50 Best Animation Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent animation companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 7,189 companies tracked on Fsome.

7,189
Total Companies
$20.2B
Total Funding
$2.8M
Avg Funding
Los Angeles
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Paramount Skydance Corporation
Paramount Skydance is a media company that creates elevated, event-level enterta…
Santa Monica 501 - 1K $1.7B Debt Financing 2023-07-11
2
TeraDAR
TeraDAR offers 4D imaging sensors using Terahertz technology for high-resolution…
Boston 51 - 100 $174.6M Series B 2025-11-12
3
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports cove…
Burbank c 10001 max $15.0B Post Ipo Debt 2026-02-10
4
StretchSense
Makers of stretch sensor-enabled motion capture gloves and machine learning glov…
Penrose 11 - 50 $10.4M Series Unknown 2025-12-19
5
Renderforest
Renderforest is an online video and animation maker that provides design tools f…
Yerevan 101 - 250 $20.1M Undisclosed 2021-01-01
6
Spuree
Spuree uses technologies and AI to accelerate animation production for various u…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $10.0M Seed 2025-04-28
7
Humain
Humain is a technology company that creates 3D characters and digital humans for…
Belfast 11 - 50 Seed 2017-01-01
8
Rive
Rive is a real-time animation software provider.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $14.5M Series A 2025-12-10
9
Invisible Universe
Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original …
Burlington 11 - 50 $13.2M Non Equity Assistance 2025-10-08
10
LottieFiles
LottieFiles is an animation workflow platform that enables designers to share, t…
Palo Alto 51 - 100 $46.0M Series Unknown 2024-05-08
11
Rephrase.ai
Rephrase builds generative AI tools to create professional videos with the ease …
San Francisco 51 - 100 $12.2M Series Unknown 2023-06-27
12
Global Mofy
Global Mofy is a digital asset operation company driven by visual technology inn…
Beijing 51 - 100 $27.3M Post Ipo Equity 2025-12-05
13
Chengli Aviation
Chengli Aviation specializes in the research and development and manufacturing o…
Tianjin 11 - 50 $42.6M Series D 2026-01-07
14
EVR STUDIO
A digital content development studio based in Seoul, Korea that creates digital …
Seoul 51 - 100 $59.5M Corporate Round 2022-05-11
15
Superplastic
Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company that creates…
Burlington 11 - 50 $67.0M Series A 2023-02-15
16
Engineered Arts
Engineered Arts is a robotics company that designs and develops emboided AI soci…
Falmouth 51 - 100 $10.0M Series A 2024-12-17
17
Animation Inc.
Animation Inc. develops on-device real-time generative animation AI model that a…
Dover 1 - 10 $3.5M Pre Seed 2024-05-22
18
Kinetix
Kinetix empowers self-expression in the Metaverse with artificial intelligence a…
Paris 11 - 50 $11.0M Seed 2022-12-28
19
Moescape AI
Moescape AI is an AI-driven platform that provides animation characters, editing…
New York 1 - 10 $2.4M Pre Seed 2024-04-10
20
Tezign
Tezign is the Content +AI unicorn helping enterprise produce, manage, distribute…
Shanghai 101 - 250 $51.1M Series D 2021-10-25
21
Sekai
Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives.
Torrance 1 - 10 $3.6M Seed 2024-12-05
22
Latent Technology
Latent Technology builds the next-generation animation technology for virtual wo…
London 1 - 10 $10.1M Seed 2025-06-05
23
Terapin Studios
Terapin Studios brings entertainment through multiple mediums including webtoons…
Los Angeles 101 - 250 $93.0M Private Equity 2022-08-01
24
Motorica
Generative AI for motion synthesis ’ making AAA animation possible in minutes in…
Stockholm 11 - 50 $5.8M Seed 2025-06-24
25
Hera Video
Hera Video is an AI-powered motion graphics and animation platform that creates …
San Francisco 1 - 10 $500K Pre Seed 2025-09-09
26
Creator's X
Creator's X is an anime production firm that focuses on developing animation pro…
Higashi-shinagawa 51 - 100 $12.9M Series A 2025-11-27
27
Uthana
Uthana operates as a generative AI company.
