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Hovr
Hovr is a Philadelphia-based marketing technology company that layers interactive, vertical-video experiences on top of existing hotel and resort websites. Its patented, no-code software lets marketers drag and drop video content - pulled from YouTube, Vimeo, Matterport, TikTok, and Instagram or uploaded directly - over static web pages using tools like Highlights, Anchors, Pins, and Pathways. The goal is to turn passive browsing into 'choose-your-own-path' storytelling that lifts guest confidence, engagement, and direct bookings, with a real-time analytics dashboard that ties video interactions to revenue. Hovr grew out of Hio, founder Jason Craparo's earlier networking and events venture.
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.
Bogdan Nesvit
Bogdan Nesvit is the Ukrainian co-founder and co-CEO of Holywater, an AI-first entertainment company he started in Kyiv in March 2020 with Anatolii Kasianov. What began with a failed live-wallpaper app grew into a global media ecosystem - My Drama, My Passion, and My Muse - that reaches tens of millions of users across more than 190 countries. Holywater turned vertical, phone-sized microdramas into a serious format, drew a strategic investment from Fox Entertainment, and in January 2026 raised a $22 million Series A, the largest microdrama round outside Asia.