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.
| # | 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…
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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 …
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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…
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Kyiv | 101 - 250 | $22.0M | Series A | 2026-01-15 |
| 4 |
Canva
Canva is an online design and visual communication platform that provides design…
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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…
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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 …
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New York | 251 - 500 | $176.2M | Private Equity | 2021-12-14 |
| 7 |
beehiiv
Beehiiv is an email newsletter platform enhancing audience engagement, growth, a…
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New York | 51 - 100 | $50.7M | Equity Crowdfunding | 2024-05-03 |
| 8 |
Ubisoft
Ubisoft is a producer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment p…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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.
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Bangalore | 101 - 250 | $8.5M | Series B | 2017-10-02 |
| 14 |
Innovid
Innovid is a video advertising platform that offers streamlined solutions that a…
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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…
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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…
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San Francisco | 251 - 500 | $106.8M | Series E | 2019-11-25 |
| 17 |
OpenWeb
OpenWeb partners with publishers and brands to build audience relationships.
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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…
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Austin | 11 - 50 | — | Post Ipo Equity | 2021-11-04 |
| 19 |
Medium
Medium is a social publishing network that connects ideas and perspectives on to…
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San Francisco | 51 - 100 | $163.0M | Series Unknown | 2021-11-18 |
| 20 |
Arena
Arena Audience Engagement Platform transforms digital properties into social med…
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San Francisco | 11 - 50 | $16.4M | Series A | 2022-03-30 |
| 21 |
Reservoir Media
Reservoir Media is an independent music company.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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London | 11 - 50 | $30.0M | Debt Financing | 2026-01-14 |
| 26 |
Literati
Literati provides educational subscription book services.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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London | 501 - 1K | $260.0M | Debt Financing | 2024-01-24 |
| 31 |
Kakao Entertainment
Kakao Entertainment is an entertainment, mass media, and publishing company that…
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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…
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Manhasset | 5K - 10K | $58.8M | Grant | 2026-04-02 |
| 33 |
Carnegie Learning
Carnegie Learning is a publisher of innovative, research-based math curricula fo…
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Pittsburgh | 501 - 1K | $23.9M | Grant | 2025-08-27 |
| 34 |
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications is a technology and media company providing services relat…
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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,…
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London | 101 - 250 | $105.0M | Series C | 2021-11-02 |
| 36 |
Realm
Realm is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for rea…
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New York | 11 - 50 | $11.3M | Series A | 2020-01-29 |
| 37 |
Brightspot
Brightspot specializes in CMS, OTT videos, personal branding, asset management a…
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Reston | 101 - 250 | $30.0M | Debt Financing | 2018-05-11 |
| 38 |
Odyssey
Odyssey is an internet company that specializes in social media, publisher, and …
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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…
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Paris | 101 - 250 | $164.8M | Series B | 2022-10-12 |
| 40 |
GlobalComix
GlobalComix is a free digital reading and distribution platform that helps creat…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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Lyon | 501 - 1K | $30.0M | Corporate Round | 2017-05-31 |
| 47 |
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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San Francisco | 11 - 50 | $21.0M | Series A | 2023-10-02 |