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Music Startups

Updated October 2026

Companies in the music sector developing innovative solutions and technologies.

Explore 529 recently funded music companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
529
Total Funding
$712.8M
Avg Funding
$28.5M
Global Reach
9
countries

Top Cities for Music

Tokyo
Los Angeles
Madison
San Francisco
Valletta
Singapore

Recently Funded Companies

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Tokyo, Japan

Oikos Music is a media company that provides service to support artists by purchasing music rights.

$1.0M raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

Sturdy Exchange is a on online portal for brands, entertainers, artists, and musicians to showcase their art and leverages NFT.

$4.3M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Madison, United States

Music Royalties, Simplified.

$5.0M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Airbuds is a social music software meant to bring users together through music experiences.

$5.0M raised
Sep 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Valletta, Malta

AirX Charter is an airline company that caters to corporate and government travel, music, film and entertainment and sports team.

$136.0M raised
Sep 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Singapore, Singapore

Spinel Network provides an AI-driven decentralized computing network.

$10.0M raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Casper, United States

RCRDSHP is a digital collectibles platform for electronic music.

$5.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend music.

$5.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Nashville, United States

Muzology makes music learning fun, engaging and effective.

Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Brooklyn, United States

a music (software) label

$5.5M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Columbus, United States

Prime Social Group is an entertainment company offering music concert promotion services.

$1.8M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Trondheim, Norway

Nomono provides AI‑powered audio recording hardware and cloud software that helps creators capture, edit and collaborate.

$3.5M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Auckland, New Zealand

Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches

Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Hamburg, Germany

musicube is an AI metadata and music search company.

$560K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

SUPERFAN MONETIZATION & COMMUNITY WEB APP

$200K raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Oslo, Norway

Audio, Consumer, B2C, SaaS, Big Data Business Model

$350K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Riga, Latvia

Social live media platform for creators.

$250K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

FanSifter is a fan data management platform to help rights-holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase sales of tickets, music, etc

$178K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Seven Seas Music is an international music discovery and licensing company.

Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Stamford, United States

The Zoundz Music For Pets program is designed to help Pet Pros and Parents to calm, condition, and connect with pets.

$500K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Gilroy, United States

A B2B embedded technology company, Scaeva brings movement and color to sound through mind-bending contextual spatial audio technology.

$76K raised
Aug 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Athens, United States

Athena Studios is a new state-of-the-art studio development.

$20.0M raised
Aug 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Copenhagen, Denmark

Linkfire creates intelligent links that route fans to the music they love, in the apps they love.

$664K raised
Aug 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Singapore, Singapore

Surf Music is a SaaS Music A&R tool for the b2b music space supporting cross-market collaborations and sales.

$7.9M raised
Aug 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Litmus Music is primarily concerned with acquiring and managing music rights.

$500.0M raised
Aug 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

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About the Music Startup Ecosystem

The music sector is an active area of startup innovation and venture capital investment. Companies in this space are developing new technologies, platforms, and services that address evolving market needs and create new business opportunities.

Funding Trends in Music

Music companies raise capital across various funding stages, from early seed rounds to late-stage growth financing. Investor interest in this sector is driven by the size of the addressable market, the pace of technology adoption, and the potential for scalable business models.

Growth Outlook

The music sector is expected to continue evolving as technology advances, market dynamics shift, and new opportunities emerge. Companies that demonstrate strong product-market fit, efficient growth, and clear competitive advantages are well-positioned to attract continued investment.

Music Funding Breakdown

Here is how funding is distributed among the 529 music companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$28.5M
Total Funding Tracked
$712.8M
Countries Represented
9

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Music

1.Los Angeles
3 companies$4.7M
2.San Francisco
3 companies$10.0M
3.Singapore
2 companies$17.9M
4.Tokyo
1 companies$1.0M
5.Madison
1 companies$5.0M

Related Industries

Companies in the music sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.

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