Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in Hyderabad. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
37 of 454 tracked companies have open roles.
39 of 454 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 43 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 60.0% of disclosed capital, while 91.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $672.48K | 20 | 5 |
| 2017 | $82.15M | 21 | 4 |
| 2018 | $13.32M | 22 | 6 |
| 2019 | $2.51M | 31 | 3 |
| 2020 | $4.1M | 32 | 2 |
| 2021 | $1.96M | 34 | 3 |
| 2022 | $24.87M | 30 | 6 |
| 2023 | $29.99K | 23 | 1 |
| 2024 | $19.25M | 32 | 2 |
| 2025 | $10.75M | 11 | 3 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
59 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in media & entertainment company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Burman Family and Amit Gupta and others.
Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Northpoint Capital.
Backed by WestBridge Capital and Sashi Reddi Parvatha and others.
Backed by WestBridge Capital and Sashi Parvatha Reddi.
Backed by Qualcomm Ventures and Cisco Investments and others.
Backed by MIPL and Qualcomm Ventures and others.
Backed by Sequoia Capital and Xiaomi.
Backed by Ventureast and MomJunction and others.
Backed by Kalaari Capital and DFJ and others.
Backed by DFJ and New Enterprise Associates.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · annual statements grouped by reported fiscal year; exact entity periods remain on preview rows · 73 reporting entities from 119 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Hyderabad market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
33 of 73 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 73 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aha ↗U92412TG2012PTC082167 | ₹139.9 crore | ₹-125.5 crore | -89.7% | — | ₹531.1 crore |
| Green Gold Animation ↗U92114TG2004PTC042718 | ₹122.8 crore | ₹-0.8 crore | -0.6% | — | ₹121.7 crore |
| Tamada Media ↗U74990TG2010PTC069563 | ₹83.1 crore | ₹6.7 crore | +8.1% | — | ₹39.0 crore |
| Corpus ↗U85110KA1999PTC024766 | ₹64.9 crore | ₹0.4 crore | +0.7% | — | ₹63.8 crore |
| Timing Technologies India ↗U74200TG2009PTC062596 | ₹59.7 crore | ₹5.6 crore | +9.3% | — | ₹43.2 crore |
| Oscar FX ↗U72900TG2014PTC094237 | ₹35.1 crore | ₹1.0 crore | +2.9% | — | ₹27.8 crore |
| IncNut Digital ↗U24232TG2011PTC075351 | ₹10.4 crore | ₹0.0 crore | +0.0% | — | ₹119.5 crore |
| Vaave ↗U74900TG2011PTC077975 | ₹4.6 crore | ₹0.4 crore | +8.8% | — | ₹4.5 crore |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the Hyderabad companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
19 of the 454 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.2%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 1,190,284 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sakshisakshi.com | 10,343,061 | 72 | 92.2% |
| SSBCrackssbcrack.com | 5,549,971 | 52 | 98.3% |
| Gultegulte.com | 5,269,957 | 53 | 80.7% |
| ETV Bharatetvbharat.com | 4,195,225 | 57 | 86.4% |
| The Siasat Dailysiasat.com | 3,056,262 | 61 | 88.8% |
| Telecom Talktelecomtalk.info | 2,781,063 | 45 | 96.5% |
| StyleCrazestylecraze.com | 2,269,237 | 58 | 90.4% |
| MomJunctionmomjunction.com | 2,242,480 | 54 | 86.7% |
| Ahaaha.video | 1,453,096 | 53 | 74.7% |
| Ap7am.comap7am.com | 1,190,284 | 49 | 72.1% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
70 of these companies (15.4%) publish at least one Android app — 155 apps in all, carrying 227.1M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Way2News Daily News AppWay2News | 71M | 4.8 | News & Magazines |
| A23 Poker: Texas Holdem PokerHead Digital Works | 38.1M | 3.7 | Sports |
| aha - 100% Local EntertainmentAha | 37.3M | 4.3 | Entertainment |
| Waterfall Photo Frames EditorBenzyl Labs | 11.5M | 4.4 | Photography |
| ETV WinETV Win | 11.1M | 4.4 | Entertainment |
| Chhota Bheem Shoot the LeyaksGreen Gold Animation | 5.8M | 4.6 | Arcade |
| Aadhan: Breaking & Short NewsAadhan | 5M | 4.4 | News & Magazines |
| Sunset Photo Frames & EditorBenzyl Labs | 3.7M | 4.1 | Photography |
| Garden Photo Frames & FiltersBenzyl Labs | 3.6M | 4.5 | Photography |
