Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Indiana, United States
The 97 best Media & Entertainment companies in Indiana, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ChaCha.
Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Indiana
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChaCha Mobile and Online Answers Service | $85M | 160 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2005 | — | — |
| 2 | Odyssey Crowdsourced social content platform | $70M | 71 mo ago | Series C | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 3 | audiochuck Online podcast network | $40M | 15 mo ago | Series C | — | 2017 | WordPressShowitApple iCloud Mail+22 | 1 award |
| 4 | Vibenomics Music and on-demand announcement platform | $34M | 48 mo ago | Acquired | Brent Oakley Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Better World Books Online resellers of pre-owned and new books | $20M | 121 mo ago | Acquired | Dustin Holland President & CEO | 2003 | — | — |
| 6 | Opendate Provider of a platform for booking, ticketing, and marketing live events | $17M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Adam Darrah Co-Founder | 2019 | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 7 | Wrestling Provider of professional wrestling news and results coverage | $4M | 14 mo ago | Early Stage | Raj Giri Founder | 1996 | — | — |
| 8 | ZergNet Discover interesting articles across entertainment, food, home, travel, and more | $3M | 139 mo ago | Series A | Matt Doherty Co-Founder | 2012 | — | 4 job openings · 1 award |
| 9 | Lumatic Online marketplace for hiring photographer for specific events | $600K | 69 mo ago | Seed | Tyler Hromadka Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 10 | Giggil Second Hand Books Online Platform | $357K | 176 mo ago | Seed | Michael Cloran CEO | 2009 | — | — |
| 11 | EsportsEveryday News aggregator dedicated to providing articles on e-sports and lifestyle inspiration | $232K | 46 mo ago | Series B | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 12 | Mike The Pike Entertainment Producer of films & TV shows | $141K | 169 mo ago | Late Stage | Mark B Newbauer Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | — |
| 13 | Roust Online community for discussing social issues | $125K | 127 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 14 | The New Paper Online platform offering multi-category news | $116K | 80 mo ago | Seed | John Necef Co-Founder | 2018 | — | — |
| 15 | Soundspace Provider of membership-based music rehearsal and recording spaces | $100K | 48 mo ago | Seed | Richard Anderson III Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 16 | Calamari Productions Producer of TV series & films | $100K | 191 mo ago | Early Stage | Karen Grau Co-Founder | 1998 | — | — |
Top 12 Media & Entertainment companies in Indiana
#1
Series A · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2019 · 5 employees$16.7Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for booking, ticketing, and marketing live events. It offers tools for calendar management, offers, settlements, and inbound artist management. The platform facilitates ticket creation, publishing, and sales, including general admission and reserved seating. It provides features for fan customer relationship management, automated marketing, and branded websites.
- Dec 2025Series A$14M
- Nov 2025Seed$500K
- Apr 2025Conventional Debt$450K
- Dec 2024Seed$1.7M
#2
Series C · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2017 · 36 employees$40Mraised▾
Online podcast network. It provides job opportunities such as fan experience, creative writing, human resources, marketing, and more. The shows include crime podcasts, audio chunks, docuseries podcasts, white-collar criminals, and more.
- Feb 2025Series C$40M
#3
Early Stage · Fishers, Indiana · founded 1996$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of professional wrestling news and results coverage. It offers up-to-date reports on major wrestling events, including WWE and AEW. The platform features news articles, match results, and interviews with wrestlers. Content covers a wide range of topics, from breaking news to in-depth analysis of storylines and wrestler performances. It also provides commentary and opinion pieces from various contributors.
- Apr 2025Unattributed$3.5M
#4
Acquired · Fishers, Indiana · founded 2016 · 49 employees$33.9Mraised▾
Music and on-demand announcement platform. It allows the business owner to control their background music with customized messages in real-time. They offer licensed music and work with professional voice artists to create audio messages for the businesses as per the user needs. They cater to a variety of businesses such as restaurants, gyms, retail, and more.
- May 2022Series B$12.3M
- Oct 2020Venture Debt$2M
- Oct 2020Series A$4.5M
- Feb 2020Series A$6M
#5
Series C · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2009 · 19 employees$69.6Mraised▾
Odyssey is a social content platform that discovers and shares views and ideas of millennials using social media. Specializes in producing and distributing branded and native content through its platform. Has more than 6,000 localized content creators and an audience of 20 million monthly unique visitors.
- Jul 2020Series C$1.3M
- May 2019Conventional Debt$1M
- Feb 2018Series C$6.4M
- Jun 2017Series C$30M
#6
Deadpooled · Carmel, Indiana · founded 2005 · 200 employees$85.1Mraised▾
ChaCha is the leading, free real-time answers service that has emerged as the #1 way for advertisers and marketers to reach and engage with the audience of their choice anytime, anywhere. Through its unique “ask-a-smart-friend” platform, ChaCha has answered over two billion questions since launch from more than 32 million unique users per month, and is ranked among comScore’s top 100 websites. ChaCha delivers human-powered answers via (chacha.com), SMS text (242-242), iPhone app, Android app, and voice (1-800-2-ChaCha). Working with major brands such as Paramount, NBC Universal Digital, AT&T, Palm, Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and presidential political campaigns, ChaCha.com is one of the fastest growing mobile and online publishers according to Nielsen and Quantcast. ChaCha was co-founded by proven innovator and entrepreneur Scott Jones and is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Rho Ventures, Bezos Expeditions; Morton Meyerson, former President and Vice Chairman of EDS as well as Chairman and CEO of Perot Systems; Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer; the Simon family; and Jack Gill, Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
- Jan 2013Series F$14M
- Jan 2011Series F$3M
- Oct 2010Series F$20M
- Dec 2009Series E$7M
#7
Acquired · Mishawaka, Indiana · founded 2003 · 152 employees$20Mraised▾
Online resellers of pre-owned and new books. Books are either sold to raise money for non-profit literacy programs or recycled if unsuitable for sale or partner use.
- May 2016Series B$18M
- Apr 2008Series A$2M
#8
Series A · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2012 · 230 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Discover interesting articles across entertainment, food, home, travel, and more. This platform offers a diverse range of content spanning various lifestyle categories. It provides users with engaging articles in areas like entertainment, food, home and garden, travel, movies, news, women's lifestyle, gaming, tech, health, and sports. The site aims to deliver interesting and informative content to a broad audience, fostering discovery and engagement across multiple areas of interest. It is a B2C platform.
- Nov 2014Series A$3.3M
#9
Seed · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2017 · 6 employees$600Kraised▾
Lumatic Imagery is an online marketplace for users to hiring photographers for their specific events such as business meetings, college events, and student groups, etc. Users can also log in to the portal, add their skills, and become photographer.
- Sep 2020Seed$600K
- Dec 2019Conventional Debt$100K
#10
Series B · Lafayette, Indiana · founded 2021$232.4Kraised▾
News aggregator dedicated to providing articles on e-sports and lifestyle inspiration
#11
Seed · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2018 · 12 employees$100Kraised▾
Operator of a music space facility intended to offer musicians a complete recording space, all under one roof. The company's platform offers access to practice facilities, rehearsal spaces, two recording studios, learning resources, and community connections, enabling musicians to easily connect, rehearse, or record with an outdated model of music production for an era of streaming.
#12
Seed · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2009 · 6 employees$357Kraised▾
Green is Good, LLC provides a service that recycles consumer’s personal stuff. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Giggil market and sell used books across multiple marketplaces.
- Oct 2011Seed$222K
- Jun 2010Seed$135K
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