69 Best Music Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Music 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 285 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $54.4m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Mixhalo logo

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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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

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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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Genius

Genius is a media annotation website.

6

Funding Rounds

$77.7m

Money raised

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BioBeats

BioBeats is an artificial Intelligence company founded by David Plans, Nadeem Kassam and Davide Morelli.

8

Funding Rounds

$7.3m

Money raised

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RCRDSHP

RCRDSHP is a blockchain music on Flow.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

SoundCloud logo

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an entertainment company providing an online audio distribution platform for listening to music and podcasts.

6

Funding Rounds

$208.3m

Money raised

Mediachain Labs logo

Mediachain Labs

Mediachain Labs was a Brooklyn-based blockchain company building an open and universal media library. The company was acquired by Spotify in 2017.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

JoyTunes logo

JoyTunes

Platform that makes learning to play musical instruments accessible to everyone.

6

Funding Rounds

$92.0m

Money raised

Gracenote logo

Gracenote

Gracenote is a company that works with entertainment data and technologies for music, videos, and sports

3

Funding Rounds

$33.4m

Money raised

Dequency logo

Dequency

A platform for music and visual creators to connect and collaborate on NFT art and metaverse content

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Deezer logo

Deezer

Deezer is a web-based music streaming service.

9

Funding Rounds

$841.3m

Money raised

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WideOrbit

WideOrbit is a company that offers software for advertising management

4

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

Vochlea Music logo

Vochlea Music

Audio technology company using artificial vocal recognition for music creation

1

Funding Rounds

SoundFocus logo

SoundFocus

SoundFocus is a company developing and building a hardware product that processes and tunes audio based on hearing pattern and compensates to sound frequencies users do not hear well. It is available for iPhone or iPod Touch users.

1

Funding Rounds

TargetSpot logo

TargetSpot

A company with a digital audio online platform. It was founded in 2007 and has offices worldwide.

3

Funding Rounds

$16.6m

Money raised

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Sound.xyz

Sound.xyz is a company that provides the songs of musical artists in the form of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

BandPage logo

BandPage

BandPage is a distributed marketplace for musicians to engage and market to fans across music services across the world

1

Funding Rounds

$9.3m

Money raised

CreativeLive logo

CreativeLive

CreativeLive is a Seattle-based marketplace for online educational video's for creative entrepreneurs company.

3

Funding Rounds

$54.3m

Money raised

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Rockbot (formerly Roqbot)

Rockbot is a company that has designed media streaming platform

5

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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Blokur

Blokur is a UK-based music rights administration platform for music creators and publishers.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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EarBuds (company)

EarBuds is an Austin, Texas-based developer of a real-time social music platform allowing users to share music and interact with paid Spotify and Apple Music users.

3

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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DoomsDayX

The Creative Technology Studio for Web3 Artists and Fans.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Clip Labs logo

Clip Labs

Company that provided event management services designed to offer real-time intelligence on events

1

Funding Rounds

Festicket logo

Festicket

Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.

4

Funding Rounds

$27.4m

Money raised

Pitch logo

Pitch

Pitch is an artificial intelligence company developing a platform for voice coaching.

1

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

Nifty Gateway logo

Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway is a marketplace for NFT's and digital items.

1

Funding Rounds

NetEase Cloud Music logo

NetEase Cloud Music

NetEase Cloud Music is a company with an online music platform and offers streaming services. It was founded in 2013 and is located in Beijing, China.

2

Funding Rounds

$700.0m

Money raised

Popgun logo

Popgun

Popgun is a company that uses AI to develop pop songs, founded by Jack Nolan.

1

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

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Musiio

An artificial Intelligence company that develops software to sort through music data for business purposes. It is located in Singapore and was founded in 2018.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Next Big Sound logo

Next Big Sound

Next Big Sound provides a dashboard, charts, and reports to monitor popularity, activity, and metrics for musicians, albums, authors and books across social media, sales and events.

3

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

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Nura (company)

A manufacturing company making headphones that adjust sound based on a users hearing.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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Metacafe

Metacafe is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2003 by Eyal Hertzog, Arik Czerniak and Noam Copel.

