SoundFocus

Supercharge Your Hearing (YC S13)
AMP, is an intelligent sound system in a case that slides onto your phone. It enhances your audio by tuning to your hearing, tastes and the environment around you. AMP’s two high quality speakers deliver crystal clear phone calls, vibrant music, and immersive movies. ...

Smule

Social music creation apps w/ over 120MM installs, 1B songs created.
Magic Piano - leading piano app on iOS and Android http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/magic-piano/id421254504?mt=8 AutoRap - turns speech into rap, and corrects bad rapping http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autorap/id524299475?ls=1&mt=8 Sing! - join the global karaoke ...

Mindie

Everyday Music Videos
Mindie is a new way to share life through music video, in seconds. Choose the track of your choice and record video while the music is playing! Any video gets insanely better with music.

SoundCloud

Share Your Sounds
Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created. Everyone has sounds to share. Now you can share yours.

Humtap

Humtap is the place to express yourself and connect with others through making music
Humtap Inc. is a music tech startup with a consumer app and industry solutions that will change the $15B recording music industry forever. Our consumer app provides a social media outlet for everyone to create music together, non-musicians and musicians alike. ...

Cull TV

New Music Television
Cull TV (http://cull.tv) is a music discovery destination. Inspired by early MTV, Cull TV broadcasts music videos, the most popular music distribution and consumption format. An ecosystem for artists and fans that puts content first, Cull TV is the premier long ...

BandPage

Helping musicians everywhere reach and monetize their fans through technology
BandPage is the distributed marketplace that more than 500,000 musicians use to engage and sell to hundreds of millions of fans across the largest music services in the world. As the music landscape is changing fans have moved from engaging and spending time with ...

Yomama Ventures

Small Investment Adventures
We're futurists at heart. We're Time Travel Researchers. It turns out that great entrepreneurs are interested in the future too, and we'd like to work with them to get there. One of the top reasons you should let us invest? You can tell everyone else "Yomama invested ...

Gobbler

PAAS Creative Cloud
Gobbler is a PAAS which lets software companies making creative tools add cloud services to their desktop and mobile applications. Our easy to use API is used to integrate into the workflows of these software applications Software companies typically do not have ...

Beep

Wi-Fi Computing Platform for Audio
Beep has built an operating system and a tiny Wi-Fi computer. Beep sells both to speaker manufacturers to make their speakers smart. Like Sonos, speakers running BeepOS connect to play perfectly-synchronized music in every room of the home. But Beep’s flexible ...

Patreon

Crowdfunded patronage for artists and creators
Harkening back to old-school patronage, Patreon enables fans and sponsors to support artists and creators. Patrons pledge to support artists and creators on a reoccurring basis for each work created, empowering a new generation of creators the ability to make ...

8tracks

Internet radio curated by people | 8m MAU, 30m monthly hours
8tracks is an internet radio platform curated by people. 8tracks "DJs" (roughly 1% of listeners) upload music or pick from SoundCloud to create and sequence an online "mix" of 8 or more tracks; they add cover art, a title and tags to classify the mix by genre, ...

bop.fm

New music site combining every streaming service into one.
bop.fm (Ycombinator S13) creates a home for every song on the internet. We are a San Francisco-based music technology company that aggregates several popular music services (Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc) into one app. You can then search for ...

Whyd

Play Music. Simply. Beautifully.
Whyd has created the leading music curation platform. "Meet Whyd, The New Pinterest For Music That's Been Growing At 20% Per Week" - Forbes We're now re-imagining the home speaker.

Imagine Research

Understanding the world's sound.
Imagine Research identifies and labels sounds, making media files searchable and adds a set of ears to cloud computing. We allow companies to index their media based on the actual acoustic content - generating intelligent metadata and unique sound search signatures. ...

Spacebar

Easy broadcasting with high resolution audio, using an iPhone or iPad.
Spacebar is a mobile application allowing anyone to broadcast any live event globally, on a free or paid basis. Musicians, comics, professors in MOOC’s, authors, symphony orchestras, politicians, etc. can all stream live audio to fans, students, followers, and ...

Playground.fm

Share Music Like a DJ.
Playground finds the best playlists for you from people who share your music taste. Listen to handmade playlists created by your friends, world famous DJs, and music lovers just like you. It's a perfectly social music experience designed for your iPhone.

RABBL

Social booking for live music.
Live music events have tripled in the last 15 years, but they are still booked the old-fashioned way: first you book the venue, then you sell the tickets. Rabbl turns that around. We enable bands to sell the tickets FIRST, and THEN book the show. Fans don't ...

Pexeso

Find, track & monetize your videos and music across the web
Pexeso is a video analytics & rights management platform that is able to find and track video content anywhere on the Web. You can think of Pexeso as a Google for video where instead of searching by a keyword we're searching by a video or audio file itself.

Onesheet

Musicians and entertainers, create beautiful and maintenance-free websites. Acquired 2013.
Since July 2011, Onesheet has provided the simplest way for anyone in the entertainment business to create a web and mobile presence. Over 25,000 musicians and actors use it. Onesheet won Best Bootstrapped Music Startup at SXSW and was nominated for a TechCrunch ...

Spotify

All the music, all the time.
Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: millions of tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and sizes, available for your PC, Mac, home audio system and mobile phone. Wherever you go, your music ...

