In 1999, Bonnie Brown’s life was in free fall. After two decades of marriage, a sudden divorce left her emotionally drained, financially unmoored, and sleeping on her sister’s couch in the Bay Area. She had […]
Photo Credit: Musical AI GenAI music rights startup Musical AI has raised $1.5 million ahead of its seed funding round planned for later this year. Musical AI is one of the genAI music rights startups […]
Madrid, where AI concert analytics startup Breakevent is based. Photo Credit: Quique Olivar Breakevent, a startup developing AI-powered concert analytics software, has scored an over $908,000 (€876,000) funding round. Madrid-headquartered Breakevent took to social media […]
Splashy funding announcements are extremely common in the music industry. But what happens to startups after they exit the media spotlight? It’s not always pretty. When it comes to startup success, getting the big funding […]
AI voice startup PlayAI has announced a $21 million seed round. Photo Credit: Igor Omilaev Another day, another interesting development in the quick-evolving AI world, where self-described “conversational voice AI startup” PlayAI has announced a […]
The entrance of Jimmy Woo, one of the Amsterdam nightclubs currently using Celebratix. Photo Credit: Paul2 Blockchain-powered “smart ticketing” startup Celebratix has secured $1.15 million (€1.1 million) in fresh funding and disclosed aggressive expansion plans. […]
Photo Credit: Perplexity After being slapped with a lawsuit from Dow Jones & Company and NYP Holdings over copyright infringement, AI search engine Perplexity has responded. That lawsuit alleges that Perplexity owes its success to […]
From the dawn of its existence, the tech industry has been one of the best ways for someone to get really, really rich, really, really fast. In the last few years alone, thousands of tech […]
Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced a partnership with Endel, a company that uses AI to generate soundscapes meant to facilitate work, meditation, and sleep. UMG will license use Endel’s technology to enable its artists […]
(l to r) anotherblock co-founders Sebastian Ljungberg (CTO), Michel D. Traore (CEO), and Filip Strömsten (COO). Photo Credit: anotherblock Notwithstanding the Web3 space’s well-documented funding falloff, music non-fungible token (NFT) startup anotherblock has announced the close […]
Metallica, which co-founded AudioShake backer Black Squirrel Partners, performing live. Photo Credit: Kreepin Deth With considerable interest – and capital – continuing to reach the quick-evolving artificial intelligence space, AI music-separation startup AudioShake has raised […]
Event management platform POSH has announced a $5 million seed raise and touched upon plans to continue building out its offering. Photo Credit: Aleksandr Popov New York City-headquartered event management platform POSH has announced a […]
Photo Credit: Tommy Diner Amid classical’s much-publicized streaming expansion, digital sheet music startup Enote has announced the “first closing” of a nearly $11 million pre-Series A round. Berlin-headquartered Enote, which arrived on the scene in […]
Unhurd founder and CEO Alex Brees. Photo Credit: Unhurd AI-powered music-marketing startup Unhurd (stylized as “un:hurd” as well as “unhurd”) has officially announced a seven-figure seed round. London-based Unhurd, which raised £250,000 two years back […]
Photo Credit: ICE ICE announces a deal with gaming metaverse start-up STYNGR, covering the multi-territory use of the ICE Core repertoire. ICE, the music tech company providing royalties for songwriters, has announced a deal with […]
Season 3 will stream free only on Sony Crackle November 1st with 10 episodes and a 5-episode early exclusive window on Amazon Fire TV starting October 22nd. After a year of extraordinary growth, ArakNet’s unregulated […]
Microsoft has released software updates for the Xbox Series S and X and the Xbox app for iOS and Android that bring some quality-of-life improvements and small tweaks that you may notice the next time […]
Photo Credit: Techivation Montreal-headquartered musician-collaboration platform BeatConnect has announced a roughly $2.2 million raise that drew support from Triptyq Capital. Two-year-old BeatConnect just recently unveiled the multimillion-dollar round, which consists specifically of CA$3 million (currently […]
I can hear the sound in my head just by looking at the console. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I really like my Xbox Series X. It’s a nice-looking, quiet console that […]
Photo Credit: Steve Aoki Web3 music creation startup Arpeggi Labs has announced a $5.1 million seed round that drew support from a16z crypto, veteran songwriter and producer Louis Bell, Steve Aoki, and an array of […]