JW Player Funding, Investors & Competitors

Descript is a San Francisco-headquartered audio and video editing platform that uses AI-driven transcription to edit content like text documents. The tool supports podcasters, YouTubers, TikTok creators, and businesses for marketing videos, sales training, and team collaboration. Key features include Overdub for voice synthesis, Studio Sound for noise removal, and filler word detection. Descript processes files from popular formats, offers collaborative workspaces, and integrates with Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro for professional workflows.

Pixellot is a Petah Tikva, Israel-headquartered sports technology company founded in 2014 that automates video production for amateur and youth leagues. Its AI cameras track games across soccer, basketball, and more, generating live streams, highlights, and stats. Deployed in over 2,000 venues worldwide, partners include ESPN, Bayern Munich, and US high schools, streaming thousands of events monthly.

Unity Software Inc provides a software platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. The platform can be used to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The business is spread across the United States, Greater China, EMEA, APAC, and other Americas, and key revenue is derived from the EMEA region. Its products are used in the gaming industry, retail, automotive, architecture, engineering, and construction.

ElevenLabs is a London and Warsaw-headquartered AI company providing voice synthesis, cloning, dubbing, and generation tools. Its platform supports text-to-speech in over 29 languages, developer APIs for voice agents, and enterprise solutions for content localization. Features include instant voice cloning from short audio samples, emotional tone preservation, and audio editing capabilities used by creators and businesses worldwide.

Santa Clara-headquartered Cloudinary is a cloud-based image and video management platform that uses AI for optimization, transformation, and delivery. The company supports digital asset management for brands with features like auto-tagging, face detection, and dynamic media manipulation. Cloudinary serves clients such as Procter & Gamble, Under Armour, and Walmart Labs from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. Founded in 2012, it processes billions of visual assets monthly.

Net Insight AB develops and sells solutions for efficient and reliable real-time transport of media content and time synchronization. Revenue is generated through hardware sales, software licensing, and subscription & support agreements. Within media transport, the company serves service providers, broadcasters, production companies, and rights holders. In the time synchronization business, customers include telecom operators and service providers of 5G networks utilizing Time Division Duplex (TDD) for data transmission, critical infrastructure networks, organizations requiring reliable time and positioning services, as well as utility companies and power grids. Sales are conducted in EMEA, the Americas, and APAC through direct sales and partnerships with resellers and integrators.

Haivision Systems Inc is a provider of infrastructure solutions for the video streaming market, servicing enterprises and governments globally. The organizations use company solutions to communicate, collaborate and educate customers and stakeholders. It delivers high quality, low latency, secure and reliable video through the entire IP video lifecycle, using a broad range of software, hardware, and services. Its geographical segments are Canada, International, and the United States, of which the majority of its revenue comes from the United States.

CodeMill AB is a technology company that offers software development and technical services for video and media companies. The company's products include Accurate Player SDK, Accurate Video and Cantemo, as well as the product service, Digital Service, enable the streamlining of video and film production and distribution, from editing to archiving. Codemill has framework agreements with some of the world's key media companies such as Amazon Studios.

Bambuser AB provides technology for interactive mobile live video streaming. Its technology platform Iris enables app developers to incorporate live video broadcasting in their applications via a suite of SDKs, APIs and libraries for multiple platforms. The company provides solution through news, media, social apps, drones, live events.

Blackbird PLC operates in the SaaS and cloud video market. It professional cloud video editing and publishing platform. Enabling remote editing, Blackbird provides rapid access to video content for the easy creation of clips, highlights, and longer form content to multiple devices and platforms. Its solutions are Blackbird provides cloud native video editing and publishing platform, and Technology licensing is an ultra-efficient core technology that powers video companies into the cloud. The group generates revenue in respect of the sale of Cloud-based professional video editing and publishing software. The product is sold using a software licensing and delivery model in which the software is licensed on a subscription basis. The company manages business as a single business segment.

Synthesia is an AI video generation platform headquartered in London, United Kingdom, converting text to videos with avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. Users create training and marketing content via browser templates, serving enterprises like BBC and Accenture for scalable video production.

StackAdapt is a Toronto-headquartered programmatic advertising DSP handling native, display, video, CTV, audio, DOOH, and in-game formats via self-serve interface. Ranked number one on G2 for six years through 2023, it processes billions of impressions daily using ML for audience targeting across 30+ countries. Advertisers access premium inventory from publishers like The New York Times and Paramount with transparent bidding analytics.

Create Music Group is a Los Angeles-headquartered music technology company providing digital distribution, publishing, sync licensing, rights management, A&R, marketing, and recording services to independent artists. Notable clients include Marshmello, 6ix9ine, and Tory Lanez. The company also runs Flighthouse, a TikTok brand with 28 million followers engaging youth audiences.

Harmonic Inc engaged in broadband access solutions that enable broadband operators to more efficiently and effectively deploy high-speed internet for data, voice, and video services for their customers and versatile and high-performance video delivery software, products, system solutions and services that enable its customers to efficiently create, prepare, store, playout and deliver a full range of high-quality broadcast and streaming video services to consumer devices, including televisions, personal computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. It has two segments, Broadband which provides broadband access solutions and related services, and Others; and Video business provides video processing and production and playout solutions and services, and Others.

iSpot.tv is a Bellevue, Washington-headquartered company that measures the brand and business impact of TV and streaming ads from planning through conversion. Its real-time attribution platform analyzes creative effectiveness, optimizes media plans, and benchmarks performance against competitors for cross-platform campaigns. Purpose-built for linear and connected TV, iSpot.tv delivers granular insights to advertisers worldwide, founded in 2012.