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THE SAN FRANCISCO EDITION 2026

San Francisco’s
media & entertainment industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping media & entertainment in San Francisco. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Media & Entertainment Industry Landscape of San Francisco
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Media & Entertainment illustration
Companies tracked 1,897Media & Entertainment ecosystem in San Francisco Disclosed funding $20.68B469 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 66With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 2015 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore San Francisco’s media & entertainment leaders

23 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Media & Entertainment company highlights in San Francisco, snapshot 7 August 2026
Company
Unityunity.com$3.08B—7,703Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Pinterestpinterest.com$2.47B9 roles4,014$4.22BFYFY2025 filing
Redditreddit.com$1.62B—4—
World Labsworldlabs.ai$1.23B———
Discorddiscord.com$978.3M9 roles614—
Eventbriteeventbrite.com$664.25M—352$291.84MFYFY2025 filing
SmartNewssmartnews.com$479.49M—566—
Next Doornextdoor.com$455.51M—594$257.65MFYFY2025 filing
Crunchyrollcrunchyroll.com—12 roles151—
NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUPnexstardigital.com—12 roles288—
Samba TVplatform.samba.tv—8 roles375—
Scribd, Incscribd.com—8 roles300—
Tubitubitv.com—8 roles185—
Snapprsnappr.com—6 roles263—
Bravadobravado.co——17—
Dashversedashverse.ai———Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Graphygraphy.com———Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Gumroadgumroad.com——111Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Redditredditinc.com——2,013$2.2BFYFY2025 filing
Sambasamba.tv——384—
StubHubstubhub.com——1,182—
Swish Analyticsswishanalytics.com——37—
Twitterabout.twitter.com——150—
23 featured companies

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 ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Media & Entertainment industry KPIs in San Francisco

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

7 August 2026
Hiring participation3.5%

66 of 1,897 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation27.6%

523 of 1,897 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share34.7%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$3.41M

Midpoint of 509 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 34.7% of disclosed capital, while 72.4% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How San Francisco media & entertainment has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

San Francisco media & entertainment
$0$1.52B$3.05B$4.57B$6.09B2016: $550.23M20162017: $1.63B20172018: $793.68M20182019: $1.84B20192020: $927.58M20202021: $5.35B20212022: $627.92M20222023: $217.51M20232024: $572.19M20242025: $999.8M2025
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Annual media & entertainment funding and company formation in San Francisco
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$550.23M8648
2017$1.63B9247
2018$793.68M8646
2019$1.84B9061
2020$927.58M9238
2021$5.35B7859
2022$627.92M9639
2023$217.51M10638
2024$572.19M8441
2025$999.8M3126
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Unity14.9%
  • Pinterest11.9%
  • Reddit7.8%
  • Other companies65.3%

Funding by stage

613 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel292 47.6%
Series A–B169 27.6%
Series C+ / PE94 15.3%
Grants, debt & other58 9.5%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
5 rounds

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Seed03/2026
Linecook $2.3M

Backed by Ardent Venture Partners.

Series E02/2026
World Labs $1B

Backed by Autodesk and AMD and others.

Series B02/2026
Novig $75M

Backed by Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital and others.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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Series I09/2021
Discorddiscord.com$500M

Backed by Dragoneer Investment Group and Baillie Gifford and others.

Series E02/2021
Redditreddit.com$367.95M

Backed by Vy Capital and Andreessen Horowitz and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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USD · millions · consolidated

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 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 5 reporting entities from 7 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts—

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not San Francisco market sales.

Net profit / loss—

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin—

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue—

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities—

None of 5 covered entities.

