Publishing Startup Ideas

4 years ago

A startup that helps brands and developers build mobile video games. Their platform easily integrates with existing games and offers a suite of tools for onboarding, publishing, and monetizing.

222

4 years ago

This startup is looking to replace the whole process of writing a paper from a researcher to publishing it in peer reviewed journals, using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

213

5 years ago

This startup wants to connect people who are making music with a marketplace for publishing.

167

5 years ago

A set of tools for publishing and managing digital media like video and audio.

161

5 years ago

A software platform for publishing academic papers and hosting conferences, designed for scientists, researchers, and students.

159

5 years ago

A platform for running and publishing community-driven events, such as hackathons and meetups.

151

5 years ago

An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.

150

5 years ago

Web-based technology for managing and publishing content across all of a business’s digital channels.

147

4 years ago

A platform for creating and publishing podcasts, automatic transcribed interviews, and other audio-only content, made for consumption on Apple’s podcast player iRadio.

146

3 years ago

This company is building a platform for sharing and publishing photos to social media networks. Users can pick from a range of examples and edit them until they’re just right. It’s an effective way to share photos, with some of the backgrounds and imagery being quite striking.

143

3 years ago

A startup that publishes and sells books, publishing three a month on topics like business and finance.

142

5 years ago

A company that helps businesses start their own blog, with tools for handling content creation, editing, and publishing, including a content management system.

139

5 years ago

A platform for creating and publishing video content with multiple channels. The startup, which was founded in August, is building on the video-sharing platform LIV. It lets users create and publish video content via a combination of Instagram and Facebook.

130

5 years ago

A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.

130

5 years ago

The startup's goal is to help build an open platform for publishing and sharing data between developers and scientists. They want to build a new experience for scientists to learn about the data they have, so they can get it into the hands of a broader developer community.

124

5 years ago

An API for managing a video distribution, with plans to integrate with the YouTube publishing platform and other video-sharing sites.

118

4 years ago

A platform for books, movies, games, and TV shows to be sold online. They’re a startup of a publishing company, who are using it to build their digital catalog.

115

5 years ago

"This list of startups is a non-exhaustive collection of the best companies funded by YC. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all startups funded by YC. Regardless, we'll be publishing additional startups funded by YC at a later date."

112

5 years ago

d.i.s.e. is building a visual editor for creating and publishing content on the web.

112

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help reduce the cost of creating and publishing original video content by using Adobe’s technology.

105

3 years ago

A platform that allows anyone to build their own website. The company aims to simplify the process of publishing a website by allowing anyone to use their templates and launch a site in 15 minutes.

96

4 years ago

A tool for book authors to manage their digital publishing, from editing to royalties, live chat, and more.

95

3 years ago

A company that makes a software tool for publishing video content with live video commentary.

93

4 years ago

A cloud-based content platform for creators in collaboration with the National Digital Publishing Center.

91

4 years ago

A startup that wants to be the go-to service for creating branded video and digital publishing for enterprises. The company recently raised a Series A led by Collaborative Fund.

90

4 years ago

A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.

88

4 years ago

A company that provides a platform for publishing short videos to YouTube, Facebook, and beyond.

88

4 years ago

A publishing platform for the world’s top brands that allows them to create branded iOS app experiences. Branded apps are those which have full access to the app’s functionality, enabling brands to create exclusive experiences for their customers.

85

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a book publishing platform that supports writers, publishers, and readers by giving them a way to store and give access to their documents online.

84

3 years ago

A tool for creating and publishing online courses, with the goal of simplifying the way the world learns.

82

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make more work for people by replacing the physical backbone of book publishing with technology. The company has declined to give specific details of its business.

79

4 years ago

A tool for quick and easy content curation for B2B companies. The product includes a collection of templates and frames and functions for creating/publishing content on the platform.

71

3 years ago

The startup is building a platform for digital publishing, allowing people to create and publish their own digital magazines.

71

4 years ago

An online media publishing tool for creating and curating videos for social media and targeted website traffic. The startup wants to make it easier to create and distribute visuals for any social media platform.

65

3 years ago

An online publishing tool for indie musicians, allowing them to easily create and distribute their music via the web.

