Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The 64 best Media & Entertainment companies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Recast.
Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Edinburgh
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recast Online platform offering to stream sports and entertainment content 62Growth top 28%Tech top 37%Funding top 39%Product top 46% All 8 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Techtop 37% Fundingtop 39% Producttop 46% Moattop 48% Markettop 50% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 34% Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 1,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 39 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $24M | 23 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2018 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesHubSpot+21 | — |
| 2 | Speech Graphics Provider of speech-driven 3D facial animation software | $10M | 52 mo ago | Series A | — | 2010 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+27 | 1 launch |
| 3 | Skoogmusic Cubical instrument for children & differently-abled people | $3M | 102 mo ago | Seed | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 4 | OrderOnBot Developer of AI agents that use social context to write code | $500K | 8 mo ago | Seed | Mathew Matakovic Co-Founder & CTO | 2025 | — | — |
| 5 | PicoJar Social platform for sharing screenshots | $183K | 72 mo ago | Seed | Siwei Kang CEO/Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 6 | The Ferret Online cooperative news platform | $100K | 95 mo ago | Funding Raised | Rob Edwards Co-Founder | 2015 | PHPNginxCloudflare+16 | — |
| 7 | Snappd App for sharing video stories | $55K | 116 mo ago | Seed | Kevin Purves Founder And Ceo | 2016 | — | — |
| 8 | Kindaba Social platform for families | $24K | 92 mo ago | Deadpooled | Robert Gelb Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
Top 11 Media & Entertainment companies in Edinburgh
#1
Acquired · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2018 · 54 employees$24.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering to stream sports and entertainment content. It enables users to stream live and VOD sports on a pay-per-view basis. It also enables users to invite friends to watch and share content and data.
- Jul 2024Series A$5M
- Feb 2022Series A$9.5M
- May 2021Series A$8.3M
- Jun 2020Seed$1.6M
#2
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2025$500Kraised▾
Developer of AI agents that use social context to write code. These agents utilize location, calendar, and photos to take action in group chats. The system aims to improve relationships with friends. It functions as a social operating system.
- Sep 2025Seed$500K
#3
Series A · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2010 · 42 employees$9.6Mraised▾
Provider of speech-driven 3D facial animation software. It uses the audio spoken by an actor to create a corresponding animation automatically. Its features include lip-syncing with tongue motion, full-face movement, emotional expression, head bobs, blinking, and eye darts.
- Feb 2022Series A$7M
- Oct 2018Seed$2.6M
- Jan 2010Grant (prize money)$561.8K
#4
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2009 · 7 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Cubical instrument for children & differently-abled people. Skoog is designed to get children hands-on with musical sounds. It acts as a game controller for playing music, it gets connected with smartphones or tablets via Bluetooth.
- Dec 2017Seed$748.9K
#5
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2019 · 1 employees$183.2Kraised▾
PicoJar is an online platform where users can share their screenshots. Users can bookmark photos and follow other users and their bookmarks.
- Jun 2020Seed$183.2K
#6
Funding Raised · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2015$100Kraised▾
The Ferret is an online cooperative news platform which features news, analysis, & stories related to politics, crime & justice, finance, education, employment, health, asylum, human rights, and more. The platform enables subscribed users to contribute and also to be one of the decision makers.
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$100K
#7
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2016 · 2 employees$54.8Kraised▾
Snappd is an app-based platform for sharing video stories. Enables users to access content across various categories such as technology, beauty, fitness, viral stories, cooking, etc. Users can discover & follow other people on the platform, post videos, get notified when their favorite creators' post videos, etc. They can also embed stories from other platforms such as Snapchat & Instagram. The app is available in the App Store.
- Oct 2016Seed$54.8K
#8
Deadpooled · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2016 · 8 employees$23.7Kraised▾
Kindaba is a social platform for families. The platform enables family members to connect with each other in a private & secure environment. The platform's features include timelines, status posts, multimedia content sharing, likes, comments & shares, chat & private messaging, etc. The app is available for download on both Android & iOS devices. The platform charges a fee of 3.99 pounds/month/household.
- Oct 2018Angel—
- Sep 2017Seed$23.7K
#9
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2013 · 36 employees—raised▾
Developer of audio processing tools. The company develops plugins and complete software tools for audio processing including vocal processing tools and bundles of sounds.
- Feb 2022Seed—
- Feb 2017Angel—
#10
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2015 · 7 employees—raised▾
Provider of game development & design consultancy services
- Jan 2022Seed—
- 2021Grant (prize money)—
#11
Deadpooled · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2010 · 6 employees—raised▾
Peekabu is a developer of smart photo password app, Passage. Passage scans the image, generates a secure code which it matches with the image shown as password. Claims to be more secure than any alphanumerical password and even visually similar images yield different maps and codes.
- Feb 2014Seed—
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