Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Ukraine
The 140 best Media & Entertainment companies in Ukraine in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: RefaceAI.
Ukraine's Media & Entertainment startup map is smaller than you'd expect, but it's moving. This directory ranks 140 tracked companies by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, with RefaceAI leading at $5M raised, Respeecher close behind at $4M, and Pibox and Zibra each pulling $2M. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $16M, no unicorns yet, and the capital is concentrated hard at the top. Acrobator, Andreessen Horowitz and Roosh are the names showing up most as backers, which tells you something about where smart money sees the opportunity.
So what's the sector actually doing? Globally, Statista pegs the market forecast at roughly $1.1T by 2024, growing at a 7.41% CAGR, with VR, AR and smarter media measurement driving demand. I'd note that Ukraine's cluster punches above its weight on the audio and AI-video side, which tracks with the broader coverage trend: audio editors, playback engines and audio renderers are the hot themes right now. Median install growth across media apps is running at about 12% YoY across 3,108 tracked apps, and if you look at where Ukraine's funded names sit, RefaceAI and Respeecher are squarely inside that wave. The funding's thin but the focus is sharp, and that's a combination worth watching this quarter.
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Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Ukraine
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RefaceAI AI-enabled face swapping video editing solutions | $5M | 5 mo ago | Seed | Dima Shvets Co-Founder | 2019 | WebflowTikTok PixelGoogle Analytics+12 | 1 award |
| 2 | Respeecher AI-based platform offfering to produce synthetic speech | $4M | 14 mo ago | Seed | Grant Reaber Head Of Research | 2017 | HubSpot CMS HubYouTubeAmazon Web Services+25 | — |
| 3 | Zibra Provider of an AI-powered animation optimization software | $2M | 34 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | WebflowGSAPStripe+18 | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 4 | Pibox Online music collaboration platform | $2M | 19 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | FirebaseGoogle Sign-inApple Sign-in+37 | 1 launch |
| 5 | Divan.TV Ukranian OTT service | $1M | 204 mo ago | Seed | Andrey Kolodyuk Founder & Managing Partner | 2005 | — | — |
| 6 | Harmix AI based music search engine | $500K | 1 mo ago | Series A | Nazar Ponochevnyi Founder & CEO | 2018 | SentryNode.jsMUI+14 | — |
| 7 | Newzmate AI-enabled content marketing solution provider for media organizations | $370K | 135 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | — | 1 award |
| 8 | Favim Social photo sharing and bookmarking platform | $300K | 163 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alexander Borodavka Founder | 2011 | NginxreCAPTCHAjQuery CDN+5 | — |
| 9 | Wishround.com Fund raising platform from friends | $250K | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | Vitaliy Kedyk Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 10 | Pics.io Digital asset management tool for photos and videos | $180K | 153 mo ago | Seed | Yevgeniy Shpika CEO | 2008 | GhostNode.jsVarnish+15 | — |
Top 12 Media & Entertainment companies in Ukraine
#1
Seed · Ukraine · founded 2019 · 177 employees$5.5Mraised▾
AI-enabled face-swapping video editing solutions. The application allows users to replace the faces in videos with their photos. They can create GIFs, memes, and funny videos with the application. The application is available for Android and iOS users. It monetizes through in-app purchases and ads.
#2
Series A · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2018 · 12 employees$500Kraised▾
AI based music search engine. It enables content creators to select and discover music for videos, blogs, and more. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze and select the music for a video. Features of the platform include PDF analysis, language based search, length adjustment for music tracks, and more.
#3
Seed · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2017 · 47 employees$4Mraised▾
AI-based platform offfering to produce synthetic speech. It offers voice cloning software for content creators.
- Mar 2025Seed$921K
- Dec 2023Seed$1.9M
- Jan 2020Seed$1.5M
- Jul 2019Seed$120K
#4
Series A · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2015 · 15 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Online music collaboration platform. It provides cloud-based solutions that allow users to connect with songwriters, music supervisors, and other professionals to collaborate, communicate, and share music content. Users can also share hi-res audio to make changes in music mixes. It also enables users to provide time-stamped review comments on music mixes. Other features include personal chat, group chat, and cloud storage to store files. The mobile application is available for Android and iOS users.
#5
Seed · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2020 · 34 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-powered animation optimization software. It offers a web plugin solution that enables users to optimize, design, and develop 3D games, content, and characters in real-time. Its features include in-game physics optimization, particle, and volumetric fluid simulation, text and sketch conversion, and 3D rendering.
#6
Seed · Kiev, Kyyiv · founded 2005 · 25 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of online broadcast services intended to provide TV content through the over-the-top medium. The company's platform grants users access to a range of customized content depending on the viewers' region and interests with video recording and viewing features, enabling subscribers to enjoy the televised content at any time.
#7
Acquired · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2013 · 600 employees$370Kraised▾
Newzmate offers AI-enabled content marketing solutions for media organizations. Offers a platform which assists businesses with content recommendations and personalization, email marketing automation, mailing list growth, and content monetization. Allows businesses to deliver contextually relevant content to the website audience, dynamically assemble and send emails, create and embed forms to capture customer details, and dynamically deliver and target ads. Clients include Oschadbank, The Polska Press Group, and Times Internet, among others.
- Mar 2015Seed$300K
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#8
Deadpooled · Kiev, Utah · founded 2011$300Kraised▾
Operator of a media platform intended to facilitate photo collecting and sharing. The company offers a social hub where one can add, share and collect photos of their own or third-party images from the web to their personal galleries, enabling individuals to connect with others, inspire them and share hobbies and thoughts just using photos.
#9
Deadpooled · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2014$249.7Kraised▾
Fund raising platform from friends
#10
Seed · Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast · founded 2008 · 15 employees$180Kraised▾
Developer of a digital asset management platform intended to let clients manage their entire media library in one place. The company's platform provides an online raw converter and permits centralized management of clients' product images, purchased stock, videos, design, audio, and other files, enabling corporate clients to manage media assets on the cloud.
#11
Deadpooled · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2012$50Kraised▾
Provider of an online photo sharing platform intended to help people to capture and tell the story of their lives. The company's platform offers a web-based portal that lets users to share pictures of themselves with their family and friends, enabling them to either keep these for themselves, share them to an inner circle, or share them more widely to social networks.
#12
Series A · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2020—raised▾
Developer of an AI-integrated platform for books, audiobooks, and video series. The platform provides tools for creating and exploring personalized, interactive content. It offers a network for producing vertical video series and microdramas. The company focuses on merging imagination with artificial intelligence to scale ideas.
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