Klick Push

Reshaping Digital Music Distribution and Advertising
The music industry has made significant progress in revamping traditional content distribution models to incorporate streaming, radio, and a la carte purchasing but they have failed to reach users where they are engaged most. Klick Push proactively places music ...

Clip

Realtime experience modeling and event analysis
Clip developed a system to model any live experience in realtime anywhere around the world. This enables: - The realtime reconstruction of any event. - The creation of immersive interactive video. - Other realtime products such as digital magazines. We did this ...

Unplugged Instruments

We are creating a more convenient, versatile guitar with a smart phone interface.
Our guitar is built for the mobile era. The on-board amplifier allows for unparalleled convenience. The smartphone interface empowers musicians to use a wide variety of effects (or create their own), seamlessly record their music, share their music over social ...

MOX

MTV for 2013: a 24/7 programmed video stream with hosted electronic music news and videos.
http://mox.tv MOX is what MTV would be if it launched in 2013. Many of us remember switching on the TV and to have Kurt Loder or Downtown Julie Brown present us music videos, news, and interviews 24 hours a day. But the digital native generation has no idea what ...

Live Nation Labs

We build connections between passionate fans and live experiences.

Gigwell

The Worlds First Professional Music Marketplace
Gigwell is building the worlds first Professional Music Marketplace. Through our collaborative booking platform, we're changing the way entertainment bookings are made globally. Leveraging a network of thousands of music industry professionals and talent buyers, ...

Clikthrough

Adwords for Video, now you can click on stuff in video and not watch boring ads
Clikthrough provides innovative object-tagging software to monetize video better and gives consumers more info about what they are watching. Our solution elicits 80+% "cliks" per video view and higher organic search ranking.

TRACT

Events based customer loyalty for the Electronic Dance Music comunity
TRACT helps users find nightlife events, purchase tickets, see where friends are going, buy merchandise, get VIP & guest list access, make reservations, view photos from past events, and more. TRACT also provides a full venue management system with robust analytics ...

Yobble

Xbox Kinect for iPhone: bringing motion control console game experiences to mobile
Yobble is Xbox Kinect for mobile. We're bringing console motion control gaming experiences to mobile. Our first product is Air Guitar Move, an 'appcessory' where your air guitar moves and rock star poses control the game. We want our users to feel like rock stars ...

LetsListen

All your music, one place, listen to it together with friends in real-time.
LetsListen is a cloud music locker that lets you chat and listen to music together with your friends in real-time. You can store and play your whole music library online, and notify your Facebook/Twitter friends to join your room where everyone hears the same ...

SoundBetter

Freelancer.com for Music Production
SoundBetter is a services marketplace that helps musicians worldwide find and hire production professionals. Home recording is exploding due to the lower cost of recording. There are over 3M recording musicians worldwide and growing. But recording is only the ...

Feed.fm (Feed Media)

Music as a Service.
Looking to build engagement and retention in your app, website, or game? Thought about adding music? Feed.fm is a music API that allows game publishers, online retailers, and app developers to enhance their products with popular music to drive consumer engagement, ...

Soniqplay

Interactive Audio Platform for Brands
Soniqplay's interactive audio platform enables brands to reach and engage their audiences through music. Our first platform application is our Fireplayer remixer, enabling users to remix and share their favorite songs. Key deals signed include Manchester City ...

Eyegroove

Social music video
Videos become magical with music! Eyegroove turns ordinary videos into the mythical story of your life when you sync music and add awesome effects. Message videos to your closest friends or share to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Ever tried a music video selfie? Download ...

Monstrous.fm

Gameful Social Music
Monstrous.fm was acquired by Freeform Development, Inc. in March 2015. Our gamified celebrity music apps empower artists to connect with fans, grow their audiences, and turn “Likes” and tweets into revenue. We leverage our music artists' social media outreach ...

Trance

Social Video for Dance
Trance is a social video platform empowering dancers to record, promote and share their originally-created music videos. People love to watch other people dance, dance music videos get 313 billion views a year. We are marrying dance with technology, creating ...

Audience.fm (now: @mindbits)

Audience.fm was shut down in 2014. Team is now building angel.co/mindbits. Audience.fm was a data product that used music streaming data to create taste/preference profiles. Consumers could use Audience.fm to get recommendations on content and lifestyle products ...

Bandcamp

Crossfader

Global Remix Community
Crossfader is the number one DJ app for global millennials who love music. It's been two years since we launched Crossfader and we are starting to see some exciting trends in terms of engagement and monetization with the debut of Crossfader Pro ($4.99/month). ...

WillCall

The best way to see live shows
WillCall is the easiest way to catch a live event at the last minute – basically HotelTonight for live events. Transactions are the absolute worst part of seeing live performances because there's never been a product built for consumers first. We partner directly ...

Spitball Entertainment

Create billion-$ brands like Hannah Montana via the low cost and virality of a social game
Spitball Entertainment develops character brands for kids that are launched through online/mobile games. Our first series, based on an original character named Miya Mackenzie, takes players on the adventure of becoming a pop star in Hollywood -- featuring rich ...

Wearhaus

Social music sharing headphones
Wearhaus redefines listening to music through headphones by making it more fun and social. Music enthusiasts love the connection that the shared experience of a concert or party creates. Wearhaus is enabling people to bring these social experiences with them wherever ...