TakeLessons Acquires Competitor Chromatik

TakeLessons has acquired Chromatik, a digital sheet music and music education platform. Details of the deal were not announced, but Chromatik had raised $7.7 million from Rustic Canyon Partners, Learn Capital, Plus Capital and others.

Chromatik was founded in 2010 and powers millions of musicians playing, learning and sharing music. Chromatik customers will be folded into TakeLessons, which allows them to connect with the best online and local instructors. Chromatik customers will get also get access to TakeLessons Live, which gives them over 200 live, online classes each month.

Steven Cox, CEO of TakeLessons, shares the background of this deal. “While we offer over 200 categories of lifelong learning, our roots were planted in music as our first category, so we’re very happy to welcome Chromatik members. Chromatik has done an incredible job building a community of people passionate about learning music.”