microdrama
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Idilio TV
Idilio TV is a Latin American microdrama streaming app that produces original vertical series with episodes roughly 90 seconds to 3 minutes long, blending the melodrama of telenovelas with the format of TikTok. Founded by Gabriela Tafur and Esteban Ramirez and legally operating as Latido TV SAS, the company uses an AI-assisted production pipeline to make short-form drama faster and cheaper than traditional studios. Available free on iOS and Android, it passed 1.3 million-plus downloads across 50-plus countries within months of launch and raised a $5.5M seed round led by a16z Speedrun with backing from Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo, Goodwater Capital, Precursor Ventures and Nubank founder David Velez.
HOLYWATER TECH
HOLYWATER TECH is a Ukrainian-founded, AI-first entertainment company building a mobile-first streaming network for short, vertical, episodic stories. Its ecosystem - My Drama (vertical microdrama series), My Passion (digital books), My Muse (AI-generated series) and Freebits (ad-supported streaming) - has grown to more than 85 million app installs. Founded in Kyiv in 2020 by Bogdan Nesvit and Anatolii Kasianov, the company pairs human creators with AI production tools to turn books into bite-sized vertical series, and in January 2026 raised a $22M round led by Horizon Capital, on top of a strategic investment from Fox Entertainment.
Dashverse
Dashverse is an AI-native entertainment company building tools and platforms that let anyone create, publish and monetize stories - from comics to microdramas - at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional production. Its ecosystem includes Frameo.AI (generative video studio), DashReels and ShortFree (microdrama apps), and Dashtoon (AI comics).