners that have entertained more than 4 million sports fans. Also included is Boom Fantasy, our very own Daily Fantasy Sports application bringing a quick and easy way for sports fans from any skill-level to join in the fun of DFS. With millions of dollars in winnings so far, Boom Fantasy is a rapidly growing success. Our Casino team is hard at work building a suite of eye-catching casino games for distribution to casino operators in the legal U.S. and international iGaming markets. This team is reimagining what’s possible in gaming by focusing on innovative products powered by cutting-edge technology.

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Come join us at the forefront of media and technology.

Our mission is to bring people closer together through world-class immersive experiences. Groups of up to six friends freely roam the VR space together, exploring virtual worlds and relying on each other to succeed in games specifically designed to be social experiences. When guests step into our virtual worlds, they experience the world’s most advanced virtual reality. Our proprietary, patented technology combines full-body motion capture and high-quality haptics to provide unprecedented realism and complete immersion that’s not possible with home VR or other location-based VR platforms. Players experience heart-pounding, exhilarating, and unforgettably immersive gameplay when they fend off zombie hordes, enter a world of swashbuckling adventure, soar into the clouds in a space elevator or compete against one another in a futuristic combat arena – the true future of immersive entertainment. Guests choose from any of our six exclusive experiences, created by our AAA in-house development studio. Each one is designed to make participants feel like they are in the middle of a favorite action movie, with the heightened emotions that come from not just watching a film, but from actually becoming the stars of the action. Sandbox VR is perfect for outings with family and friends, including birthday parties and group events. Come experience why Sandbox VR has been rated 4.8 out of 5 Stars by tens of thousands of guests worldwide. Sandbox VR is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in Hong Kong. Sandbox VR’s latest round has raised over $37 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Gobi Partners, and Craft. Individual investors include Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Kevin Durant and Will Smith.

Cinemaloop - Discover. Connect. Watch. Belong! Cinemaloop Inc is location based social media platform that champions inclusion and connections among diverse movie fans. We connect people where they are and bring them to the movies together. We are launching our Beta in Los Angeles in Q4 this year! Watch the video to see the problem we are solving for.

We built SAGA, a Generative AI-powered app for filmmakers (writeonsaga.com). It's a screenwriting assistant powered by the OpenAI GPT-3/4/ChatGPT, DALL-E 2/3, and StabilityAI Stable Diffusion APIs (among others) and fine-tuned with proprietary reverse-engineered film datasets. It also includes a storyboard assistant tool, which scans your screenplay and generates a set of storyboards and look-book visuals based on your ideas and script. For our long-term product roadmap read here (5-10 mins): bit.ly/AIandHollywood