Austin Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Austin.

72 digital media Startups View all

TrustRadius - digital media enterprise software crowdsourcing market research

TrustRadius

Changing the way enterprise software is bought and sold through in-depth user reviews
TrustRadius is a community for professionals to share candid opinions about business software to guide selection, implementation and usage decisions. Our members share real world insights through in-depth, structured reviews, discussions and networking. All reviews ...

GRANDEX - digital media e-commerce advertising fashion

GRANDEX

Commerce powered by original media
We own and operate a collection of news and entertainment media brands and a private label clothing brand. Total Frat Move http://totalfratmove.com TFM is a news and entertainment brand that captures the essence of college life from the perspective of the All-American ...

Written - digital media business services marketplaces content

Written

Proven content. Proven engagement
Creating successful content is not easy, especially with: increased competition for attention, expanding consumption and delivery models, and audience fragmentation just to name a few. Existing tools and services are just doing more of what doesn't work faster. ...

Enlyton - digital media semantic search content discovery cloud data services

Enlyton

Enterprise Search. Simplified.
Enlyton is the first cloud-based enterprise search and content discovery platform. Organizations that need to manage diverse digital assets rely on Enlyton to Inventory, Organize, Connect, and Present related content to create search based applications.

LitRagger - digital media social media publishing e books

LitRagger

Zinio for Literary Journals
LitRagger is a free IOS app that aggregates content from the nation's top literary journals and independent magazines. Users can read sample and featured content for free or pay to subscribe to their favorites. Publishers can sign up for LitRagger to easily ...

Real Time Deals - mobile digital media health care advertising platforms

Real Time Deals

Chromecast everywhere using your phone
ATP adds an interactive component to ordinary digital signage. It does so by letting end users control digital displays/posters with a mobile phone, as if it were a TV remote control, whether it's with a smartphone with internet or a legacy buttons-only phone ...

Famigo - mobile digital media families reviews and recommendations

Famigo

Recommendations and media management for the modern family
Famigo makes mobile technology work for families by providing a platform for them to enjoy content on smartphones and tablets, while building an economic lever for service providers, content providers and app developers. Famigo solves three common issues: 1. Grants ...

Presentista - digital media internet SaaS presentations

Presentista

PowerPoint... completely redone!
Presentista is everything PowerPoint is NOT. It's easy to use and creates visually strong presentations in 2D or 3D. It allows you to shape your story first. It's mobile. It's social... and viral! It's web-based or desktop-based. Your choice. It allows your Mac ...

Story Ark

We tell stories. We make stories spread. We turn stories into sales.
Story Ark helps companies tell stories, spread stories, and use story to be better at everything they do.

Enzoology Education - digital media education edutainment k 12 education

Enzoology Education

Unique digital instruction product delivered as Saas
See website: http://www.ExplorationNation.com The company develops and distributes digital science instruction programming to educators featuring real kids doing authentic scientific research; from discovering mammoth remains in New Mexico to exploring the jungle ...

Young Potential Development LLC - YPD - digital media education high schools

Young Potential Development LLC - YPD

We turn "yestbutters" into "whynotters" changing the world through education.
Are we really preparing our children for the future? Are we offering them the tools they need to face a rapidly changing world? It’s all about THEM!!! It’s all about helping our children discover their talents and develop their potential. It’s about offering ...

Amplifier® - digital media games consumer goods communities

Amplifier®

Merchandising Platform for Internet Rock Stars
Amplifier enables communities to monetize their high-affinity audiences with original merchandise. Using our new Merchify™ app, you can sell made-on-demand goods to anyone in minutes.

SiliconHillsNews - biotechnology digital media cloud computing technology

SiliconHillsNews

News about the Austin and San Antonio tech community
SiliconHillsNews.com is a news organization covering the technology community in the Austin and San Antonio region, known as Silicon Hills.

ProductionCliq - mobile digital media film entertainment industry

ProductionCliq

The solution for streamlining communication in the film industry.
ProductionCliq was created to manage projects & teams, tag your scripts, generate shot lists, create your schedule & so much more. There's no need to print out directions or confusing maps. We make it clear where to go, and show exactly how to get there. Our walkie ...

