media startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Kapwing

San Francisco

Kapwing is a creative software company that enables digital storytelling and serves as infrastructure for collaborative video creation; launched in 2017 by and for millennials, it has hosted over 30 million videos and helps media companies

Darwin

Palo Alto

A company that creates real-time, adaptive media experiences personalized to each viewer’s identity, preferences, and intent; its first product is Wayve.

Kino AI

San Francisco

Kino AI is a startup backed by Y Combinator and AI Grant, led by Luke Igel (MIT ’22) formerly at NASA JPL, SpaceX, Slack, CSM, and KoKo; the founding team includes members from MIT, SpaceX, and NASA.