This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Music Based companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Music Based industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California Music Based Startups
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Pandora
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Pandora provides internet radio and recommendation services.
TuneIn
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From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.
YouTube
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YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
WME
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William Morris Endeavor (WME) is primarily a talent agency representing artists across every entertainment sector.
Sonos
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Sonos is a wireless multi-room music system enabling users to play music anywhere in the house and control it using a smartphone.
Napster
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Napster enables users to discover, listen, and share music files with others.
Stem Disintermedia
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Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.
Universal Music Group
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Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Smule
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Smule develops music-making apps that connect people online.
Pearpop
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Pearpop the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists.
Songtradr
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Songtradr is the world’s first data-powered, full stack, music licensing platform.
STX Entertainment
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STX Entertainment is a global media company that creates, produces, distributes, finances and markets film, television and digital media.
Patreon
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Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
Beats Electronics
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Beats Electronics offers premium consumer headphones, earphones and speakers, software technology and streaming music subscription services.
Mixhalo
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Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events.
Fourthwall
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Fourthwall is all about artists, it is a service that allows creators to easily create their website where fans can help target them.
BeatBread
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BeatBread is a platform that provides funding to musicians while allowing them to choose their partners and retain complete ownership.
Chartmetric
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Chartmetric is a modern approach to tracking, measuring, and analyzing music data for music makers, labels, and marketers.
Output
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Output develops innovative software and gear for musicians, composers, producers and sound designers.
Guitar Center
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Guitar Center, Inc. operates a chain of guitar and amplifier stores.
Merchbar
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Merchbar is an operator of an online marketplace used to be used for selling music band merchandise.
Unblocked
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Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment.
Audioshake
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AudioShake uses AI to help artists and labels open songs up to new revenue opportunities.
Castbox
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Castbox is a global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content.
tonebase
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tonebase gives you access to educational content produced by the world’s greatest musicians and music educators.
Relativity Media
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Relativity Media is focused on producing and distributing content in the United States and internationally.
Pied Piper
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Pied Piper offers a middle-out compression solution making data storage problems smaller.
ICM Partners
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ICM Partners is one of the world’s largest talent and literary agencies, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C.
SaveLive
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SaveLive is a venture aimed a throwing a financial lifeline to at-risk music venues.
Soundmint
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Soundmint is a generative platform for music NFTs.
Trubify
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Award-winning disruptive music streaming platform with innovative artist revenue streams to create a unique, intimate interactive experience
Encore Music Technologies
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Encore is an interactive live music mobile-based platform aiming to help artists monetize their connections with fans.
TakeLessons
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TakeLessons is an ed-tech company with a robust, engaging learning platform and community for lifelong learning.
LiveXLive
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LiveXLive is the world’s first premium live music streaming network.
Tribe XR
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Tribe XR is a virtual world where DJs and Musicians can learn, play and perform.
Orfium
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Award winning, high growth music tech company providing software solutions that maximize the commercial value of global copyrights
Laylo
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Laylo helps creators connect with and monetize their super fans through live ticketed digital experiences.
WEVR
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WEVR is a developer of a technology platform used to offer virtual reality content.
Rockbot
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Rockbot is a streaming media platform for businesses including TV, background music, mobile app and digital signage applications.
Songclip (Audiobyte)
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Songclip is the first Social Music API, offering a SaaS technology platform for integrating licensed music on social and digital platforms.
IndieFlow
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IndieFlow – an all-in-one workflow management platform for independent musicians and teams.
geojam
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Geojam is the ultimate social media platform for music.
Muzik
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Creators of The Worlds First Smart headphones designed to connect artists, fans, and brands like never before.
Mayk
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Mayk provides a virtual music studio designed to help people make original songs for streaming or social media.
Machinima
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Machinima is an online entertainment network that features clips and teasers from numerous video games.
NoCap
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NoCap is a platform that allows artists to produce, promote, and broadcast live shows and unique fan experiences to a global audience.
Gimme Radio
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Gimme Radio is a digital music platform designed for passionate music fans.
Estrella Media
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LBI Media engages in the ownership and operation of Spanish-language radio and television.
Beatclub
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Beatclub is a music platform that connects with artists, music producers, and songwriters.
Soundful
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Soundful is an AI powered music creation platform that enables creators and artists to analyze, create and monetize music.
Feed Media Group
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Feed Media Group is for businesses that need licensed popular music to create engaging customer experiences.
