Tag: music startups

In February 2019, Music Ally reported on a new investment fund being created by former BMG exec Zach Katz, working with manager Scooter Braun, cryptocurrency firm Ripple, and Something Gold boss Shara Senderoff. Raised...

Startup pitch contests at conferences around the world have become a useful window into new music/tech firms. The latest contest will take place at the Web Summit in Lisbon on 7 November. In a session dubbed the ‘Music...

Our focus is on music/tech startups, and their interaction with the music industry. Screenwriter William Goldman’s famous line about Hollywood – ”Nobody knows anything” – applies just as well to the task of spotting...

The Techstars Music accelerator has announced the cohort of startups taking part in its third year, with nine emerging music/tech firms from around the world chosen. Techstars has also announced that fitness-firm Peloton...

Freeform, the US startup launched by former Rhapsody/Google exec Tim Quirk and veteran strategist Bryan Calhoun, has launched its first six apps for musicians. They include an app for former Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas. The...

The latest ‘acquihire’ in the music startups world has seen social music app Listn’s team absorbed into Beatport, with the app due to be shut down this month as a result. The dance-focused SFX subsidiary...

The starting gun has been fired for the annual Midemlab startups contest, which will culminate at industry event Midem next January.

We've already covered the keynote speech at tonight's Music TechPitch 4.5 event at EMI's headquarters in London, where EVP of strategy and insight Jim Brady explained why a major label is so keen to be working with external...

EMI’s executive vice president of strategy and insight Jim Brady thinks that the music industry needs to be more creative about appealing to ‘Homo Spotifyicus’ – the new generation of digital music...

Regular readers of our Daily Bulletin will know we cover all manner of startups and services. We've produced a free report on the ones we wrote about in the first six months of 2010, with longer pieces on the likes of...

Last year, MusicTank ran a series of events in the UK tagged ''Let's Sell Recorded Music!''