Siminars - digital media publishing e books edutainment

Siminars

Siminars connects people with ideas
Siminars is a platform optimized to deliver short online courses for self help and personal development. The platform is for any "guru" or expert who would normally write a book, run seminars or blog to spread his message/ideas/methods. It provides them with the ...

HumaniTV: Media | Tech | Film - digital media film broadcasting

HumaniTV: Media | Tech | Film

Connecting givers, deeds & needs in revolutionary ways!
HumaniTV is a “Social Enterprise” working to connect givers, deeds and needs in revolutionary ways through, media, tech & film. Our mission: Revolutionize awareness, collaboration, and accountability for greater sustainable impact – across the street, around ...

DoStuff Media

Scene Level Engagement at Scale
DoStuff helps people do awesome stuff. We're the platform behind 16 local city event guides, owned and operated by folks with real, local roots and relationships. Giving them the muscle to become local cultural institutions like Alt Weeklies and Radio used to ...

StoryPress - mobile digital media social media social media platforms

StoryPress

Instagram of Stories
StoryPress is a social network built on stories. Similar to how Instagram is social network built on images or Vine on short movies. Unlike other products though, StoryPress focuses on the power and authenticity of someones own voice and can even facilitate ...

ShareAd - digital media social media mobile advertising advertising platforms

ShareAd

Next Generation Sharing Buttons
Social sharing buttons that pay. If someone recommends a site to you, you are much more likely not to mind a quick video ad before the content you came to view. Our sharing buttons do just that. When someone clicks a link in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. that ...

What's Your Network? - digital media mobile advertising social television

What's Your Network?

Social TV for Passion Groups
What's Your Network is interactive entertainment. Network quality, interactive shows for and about passion groups. Consumers control the story, the cast, and dive into an entire exclusive social network that revolves around the show they've helped shape from ...

PageLines - digital media web design software web development

PageLines

Tools for professional websites.
PageLines creates powerful UX/UI design tools for web professionals, you could say we're like Atlassian for Designers. We take complex development out of web design and empower designers to focus on what they do best. Our flagship Design Framework product, DMS, ...

Lodestone Social Media

Lodestone Converts Crowds into Commerce
Lodestone Social Media provides a SaaS social rewards platform that inspires consumers of brands to share content. Our platform allows fans to earn points for participation with each brand's social media networks, purchasing product, mobile apps & more. Fans can ...

Empower Lounge - digital media local social media platforms women-focused

Empower Lounge

Inc. For Women Entrepreneurs
Empower Lounge is a bootstrapped women’s digital media startup serving up a mix of visually-inspiring, original and curated business content focused on helping women entrepreneurs launch and build $1M+ companies. We help women tap into the wisdom, resources, inspiration ...

Joust, Inc (joust.com) - digital media social games sports social television

Joust, Inc (joust.com)

Joust enhances user experiences with the things they love.
Joust is the first of its kind social competition platform that powers fun, entertaining, addictive and viral engagement around our customers' content through predictions, trivia, polls and contests. Joust users engage with each other in peer-to-peer challenges, ...

PetParent - mobile digital media social commerce pets

PetParent

Our mission is to help PetParents experience life with their pets.
At PetParent, we know that your pet is a huge part of your love and your life. Our mission is to help you become a better PetParent and to experience life with your pet. Visit petparent.me for local guides on the top pet friendly spots in your city and for helpful ...

uryaen - consumer internet digital media hardware advertising

uryaen

High Class Tech Evaluation Site
uryaen.com is a unique new tech/media/photography review site, centered on a 100% ad-less, integrity based system of reviewing not only products but the companies behind the products. Thus far, I have full hardware/software support from a number of vendors, including ...

Goat Man's Hill - digital media content creative industries film production

Goat Man's Hill

Hollywood genre without the Hollywood pricetag
Goat Man's Hill will create high-quality genre pictures with production value greatly exceeding conventional expectations thanks to its partners' 30+ years of combined experience in the Hollywood VFX industry. Our experience realizing the vision of filmmakers ...