2

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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Songkick

Soundkick is a technology company providing an online directory of music concerts and a ticketing vendor platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$31.6m

Money raised

8tracks logo

8tracks

8tracks is an internet radio and social network that streams specific song playlists that contain at a minimum eight tracks

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

Smule logo

Smule

Smule is a company that helps develop music creation applications that connect peo

6

Funding Rounds

$99.5m

Money raised

TuneCore logo

TuneCore

TuneCore is a digital music distribution platform that helps artists sell their music on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and Rdio.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

XMOS logo

XMOS

XMOS is a company that has developed audio recording technologies

9

Funding Rounds

$110.6m

Money raised

Earbits logo

Earbits

A company that participated in the W11 cohort of Y Combinator

2

Funding Rounds

$605.0k

Money raised

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Royalty Exchange

Royalty Exchange is an online marketplace for buying and selling assets with a history, or potential for, royalty income.

3

Funding Rounds

$8.6m

Money raised

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FreshPlanet

FreshPlanet is a company that has developed a social and casual online games for the iPad and Facebook

1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Music Audience Exchange logo

Music Audience Exchange

Music Audience Exchange is a company that allows artists to engage with their target audience before their releases

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Tongal logo

Tongal

Tongal is a company that has developed an online platform for content creation

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

Muzeek logo

Muzeek

Muzeek is a company that designed web applications for organization live music acts

2

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

Saavn logo

Saavn

Saavn is a music streaming service that provides international content.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

SOUNDBOKS logo

SOUNDBOKS

SOUNDBOKS is a company creating and marketing battery-driven speakers founded in 2015 by Jesper Theil Thomsen.

$13.0m

Money raised

ReverbNation logo

ReverbNation

ReverbNation is a website that is meant to connect artists to the music industry

3

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

Chromatik logo

Chromatik

Chromatik is a company founded in 2010 by Matt Sandler.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.7m

Money raised

Mint Songs logo

Mint Songs

Mint Songs builds tools that enables music artists to turn their core creative assets into NFTs that they can sell and giveaway to their community.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.3m

Money raised

Voicemod logo

Voicemod

The leader in immersive and expressive audio technologies that help you be heard the way you want to be heard.

10

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

Decent logo

Decent

Decent enabling fans to support musicians through NFTs. Don't just stream. Own.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

Jukedeck logo

Jukedeck

Jukedeck is a company that develops artificial intelligence for the music industry

2

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

Streamup logo

Streamup

Streamup is a live streaming community for music

1

Funding Rounds

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Last.fm

Last.fm is a social webradio founded in 2002 by Michael Breidenbruecker, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

DICE (company) logo

DICE (company)

DICE is a music ticketing platform founded in 2014 by Phil Hutcheon.

7

Funding Rounds

$325.8m

Money raised

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Xceed (company)

Xceed is a B2B city nightlife promotions and bookings platform founded in 2013.

$2.1m

Money raised

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Bandsintown

Bandsintown is a concert discovery app for fans as well as touring artists

2

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

JackBe logo

JackBe

JackBe is a Chevy Chase, Maryland-based company founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Grooveshark

Grooveshark is a streaming media system founded in 2006 by Josh Greenberg, Andres Barreto, Sam Tarantino and Josh Greenberg.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Imeem

Imeem is a social media web site founded in 2004 by Dalton Caldwell, Jan Jannink and Dalton Caldwell.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.8m

Money raised

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LANDR

LANDR is a Montreal, Quebec-based company offering a creative platform for musicians with AI-powered music mastering, distribution, plugins, collaboration, promotion, and sample packs.

3

Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

Bandcamp logo

Bandcamp

Bandcamp is a company that has developed an online promotion platform for independent artists

1

Funding Rounds

Triller logo

Triller

Triller is a New York-based company that focuses on an AI-Powered video app and social platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$333.0m

Money raised

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Endel (company)

Endel is a Berlin-based synthetic media and music company developing personalized sound environments to help users reduce stress, increase focus, and improve sleep.

7

Funding Rounds

$41.1m

Money raised

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Reverb.com

Founded in 2012, reverb is the world's largest dedicated online marketplace for buying and selling new and used music gear.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

Current Media logo

Current Media

Current Media is a blockchain ecosystem that is designed to allow users to choose how they stream media

1

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Songbird (software) logo

Songbird (software)

Songbird is a music player founded by Rob Lord.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Set.fm logo

Set.fm

Set.fm is a company that has created a platform to help artists record and sell their music

1

Funding Rounds

$500.0k

Money raised

Morcom International logo

Morcom International

Morcom International is a Chantilly, Virginia-based company founded in 1984 by Manuel Ojeda.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised