This article showcases our top picks for the best New York 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 New York Music Based Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Warner Music Group
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Warner Music Group is a music company with the interests of recording and publishing music and artist services.
Neon Music Network
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Neon Music Network is a music-video streaming service
Genius
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Genius is an online media platform that brings music intelligence to the masses.
Slip.stream
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Slip.stream is a music platform that helps music creators avoid risk of copyright strikes.
Pond5
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Pond5 is the world’s largest, most vibrant video-first content marketplace that helps filmmakers fulfil their creative vision.
Barstool Sports
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Barstool Sports is a digital sports, entertainment and media brand that delivers content across multiple platforms.
Kobalt
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Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
FITE
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FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live sports streaming service for sports and entertainment.
88rising
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88rising is a record label, management company, and producer of digital content catering to the Asian millennial market.
AuDIGENT
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Audigent is a next-generation DMP and a first-of-a-kind “data agency” comprised of exclusive entertainment, sports, and lifestyle audiences.
Aaptiv
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Aaptiv is a digital health company that combines scientific programming, empathetic trainers, and uplifting music to improve members health.
Medallion
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Medallion is a company in the media and entertainment industry.
Whistle
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Whistle is a global sports and entertainment company that creates, curates, and distributes positive brand safe original content.
Songkick
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Songkick is a ticketing vendor and online database of concerts for music enthusiasts.
Complex
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Complex is an online magazine that features articles about music, styles, pop culture, sports, and sneakers.
Sounder.fm
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Sounder.fm is a platform that helps audio creators manage, market, and measure their audio content.
Splice
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Splice provides a technology platform for music creators that streamlines the process of creating and sharing music.
Audiomack
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Audiomack is music sharing and discovery made easy.
Triller
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Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
Radiate
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Radiate is a mobile app that connects people going to the same music festival as one another.
Stationhead
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A social radio platform for hosts, listeners, and friends to connect with music streaming and live talk.
Reservoir Media
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Reservoir Media is an independent music company.
UnitedMasters
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UnitedMasters is a technology platform that gives musicians an alternative to exploitative record label deals.
Superfly
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Superfly is an entertainment company and creative agency with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago.
Rally
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Rally is Mass Mobility as a Service: technology and model innovations for the business of buses.
Sirius XM
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Sirius XM is a satellite radio broadcasting company providing satellite radio and online radio services.
Amper Music
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Amper is an artificial intelligence composer, performer, and producer that creates unique music, tailored to any content, instantly.
Mass Appeal
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Mass Appeal is a company documenting the cultural convergence of art, music, skate, and fashion.
HearMeOut
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HearMeOut is a free social app available on IOS and Android that brings back the importance of audio and brings it back to the social arena.
TIDAL
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TIDAL is a music and entertainment platform that creates connects artists and fans, giving them exclusive access to high-profile content.
Indify
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Indify is a platform that enables promising artists to get the funding they need to grow their careers without a traditional record deal.
Weav
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Weav Music has created a new format that relies on two pieces of software.
Jukely
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Jukely is a club that grants its members daily guestlist access to hundreds of concerts, parties, and DJ sets every month.
Shutterstock
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Shutterstock offers an online platform that enables its users to find and buy images, vectors, videos, and music.
Breaker (SingularDTV)
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A decentralized global distribution platform empowers artists with a fairer, transparent monetization model through blockchain technology.
TSG Entertainment
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TSG is a multifaceted agency specializing in management, development and production in the global entertainment industry.
Def Jam Recordings
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Def Jam Recordings is a music company.
Remezcla
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Remezcla is a Latinx youth media company that operates as a digital publisher, creative agency, and entertainment company.
MARS
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MARS is a fintech company offering private placements securities of music artists.
Sunhouse
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Sunhouse is building the future of music making through artificial intelligence.
ThankView
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ThankView lets you record & send video thank you cards after weddings, birthdays, baby showers and beyond.
eko
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eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Qwire
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Qwire creates collaborative solutions for music clearance, licensing music, and cue sheet reporting, for media companies.
Cymbal
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Cymbal offers a music sharing platform that enables its users to listen to music, create playlists, and share them with other users.
VNUE
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Vnue operates as a live entertainment music technology company that records and releases live concerts.
LoopLabs
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LoopLabs is a free and easy to use cloud based music studio.
Stacks
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Stacks is a social video studio building the future of entertainment
Qello
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Qello is a multi-platform social syndication service that allows users to stream HD film and entertainment content.
