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QUICK HITS: Hook seed round tops $3.5M • Pex modified audio study • Horus adds publishing

Hook, the legal music remix platform for fan use on social media, has extended its Seed Round to include investments from Natalie Massenet, Nick Brown’s Imaginary Ventures, and others…..

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un:hurd expands automated Music Marketing Toolkit, adds funding

Music marketing platform un:hurd has raised a new funding round to expand its suite of data and AI-led features to help artists build, nurture, and monetize their audiences…..

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Groover has legitimized ‘pay to play’ promo for independent musicians

Always be skeptical of any opportunity that’s remotely “pay to play.” Shouldn’t a playlist curator, radio programmer, or music journalist review, choose to play, or reject music without getting paid by the artist to do it…

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Luminate acquires Artist ID database Quansic

Music and entertainment data provider Luminate, whose clients include Billboard and its popular Charts, has acquired Quansic, a global music artist identification service.

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LyricFind acquires Rotor, partners with CD Baby for easy video creation

LyricFind has acquired Rotor Videos and partnered with CD Baby to launch integrations of Rotor’s video tools and LyricFind’s Lyric Video Enterprise solution. Rotor Videos‘ AI-powered tools allow artists with. Continue reading

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Prism adds $5M for venue, promoter, booking agency software

Prism, a US-based startup building software used by venues, promoters, and booking agencies, has completed a $5 million Series B fundraising round. The company’s Series A round was $8 million.. Continue reading

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Hiring? A list of 600+ ‘smart, talented’ laid-off Spotify staffers

Spotify laid off 1500 of its estimated 9000 global workforce earlier this month. That followed a 600-person reduction in January, with 200 more let go in June. Now, a crowd-sourced. Continue reading

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We Are Giant launches promising music community platform with $8M funding

We Are Giant has launched a platform with $8 million in funding led by Sterling Partners designed to foster artist and fan communities and enable collaboration, discovery, and monetization. During. Continue reading

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Aux, RealCount win Music Tectonics 2023 music tech startup competition

Two promising music tech startups were named the winners of the 2023 Swimming with Narwhals Startup Pitch Competition at the recent Music Tectonics Conference. AI-powered music samples creator Aux is the. Continue reading

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Investors still see opportunities in the music industry and music tech

“Investors are still seeing opportunities in the music sector. However, there is no real prevailing theory or acceptance of where the real opportunity lies.” This article explores the trends. from. Continue reading

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Techstars Music – once the gold standard for accelerators – is closing

At the height of the music tech boom, acceptance into the Bob Moczydlowsky led accelerator TechStars Music was the most sought-after stamp of approval in music tech. But symptomatic of. Continue reading

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