67 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 274 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $31.9m.

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

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$34.7m

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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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$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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$60.0m

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Zora Labs is a marketplace for non-fungible tokens.

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$77.7m

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Genius is a media annotation website.

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$7.3m

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

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$208.3m

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

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$92.0m

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

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$4.5m

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

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$34.5m

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WideOrbit is a company that offers software for advertising management

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Audio technology company using artificial vocal recognition for music creation

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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.

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$16.6m

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

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$5.0m

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

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$9.3m

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

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$54.3m

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

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$3.9m

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Rockbot is a company that has designed media streaming platform

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$1.2m

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

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$5.1m

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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.

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

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$27.4m

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

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$19.0m

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

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

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$120.0k

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

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$1.0m

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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.

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$7.5m

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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.

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$15.0m

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

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$45.0m

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

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$1.2m

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

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$99.5m

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

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$110.6m

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XMOS is a company that has developed audio recording technologies

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$605.0k

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A company that participated in the W11 cohort of Y Combinator

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$8.6m

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

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$6.0m

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

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$15.0m

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

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$500.0k

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

$13.0m

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

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$8.0m

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

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$7.7m

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Chromatik is a company founded in 2010 by Matt Sandler.

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$4.3m

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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.

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$31.0m

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

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$3.5m

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

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$3.2m

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

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Streamup is a live streaming community for music

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$325.8m

Money raised

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

$2.1m

Money raised

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

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$200.0k

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

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$5.0m

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

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$41.1m

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

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$1.0m

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

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$18.8m

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

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$33.0m

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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.

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$333.0m

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

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$2.8m

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

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$13.0m

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

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$3.0m

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Songbird is a music player founded by Rob Lord.

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$500.0k

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

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$100.0k

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

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Topspin Media is a company that provides software and services for marketing

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$23.4m

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Hume is the tech and music company behind virtual “metastar” angelbaby.

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$2.2m

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Soundtracker is a company that has created a mobile music network

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$18.6m

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The Echo Nest is a music intelligence platform company founded in 2005 by Brian Whitman.

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$7.6m

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Musixmatch is a company founded in 2010 by Max Ciociola, gianluca delli Carri, Francesco Delfino, Giuseppe Costantino and Massimo Ciociola.

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$1.4m

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Yousician is a company that looks to provide musical education

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$21.7m

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A company offering a financial platform for managing future financial decisions.

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$20.0m

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Alida is a formerly known as Vision Critical founded in 2000 by Andrew Reid.

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$500.0k

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Listn is a company that has developed a music listening platform

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$4.1m

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Instrumental is a digital media company in London founded in 2013 by Abi Hanna, Charles Mindenhall and Conrad Withey.

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