69 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 6,711 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $51.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $748.3m.

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Ozon logo

Ozon

Ozon is a Russian e-commerce platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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READY Robotics

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

7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

Instagram logo

Instagram

Instagram is a Menlo Park-based photo-sharing social media platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

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Medium (company)

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

1

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

Mythical Games logo

Mythical Games

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.

9

Funding Rounds

$454.1m

Money raised

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Pembient

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

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

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Forge (company)

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

9

Funding Rounds

$307.0m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics logo

Charles River Analytics

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

9

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Immuta logo

Immuta

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

7

Funding Rounds

$267.5m

Money raised

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Sisense

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

8

Funding Rounds

$274.7m

Money raised

Faire (company) logo

Faire (company)

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

9

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

Terminal Africa logo

Terminal Africa

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

2

Funding Rounds

$103.5k

Money raised

Klarna logo

Klarna

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

20

Funding Rounds

$3.8b

Money raised

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JSquare

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

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Clubhouse (social media company)

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

2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

Bolt logo

Bolt

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

15

Funding Rounds

$3.2b

Money raised

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Full Circle Biochar

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

1

Funding Rounds

$27.5k

Money raised

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Density (company)

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.

9

Funding Rounds

$217.2m

Money raised

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Krisp

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

5

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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DataRobot

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.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

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Aura Vision

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

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Dropp

Geo-Based Minting, Land, and AR, developed with usable NFTs.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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AppZen

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

6

Funding Rounds

$100.9m

Money raised

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Kandji, Inc.

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

8

Funding Rounds

$252.0m

Money raised

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Tacit Knowledge

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

2

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

Money raised

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Openpath Security Inc.

Openpath Security Inc. is a Culver City, California-based cybersecurity company offering mobile and cloud-enabled access control systems.

3

Funding Rounds

$63.0m

Money raised

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Looker

Looker is a business intelligence software company providing data access tools to organizations and data analysts.

4

Funding Rounds

$202.5m

Money raised

Sayari logo

Sayari

A company offering a business intelligence and risk management platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$57.2m

Money raised

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Grove Collaborative

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

4

Funding Rounds

$477.4m

Money raised

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Adarga (company)

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

4

Funding Rounds

$51.0m

Money raised

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Arianee

The Arianee is a multichain token and protocol built on both the Ethereum core network and the Ethereum sidechain called POAnetwork.

5

Funding Rounds

$63.1m

Money raised

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Superplastic

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

7

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

BlockFi logo

BlockFi

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

22

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

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Hawkers (company)

Hawkers is an Elche, Spain-based sunglass brand.

2

Funding Rounds

$80.9m

Money raised

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Scopely

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Mixhalo

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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Mercury

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

4

Funding Rounds

$126.0m

Money raised

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Kalshi

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.6m

Money raised

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Physna

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$84.9m

Money raised

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Metropolis

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

4

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

Whatnot logo

Whatnot

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

7

Funding Rounds

$484.7m

Money raised

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Crunchbase

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

6

Funding Rounds

$276.5m

Money raised

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Hugo Boss

Hugo Boss is a major German luxury fashion company.

1

Funding Rounds

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Zeel (e-commerce company)

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

9

Funding Rounds

$24.5m

Money raised

Suki logo

Suki

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

4

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

Eleven Labs logo

Eleven Labs

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

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Udaan (company)

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

10

Funding Rounds

$5.5b

Money raised

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Shazam

Shazam is an application developed by Shazam Entertainment Ltd. The application can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device. On 24 September 2018, Shazam Entertainment Ltd. was bought by Apple Inc.

10

Funding Rounds

$138.5m

Money raised

Back Market logo

Back Market

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

9

Funding Rounds

$1.3b

Money raised

RapidAPI logo

RapidAPI

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

7

Funding Rounds

$272.5m

Money raised

Simplilearn logo

Simplilearn

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

5

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

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Ursa Space Systems

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.

10

Funding Rounds

$100.3m

Money raised

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Hylio

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

1

Funding Rounds

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Klaviyo

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

6

Funding Rounds

$678.5m

Money raised

Frontegg logo

Frontegg

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

3

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Genies Universe

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$216.3m

Money raised

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Hazy

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

8

Funding Rounds

$28.3m

Money raised

Ant Financial logo

Ant Financial

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

4

Funding Rounds

$22.0b

Money raised

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Casper (company)

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

6

Funding Rounds

$330.5m

Money raised

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SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ develops AI and quantum technology solutions for various industries.

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0m

Money raised

ClearTax logo

ClearTax

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

Servify logo

Servify

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$26.4m

Money raised

Aera Technology logo

Aera Technology

Aera Technology is a software company offering business automation functions.

4

Funding Rounds

$159.0m

Money raised

Peak AI logo

Peak AI

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.

5

Funding Rounds

$109.4m

Money raised

Pathmatics logo

Pathmatics

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

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Paddle (company)

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

8

Funding Rounds

$543.7m

Money raised

Weee! logo

Weee!

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

8

Funding Rounds

$863.8m

Money raised

Yewno logo

Yewno

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

3

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

Noname Security logo

Noname Security

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

3

Funding Rounds

$220.0m

Money raised