50 Best Publishing Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent publishing companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 39,381 companies tracked on Fsome.

39,381
Total Companies
$104.1B
Total Funding
$2.6M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Warner Bros Discovery
Warner Bros Discovery is a global media and entertainment company that creates a…
New York c 10001 max $17.5B Post Ipo Debt 2025-06-09
2
Substack
Substack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent …
San Francisco 101 - 250 $200.2M Series C 2025-07-17
3
HOLYWATER TECH
HOLYWATER TECH is an AI-first company reshaping entertainment by blending creato…
Kyiv 101 - 250 $22.0M Series A 2026-01-15
4
Canva
Canva is an online design and visual communication platform that provides design…
Sydney 1K - 5K $2.5B Secondary Market 2025-08-20
5
Squarespace
Squarespace is a website building and hosting platform that helps users create w…
New York 1K - 5K $578.5M Post Ipo Secondary 2023-11-15
6
Food52
Food52 is an online portal that provides a curated shop, content, and community …
New York 251 - 500 $176.2M Private Equity 2021-12-14
7
beehiiv
Beehiiv is an email newsletter platform enhancing audience engagement, growth, a…
New York 51 - 100 $50.7M Equity Crowdfunding 2024-05-03
8
Ubisoft
Ubisoft is a producer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment p…
Montreuil-sous-bois c 10001 max $770.7M Post Ipo Secondary 2018-03-21
9
McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education is a learning company that provides digital educational co…
New York 1K - 5K Private Equity 2021-09-30
10
Epic
Epic is a digital media brand for kids that encourages kids to explore their int…
Palo Alto 101 - 250 $51.5M Series D 2020-06-01
11
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is a music-based entertainment company that offers music r…
New York c 10001 max $9.9B Post Ipo Equity 2026-02-13
12
Contentful
Contentful offers a headless content management system that helps organizations …
Berlin 501 - 1K $349.6M Series F 2021-07-28
13
YourStory
YourStory.com is a media platform that covers the startup ecosystem in India.
Bangalore 101 - 250 $8.5M Series B 2017-10-02
14
Innovid
Innovid is a video advertising platform that offers streamlined solutions that a…
New York 501 - 1K $295.1M Post Ipo Equity 2021-12-01
15
Roundtable
Roundtable is an operator of a news publishing website that delivers truthful in…
San Juan 11 - 50 $34.7M Undisclosed 2025-09-30
16
Scribd, Inc.
Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobo…
San Francisco 251 - 500 $106.8M Series E 2019-11-25
17
OpenWeb
OpenWeb partners with publishers and brands to build audience relationships.
New York 251 - 500 $393.0M Series F 2022-10-27
18
Devolver Digital
Devolver Digital is a digital entertainment company that develops and offers dig…
Austin 11 - 50 Post Ipo Equity 2021-11-04
19
Medium
Medium is a social publishing network that connects ideas and perspectives on to…
San Francisco 51 - 100 $163.0M Series Unknown 2021-11-18
20
Arena
Arena Audience Engagement Platform transforms digital properties into social med…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $16.4M Series A 2022-03-30
21
Reservoir Media
Reservoir Media is an independent music company.
New York 51 - 100 $150.0M Post Ipo Equity 2021-07-29
22
TackleAI
TackleAI is a collection of proprietary neural networks that automatically disco…
Schaumburg 51 - 100 $12.9M Grant 2024-06-25
23
Boltive
Formerly known as Ad Lightning, Boltive is on a mission to secure advertisers an…
Seattle 11 - 50 $11.5M Series Unknown 2022-09-14
24
Forbes
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and fina…
Jersey City 251 - 500 $200.0M Corporate Round 2022-02-10
25
Atlantic Screen Group
ASG is a music publishing, production, and investment company that focuses on fi…
London 11 - 50 $30.0M Debt Financing 2026-01-14
26
Literati
Literati provides educational subscription book services.
Austin 101 - 250 $56.9M Series Unknown 2025-04-30
27
MJH Life Sciences
MJH Life Sciences is an independent, full-service medical media company.
Cranbury 501 - 1K $430.0M Debt Financing 2025-10-08
28
The New York Times
The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and ent…
New York 5K - 10K $951.9M Post Ipo Equity 2026-02-20
29
Inkitt
Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st century: using AI to find unknown stor…
San Francisco 51 - 100 $117.0M Series C 2024-02-26
30
Minute Media
Minute Media is a global technology and content company specializing in sports a…
London 501 - 1K $260.0M Debt Financing 2024-01-24
31
Kakao Entertainment
Kakao Entertainment is an entertainment, mass media, and publishing company that…
Seongnam 501 - 1K $1.1B Private Equity 2023-01-11
32
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research focuses on clinical trials and publishi…
Manhasset 5K - 10K $58.8M Grant 2026-04-02
33
Carnegie Learning
Carnegie Learning is a publisher of innovative, research-based math curricula fo…
Pittsburgh 501 - 1K $23.9M Grant 2025-08-27
34
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications is a technology and media company providing services relat…
Toronto c 10001 max $14.6B Post Ipo Debt 2026-03-24
35
Permutive
Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build,…
London 101 - 250 $105.0M Series C 2021-11-02
36
Realm
Realm is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for rea…
New York 11 - 50 $11.3M Series A 2020-01-29
37
Brightspot
Brightspot specializes in CMS, OTT videos, personal branding, asset management a…
Reston 101 - 250 $30.0M Debt Financing 2018-05-11
38
Odyssey
Odyssey is an internet company that specializes in social media, publisher, and …
New City 501 - 1K $31.5M Debt Financing 2019-05-08
39
Homa Games
Homa Games is a gaming technology platform that publishes and creates mobile gam…
Paris 101 - 250 $164.8M Series B 2022-10-12
40
GlobalComix
GlobalComix is a free digital reading and distribution platform that helps creat…
New York 11 - 50 $19.7M Series Unknown 2026-03-18
41
Newsmax Media
Newsmax Media is a multimedia and broadcasting company that offers independent n…
West Palm Beach 501 - 1K $1.4B Post Ipo Equity 2025-04-07
42
JW Player
JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video…
New York 101 - 250 $170.7M Series E 2021-06-24
43
Sovrn
Sovrn is a publisher technology platform that offers services to online publishe…
Boulder 101 - 250 $121.5M Series C 2022-07-26
44
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts is a software publishing company that delivers games and online …
Redwood City c 10001 max $2.2M Private Equity 2025-09-29
45
Adventr
Adventr is a SaaS platform for the creation of voice & touch controlled interact…
New York 1 - 10 $14.0M Seed 2024-01-18
46
Euronews
Euronews is an online news portal that cover world news from a european perspect…
Lyon 501 - 1K $30.0M Corporate Round 2017-05-31
47
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, …
New York 501 - 1K $105.2M Series D 2018-11-02
48
Asmodee
Asmodee is a publisher and distributor of board games, card games and role-playi…
Guyancourt 1K - 5K $994.5M Debt Financing 2024-11-29
49
theSkimm
theSkimm is a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the in…
New York 51 - 100 $28.4M Series C 2019-09-20
50
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls is amulti-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the …
San Francisco 11 - 50 $21.0M Series A 2023-10-02