| Chathub App Video Chat NoLoginPeppty | 3.2M | 3.6 | Dating |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q2–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet First Media | 16 | 79.4M | Way2News Daily News App 71M | |
| Ott Video | 16 | 53.9M | aha - 100% Local Entertainment 37.3M | |
| Gambling Tech | 2 | 38.1M | A23 Poker: Texas Holdem Poker 38.1M | |
| Online Photos | 61 | 37.6M | Waterfall Photo Frames Editor 11.5M | |
| Mobile Utility Tools | 60 | 37.5M | Sunset Photo Frames & Editor 3.7M | |
| Film & Tv Studios | 4 | 6.9M | Chhota Bheem Shoot the Leyaks 5.8M | |
| Social Platforms | 24 | 4.7M | Chathub App Video Chat NoLogin 3.2M | |
| Tv Networks | 2 | 3M | ETV Bharat 3M |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 141 of 155 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
19 companies hiring · $119.91M disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Health tech startup Calibre has raised $3.3 million in pre-seed funding, led by Amino Collective.
Hyderabad-based Liquidnitro Games has raised $19.1 million USD in a Series A funding round led by U.S. investment firm Northpoint Capital, with continued backing from its previous investor, Nexus Venture Partners.
Hyderabad-based startup Vaave has secured ₹6.6 crore in its first major external funding round.
Also raising $5 million, Hyderabad-based Chai Bisket secured seed funding to launch its new ready-to-drink product line, Chai Shots.
Delta Corp will secure a 5.7% shareholding in Head Digital Works.
Public issue of 12,60,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each (equity shares) of Silly Monks Entertainment Limited (SMEL or The Company or The Issuer) for cash at a price of Rs. 120 per share (The Issue Price), aggregating to Rs. 15.12 crores (The Issue), consisting of fresh issue of 9,70,000 equity shares aggregating to Rs. 11.64 crores and an offer for sale of 2,90,000 equity shares by Mr. Tekulapalli Sanjay Reddy and Mr. Anil Kumar Pallala (The Promoter Selling Shareholders) aggregating to Rs. 3.48 crores (Offer for Sale), of which 72,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each will be reserved for subscription by market maker to the issue (the market maker reservation portion).
Public issue of 16,048,011 equity shares of Rs. 10 each of DQ Entertainment (International) Limited (The Company or The Issuer) for cash at a price of Rs. 80 per equity share (including a share premium of Rs. 70 per equity share) for QIB, Non-institutional and Retail individual bidders and Rs. 73 per equity share for eligible employees (including a share premium of Rs. 63 per equity share) aggregating Rs. 128.16 crores (the Issue).
Public Issue of 8013100 equity shares of Rs 10 each for cash at a price of Rs 162 per equity share by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd aggregating Rs 129.81 crore.
Hyderabad-based hyperlocal news platform Way2News has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round, led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from venture capitalist Sashi Reddi.
Mukta Arts has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Green Gold Animation to jointly develop and produce animated shows and feature films based on Mukta Arts’ iconic intellectual property portfolio.
Top 10 categories among 45 recorded events in the 24-month window.
3 companies with recorded IPO activity
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Proactive Health
Themed Café
1 recorded customer wins
Customer: Mukta ArtsAnimation
1 companies with reported reductions
67.0% rolesreal-money gaming ban
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head Digital Works→Deltatech Gaming | Announced | 2025-04-11 | Not stated in snapshot |
| delta corp→Head Digital Works ↗ | Announced | 2025-03-05 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Head Digital Works→adda52 | 2025-03-03 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| DeltaCorp Limited→Head Digital Works ↗ | Announced | 2025-02-21 | Not stated in snapshot |
| wsp→Calibre ↗ | Announced | 2023-04-06 | $275.0M |
| bookmyshow→Masti Tickets ↗ | Announced | 2023-01-24 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
4 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7-posting snapshot covers 7 employers.
