Music Tectonics has named the five music tech startup finalists in its 2023 Swimming With Narwhals Pitch Competition.

All five finalists will pitch live during the October 24 -26 Music Tectonics conference before attendees and a panel of three judges from the world of startup funding: Juliette Rolnick of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Tracy Maddux, of Downtown Music Holdings, and Aadit Parikh of Sony Ventures.
Musictectonics Swimming With Narwhals Pitch Competition 2023 Finalists
- Aux – a generative AI model that takes a text prompt (eg. “808 kick”) and generates infinite audio samples
- Get Moments – a platform that lets live event organizers collect and monetize UGC video from concerts, festivals, and sports matches.
- MAYK – voice tech with a focus on UGC song creation tools.
- Offstage – a superfan platform that makes fan data accessible and actionable.
- RealCount – an analytics platform for live music’s key performance metric: tickets sold.
Also, demoing at the conference will be these runner-ups:
- Creativemind – Korea’s first-ever AI music composer, with human-like songwriting abilities.
- Dequency – web3-enabled music rights portal, connecting rights holders and visual creators.
- Everwave – a collaborative music production DAO.
- Lune Acoustics – a hardware and software companion that removes barriers to learning guitar.
- VisualLabs – a Generative AI video creation tool.
Get tickets for the conference at MusicTectonics.com/conference.
Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.