Best OTT Video Companies in Germany
The 118 best OTT Video companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mediakraft Networks.
Germany's OTT Video sector gets a proper ranking here: 118 companies tracked, sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, so you can cut straight to who's actually capitalized. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $66M, which sounds modest until you clock a 30.7% CAGR on a market forecast to hit $2.7B in 2024. That's a lot of runway compressed into a relatively tight funding pool, and it tells you the space is early, competitive, and moving fast.
Mediakraft Networks leads the directory at $23M raised, with make.tv at $13M and Staige at $9M rounding out the top tier. No unicorns yet, but the investor roster, Media Ventures, Europa, Bmp Ventures, Brandenburg Capital, and DCM Film, signals serious strategic attention. Hot themes this quarter are clustering around playback engines and audio rendering, the infrastructure layer that determines whether a stream holds or breaks. And the demand side isn't slowing: live shopping integrations are reshaping how platforms think about incremental revenue, while Amazon's Premier League move in the UK is a reminder that global players are tightening their grip on premium content. I'd watch Germany's mid-tier closely. That's where the real differentiation fight is happening right now.
- business-standard.com
Ranked: Best OTT Video companies in Germany
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iPharro Video content identification solutions provider | — | $5M | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | 3Q Streaming infrastructure services provider | — | — | — | Julius Thomas CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | Top 10M | — |
| 3 | 3Q Live streaming services | — | — | — | Julius Thomas Founder & CEO | Atlassian StatuspageHSTS | Top 5M | — |
| 4 | 3SS Developer of software platform for personalized entertainment experiences across devices | — | — | — | Rudolf Maiterth Co-Founder | WebflowMemberStackApple iCloud Mail+25 | Top 5M | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 5 | Alleskino Video streaming platform | — | — | — | Andreas Voge Managing Director | TypeScriptNode.jsWindows Server+9 | Top 10M | — |
| 6 | Allyance Network Provider of influencer marketing, talent management, and creator growth services | — | — | 93 | Nicolas John CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Alpwerk Live video streaming platform for delivering and monetizing video content | — | — | — | Stefan Koberl Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Anime on Demand Online platform for streaming anime videos | — | — | — | Mathias Nowoczin Managing Director | — | — | — |
Top 12 OTT Video companies in Germany
#1
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2022 · 2 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Online platform offering to stream movies and series. It provides users to stream various TV channels such as music, movies, sports, and more.
- Sep 2024Seed$1.3M
- Oct 2022Seed$98.6K
#2
Series A · Essen, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2016 · 64 employees$8.9Mraised▾
Provider of edge artificial intelligence and video analytics for sports. The company delivers camera-based systems analyzing visual data on-site, providing real-time insights. It specializes in solutions for sports and critical infrastructure, offering automated live streaming, sport analysis, and security. The company's technology detects dangers, tracks people, analyzes behavior, and automates monitoring.
- Jun 2022Series A$8.9M
#3
Acquired · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2007 · 42 employees$12.9Mraised▾
make.tv is a live video acquisition and management platform that offers patented video cloud infrastructure which enables producers to assign signals of incoming live feeds to pre-configured outputs, which can then be routed to live streaming platforms, newsrooms or production environments. Customers include LinkedIn, ESL, RTL, Zappos, SRF, Samsung and more.
- May 2019Series A$4.4M
- Jun 2017Series A$8.5M
- Nov 2008Seed—
- Nov 2007Angel—
#4
Series B · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2011 · 12 employees$23Mraised▾
Multi channel network platform. The company spreads and commercializes online-TV content and is an operator of YouTube creators. It produces several online TV formats from multiple genres.
- Jul 2014Series B$23M
#5
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2015 · 20 employees$4.9Mraised▾
YEAY is an online video-enabled marketplace allowing users to sell products via video. It enables users to shoot and share recommendation videos of products of their choice using the in-app tool. Users can browse through daily video feeds and also make a purchase through the app. The app is available for iOS and Android platforms.
- Dec 2018Seed—
- Jun 2017Seed$4.9M
- Jun 2016Seed—
#6
Deadpooled · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2008 · 51 employees$6.2Mraised▾
Tape TV enables users to watch on demand music television. Has partnerships with several media companies such as Facebook, Spotify, Last.fm, ZDF, bild.de, spiegel.de, Yahoo!Music, Rolling Stone, etc.for content. Its algorithm creates playlists based on user history to keep the user engaged. Backed by Atlantic Capital Partners GmbH , Dario Suter, Christoph Daniel and Marc Schmidheiny (DCM), Berlin Angel investor Christophe Maire, alongside Investitionsbank Berlin and VC Kreativwirtschaft Berlin.
- May 2012Series B$6.2M
#7
Early Stage · Darmstadt, Hesse · founded 2007 · 12 employees$5.2Mraised▾
iPharro Media offers software solutions for video content identification and monitoring. The company helps media companies to identify, monetize and protect video content. Their product iPharro MediaSeeker software allows customers to monitor multiple broadcast television channels in order to detect desired content using patent pending video fingerprinting technology. Spinoff from Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
#8
Deadpooled · Potsdam, Brandenburg · founded 2009 · 21 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Castaclip, renamed to ilovevideo.tv, is a video and content discovery platform for users. It uses patent pending curation technologies to personalize the programming for every individual user. It uses smart curation technology to personalize the video feed for every user. It plays content in a TV like manner, with a stream of interesting content. The remote for this has 2 buttons: love and skip. By using the system over time, Castaclip learns a user's preferences and is able to form a relevant video stream for that user.
- Sep 2012Series A—
- Nov 2010Seed$1.3M
#9
Funding Raised · Munich, Bavaria · founded 1996 · 25 employees$270Kraised▾
MILC provides a blockchain-based distribution platform for the international broadcasting, VOD, and online video publishing sectors. Content creators can post their content on the platform. Buyers can pay for the selected content via crypto or fiat currency. Transactions are secured via smart contracts.
- May 2021ICO$270K
#10
Seed · Mannheim, Baden-wurttemberg · founded 2014 · 29 employees$1Mraised▾
Alugha offers a video player which allows users to add multiple languages and dolby surround to their online videos to make them multilingual. It offers solutions like transcribing, creating subtitles, translate and dub videos within browsers. Users can invite anyone also with just a smartphone to join the project for just a specific language. It has CDN Network which provides unlimited object storage, html5 video player, and multiple multilingual videos which most is about free education and edutainment. The video player has fully embed.ly support and works on most platforms with all the common features (like live switching of the language for audio and subtitle) directly like on Twitter, Kickstarter, medium and many more.
- Aug 2014Angel$1M
#11
Deadpooled · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2011$466.7Kraised▾
Make Music TV offers a video on demand service tailored to music enthusiasts and fans worldwide. The service offers a great variety on full length live concerts, music documentations and artists. With the subscription they offer, subscribers get access to the whole content library, which can be cancelled on a monthly basis. Partnering with producers, major labels and TV stations Make Music TV combines music passion with industry experience in order to offer the best product for their customers.
- Aug 2013Seed$466.7K
#12
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 57 employees$253Kraised▾
Provider of streaming search guide for movies, TV shows, and sports. It offers a comprehensive platform to find where entertainment is available. The platform combines watchlists across streaming services into a single list. It allows users to browse new, popular, and upcoming movies and TV shows. The platform also provides information on where to watch sports.
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$253K
- 2017Seed—
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