Uproxx Media Group
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Uproxx Media Group is a millennial focused digital media company, producing and distributing news/pop-culture content to nearly 50M users.
Dash Radio
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Dash Radio is a digital radio broadcasting platform that reinvents radio for the digital world.
Rooam
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A contactless payment solution for the hospitality, sports, and entertainment industry
Audience Republic
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Audience Republic is an all-in-one CRM & marketing platform for events, venues & artists
Fuse
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Fuse Media is a cross-platform media brand that creates empowering, music-based content for a multicultural millennial and Gen Z audience.
Culture Genesis
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Culture Genesis is a digital studio, focused on remixing digital technology for urban multicultural audiences.
Bandcamp
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Bandcamp is an online music store and a promotion platform for independent artists.
Penrose Studios
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Penrose is a group of artists, engineers and storytellers pushing the boundaries of virtual and augmented reality.
Audio Up Media
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Audio Up is building an ecosystem of IP where every single song, podcast, and audio marketing asset becomes much more.
Virtuosica
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Virtuosica™ is a live music marketplace platform launching in 2022.
Vezt
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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Vezt lets music fans share ownership with artists in their favorite songs.
Descript
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Descript is building a platform for creative tools, making audio and video creation as fast, accessible, and collaborative as Google Docs.
Tend
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Tend is the premier marketplace for hospitality staffing
Thematic
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Thematic is a marketplace enabling creators to use great songs from real artists in their videos.
Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.
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Solving complexities behind rights-holder identification, licensing and distribution associated with derivative content across all media
BoomCloud 360
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Make Everything You Listen To Sound Extraordinary.
Spotlite
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Spotlite offers a direct to fan app that caters to the artist.
Gigwell
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Gigwell is building the next generation collaborative gig booking platform for live entertainers and venues.
Vurbl
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Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user generated audio.
Perform
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The most personalized running program, ever. Perform uses AI and personal coaching to help you reach your running goals.
FanSifter
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FanSifter is a fan data management platform to help rights-holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase sales of tickets, music, etc
atVenu
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atVenu is a merchandise management platform that helps artists, festivals, and venues increase profits, reduce errors, and more.
8tracks Radio
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8tracks is an internet radio and social network that streams user-curated song playlists that contain at least 8 tracks.
Chromatik
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Chromatik builds products for musicians to learn, play, and share the music they love.
Shoelace Records
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Shoelace Records is a music publishing company that was acquired by UMG in March, 2022. (Twitter: @ShoelaceRecords)
KAI Media
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NEXT GENERATION ENTERTAINMENT FOR GLOBAL K-POP[CULTURE] FANDOMS
Bandpage
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BandPage is the distributed marketplace that musicians use to engage and sell to fans across the largest music services in the world
Tunelark
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Tunelark is an internet company that provides online music learning services.
Audius
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Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend music.
GPU AUDIO
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GPU AUDIO Turn any graphics card that most PC and laptop users have into a source of unlimited audio processing power.
Mighty Audio
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Mighty plays streaming music on-the-go without a phone, screen, or Internet connection. Launched in July 2017 with Spotify.
VOX
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VOX – VOX Music Player and the unlimited cloud-based music storage Loop.
ComHear
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Comhear is an audio technology R&D company licensing MyBeam and KAP Technology to OEM’s for multiple application uses.
STYNGR
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STYNGR is an online store offering an in-game music experience with the latest popular tracks for players.
DeviantArt
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DeviantArt is an online art gallery and community creating the cultural context for how art is created, discovered, and shared.
Cinq Music
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Cinq is a record label and music distribution company that provides rights management and brand management services.
Jammcard
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Jammcard is a private network for musicians, producers, directors, and composers that work with artists in the world.
Scaeva Technologies
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A B2B embedded technology company, Scaeva brings movement and color to sound through mind-bending contextual spatial audio technology.
All Def Digital
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ALL DEF DIGITAL is a premium, multi-platform digital media company and entertainment hub
Gigmor
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Gigmor is the leading marketplace for booking and promoting live music gigs (and now live streams) in the US and Canada.
Riff
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Riff combines voice and video chat with music and offers room-based interactions between users including creators and fans.
Tapin2
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Tapin2 is a software platform that enables mobile ordering and self-service ordering for hospitality and live events.
ArtistWorks
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ArtistWorks is a self-funded edtech company and the sole provider and innovator of online Video Exchange Learning in music.
HAAWK
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HAAWK polices, administers, distributes, & licenses content to UGC video sites on behalf of copyright holders.