66 Best Music Business Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Music Business Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 6,603 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $53.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $814.9m.

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$21.0m

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Ozon is a Russian e-commerce platform.

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7

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$60.6m

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READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

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$31.0m

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An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.

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$454.1m

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Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.

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$50.0k

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Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

9

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$307.0m

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Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.

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$3.9m

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Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

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$267.5m

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Immuta is a Boston-based provider of a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance.

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$274.7m

Money raised

Sisense is a software company offering a platform for data analysts and data engineers to transform data into actionable business insights.

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$1.5b

Money raised

Faire is a curated boutique wholesale marketplace connecting local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands.

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$103.5k

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Terminal Africa is the developer of a delivery aggregator platform designed to make it easier for Africans to send and receive products globally.

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$3.8b

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Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.

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$1.3b

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Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.

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JSquare is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1985 by Jeff Herman.

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2

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$110.0m

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Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.

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15

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$3.2b

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Bolt, previously Taxify, is a technology start-up and developer of an on-demand transportation platform.

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1

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$27.5k

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Full Circle Biochar is a developer of products and technologies based on bio-charcoal for the agricultural markets.

9

Funding Rounds

$217.2m

Money raised

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

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$18.0m

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Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.

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$1.0b

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DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

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$1.5m

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Aura Vision is an AI computer vision company for generating insights into shop floors. Aura Vision uses existing security cameras in stores to provide customer demographics and behavior data.

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$100.9m

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AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

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8

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$252.0m

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Kandji is a San Diego-based device management software company developing a device management platform for Apple devices.

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26

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

GetYourGuide is a travel booking and planning platform.

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2

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$13.9m

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Tacit Knowledge is a London-headquartered software and IT consulting company developing enterprise software solutions for digital commerce companies.

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5

Funding Rounds

$57.2m

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A company offering a business intelligence and risk management platform.

4

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$477.4m

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Grove Collaborative is an online, subscription-based retailer selling natural home and health products.

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4

Funding Rounds

$51.0m

Money raised

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations.

7

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$66.0m

Money raised

Superplastic is a creative product and experience studio founded in 2018.

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22

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

BlockFi is a blockchain platform for high-interest crypto accounts and low-cost credit products.

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2

Funding Rounds

$80.9m

Money raised

Hawkers is an Elche, Spain-based sunglass brand.

8

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$1.2b

Money raised

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

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2

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$34.7m

Money raised

Mixhalo is a San Francisco-based technology company that has created a closed Wi-Fi network capable of transmitting audio in near real time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone.

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4

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$126.0m

Money raised

Mercury is a company making banking products for startups based in San Francisco and backed by a16z.

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3

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$30.6m

Money raised

A federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. It was founded in 2019 and is located in New York, New York.

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4

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$84.9m

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Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

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4

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$1.9b

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Metropolis is a Santa Monica, California-based company focusing on artificial intelligence technology for checkout-free transactions at parking lots.

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7

Funding Rounds

$484.7m

Money raised

Whatnot is a California-based livestream shopping platform and marketplace.

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6

Funding Rounds

$276.5m

Money raised

Crunchbase is company that offers an online platform for discovering information related to private and public businesses.

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$24.5m

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Zeel is a New York City-based provider of in-person and virtual on-demand massage and health services from vetted therapists.

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4

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

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Suki is a Redwood City, California-based technology company developing AI-powered administrative tools for the healthcare industry.

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$21.0m

Money raised

ElevenLabs is a voice artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company developing text-to-speech and voice cloning software.

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10

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$5.5b

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Udaan is an Indian business-to-business e-commerce company based in Bengalore. It was registered as Hiveloop Technology pvt.ltd. in 2016.

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9

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$1.3b

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Back Market is an online refurbished goods marketplace connecting consumers with sellers of electronic devices.

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7

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$272.5m

Money raised

Rapid API is a software company specializing in developing a platform for application programming interfaces.

5

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$76.0m

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Simplilearn is an educational technology company with a focus on courses for digital skills.

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10

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$100.3m

Money raised

Ursa Space Systems is a U.S.-based satellite intelligence company that provides business and government decision-makers access to on-demand analytic solutions. Through its radar satellite network and data fusion expertise, Ursa detects real-time changes in the physical world to expand transparency.

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Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.

6

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$678.5m

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Klaviyo is a marketing automation software company which has a email software platform with SMS for ecommerce companies.

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$30.0m

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Frontegg is a user management platform for B2B software as a service.

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3

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$216.3m

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Genies is an American avatar technology company founded by Akash Nigam and Evan Rosenbaum in 2017. Genies consumer app allow users to create fully personalized avatars to be used in apps such as Giphy, iMessage, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and more.

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$28.3m

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Hazy is a machine learning company creating statistically controlled synthetic data for fraud detection and risk modeling.

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$22.0b

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A venture capital firm in China that focuses on bringing inclusive financial services to the world.

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$330.5m

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Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

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$500.0m

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SandboxAQ develops AI and quantum technology solutions for various industries.

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$62.0m

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ClearTax is a financial technology company providing solutions for income tax filing, GST and mtual fund investments. It participated in the S14 cohort of Y Combinator.

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$26.4m

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Servify is a device lifecycle management platform, which integrates multiple OEM Brands and a sales and service ecosystem to deliver an after-sales service experience.

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$159.0m

Money raised

Aera Technology is a software company offering business automation functions.

5

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$109.4m

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Peak AI is a Manchester, UK-based company that has developed an AI system to provide data analysis for sales, marketing, planning, and supply chain management.

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$312.5m

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Beekeeper is a provider of digital tools for frontline teams founded in 2012 by Flavio Pfaffhauser, Cris Grossmann and Cristian Grossmann.

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$3.0m

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Pathmatics provides AI-powered analytics software for marketers that can extract data about various channels, including social media, video, and display.

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$543.7m

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Paddle is a London-based developer of a software-as-a-service commerce platform offering payments infrastructure for software companies.

8

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$863.8m

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Weee! is an Asian and Hispanic grocer in North America, founded by Larry Liu.

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3

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$30.5m

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Yewno is a company that has built AI technology for research and idea generation.

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$220.0m

Money raised

Noname Security is a Palo Alto, California-based cybersecurity and network security company developing products to protect APIs.

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$30.0m

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Drivezy, formerly JustRide, is a marketplace for self-drive cars and two-wheeler rentals, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

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