63

2 years ago

A tool for publishing photos, videos, and text to social media.

62

3 years ago

A platform for book publishing, providing a system for authors to manage their careers, manage their books, and interact with each other.

61

3 years ago

A company that hopes to help developers collect and manage their email lists. It’s a “one-stop-shop” for building, managing and publishing email lists, and let’s you test the effectiveness of various email campaigns.

55

3 years ago

A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.

54

3 years ago

A new publishing platform for startups, allowing them to build and launch their own newsletters without a lot of the traditional setup and maintenance of a traditional email newsletter.

49

4 years ago

A SaaS platform for creating, managing, and selling e-books. The startup wants to make publishing easier, and by working with publishers, it can make the process more profitable.

45

3 years ago

A game studio that makes mobile games. The startup is looking to build a new publishing model for mobile games, one that incentivizes players to engage in social-driven gameplay.

45

3 years ago

A platform for creating and distributing “white papers” that summarize research, but aren’t bound by the limitations of traditional academic publishing.

38

3 years ago

A platform for publishing and curating content in a publishing platform that looks and feels like Medium, but is optimized for mobile.

38

2 years ago

A platform for publishing and sharing news, blogs and articles through a private, personalized RSS feed.

37

2 years ago

A digital newsroom for the media company, providing editing and publishing tools for journalists to create and share stories.

37

5 years ago

Idea: A tool for salespeople to track and report on any company-related content they are publishing. The startup is trying to replace spreadsheets and other tools salespeople have been using to track their content.

32

2 years ago

A platform for developing and publishing mobile games. The startup is taking pre-orders for a $50

32

2 years ago

This startup is taking a page out of the digital book-publishing world and selling ebooks and courses across multiple platforms, including mobile.

32

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for organizing and publishing video interviews with people on the internet, initially for people who are doing YC interviews before Demo Day.

29

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a “digital library for the world”, enabling any device to access the world’s books and publishing content from the world’s writers.

27

2 years ago

A platform designed for building and publishing 3D content, supporting content creators, and customers, in a format that can be embedded and used in web, mobile and VR.

25

2 years ago

A tool for managing book publishing that works like a personal assistant, and helps authors with everything from marketing to accounting.

25

2 years ago

A tool for building and publishing Instagram stories that are then shared with other social media platforms. The tool turns a user’s camera feed into a story that they can share with other platforms.

15

5 years ago

Idea: A Professional Publishing Platform

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5 years ago

Idea: A publishing tool for digital magazines

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Publishing Startup Ideas

A startup that helps brands and developers build mobile video games. Their platform easily integrates with existing games and offers a suite of tools for onboarding, publishing, and monetizing.

This startup is looking to replace the whole process of writing a paper from a researcher to publishing it in peer reviewed journals, using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

This startup wants to connect people who are making music with a marketplace for publishing.

A set of tools for publishing and managing digital media like video and audio.

A software platform for publishing academic papers and hosting conferences, designed for scientists, researchers, and students.

A platform for running and publishing community-driven events, such as hackathons and meetups.

An SDK for automatically creating, updating, and publishing content to social media.

Web-based technology for managing and publishing content across all of a business’s digital channels.

A platform for creating and publishing podcasts, automatic transcribed interviews, and other audio-only content, made for consumption on Apple’s podcast player iRadio.

This company is building a platform for sharing and publishing photos to social media networks. Users can pick from a range of examples and edit them until they’re just right. It’s an effective way to share photos, with some of the backgrounds and imagery being quite striking.

A startup that publishes and sells books, publishing three a month on topics like business and finance.

A company that helps businesses start their own blog, with tools for handling content creation, editing, and publishing, including a content management system.

A platform for creating and publishing video content with multiple channels. The startup, which was founded in August, is building on the video-sharing platform LIV. It lets users create and publish video content via a combination of Instagram and Facebook.

A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.

The startup's goal is to help build an open platform for publishing and sharing data between developers and scientists. They want to build a new experience for scientists to learn about the data they have, so they can get it into the hands of a broader developer community.