Top-five concentration—

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2025 · 5 reporting entities

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SAN FRANCISCO · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does media & entertainment compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

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.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the San Francisco companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

191 of the 1,897 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (10.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 1,523,658 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Redditreddit.com5,404,451,44910062.5%
Pinterestpinterest.com1,219,010,92010037.9%
FANDOMfandom.com1,190,383,0119971.3%
Twitchtwitch.tv1,165,038,3029711.1%
Discorddiscord.com985,012,0399523.9%
Scribd, Incscribd.com273,874,8639961.5%
Threadsthreads.com252,106,7319752.6%
Crunchyrollcrunchyroll.com234,542,8919127.6%
Patreonpatreon.com217,476,5388158%
Imgurimgur.com144,170,4836973.3%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

197 of these companies (10.4%) publish at least one Android app — 793 apps in all, carrying 5.2B installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
PinterestPinterest1.5B4.3Lifestyle
StarMaker: Sing Karaoke SongsStarMaker618.9M4.4Music & Audio
Smule: Sing, Duet & KaraokeSmule378.1M4.1Music & Audio
Twitch: Live StreamingTwitch355.2M4Entertainment
RedditReddit240.6M4.6Social
Crunchyroll: Anime StreamingCrunchyroll234M4.6Entertainment
Tubi: Free Movies & Live TVTubi226.7M4.9Entertainment
TuneIn Radio: Music & SportsTuneIn181.4M4.7Music & Audio
VSCO: Photo EditorVisual Supply Co163.3M3.6Photography
Strava: Run, Bike, WalkStrava124.3M4.6Health & Fitness

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Social Platforms1172.4BPinterest 1.5B
Online Photos201.7BVSCO: Photo Editor 163.3M
Music Tech491.4BStarMaker: Sing Karaoke Songs 618.9M
Ott Video128855.2MTwitch: Live Streaming 355.2M
Gaming Tech26363MHearo - Watch Movies Together 3.3M
Esports13358.5MFantaPil 40.9K
Digital Publishing Platforms101319.6MReddit 240.6M
Internet First Media29208.8MSmartNews: Live News & Rewards 59.8M

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.

Release cadence by quarter

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.

2023Q2: 182023Q2: 42023Q22023Q3: 392023Q3: 232023Q32023Q4: 232023Q4: 42023Q42024Q1: 222024Q1: 62024Q12024Q2: 392024Q2: 102024Q22024Q3: 302024Q3: 242024Q32024Q4: 512024Q4: 302024Q42025Q1: 462025Q1: 242025Q12025Q2: 282025Q2: 272025Q22025Q3: 462025Q3: 842025Q32025Q4: 352025Q4: 1302025Q42026Q1: 452026Q1: 1282026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 756 of 793 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The San Francisco media & entertainment market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital1,297
Enterprise tech441
B2c e-commerce187
Loneliness economy166
Enterprise software153
Saas138
Marketplaces108
Real money gaming100
Internet first news publishers84
Blockchain in media and entertainment67
Spatial computing65
Artificial intelligence64

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

1297companies
3.2%have hiring activity

42 companies hiring · $13.28B disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription1,234
Advertising765
Commission on transaction498
E-commerce - service271
Sponsorship253
Fee-for-service199
E-commerce - product110
Affiliate marketing105
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 9 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsengadget.com ↗

Static Media acquires Engadget from Yahoo Backed by Novacap Management, Static Media has acquired Engadget from Yahoo.

Mergers & acquisitionsnexstardigital.com ↗

First Horizon Corp acquired a new stake in shares of Nexstar Media Group in the third quarter worth approximately $44,000.

Mergers & acquisitionsturpentine.co ↗

Last year, he acquired the tech podcast network Turpentine.

Funding roundsbackchannel.com ↗

Sunna Ventures seeded BackChannel’s surplus fashion marketplace in Brazil.

Funding roundsswishanalytics.com ↗

Rival Swish, launched in 2024, however, has raised $54 million so far.

Funding roundsaugur.net ↗

He has now raised £11.2 million led by Plural, with participation from First Kind, SNR, Flix and Tiny VC.

Mergers & acquisitionspinterest.com ↗

Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor known for its assertive involvement in company decisions, has taken a $1 billion stake in Pinterest.

