Media & Entertainment Landscape of Germany
4,449 Media & Entertainment companies in Germany, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about and which skills employers want. Updated August 2026.
Who leads Media & Entertainment in Germany
Shows the top‑ranked Media & Entertainment firms in Germany by size, funding, hiring activity and media coverage, highlighting the 4,449 tracked companies and noting the current hiring and funding counts.
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Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden9last posted Jun 2026
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Thomann9last posted Apr 2026
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BurdaForward8last posted Mar 2026
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Prematch8last posted May 2026
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1SP Agency7last posted May 2026
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bfe studio und medien systeme7last posted May 2026
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funke mediengruppe7last posted Feb 2026
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Edel6last posted Mar 2026
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SoundCloud$543.1MSeries F · Feb 2020
- 02ProSiebenSat.1 Media$368.6MPost IPO · Feb 2023
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One Football$320.1MSeries D · Apr 2022
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ResearchGate$87.6MGrant (prize money) · Dec 2020
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Native Instruments$58.9MPE · Oct 2017
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Kittl$47.8MSeries B · Jan 2024
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Mirelo AI$41MSeed · Dec 2025
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Morressier$40.7MSeries B · Jan 2024
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Brainpool$114.3Msnapshot Dec 2012
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Deutsche Welle$92.6MFY2021 filing
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Bookwire$88.8MFY2021 filing
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Ableton$81.5MFY2018 filing
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MegaDev$131ksnapshot Dec 2024
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Artec Technologies$2kFY2020 filing
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prosiebensat.1 media7,393tracked employees
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CEWE Stiftung3,745tracked employees
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CTS Eventim3,469tracked employees
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cinestar2,500tracked employees
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cinemaxx1,300tracked employees
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frankfurter allgemeine zeitung1,000tracked employees
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ZEAL19.9%91 tracked events
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Black Forest Labs7.4%34 tracked events
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Eventim3.7%17 tracked events
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GIGA3.5%16 tracked events
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Springer Nature2.8%13 tracked events
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Knowunity2.4%11 tracked events
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Steinberg1,167articles in the window
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NDR261articles in the window
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ProSieben128articles in the window
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eSports106articles in the window
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Pixabay99articles in the window
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See all 4,449 Media & Entertainment companies in Germany
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How the Media & Entertainment ecosystem in Germany grew, 2016–2025
Displays the annual count of new Media & Entertainment companies founded from 2016 to 2025, with a peak of 243 startups in 2020 and 19 in 2025.
Where Media & Entertainment companies in Germany are based
Lists the German cities with the most Media & Entertainment companies, led by Berlin with 825 firms followed by Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart.
The Media & Entertainment market map of Germany: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the types of products these firms create and their primary revenue models, noting the largest sub‑categories such as consumer digital and the most common models like advertising and subscriptions.
The biggest kinds of Media & Entertainment company, by how many we track.
- Consumer Digital2,094 companies · $1.8B raised · 63 hiring
- Enterprise Tech799 companies · $286.9M raised · 30 hiring
- B2C E-Commerce466 companies · $627.1M raised · 18 hiring
- Enterprise Software317 companies · $173.5M raised · 9 hiring
- SaaS176 companies · $84.4M raised · 6 hiring
- Marketplaces174 companies · $590.6M raised · 8 hiring
- Internet First News Publishers165 companies · $2.5M raised · 4 hiring
- Loneliness Economy145 companies · $43.5M raised · 1 hiring
- Media & Entertainment SaaS95 companies · $52.3M raised · 3 hiring
- Real Money Gaming91 companies · $22.1M raised · 3 hiring
- Music Creation IT84 companies · $107.2M raised · 2 hiring
- Spatial Computing71 companies · $15.5M raised · 2 hiring
Monetization
How Media & Entertainment companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Media & Entertainment in Germany
Summarises 352 corporate events over the past two years, including mergers, key‑person changes, earnings releases, funding rounds and other announcements.
- M&AFollowing the production of its first feature film, Waffenstillstand, the company got involved in film distribution as well by taking over the Berlin-based film distributor Delphi Filmverleih in 2011.2026-03-19
- M&ABack in October, UK-based Delta Software Group acquired Bookwire from long-time investor VR EquityPartners in a deal reportedly valuing Bookwire at around $115 million.2026-03-13
- M&ABefore that, it completed acquisitions of creative agency School House; marketing firm Taylor & Pond,2026-02-11
- IPOartec technologies AG (ISIN DE0005209589), specialist for intelligent video-based security solutions and OSINT-based information analysis, welcomes the current law on location promotion (StoFöG) and is committed to listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's scale segment.2026-02-10
- FundingNow, the London-based startup has secured £2.5 million in seed funding from Augmentum, supported by Triple Point and TinyVC, to take on one of the UK’s fastest-growing and least-served markets, which is health and wealth solutions for people over 60.2026-02-03
- FundingTheir company recently secured a huge amount of money, 61 million dollars to be precise, in funding2026-01-23
- M&AProSiebenSat.1 continues to sell edge shops under its new owner MFE and sells the online portal wetter.com to the Funke Mediengruppe.2025-12-15
- FundingThe Series-B was led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, who joined as investors.2025-12-03
- M&ALuther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH has successfully advised the shareholders of the Mediengruppe Oberfranken (MGO) in the sale of all shares to the Mediengruppe Bayern.2025-11-14
- M&ASky sold its German arm, Sky Deutschland, to RTL Group in June for $175 million.2025-11-07
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Media & Entertainment company in Germany was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-04-25 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2026-03-19 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-03-13 | ||
| Delta Software Group | $115M | Completed | 2026-03-13 | |
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-02-11 | ||
| Built in Amsterdam | undisclosed | Announced | 2026-02-11 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on specific corporate events such as leadership moves, IPO filings, product launches and contract wins within the sector.
