Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 101 best Media & Entertainment companies in Scotland, 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 Scotland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WeeWorld Provider of an avatar-based virtual world for social gaming | $16M | — | 38 | Michael Kinsella Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+8 | Top 50M | 3 patents Mobile messaging platforms and portable user account data management | — |
| 2 | Aberdeen Live Platform offering coverage of events,sports,politics and community matters | — | — | — | Jim Mullen CEO | Node.jsVarnishReact+27 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 3 | Betsold Saas-enabled white-lable sport betting auction management solutions | — | — | — | Nicola Young Co-Founder | — | — | 12 patents Real-time auction and betting data processing platforms for online wagering markets | — |
| 4 | Bird Flight Films Independent film production company | — | — | 2 | Elizabeth Brown Founder & Managing Director | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Bitesize Bio Provider of healthcare articles | — | — | 17 17 → 25 (+47%) | Nick Oswald Founder & Managing Director | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+25 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 6 | Bombadil Publishing Provider of publishing services for young authors aged twelve to twenty-six | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Calileo Web3 social network that gives content producers access to tools built on the blockchain | — | — | — | Denis Akoka Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Camel Audio Music production software provider | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Media & Entertainment companies in Scotland
#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
Deadpooled · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 1998 · 38 employees$15.5Mraised▾
Provider of an avatar-based virtual world for social gaming. Enables users to create their personalized avatar, connect with friends, decorate their own visual space, send animated messages, play games, and more.
#5
Series B · Kirkcaldy, Scotland · founded 1997 · 215 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Provider of advertising services
- Sep 2017Series B—
- Jul 2015Venture Debt$3.9M
#6
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
#7
Seed · Dundee, Scotland · founded 2008 · 18 employees$660.8Kraised▾
Podcast management software. It enables podcasters to create podcasts from video, edit podcasts, and publish their podcasts. It also offers Demo- which is a podcast editing tool for podcasters.
- Dec 2021Seed$660.8K
- Nov 2021Seed—
#8
Seed · Stirling, Scotland · founded 2015 · 3 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Miigen is an online platform for sharing memories that enable users to build a digital scrapbook and share it on their network. It allows users to store special memories, share memories in a group, upload photos, and add voice notes among others. The application is available on iOS platforms.
- Jan 2018Seed$1.4M
- Aug 2017Seed$324.6K
#9
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2015 · 6 employees$866.4Kraised▾
iMetaFilm offers archiving solutions for the media and entertainment industry. Broadly offers technology solutions for digitization, storage, and distribution. Allows film’s quality to be restored so that films can be redistributed. Caters to broadcasters, motion picture companies, government archives, advertising companies, universities, museums and private collections.
- Jun 2016Seed$535.8K
- Feb 2015Seed—
#10
Seed · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2012$838.2Kraised▾
Pencourage is a platform to publish, share & read journals anonymously. Users are ensured anonymity and can upload 200 words per day along with photos, pictures, videos and songs to tell their story. Claims to have had more than 10k visits & 2k signups by the end of the first year.
- Apr 2014Seed$838.2K
#11
Deadpooled · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2010 · 11 employees$516.4Kraised▾
KILTR is a new media platform focused on culturally relevant and original content from the community. Kiltr generates their own content to be distributed within the community itself, the content is very focused on what the particular community desires, mostly to do with social and cultural aspect of it. The posts are related to various social and cultural events with a focus also on live broadcasts of various events. Company has raised funding of nearly $1.4M so far.
- Sep 2011Seed$516.4K
#12
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
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