Oda
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Oda offers live music experience for homes with its preordered speakers.
DRIP
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DRIP is a subscription-based music service that allows labels to send subscribers every album release via e-mail for a flat monthly fee.
Dubsmash
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Dubsmash is a developer of a viral video messaging app that lets users create and share their videos.
Scream BOX
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Scream BOX is a subscription horror movie channel.
Scratch Music Group
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Scratch Music Group provides education and access to the dynamic art form of the DJ and producer.
Spring Moves
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Spring Moves is a fitness startup that uses music, technology, and the power of community to create better workout experiences.
Viggle, Inc.
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A mobile and web-based entertainment marketing platform that uses incentives to make content consumption and discovery more rewarding.
Poly Music Publishing
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Poly Music is a multinational music publishing company that preserves and reproduces the finest and sophisticated global music in the world.
Bentley Records
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Bentley Records is an award winning luxury international record label founded in 2013.
Forte
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Forte uses audio and video conferencing to improve online music education.
Livestage
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Livestage is a 360° digital platform for live music that streams concerts live and on-demand with a spectrum of interactive features.
MyStream
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MyStream is a Patented Cloud Platform providing live sync directly between devices, enabling entirely new dynamic functionalities wirelessly
Bandsintown
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Bandsintown is a free concert discovery app for concert-goers and touring artists. It was acquired by Cellfish/Bandsintown Group in 2011.
MAC Presents
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MAC Presents is a music experiential agency connecting artists, brands, and fans.
Audiam
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Audiam is an online service allowing artists to make money off YouTube videos that contain their music.
Sony Music Entertainment
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Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate
Just Sing It
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Just Sing It is a smartphone app enabling users to sing and share songs on Facebook and Twitter.
Roc Nation
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Roc Nation is a full-service entertainment company that specializes in social, music, and media industry.
Playground Sessions
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Playground Sessions helps people learn how to play the piano through interactive video tutorials, real-time feedback, and social features.
Even
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Even designs, develops, and markets technology and products that adapts to each listener’s unique hearing.
BollyX
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BollyX is a Bollywood-inspired dance-fitness program that combines dynamic choreography with the hottest music from around the world.
Bigstock
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Bigstock is a marketplace for quality stock images that offers royalty-free photographs and illustrations from photographers and artists.
Withfriends
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Withfriends is a marketplace for cultural memberships, making it simple for music venues and art spaces to set up great membership programs.
Cuttime, Inc.
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Music and Brands. Quantified and Connected.
Casting Coin
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Booking Cool Models, etc from NYC to LA and Revolutionizing The Production Process.
HELLO STAGE
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HELLO STAGE is the online community for classical music professionals
Tunesat
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TuneSat is an audio fingerprint technology monitoring TV channels and websites around the world.
turntable.fm
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Turntable.fm brings the social value of music to the digital music experience by letting people experience and discover music together.
Lessonface
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Lessonface connects students to great teachers for live music and language lessons.
Vevo
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Vevo is an all-premium music video and entertainment platform.
Xylo
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Shoot, mix, and share short multi-track music videos with the Xylo app.
Einhorn’s Epic Productions
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Einhorn’s Epic Productions is an entertainment creative house
TeRra Magazine
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Globally, Premium Arts and Cultural Magazine
The Chainsmokers
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The Chainsmokers is an electronic DJ and production company where indie artists release their remixes songs.
Popdust
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Popdust is a music company creating and releasing episodic original video content.
RYLTI
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Music-tech innovator of royalty data matching solutions
TuneCore
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TuneCore is the global platform for independent artists to distribute their music 150+ stores and streaming platforms worldwide
WeDemand
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WeDemand is a digital platform that powers fan driven live events across the world
Tunespotter
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Tunespotter connects people to content through songs in movies, TV shows, trailers, and commercials.
Manoke
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Manoke is a music/learning app that is the fastest growing repository of Bollywood tabs and scores. As of 2018 Manoke is growing in the US.
iHeartRadio
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iHeartRadio is a digital radio service that enables its users to listen to their favorite live stations or create custom stations.
UniqueSound
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UniqueSound is the first platform for composers and sound creatives to showcase their work and get hired.
Animoto
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Animoto allows users to create professional-quality video.
4chan
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4chan is an image-based bulletin board where users can post comments and share images.
Radeeus
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Radeeus is a mobile app that lets users listen to music in real-time with anyone, wherever they are.
Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Records is a record label that helps musicians develop and sell their music.