Best Tech for Film & TV Companies in Germany
The 124 best Tech for Film & TV companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: make.tv.
Germany's Tech for Film & TV scene is smaller than the headlines suggest, but the 124 companies we're tracking tell a real story about where the money is moving. Total disclosed funding sits at $24M across the board, and make.tv leads that pack decisively at $13M, with Mental Images pulling $6M and Cinector at $3M. No unicorns here. But the concentration of capital in a handful of players, while dozens more operate on seed-level or undisclosed rounds, is exactly the pattern you see before a sector consolidates.
So what's the actual momentum signal? Median install growth of roughly +15% year-on-year across motion picture and film apps points to demand that's outpacing the funding curve. Investors like HTGF and Fraunhofer Venture are active, which matters because those two tend to move early and move deliberately in German deep-tech. Can the mid-tier companies, the Grασwalds and Viscодas operating well below $1M in disclosed capital, find follow-on rounds before the window tightens? That's the live question this quarter. If you're mapping this space, the funding gap between the top two or three names and everyone else is the sharpest thing on the chart.
Ranked: Best Tech for Film & TV companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make.tv Live video acquisition and management platform | $13M | 85 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | — |
| 2 | Mental Images Developer of visual rendering software | $6M | 272 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Rolf Herken CEO & President | 1986 | — | — |
| 3 | Cinector Media production and 3D visualization software provider | $3M | 50 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 4 | Graswald Online platform offering 3D animated visual assets | $1M | 48 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | 1 launch · 2 awards |
| 5 | Viscoda Special effects products | $702K | 108 mo ago | Funding Raised | Hellward Broszio CEO & MD | 2011 | — | — |
| 6 | JustWatch Provider of streaming search guide for movies, TV shows, and sports | $253K | 90 mo ago | Seed | Ingke Purrmann Co-Founder and CRO JustWatch | 2014 | Cart FunctionalitySentryIonic+24 | — |
| 7 | Cinegy Provider of software solutions for television broadcast, media production, and workflows | $238K | 125 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2002 | HugoBootstrapAmazon Web Services+6 | — |
| 8 | International Showtimes Provider of cinema connectivity through cinema metadata API product | $20K | 153 mo ago | Seed | Burak Kahraman Co-Founder | 2013 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+16 | — |
Top 12 Tech for Film & TV companies in Germany
#1
Seed · Mittweida, Saxony · founded 2015 · 14 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Media production and 3D visualization software provider. Provides a multifunctional tool for videos and presentations with real-time 3D rendering that can be used by non-professionals as well. Also offers, Cinector STUDIO a multifunctional software that functions as a virtual TV studio with various features such as keying, a 3D environment, and animation.
- Apr 2022Seed$2.7M
- Mar 2017Seed—
#2
Seed · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2021 · 10 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering 3D animated visual assets. It offers virtual assets depicting forests and trees. Users can also create their own assets for videos.
- Jun 2022Seed$1.3M
#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
Acqui-Hired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 1986 · 51 employees$6Mraised▾
Developer of visual rendering software. The companys core product was the photorealistic rendering software, Mental Ray.
- Oct 2003PE$6M
#5
Funding Raised · Hannover, Lower Saxony · founded 2011$701.9Kraised▾
Viscoda creates special effects products for film and video productions. Broadly offers image processing, camera tracking, and 3D scene reconstruction. Offerings include Voocat a standalone automatic match moving solution that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems. CineCAT for camera tracking within Maxon Cinema 4D and Voodoo Camera Tracker reconstructs a 3D scene from image sequences and exported to other 3D animation software. Also offers services for matchmoving, labeling, consulting and other customized services.
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$362K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$339.9K
#6
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—
#7
Funding Raised · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2002 · 53 employees$237.6Kraised▾
Provider of software solutions for television broadcast, media production, and workflows. The company offers tools for media asset management, encoding, automation, and real-time monitoring. Its products support ingest, transcoding, playout, and remote workstation graphics. The software integrates into existing operations, providing access to stored content and internet-based playout with branding.
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$237.6K
#8
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2013 · 17 employees$19.8Kraised▾
Provider of cinema connectivity through cinema metadata API product. It offers showtimes, movie, and cinema metadata from various countries, allowing for global cinema connectivity. The API documentation emphasizes sending data to clients only when changes occurs. The company caters to cinema and movie applications, digital publishers, and movie studios to deliver user experience.
- Sep 2013Seed$19.8K
#9
Acquired · Halle, Saxony Anhalt · founded 2002 · 13 employees—raised▾
Ad-insertion solutions provider. It offers content selection, by cooperating with various international content distributors, producers, and studios. Provides ad-financed free-VOD services to pay-per-view, rental, and subscription packages. Features include a personalized Electronic Program Guide, pause or rewind LiveTV, Timeshift, Start Over, CatchupTV, and cloud-recorded personal video recordings. Caters to multi-service operators, broadcasters, and retailers.
- Jul 2022Seed—
#10
Seed · Potsdam, Brandenburg · founded 2017—raised▾
Cinuru is a cinema discovery platform that enables users to discover movies, read information, and plan visits to the cinema among others. Also allows users to earn rewards. Has partnered with various cinemas including Cinexx, Studio Cinema, and Hackesche Hoefe Kino among others.
- Feb 2019Seed—
#11
Late Stage · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2003 · 20 employees—raised▾
zweiB provides tech-enabled services to cinema projects and media productions. It offers various tech-enabled services such as event technology, technical conception, planning and execution of events, and more.
- Nov 2018PE—
#12
Seed · Oberursel, State of Hessen · founded 2017 · 5 employees—raised▾
Content4TV is an online provider of content management for TV channels. It offers products such as free-TV and pay-TV channels. It provides the distribution rights for free-TV and pay-TV channels to network operators, platform providers, housing companies and hardware manufacturers. It also provides the usage data evaluation for product optimization, content licenses for sub-licensing, linear and non-linear program supply through IPTV, cable with a modular, and service portfolio.
- May 2018Seed—
- Jun 2017Seed—
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