Leonine StudiosQuirin Berg · Appointment → Deputy Chairman of the Management BoardMar 2026
3SSFelix Walter · Appointment → Chief Growth OfficerMar 2026
LawoJamie Dunn · Appointment → Chief Executive OfficerMar 2026
wild bunchTarek Malak · Appointment → Chief Executive OfficerMar 2026
Financialdissolved — Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS)Jan 2026
ARDRe-regulated internal financial compensation mechanismJan 2025
- tf1, France Televisions, radio france, le figaro, liberation v metaonline advertising practices and data privacy violation · FiledApr 2025
- some 50 French newspapers, le figaro, le monde, Télérama v microsoftNov 2024
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +10.6%, half slower.
Who is building Media & Entertainment in Germany
Profiles 1,205 founders and CEOs across 898 companies, showing typical educational backgrounds and prior employers, with Technical University of Munich and Boston Consulting Group appearing most often.
Researchgate, ex-Alemo Kommunikations, Universität Passau, 2007
Ex-Founder Rawster Foods, Fitkit. Grenoble Ecole de Management MS
Mirelo Ai, ex-Amazon Web Services, ex-Google Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019
Ex- Jung von Matt. ESCP Europe MSc 2012, SRH Hochschule Berlin BA 2010
Ex- Founder VWAS-Studios. University of Mannheim BS 2019
Ex-PodcastU UG
ex - TPS Labs AG Education - MIS Marknads Institutet i Stockholm
Ex - Founder Classics, Music Academy in Cologne Piano 1992
Shadow Esports, ex-Dojo Madness, ex-Smartfrog, Universität des Saarlandes, 1996
- flagged as repeat founders5
- no repeat-founder flag919
- women114
- men1,009
Look up the people behind Media & Entertainment companies in Germany
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Who funds Media & Entertainment in Germany
Shows that 284 investors have participated in 444 funding rounds since 2016, with a typical round size of $198 k.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Europa | 266 | — | Jan 2024 |
| HTGF | 8 | 5 | Mar 2024 |
| IBB Ventures | 6 | 4 | Jun 2023 |
| Bayern Kapital | 5 | 4 | May 2022 |
| Redalpine | 5 | 1 | Jan 2024 |
| Lakestar | 4 | 2 | Mar 2024 |
| b2venture | 3 | 3 | Sep 2018 |
| HV Capital | 3 | 3 | Apr 2022 |
| Antler | 3 | 2 | Sep 2024 |
| Cherry Ventures | 3 | 1 | Jan 2024 |
The typical round is $198k — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest Media & Entertainment funding rounds in Germany
Highlights the biggest disclosed funding deals, including One Football’s $300 M Series D round, and lists ten large recent rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series Dmega-round | $300M | Apr 2022 | Liberty City Ventures, Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs +5 more | |
| Series F | $169.5M | Aug 2017 | The Raine Group, Temasek | |
| Series F | $75M | Feb 2020 | Sirius XM | |
| Series E | $70M | Jun 2016 | ||
| Series D | $60M | Jan 2014 | IVP, GGV Capital, Index Ventures +2 more | |
| Series D | $52.6M | Feb 2017 | Four Rivers Group, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gates +8 more | |
| Series C | $50M | Jan 2012 | GGV Capital, Kleiner Perkins | |
| Seed | $41M | Dec 2025 | Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, TriplePoint Capital +5 more | |
| Series B | $36M | Jan 2024 | IVP | |
| Series C | $35M | May 2013 | Tenaya Capital, Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group +1 more |
21 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Series A$14MMar 2026
Seed$1MFeb 2026
What the news says about Media & Entertainment in Germany
Counts 471,990 news articles about the sector in the last year and identifies the most frequently covered topics such as geopolitical disputes and international relations.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate Media & Entertainment news in Germany. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Geopolitical disputes and contested areas300,517▲+33%
- International and transnational geographic entities300,513▲+33%
- Administrative and political subdivisions300,465▲+33%
- International political relations62,277→+7%
- Security and defense policies42,948▲+22%
- International sports competitions37,000▼-42%
- International relations and diplomacy26,173▲+17%
- Professional league updates21,872▲+14%
- Olympic games coverage19,404▼-49%
- Athlete transfer rumors15,907▲+49%
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38 Media & Entertainment companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch Media & Entertainment coverage in Germany as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Momentum
The words getting louder — and quieter
Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.
The pressures the press keeps returning to
Three recurring angles in Germany Media & Entertainment coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
Media & Entertainment jobs in Germany: who is hiring and what they ask for
Reports 399 job postings from 114 employers over 12 months, emphasizing in‑demand skills like SQL, Python, A/B testing and data analysis.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Media & Entertainment employers in Germany put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- sql4▲
- python3→
- a/b testing3▲
- kpi2▼
- data analysis2▼
- typescript2▲
- automation2▼
- personalization2▼
- machine learning2▼
- metric architecture2▼
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