Best Tech for Film & TV Companies in Ontario, Canada

Technology solutions provider for broadcasting. It provides media broadcasting services that include remote acquisition, management & distribution of professional live video over IP networks. It offers live broadcasting of news and other stories through wireless video cellular networks. Offers LIVE Plus platform for broadcasters, media organizations, and mobile production companies to transmit the live video over a cellular network. It also provides public transit/transportation operators with end-to-end connectivity solutions like software, hardware, network & connectivity services for bus, rail, and vehicle fleets.

Funding rounds

• Dec 2025Venture Debt$20M
• Feb 2022Conventional Debt$13M
• Apr 2021Series C$47.8M
• Nov 2017Series B$25.1M

Founders & team

Bogdan FrusinaFounderBruce AndersonCEO

Investors

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, Intelsat, VERTU Capital, BEST Funds, MaRS IAF, Runway Growth Capital

Tech stack

Alpine.JsAngular MaterialAngularjsApple Icloud MailAutoptimizeBetterdocs

Moghul Productions is a crowdfunding platform focused on film productions. It is based on blockchain technology to connect investors and film owners. Allows users to raise finances and capital for managing cash flows of movie budgets, fans, and investors. Users can avail rewards and perks for the investments made.

Funding rounds

• Jul 2024ICO$1.2M
• Apr 2021ICO$14M

Founders & team

Michael ColleyOwner & CEO

Investors

Avisa Ventures, GD10 Ventures, Cypheron Ventures, Capitaleap

Digital entertainment network for Pay TV. It aggregates digital-first brands into channel lineups for PayTV. It combines PayTV and OTT to deliver programming to TV households through distribution partners and helps to generate advertising and subscription-based revenue-share opportunities. Also provides direct integration with set-top boxes.

VFX solutions for Film and TV industry. It offers VFX services using GPU clusters, game engine technology, and AI.

Masstech provides media asset management, archive, workflow automation, and transcoding tools and technologies for the media and entertainment industry. Masstech solutions enable media companies to save, share and transform their content. Enables their customers to monetize their content across various platforms.

LiveHive Systems offers interactive entertainment solutions for TV audiences. Provided live and real-time interaction between audiences and the TV shows. Offered "second screen engagement" through mobile games/trivia questions and a platform for users to interact with each other. Has worked with various networks such as Turner, ESPN, NBC, and with reality TV such as the Olympics, football, baseball, hockey, basketball, NASCAR, awards shows, game shows, and others.

Founders & team

Robert RiopelleCo-Founder & Vice PresidentJean Pierre BhavnaniCo-Founder & Vice President

SideFX provides 3D animation and VFX software for films, commercials, and video games. Provides modeling, rigging, animation, particle effects, dynamics, compositing, integrated rendering through it's multiple Houdini products. Supports Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows operating systems. Awards won include "Best Visual Effects". Houdini has been used in various feature animation productions films including Frozen and Zootopia, Rio, and Ant Bully.

Set Scouter is a film location scouting marketplace that connects filmmakers looking for the set with property owners looking to rent out their space for production. Users can search for spaces by applying the location filter. It charges a booking price to owners for creating listings. Renters are charged on the total charge for every additional half hour post booking time.

Closed Caption Creator provides media captioning solutions. It is a web-based editor used to manually create and edit closed captioning and subtitle files using shortcuts and video controls. Its features include the ability to create translations using a workspace, user-defined shortcut keys, stream local files from disk, and others. It supports multiple formats including SRT, SCC, MCC, CAP, PAC, WebVTT, XML, TTML, STL, and more. The app is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.

Funding rounds

• Jun 2019Seed$30K

Founders & team

Nathaniel DeshpandeFounder & CEO

Investors

Accelerator Centre

Tech stack

BootstrapBootstrap IconsCdnjsCloudflareFirebaseGodaddy

SmartTones Media provides audience engagement and measurement solution. The platform offered by the company provides a solution to encode, create and execute campaigns, capture and monitor data in real-time. It enables television and radio broadcasters to measure audiences in real-time.

Funding rounds

• Seed$35K

Founders & team

Daryl HemingwayCEO

Investors

Boomtown Innovation, The Farm, Right Side Capital Management, DMZ Ventures

Greenlight Essentials provides movie analytics for the entertainment industry. Brings movie data and big data analysis to discover repeatable patterns from decades of movies to understand which combination elements would draw audiences. Empowers the film industry to make business decisions through evidence-based analysis from development through to distribution.

Funding rounds

• Jul 2016Seed$30K

Founders & team

Jack ZhangFounder & CEO

Investors

Accelerator Centre, Velocity

Tech stack

BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesJqueryGoogle Font ApiFont AwesomeAws Certificate Manager

Quaity monitoring solutions provider for the media and entertainment industry. It provides products such as Video QoE Monitor, Video QoE Monitor Live, Perceptual Stream Optimizer, and Smart Video Streaming. It offers products for video quality monitoring, video quality diagnosis, and perceptual video compression. Caters to broadcasters, streamers, and content creators that provide video content delivery solutions.