0 tracked postings mention remote work.
3 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 7 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Green Gold Animation ↗ | 566 |
| Head Digital Works ↗ | 534 |
| Way2News ↗ | 358 |
| Oscar FX ↗ | 239 |
| WhackedOut Media ↗ | 237 |
| Aha ↗ | 122 |
| Tamada Media ↗ | 119 |
| Corpus ↗ | 113 |
280 founders and chief executives across 202 companies.
Ex-Co-Founder The Taste, Way2Online. Acharya Nagarjuna University MCA 2003
Liquidnitro Games, ex-Electronic Arts, ex-Nexxoft Infotel, Visvesvaraya Technological University, 2004
CEO CentraMed, ex-Founder Analytix On Demand, E2E Analytix. Osmania University BE 1987, Texas A&M University - Mays Business School MBA 1992
Ex-Gingersoft Media, Infosys Technologies. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 1998, Indian School of Business 2007
Co-Founder First Show. CVR College of Engineering BTech 2010, NMIMS 2012
Ex-Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas, KVR Group. SRM University BTech 2013, Naveen Jindal School of Management UT Dalls MS 2018
Co-Founder Wysh, ex-Linbeck, VANPIC Projects. BITS Pilani MS 2007, LSE MS 2008, Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA 2014
Co-Founder-VerSe Innovation · Ex-Facebook, Adobe, Intuit · Pune University BE 1999
Ex-STUDIO11 Salon and Spa, Impel Overseas Consultants · SJM Dental College BDS 2000, Manipal Academy of Higher Education MBA 2007
Osmania University BE 1987, Rice University MS 1990
Ex-Kapstone Properties · Sri Venkateswara University BSc 2025
Ex-Bhumi. PIRM Engineering College BTech 2007, National Institute of Industrial Engineering PGDIE 2009
22 profiles with education records.
8 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
37,394 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Hyderabad · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 4,638 |
| 2021Q3 | 4,383 |
| 2021Q4 | 4,127 |
| 2022Q1 | 4,988 |
| 2022Q2 | 6,288 |
| 2022Q3 | 7,923 |
| 2022Q4 | 8,063 |
| 2023Q1 | 9,396 |
| 2023Q2 | 7,699 |
| 2023Q3 | 7,589 |
| 2023Q4 | 8,061 |
| 2024Q1 | 10,266 |
| 2024Q2 | 8,132 |
| 2024Q3 | 8,287 |
| 2024Q4 | 11,431 |
| 2025Q1 | 11,156 |
| 2025Q2 | 10,035 |
| 2025Q3 | 8,638 |
| 2025Q4 | 9,641 |
| 2026Q1 | 9,705 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
85 recorded company events across 12 companies; percentages use that event total.
Media & Entertainment coverage tagged Hyderabad · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
India comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| tariff negotiations | 11,626 | 5,700 | 104% |
| bilateral trade | 4,612 | 2,438 | 89% |
| trade dispute mechanisms | 4,516 | 2,208 | 105% |
| trade barrier reduction | 4,495 | 2,444 | 84% |
| trade facilitation commitments | 4,330 | 2,201 | 97% |
| countries | 4,193 | 1,860 | 125% |
| free trade deals | 4,082 | 2,436 | 68% |
| multilateral diplomacy | 3,924 | 2,729 | 44% |
| diplomatic strategies | 3,833 | 2,362 | 62% |
| bilateral trade imbalance | 3,281 | 2,050 | 60% |
| odi cricket | 6,043 | 9,710 | -38% |
| limited overs cricket | 5,784 | 9,370 | -38% |
| odi tactics | 5,637 | 8,809 | -36% |
| odi series | 5,265 | 8,376 | -37% |
| odi rankings | 5,019 | 8,104 | -38% |
India comparison coverage
territories, disputed islands, test cricket
43.4% critical · 27.6% positivepre-ipo valuation, ipo prospectus, ipo pricing
48.7% critical · 46.6% positivegdp growth rate, economic output growth, economic growth statistics
46.9% critical · 50.5% positiveMedia & Entertainment coverage tagged Hyderabad. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 2 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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