SoundTracking Scores $4.75M For Social Music App
(UPDATED) SoundTracking, an addictive social mobile iPhone app that creates “musical postcards”, has received $4.75 million in financing. SoundTracking is currently the most shared music service on Twitter.
The company will use a portion of the funding to expand to the Android platform.
The financing round was led by Accel Partners, also an investor Spotify, along with True Ventures and SoftBank Capital.
“There are a lot of music services out there that allow people to consume, and then offer sharing as an additional feature,” Steve Jang, the company’s co-founder, told the New York Times. “We are making sharing the core experience and discovery is a bi-product.”
SoundTracking was developed in San Francisco based mobile app incubator and previously received $1.1M in seed funding from True Ventures, Google Ventures and AOL Ventures.
who is addicted to this turd? it’s dumbest music app in the universe. every vc mentioned here is suspect. a picture with a 30 second sample of music? stupid.
have to agree with mr bojangles on this.
almost $5 million to port to Android?
I think I could get that done for about $1200 on elance.
I will have to disagree with Mark.
Yes, porting to Android could be done with very little money if you are simply translating from objective C to Java but you are forgetting crucial aspects:
The app is currently obtaining the songs from iTunes and apple won’t allow that on Android so this guys need the money to make deals with Spotify and Google Music among other things.