Top Media Startups in 2027

Launch Potato is a leading connector of advertisers to qualified customers. We are the DISCOVERY and CONVERSION company. Our brands and technologies help customers DISCOVER new products and services that make their lives better. Then we CONVERT them into loyal customers for our advertising partners. We connect companies to customers at all parts of the consumer journey, from awareness to consideration to purchase. The company connects over 70MM US consumers a month with leading brands looking to acquire new customers. Our newest brand, FinanceBuzz, has grown 10X in the last year with a mission to help consumers become more financially independent. Although Launch Potato is South Florida's fastest-growing digital media company with headquarters in vibrant downtown Delray Beach, Florida, we have a unique international team across more than a dozen countries. We have been pioneering advocates of remote work, and our success comes from our diverse, energetic culture and high-performing, entrepreneurial team. We're always looking for like-minded teammates and partners.

Canva is a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. It’s a simple way to create beautiful designs from presentations to infographics, videos, t-shirts, websites and social media graphics. Canva was founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in 2012, before launching to the public in August 2013. From the very beginning we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. Our community of users includes 230+ million monthly active users and 90% of the Fortune 500 embrace Canva to bolster productivity and achieve their goals. Our users are already creating over 280 designs per second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our mission of empowering the world to design. If you’re looking to design your dream career, have endless opportunities to grow, and work with a bunch of legends - come and join us.

TextNow is based around a simple idea: Communication belongs to everyone. We work hard to help people stay connected with free phone service. textnow.com

Mintlify's docs platform reaches 50 million developers every year and powers documentation for 10,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, Coinbase, Scale AI, X, and is the #1 YC product used by other YC companies. With only 28 people today, backed by $22 million in funding, each new hire shapes the company’s trajectory. We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities - we believe in valuing someone's slope over y-intercept.

At MemberClicks, we provide software solutions to help member-based organizations thrive. We have a Membership Management System and Learning Management System to help customers keep important information organized. We offer Event Apps and registration tools to allow clients to engage with parterns and attendees. We also have a Review Panel to streamline review submissions. And we also offer Member Website services to increase the member conversion rate. We work with professional associations, trade associations, and chambers of commerce. We also provide management guides so clients can educate themselves.

Having a baby is one of the biggest life changes people face. Babylist makes this journey to parenthood less overwhelming. We empower new parents and connect them to their village. Our baby registry is used by 20% of expecting families in the United States (and growing). In 2016 there were $100,000,000 of gifts given of of our registries. Our users love Babylist. We are continuing to create useful content and tools that help our users through pregnancy to parenthood.

Duetto is hospitality’s only Revenue Strategy Platform. A powerful suite of cloud applications addresses the industry’s complexity in distribution and technology, providing solutions that increase booking conversion, efficiency, guest loyalty and revenue. The unique combination of hospitality experience and technology leadership drives Duetto to look for new and innovative solutions to the industry’s greatest challenges. Duetto delivers software-as-a-service to hotels and casinos that leverage dynamic data sources and actionable insights into pricing and demand across the enterprise, enabling a holistic and more profitable Revenue Strategy.

In 2008, Gwyneth Paltrow launched goop, a lifestyle platform dedicated to keeping its readership informed and inspired with tightly curated content and products. goop's expert tastemakers advise and contribute on everything from fashion, wellness, and travel, to recipes, parenting, and cultural issues. Pioneering the contextual commerce platform, goop allows readers to shop with meaning. goop is one of the rare places on the web where food, shopping, and mindfulness collide—where the ever-evolving intent is to make every choice count. We’re all resource-strapped, so goop hopes to surface the very best experiences, recipes, products, and advice. With a highly engaged and loyal customer base already in place, the goop platform is rapidly expanding to include branded events, retail stores, pop-ups, a Netflix series, and an ever-growing lineup of goop private label products in addition to multi-branded shopping. The company boasts diverse and rapidly growing revenue streams across ecommerce, ad sales, retail, and experiences. goop is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with a presence in NY.

Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) operates the leading real estate and home-related information marketplaces on mobile and the Web, with a complementary portfolio of brands and products that help people find vital information about homes, and connect with the best local professionals. Zillow's brands serve the full lifecycle of owning and living in a home: buying, selling, renting, financing, remodeling and more. In addition, Zillow offers a suite of tools and services to help local real estate, mortgage, rental and home improvement professionals manage and market their businesses. Welcoming nearly 79 million unique users in April 2014, the Zillow, Inc. portfolio includes Zillow.com®, Zillow Mobile, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, Zillow Rentals, Zillow Digs®, Postlets®, Diverse Solutions®, Agentfolio®, Mortech®, HotPads™ and StreetEasy®.The company is headquartered in Seattle.

Traction (08/14/2013): Customers and Users - 160 Schools, 26 Libraries and 14,000+ Students in NJ System - Successfully delivered 88,000 lessons and over 1 million assessment questions. Product Info: 1) Lumos tedBooks combine the simplicity of printed books with anywhere learning. 2) Lumos Quill technology allows teachers, parents and curriculum leads to rapidly create custom interactive lessons and assessments that supplement classroom learning. It helps educators collaboratively capture and centralize lesson plans and assessments and make them available to students in both print and eLearning format. Phase 2 of the product would focus on addition of social learning component, scale, improving usability and mobile access capabilities. 3) Lumos eLearning is self paced, student directed, individualized and personalized learning that can improve student performance on any grade level standardized test. Teachers can monitor the online work performed by students using the Teacher Portal.