Los Angeles 1 - 10 $4.3M Seed 2025-03-10
28
Pixley AI
Pixley AI is an online platform using AI to help parents and children co-create …
San Francisco 1 - 10 $500K Pre Seed 2025-12-03
29
Komiko
AI native comics and anime for Gen Z
1 - 10 $3.4M Seed 2024-12-10
30
Bloks Technology Group
Bloks Group uses innovative technology to create the ultimate product experience…
Minhang 101 - 250 $143.7M Series B 2021-05-14
31
Lion Forge Animation
Lion Forge Animation is an animation studio that develops and produces authentic…
St Louis 51 - 100 $30.0M Private Equity 2025-09-08
32
MOFAC Studio
MOFAC Studio blends creativity with tech, providing VFX virtual platforms and IP…
Seoul 51 - 100 $4.2M Series Unknown 2025-10-13
33
Scratch Foundation
Scratch Foundation is a non-profit organization that makes games, coding, and an…
Boston 51 - 100 $250K Grant 2025-11-12
34
DeepMotion
DeepMotion is building a motion intelligence platform for digital humans and vir…
Redwood City 11 - 50 $2.2M Series Unknown 2023-03-16
35
RADiCAL
RADiCAL is an AI-powered, real-time 3D content creation platform.
New York 11 - 50 $1.6M Corporate Round 2022-05-25
36
Ayou
Ayou is an animation production and early childhood education service provider.
Hangzhou 51 - 100 $2.1M Series A 2018-01-26
37
Anime Universe Global
Anime Universe is a tech company that offers social entertainment solutions, app…
Toronto 11 - 50 $300K Angel 2025-01-16
38
Oshi
Oshi is an open animation platform that unites creators and fans to forge global…
Singapore 11 - 50 $12.5M Seed 2025-01-18
39
Twine
Twine is a platform that helps companies hire freelancers.
Manchester 1 - 10 $2.6M Series Unknown 2020-08-13
40
Lottielab
Lottielab is an animation editor for design and tech teams.
London 1 - 10 $4.0M Seed 2022-04-27
41
Jitter
Jitter is an animation tech company that offers motion design tool on the web.
Paris 11 - 50 $150K Pre Seed 2020-03-16
42
Mindshow
Mindshow is the real-time CG animation platform transforming how major brands cr…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $16.0M Series Unknown 2021-04-08
43
Durioo
Durioo is a streaming and game platform that houses high quality cartoons and ki…
Kuala Lumpur 51 - 100 $2.9M Seed 2023-02-02
44
Audiolo
Audiolo has raised $150K Pre-Seed ($90K Founder, $50K & $10K Angels) plus $35K g…
Austin 1 - 10 $225K Grant 2025-05-15
45
Corus Entertainment
Corus Entertainment is one of Canada’s most successful integrated media and ente…
Toronto 1K - 5K $196.3M Post Ipo Debt 2023-02-17
46
Brave group
Brave group is a technology company that engages in IP, platform, and business i…
Tokyo 251 - 500 $41.6M Series D 2024-04-23
47
LaiHua
LaiHua is a creative design platform for presentation and animation video creati…
Nanshanqu 251 - 500 $96.2M Series C 2021-10-28
48
Mage
Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-ti…
Izmir 11 - 50 $7.0M Seed 2024-04-17
49
Union Avatars
Union Avatars is a company dedicated to creating avatars for the metaverse.
Barcelona 11 - 50 $1.5M Seed 2024-10-18
50
Chongxing Chongwu
Chongxing Chongwu is a supplier of pet supplies.
Shanghai $151.6M Series B 2021-07-21