This article showcases Boove’s top picks for the best ‘Journalism’ startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating in the Journalism’ industry, but are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Welp Magazine (our partner website) hosts a yearly startup award honouring the most outstanding entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses in the world. If you want to enter your startup to be in the running for the top startup of 2021 or learn more about our competition click here.
1. Vasteras Tidning
The idea behind this startup: Vasteras Tidning provides local journalism for Vastmanland.
Headquarters: Västerås, Vastmanlands Lan, Sweden
Industries: Journalism, Local, News
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
2. Content Central
The idea behind this startup: Content Central is a marketplace where freelancers and publishers can request, buy, sell, trade and distribute editorial content.
Headquarters: Umeå, Vasterbottens Lan, Sweden
Industries: Content, Content Creators, Content Syndication, Journalism, Marketplace, Media and Entertainment
Founders: Andreas Waleij, Joachim Ljungquist
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
3. Editor Publishing AB
The idea behind this startup: Editor Publishing offers complete solutions in journalism and editorial communication.
Headquarters: Tomelilla, Skane Lan, Sweden
Industries: Journalism, Publishing
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
4. Bonnier
The idea behind this startup: Bonnier is a media group working in TV, daily newspapers, business and trade press, magazines, film, books, radio and digital media.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Industries: Digital Media, Journalism, Publishing
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
5. Blank Spot
The idea behind this startup: Blank Spot Project is a digital platform for long-form journalism.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Industries: Digital Media, Journalism, Media and Entertainment
Founders: Martin Schibbye
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
6. LRF Media
The idea behind this startup: LRF Media is a rural and green business media company.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Industries: Digital Media, Journalism
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
7. Textbyran Beep
The idea behind this startup: Textbyran Beep provides translational services.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Industries: Journalism, Translation Service
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
8. WiMP/TIDAL
The idea behind this startup: WiMP is an online, streaming music service that allows users to have libraries of music.
Headquarters: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
Industries: Journalism, Mobile, Music, Video Streaming
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
9. Saplo
The idea behind this startup: Saplo employs semantic to help organisations extract and refine valuable information hidden in large text collections.
Headquarters: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Journalism, News, Psychology, Reputation, Semantic Search, Text Analytics
Founders: Mattias Tyrberg
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
10. Roxen Internet Software
The idea behind this startup: Roxen Internet Software (Roxen) produces Editorial software as well as CMS and web-server software.
Headquarters: Linköping, Ostergotlands Lan, Sweden
Industries: Internet, Journalism, Publishing, Software
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering:
11. Redaktionen
The idea behind this startup: Redaktionen is a journalism company.
Headquarters: Borlänge, Dalarnas Lan, Sweden
Industries: Journalism, News
Founders: Unknown
Follow this startup or buy their offering: