QUICK HITS: 25% off Soundfly • Easol Resale • DAAVI buys 2 AI music startups • boomboxio raises $7M
Soundfly, whose content is a favorite of the Hypebot community, is having a 25% off sale on the monthly and annual subscriptions to its extensive course offerings for musicians, through. Continue reading
SoundCloud lays off 8% of staff in an effort to ‘get to profitably’
SoundCloud announced today that it would lay off 8% of its staff. The cuts will affect about 40 and follow more extensive layoffs of 20% of staff in August of. Continue reading
QUICK HITS: Duetti • Gibson • PIXELYNX • Blackbird Studio
Duetti, the new music financing platform founded by ex-TIDAL and Apple Music execs Lior Tibon and Chris Nolte has launched with $32M in funding. The Fin-tech platform gives artists at. Continue reading
Fast Company names 10 Most Innovative Music Companies 2023
Fast Company has named its ten most innovative music companies of 2023, and while the list includes familiar names, it’s also peppered with some interesting newcomers. The two we are. Continue reading
QUICK HITS: Myxt opens w/ $2M • StageIt + Full Option • Public Pressure adds music • Qobuz to Canada • Promotions @ ASCAP, WCM
Myxt has launched its audio file management platform alongside seed funding of $2 million led by Accel and Quiet Capital to support the development of its centralized audio workplace. •. Continue reading
Music live stream platform Mandolin to shut down
Music live stream platform Mandolin is winding down operations, the company said in an email to users Tuesday. Mandolin, which won awards for innovations in fan livestream engagement, launched early. Continue reading
beatBread adds sliceNote fractional investing to music funding toolkit
beatBread, a startup that offers artists advances based on past streaming performance and social data, has launched sliceNote, a platform that enables fractional investing in independent musicians and labels. sliceNote. Continue reading
Gimme Radio shuts down after 6 years, unable to raise needed financing
Social audio platform Gimme Radio will shut down on April 29th after failing “to raise the financing needed to support the streaming services and grow Gimme to reach all music. Continue reading
SiriusXM/Pandora’s Shamal Ranasinghe joins Web 3 music platform Audius
Respected music tech veteran Shamal Ranasinghe has joined Audius, the decentralized music community and discovery platform as Chief Business Officer. Ranasinghe comes to Audius following eight years at Pandora and, after. Continue reading
Tim Westergren’s Sessions shuts down abruptly, goes silent as artists demand payment
Music live-streaming platform Sessions shut down on December 19th, apparently without warning creators or fans, some of whom claim they are owed money. Sessions launched early in the pandemic in. Continue reading