Mergers & acquisitionsgloria.app ↗

Gloria Foods S.A., the renowned Peruvian company of Grupo Gloria, announced the acquisition of 80% of the shareholding of Molfino Hermanos S.A., known commercially as Saputo Argentina.

Earningsredditinc.com ↗

Reddit had financials to report yesterday too, including a big spike in revenues, which were up 69% year-on-year to $663m in the first quarter of 2026.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 839 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
177
Lawsuit
152
Leadership moves
139
Mergers & acquisitions
95
Funding rounds
73
Regulatory
41
Company announcements
33
New products
31
IPO activity
30
Layoffs
17
7 activity cards

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IPO pipeline

10 companies with recorded IPO activity

StubHub ↗

IPO · NYSE17 reports

Discord ↗

IPO · United States3 reports

Strava ↗

IPO · US3 reports

Pinterest ↗

IPO · New York Stock Exchange2 reports

Miso ↗

IPO · BSE-NSE1 reports

Eventbrite ↗

IPO · NYSE1 reports

Reddit ↗

IPO · NYSE7 reports

Graphy ↗

IPO · South Korea’s secondary stock market2 reports

Leadership moves

62 tracked people moves

Reddit ↗
Allison Day

Promotion Executive and Digital Communications Lead

Reddit ↗
Natalie Maguire

Appointment Global Head of B2B Communications

Reddit ↗
Adam Collins

Appointment Chief Communications Officer

Philo ↗
Mike Keyserling

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Philo ↗
Andrew McCollum

Departure Executive Chairman

Philo ↗
Tom Tidgwell

Appointment Chief Financial Officer

Known ↗
Lynn Lewis

Appointment Chief Client Officer

Substack ↗
Catie Poust

Appointment UK Communications Lead

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Tubi ↗
Tubi app

App integration

ImpactAlpha ↗
ImpactAlpha Edge

Platform

Tubi ↗
Tubitopia

Creatorverse space

Canto ↗
DAM for Products

Digital Asset Management Platform

Twitter ↗
Twitter Tips

Payment feature

Reddit ↗
Max Campaigns

Advertising campaign format

Canto ↗
Media Publisher

Publishing Tool

Discord ↗
Arena Quests

Advertising

Litigation

33 tracked suits

Company
california, colorado, Connecticut, illinois, indiana, kansas v nexstar, tegna

antitrust merger blockAntitrust · Ongoing

Company
directv, Eight State Attorneys General v nexstar, tegna

Antitrust merger violationAntitrust · Ongoing

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

17companies
196period observations
18.0%median reported growth

Median across 156 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Elon Musk→Twitter ↗Announced2026-07-26$44.0B
static media→Engadget ↗2026-05-04Not stated in snapshot
lecap asset management→NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP ↗Announced2026-04-20$881.0K
Danske Bank A S→NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP ↗Announced2026-04-20$59.0K
first horizon→NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP ↗Announced2026-04-20$44.0K
Hantz Financial Services Inc.→NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP ↗Announced2026-04-20$40.0K

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

5,240 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7,396-posting snapshot covers 177 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Account Executive122
News Producer58
Sales Account Executive44
Digital Content Producer29
Photographer And Videographer27
Account Executive Iii, Sales26
2 internship postings

218 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

2,838 postings specify a level.

unspecified
4,558
manager
1,337
senior
1,080
lead
238
intern
140
entry
43

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 7,396 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Python
229
Aws
140
React
118
Typescript
107
Sql
102
Kubernetes
98
Pytorch
66
Ai
60
Gcp
44
Excel
41
ADVERTISED PAY$137.5K/ year

Median across 609 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$140.6K/ year156 postings
senior$157.5K/ year86 postings
lead$177.5K/ year38 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

1,007 founders and chief executives across 683 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

256 profiles with education records.