Wiki-PR

We consult on, monitor, and translate Wikipedia pages for businesses and notable people.
Our mission is to present our clients factually. We manage the online reputations of 2,000+ clients in 35 countries. Our clients include Fortune 100 and 500 companies, CEOs, politicians, and celebrities.

BrighterMoon Productions - digital media film film production entertainment industry

BrighterMoon Productions

Movies to Make Hearts Beat Fast

Feel Rich - digital media social media e-commerce health and wellness

Feel Rich

Turning Hip Hop Artists into the new Jane Fondas!
Core Purpose: To remix scientific health information into empowering media, products, and events promoting mind, body, and spirit as symbols of true wealth Feel Rich, Inc is the leading multicultural producer and marketer of health and fitness media, products, ...

Whittle - mobile digital media publishing content discovery

Whittle

Beautiful Content Exploration for Digital Publications
Whittle is a beautiful, personalized content exploration platform for interactive, touch publications. Whittle fuses in real-time with digital editions, extracting semantic data tags from within the edition based on a user’s topical interests. Whittle then matches ...

Set.fm - digital media music independent music cloud based music

Set.fm

Enabling real time commerce and sharing of high quality concert audio
Set.fm is built by music lovers for music lovers. Our free app helps working musicians tap into additional revenue streams. With Set.fm, artists can instantly capture, promote, and sell recordings of their live performances. It’s simple to set up and most artists ...

baqpak - digital media cloud computing cloud based music

baqpak

Collect Your Digital Life
baqpak allows you to take your digital self, anywhere! Our mission is to give you the freedom of having all your digital collections in a unified platform, when, where, and how you want it. The web is like a big cloud of possibilities. The internet was created ...

Martell TV - digital media internet television video streaming

Martell TV

Martell TV revolutionizes how video content is delivered & monetized.
Want to buy a Station? http://igg.me/at/youtube-network-app/x/215096 You can see a website embedded Station at http://www.powerup.tv/ Martell TV’s mission is to liberate viewers from established main stream cable providers by offering a simple to use channel ...

HeroBureau! - digital media advertising crowdsourcing entertainment industry Online marketplaces

HeroBureau!

Social And Crowd Market Commerce Platform for Leading Athletes/Newsmakers
HeroBureau! is an online labor and intellectual property platform (crowd source + social platform strategy) that lets athletes, entertainers, celebrities, agents and other influencers with large loyal followings quickly offer and promote their own services such ...

Umbel - digital media advertising analytics big data

Umbel

IFTTT of Enterprise Marketing Services
Umbel is a Customer Data Platform that empowers marketers to unify and access their own customer data. Powered by the Digital Genome®, Umbel brings together data across silos and marketing execution systems into one unified, beautiful and actionable customer platform. ...

Nuvola Networks - digital media e-commerce education corporate training

Nuvola Networks

Simplify Training | Educate Everybody
Our portfolio consists of two primary products. 1.) An eLearning Platform to connect teachers with learners. This is a consumer facing e-commerce site designed to empower both content creators and learners alike 2.) We have also created a highly customizable ...

Plutopia Productions - digital media entertainment experience design events

Plutopia Productions

"Creating engagement with the future"
Plutopia Productions has an extensive offering of future focused entertainment and events services, which synthesize and encapsulate emerging futures via cross-discipline, multi-sensory, experiential “sense events”, salons, panels, mentoring and educational programs, ...

Lyric Champ - digital media social media music independent music labels

Lyric Champ

Social Hip-hop Collaboration
Lyric Champ brings together artists and fans in the hip-hop community, encouraging collaboration as well as healthy competition. Whether you’re up-and-coming or an experienced musician, Lyric Champ is here to help you make the most of your talent! DO IT! With unique ...

drawscreen.tv - digital media video video games crowdsourcing

drawscreen.tv

Connecting Digital Artists with Advertisers
Drawscreen.tv is a launchpad for digital artists. By leveraging social intelligence, artists and media technologists are empowered to create and manage relationships, clients, projects and co-contributors. Drawscreen.tv creates a platform for producers to collaborate ...

