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# SoundTracking Scores $4.75M For Social Music App
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/sountracking-scores-475m-for-social-music-app/
- Published: 2011-11-09T09:09:26.000Z
- Updated: 2011-11-09T09:09:26.000Z
- Description: (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. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/11/sountracking-scores-47
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

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(UPDATED) **SoundTracking**, an addictive social mobile iPhone app that creates “musical postcards”, has received **$4.75 million i**n financing. [SoundTracking](http://soundtracking.com/?ref=hypebot.com) 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.

[![image from www.google.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20162fc3f9280970d-250wi "image from www.google.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20162fc3f9280970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

“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 Time](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/an-infusion-of-money-for-soundtracking-a-social-music-app/?src=tp&ref=hypebot.com)s. “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.