Stanford University
67
Harvard University
35
University of California (Berkeley)
24
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15
Cornell University
15
Harvard Business School
14
Columbia University
10
Carnegie Mellon University
10

Prior employers

123 profiles with prior-work records.

Google
38
Microsoft
28
Facebook
15
Amazon
11
Apple
9
McKinsey
8
Intel
7
Goldman Sachs
5

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

43,168 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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43,168articles in the measured year
12,147articles in 2026Q1
62.9%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged San Francisco · articles per complete quarter

04,3668,73113,09717,4632021Q2: 7,9842021Q22021Q3: 10,0852021Q4: 7,8572022Q1: 9,6502022Q2: 9,6722022Q22022Q3: 8,2732022Q4: 10,5532023Q1: 10,5282023Q2: 11,0912023Q22023Q3: 10,0512023Q4: 12,4042024Q1: 12,5812024Q2: 10,4432024Q22024Q3: 13,2122024Q4: 12,8952025Q1: 15,1852025Q2: 10,4362025Q22025Q3: 14,0682025Q4: 9,8112026Q1: 12,1472026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q27,984
2021Q310,085
2021Q47,857
2022Q19,650
2022Q29,672
2022Q38,273
2022Q410,553
2023Q110,528
2023Q211,091
2023Q310,051
2023Q412,404
2024Q112,581
2024Q210,443
2024Q313,212
2024Q412,895
2025Q115,185
2025Q210,436
2025Q314,068
2025Q49,811
2026Q112,147

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
20,243 positive · 307 neutral · 9,609 negative
2022
24,181 positive · 478 neutral · 13,417 negative
2023
26,311 positive · 553 neutral · 17,120 negative
2024
32,501 positive · 529 neutral · 16,013 negative
2025
31,088 positive · 561 neutral · 17,760 negative

Leading coverage topics

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged San Francisco · ranked by full-period article count.

Administrative And Political Subdivisions4,359,357 articles in the full recorded period
883,108 recent · 770,693 prior
Geopolitical Disputes And Contested Areas320,899 articles in the full recorded period
101,260 recent · 79,042 prior
International And Transnational Geographic Entities320,731 articles in the full recorded period
101,209 recent · 78,985 prior
International Political Relations217,657 articles in the full recorded period
58,297 recent · 47,889 prior
Security And Defense Policies158,276 articles in the full recorded period
48,204 recent · 32,492 prior
Celebrity Fashion And Style Updates106,866 articles in the full recorded period
19,733 recent · 20,522 prior
International Relations And Diplomacy96,818 articles in the full recorded period
23,367 recent · 22,018 prior
Professional League Updates90,547 articles in the full recorded period
19,148 recent · 21,520 prior
Political Satire And Commentary89,269 articles in the full recorded period
23,223 recent · 26,364 prior
Trade Policies And Agreements84,290 articles in the full recorded period
27,483 recent · 33,517 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

United States comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
national security strategy7,1643,248121%
foreign policy analysis6,8984,91840%
stablecoin fx impact4,0161,698137%
countries3,7261,848102%
netflix3,6772,60141%
conceptual rock albums3,5783151036%
vaccine decision-making3,2251,74685%
investment deal3,1471,70285%
anti-vaccination sentiment3,1371,65490%
vaccine misinformation impact3,0601,61889%
tariff negotiations13,95120,929-33%
college playoffs4,84212,697-62%
nba team legends2,08911,320-82%
historic nba games78611,315-93%
ncaa updates4,56610,671-57%

Event and signal lenses

United States comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

2,604,815 classified articles

territories, disputed islands, tariff negotiations

37.9% critical · 26.3% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

496,947 classified articles

inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies, investment deal

36.2% critical · 42.9% positive
Rising

Growth

587,035 classified articles

nba expansion teams, nba team legends, historic nba games

35.2% critical · 44.2% positive

Media & Entertainment coverage tagged San Francisco. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Media & Entertainment in San Francisco: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

KEEP EXPLORING

Put San Francisco in context

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