5by5 - digital media technology podcasting

5by5

NPR for geeks.

Tap Fiction - mobile digital media publishing entertainment industry

Tap Fiction

Mobile Storytellers
Tap Fiction is creating a new type of storytelling platform for mobile. We do this by opening up the hardware, software, and application layers of smartphones to writers. If you think about all of the magical ingredients of mobile – location services, push notifications, ...

Dox - digital media video streaming Content Marketing Content Monetization

Dox

Connecting brands with documentary filmmakers.
Dox is a marketplace that connects brands with nonfiction filmmakers. Currently brands are struggling to fill their need for entertaining, authentic video content, meanwhile brilliant producers are working day jobs because their passion for documentary just doesn't ...

Bolinger - mobile digital media web development graphic design

Bolinger

Digital Firm
A US and Brazil based digital firm focused on technology solutions for small business and Fortune 500 companies.

SnipFeed - digital media social media news web development

SnipFeed

A place where you discover and share news.
SnipFeed is a place where you can discover and share top news. We do the reading, so you can get the snip. Try it out: www.snipfeed.com

Radical Science News - digital media education publishing big data

Radical Science News

A multi-platform science news bureau
WHO WE ARE: Radical Science News is a open-source science news and learning platform and publication. A multi-platform news bureau that will be the heart of the next generations information exchange, seamlessly integrating the private citizens input with a global ...

Tuneburg.com - digital media social media e-commerce music

Tuneburg.com

LinkedIn for Musicians
Tuneburg is a concept for an online community that will combine social-networking features such as first, second, and 3rd level connections, with features important to musicians and hardcore fans such as in-line recording, and live interaction. Our license terms ...

Scale My Tech - digital media e-commerce sales and marketing Entrepreneurs

Scale My Tech

Hosting and optimization for internet entrepreneurs
Scale My Tech offers web enhancement products such as mobile site conversion and site speed optimization, all of which help internet entrepreneurs make more money online.

Aletheia Interactive - digital media e-commerce advertising search marketing

Aletheia Interactive

Online Marketing Agency
Aletheia is a full-service online marketing agency that provides clients with data-driven solutions, sincere relationships, and measurable results. Aletheia specializes in high-volume campaigns, including Paid Search (AdWords and Bing Ads), SEO (Search Engine ...

7letters - digital media

7letters

a clever empire
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ExitHereNow.com - digital media online travel travel United States

ExitHereNow.com

destination location via US driving
No need for map. No clutter. Just look out your window and see what mile marker you are. Texas now, US coming. App/Website coming in 2014.

TTH Strategy - digital media enterprise software automotive health and wellness

TTH Strategy

Confidence in the Age of Mobility - consulting and advising/investments
TTH Strategy provides business guidance to organizations faced with technology, marketing and operations challenges.

Crippled Shark Holdings - digital media software

Crippled Shark Holdings

Digital Media and App Dev focus on IPTV
creating content as we all know that content is king and also building distribution system for IPTV (internet protocol television), incorporating POS and automation aspects for B2C/B2B along with grid management aspects. Application development, marketing rewards ...

AwesomeRobo - digital media art entertainment industry niche specific

AwesomeRobo

Niche art & entertainment blog.
Awesome-Robo.com is an up and coming website founded in February of 2011 with an emphasis on covering indie art, animation, film, videogames and other 'geeky' subjects. We've built up a heavily niche audience, garnering over 7 million visitors since our launch ...

Tropaion Publishing - digital media publishing creative industries entertainment industry

Tropaion Publishing

Publishing Run By Authors
Did 1.4m in revenue on 2m in sales in 2012. Sold to Lioncrest Publishing in late 2012.

Libredigital - digital media technology hardware + software

Libredigital

For 10 years LibreDigital has been a leader in the eReading industry, now as part of RR Donnelley we are a one-stop publishing solution for both print and digital needs.

