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# Mayk raises $4M to help fans become music makers
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/mayk-raises-4m-to-help-fans-become-music-makers/
- Published: 2021-09-08T14:05:58.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-08T14:05:59.000Z
- Description: Mayk.it has raised $4 million to join the parade of startups based on the premise that fans want to also be music makers. Co-founders Stefan Heinrich Henriquez, former head of. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2021/09/mayk-raises-4m-to-help-fans-become-music-makers.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, DIY Advice & Tips, social music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:48

Mayk.it has raised $4 million to join the parade of startups based on the premise that fans want to also be music makers.

Co-founders Stefan Heinrich Henriquez, former head of Global Marketing at TikTok and chief marketing officer at Cameo, and Akiva Bamberger, a former software engineer on Snap’s Spectacles have announced $4 million seed round.

Investors include Greycroft, Chicago Ventures, Slow Ventures, firstminute, Steven Galanis, Randi Zuckerberg, YouTuber Mr. Beasts’ Night media, Spotify’s first CMO Sophia Bendz, Cyan Banister, T-Pain and music industry vet Zach Katz.

Mayk.it hopes to be the Canva for music composition and sharing.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/maykit-wide.jpg)

Here is the pitch:

**Make Original Songs For Streaming or Social Media.**

**Collaborate with our team of professional producers to create completely customized songs on our virtual studio!**

Still in beta, may,it has yet to release any user stats.

“I have been thinking about music since my time at TikTok, and I was really thinking about building something on my own, but then it took me another year to finally have the guts to do it,” Henriquez told [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/07/tiktok-and-snap-alums-launch-mayk-it-a-social-music-creation-app-with-4m-in-seed-funding/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29). “Then when the pandemic started, I think so many people were thinking about like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’ ”

**Bruce Houghton* is Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/) and [MusicThinkTank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and serves as a Senior Advisor to [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com) which acquired both publications in 2019\. He is the Founder and President of the[ Skyline Artists Agency](https://skylineonline.com/?ref=hypebot.com) and a professor for the [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com).*