An API for managing a video distribution, with plans to integrate with the YouTube publishing platform and other video-sharing sites.

A platform for books, movies, games, and TV shows to be sold online. They’re a startup of a publishing company, who are using it to build their digital catalog.

"This list of startups is a non-exhaustive collection of the best companies funded by YC. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all startups funded by YC. Regardless, we'll be publishing additional startups funded by YC at a later date."

d.i.s.e. is building a visual editor for creating and publishing content on the web.

A startup that wants to help reduce the cost of creating and publishing original video content by using Adobe’s technology.

A platform that allows anyone to build their own website. The company aims to simplify the process of publishing a website by allowing anyone to use their templates and launch a site in 15 minutes.

A tool for book authors to manage their digital publishing, from editing to royalties, live chat, and more.

A company that makes a software tool for publishing video content with live video commentary.

A cloud-based content platform for creators in collaboration with the National Digital Publishing Center.

A startup that wants to be the go-to service for creating branded video and digital publishing for enterprises. The company recently raised a Series A led by Collaborative Fund.

A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.

A company that provides a platform for publishing short videos to YouTube, Facebook, and beyond.

A publishing platform for the world’s top brands that allows them to create branded iOS app experiences. Branded apps are those which have full access to the app’s functionality, enabling brands to create exclusive experiences for their customers.

A startup that’s building a book publishing platform that supports writers, publishers, and readers by giving them a way to store and give access to their documents online.

A tool for creating and publishing online courses, with the goal of simplifying the way the world learns.

A startup that wants to make more work for people by replacing the physical backbone of book publishing with technology. The company has declined to give specific details of its business.

A tool for quick and easy content curation for B2B companies. The product includes a collection of templates and frames and functions for creating/publishing content on the platform.

The startup is building a platform for digital publishing, allowing people to create and publish their own digital magazines.

An online media publishing tool for creating and curating videos for social media and targeted website traffic. The startup wants to make it easier to create and distribute visuals for any social media platform.

An online publishing tool for indie musicians, allowing them to easily create and distribute their music via the web.

A tool for publishing photos, videos, and text to social media.

A platform for book publishing, providing a system for authors to manage their careers, manage their books, and interact with each other.

A company that hopes to help developers collect and manage their email lists. It’s a “one-stop-shop” for building, managing and publishing email lists, and let’s you test the effectiveness of various email campaigns.

A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.

A new publishing platform for startups, allowing them to build and launch their own newsletters without a lot of the traditional setup and maintenance of a traditional email newsletter.

A SaaS platform for creating, managing, and selling e-books. The startup wants to make publishing easier, and by working with publishers, it can make the process more profitable.

A game studio that makes mobile games. The startup is looking to build a new publishing model for mobile games, one that incentivizes players to engage in social-driven gameplay.

A platform for creating and distributing “white papers” that summarize research, but aren’t bound by the limitations of traditional academic publishing.

A platform for publishing and curating content in a publishing platform that looks and feels like Medium, but is optimized for mobile.

A platform for publishing and sharing news, blogs and articles through a private, personalized RSS feed.

A digital newsroom for the media company, providing editing and publishing tools for journalists to create and share stories.

Idea: A tool for salespeople to track and report on any company-related content they are publishing. The startup is trying to replace spreadsheets and other tools salespeople have been using to track their content.

A platform for developing and publishing mobile games. The startup is taking pre-orders for a $50

This startup is taking a page out of the digital book-publishing world and selling ebooks and courses across multiple platforms, including mobile.

Idea: A startup for organizing and publishing video interviews with people on the internet, initially for people who are doing YC interviews before Demo Day.

A startup that’s building a “digital library for the world”, enabling any device to access the world’s books and publishing content from the world’s writers.

A platform designed for building and publishing 3D content, supporting content creators, and customers, in a format that can be embedded and used in web, mobile and VR.

A tool for managing book publishing that works like a personal assistant, and helps authors with everything from marketing to accounting.

A tool for building and publishing Instagram stories that are then shared with other social media platforms. The tool turns a user’s camera feed into a story that they can share with other platforms.

Idea: A Professional Publishing Platform

Idea: A publishing tool for digital magazines