K.R.I.P.Media - digital media advertising sales and marketing content

K.R.I.P.Media

Social Media, Digital Media, TV, Internet Radio, Online Newspapers, Marketing, Sales and Marketing Consultants, Business Development, Content Management, Content Creation, Digital Media Agency, Internet Marketing, SEO/SEM/PPC, Content is King.

LeagueCast - mobile digital media social media sports

LeagueCast

SBNation + Twitter for youth sports orgs
LeagueCast is the most effective way to manage and cover amateur sports leagues and tournaments. Our successful fall league with Suwanee Sports Academy can be found here: http://ssa.leaguecaster.com/league/1-hoopseen-fall-league. We empower our amateur sports ...

Part Time Evil - mobile digital media social media mobile games

Part Time Evil

Game/App Studio
Video game studio providing full video game development, user engagement and gamification consulting, and original video games.

Scarsdale Media - digital media

Scarsdale Media

CNN for Small Businesses
Scarsdale Media gets small businesses and individuals into the news through a variety of online news publications.

Nuclear Salad - digital media social media

Nuclear Salad

One stop for pop culture/lifestyle writing
Nuclear Salad is a one-stop website for passionate writing on all sorts of pop culture/lifestyle writing, including movies, TV, music, games, gadgets, food, beer, comedy and more.

The Ascender - mobile digital media publishing user experience design

The Ascender

A Modern National Geographic
The Ascender is a digital media vessel dedicated to exploration of the modern world. We publish original content through our website, longform magazine and fiction magazine in five main areas: Science & Technology, Art & Culture, Nature, Travel & Adventure, and ...

GeoActive Group

Transmedia Content Marketing Program Development
Methodology for Commercial Transmedia Storytelling - transforming marketing communication and advancing content marketing best practices for B2B marketers. More details at http://bit.ly/commercial-transmedia

Global Genius Society - digital media e-commerce social media platforms artists globally

Global Genius Society

LinkedIn/Amazon for Artist/Consumers
Global Genius Society displays and sells lesser known, yet very talented artists' work through our site. We provide a social media network, like LinkedIn, specifically made for artists to meet and collaborate with each other. We also publish captivating articles ...

O.d.o.m - digital media entertainment industry independent music billboard radio

O.d.o.m

The Push Play movement
It's the first all original album from Austin tx rap artist O.D.O.M. The Album speaks of the part of Austin that world does not know of . It is the revocation of the ghetto expressing it's Granted that the ontent is explicit and direct as it is proven over many ...

Project U+221E - digital media social media marketplaces crowdsourcing

Project U+221E

Developing a platform for greater freedom of expression about products, services ...
undisclosed

Virtual World City, Inc. - digital media B2B virtual currency

Virtual World City, Inc.

3D Virtual World Internet
Virtual World 3D Internet Development. Virtual World Search Engine, Virtual World / Avatar Social Media platform, Virtual Currency. We sell virtual Cities. Replication of a real life city in a 3D world, for real life shopping, business and exploration. Our target ...

Speak Social - digital media advertising sales and marketing Content Marketing

Speak Social

Digital Marketing/Advertising Strategy

FLM.TV - digital media consumer goods internet tv social television

FLM.TV

OnDemand Social TV for Indie Films
FLM.TV is a Social TV OnDemand Movie Distribution platform. Filmmakers upload their films through FLM.TV Social TV platform and receive 100% after transaction pay-per-view revenue. FLM.TV revenue is by both advertising and subscription for both Social TV programming ...

METROREAD - digital media news

METROREAD

We make it easier to be informed about your city.
METROREAD provides a better local news experience by aggregating a city's news, making it easier to read, and providing context about the topics in the news. Today, people piece together Google results to make sense of what's going on in their city. Soon, METROREAD ...

Gundriver - digital media music independent music rock

Gundriver

High Octane Rock n Roll!
America's love of great Rock music has never diminished, Gundriver is a great rock band founded and led by an Apache Pilot who left active duty for the sole purpose of making great music. After our first national tour supporting Michael Schenker (UFO, Scorpions) ...

Red Horse Production Company - digital media video video editing film production

Red Horse Production Company

Video Production and Post

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