This article showcases our top picks for the best Ontario 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 Ontario Music Based Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
WOMBO
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WOMBO is an AI-powered lip sync app that creates deepfake copies of images lip-syncing to a selection of songs.
Voices
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Voices is the #1 creative services marketplace, connecting brands with the professional creative talent they need.
ole
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ole is a rights management company that provides the entertainment industry with IP acquisitions and creative development services.
Synervoz Communications
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Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
SiriusXM Canada
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SiriusXM Canada is a Canadian radio channel broadcasting satellite radio channels featuring premier sports, news, entertainment, and more.
LUCID, Inc.
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LUCID curates and creates personalized therapeutic music using biometrics, psychometrics, and AI to improve mental health and wellness.
Calm Radio
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Calm Radio is the world’s largest music streaming company focused on calm, relaxing music with over 260 channels.
Jamstack
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We make music consumption and creation more accessible and social.
Royaltymine
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Royaltymine is a music fundraising/investment platform.
Mass Fidelity
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Mass Fidelity is a technology company that delivers beautifully designed and inventive audio products.
Medly Labs
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Medly takes a new approach to the way music is made, letting both seasoned and new musicians make epic music.
FIX
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FIX is an aggregated API platform empowering music fans to take in their daily musical content in one simple solution.
Bluesound
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Bluesound is a company that makes a home wireless system into a home theater for music players.
Rave
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Rave is a new way to watch videos, listen to music, and hang out with friends.
Canadian Independent Music Association
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Canadian Independent Music Association connect Canadian music professionals with other industry professionals around the world.
BlogTo
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Toronto’s source for local news and culture, restaurant reviews, event listings and the best of the city.
SWFTCharge
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Eliminating low battery anxiety at music festivals, concerts and live events!
Entertainment One
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Entertainment One is an online platform that provides its users with media content.
LyricFind
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LyricFind aggregates licensing and content for the use of song lyrics in digital applications.
OVO Sound
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OVO Sound is a Canadian record label founded by rapper Drake.
Sumbola
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Sumbola is a cloud-based transmedia publishing platform for content creators to develop, share and sell their digital creations.
AVS Forum
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AVS Forum is an online community and platform that is focused on home-based audio and video entertainment.
Backstageplay
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Backstageplay is a gamification platform that marries the vastly popular and lucrative world of online gaming with artists.
VOISE
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VOISE a blockchain powered anonymous decentralized platform with personalized token based on Ethereum’s.
Cardinote
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We made Tabophone: a guitar pickup that writes music for you automatically!
180 Drums
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180 Drums is an online video tutorial that teaches drum lessons for the drummers.
RedPine
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RedPine is an application specially designed and developed for artists to manage and organizes their own shows and concerts.
Hypetroop
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Hypetroop is a social network platform for creative professionals.
New World
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New World provides artists, musicians, celebrities, companies and products with the opportunity to create at a global scale.
Skyship Entertainment
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Skyship Entertainment provides series production, children’s entertainment, nursery rhymes, animation, youtube and online video services.
Derivative
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Derivative is a software company that offers TouchDesigner, a visual development platform.
WKND
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WKND is a marketplace for music-event promoters to grow their scene by improving event discovery and offering new access types to partygoers
Banger
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BANGER is the world’s preeminent creator of Heavy Metal content.
Collective Arts brewing Limited
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Collective Arts is a beer company fusing the craft of brewing with the talents of emerging artists, musicians, photographers & filmmakers.
NLogic
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Leading-edge software developer and data provider, helping clients make sense of TV and radio audiences.
LMK Technologies, LLC
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Chunky’s Cinema Pub is an entertainment company that organizes functions, birthday parties, and corporate functions.
RX MUSIC
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RX Music is a consultancy service for experience-driven brands providing Licensed Music for Business, Curation, AV Design & Integration
Nelvana Digital
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Award-winning interactive studio specializing in the creation of premier online
Sodatone
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Large-scale analytics platform for the music industry.
SOCAN
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SOCAN, the member-based organization that represents the performing rights of more than four-million music creators and publishers.
Riff
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Riff builds a robo-adviser that provides growth plans to musicians, connects them with industry contacts & gives access to a platform.
PushLife
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Pushlife is a mobile commerce platform for mobile operators.
Super Mega Ultra Groovy
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We’re a small company with a reputation for tackling big problems. We combine top-notch design with cutting-edge research to create
Yangaroo
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Yangaroo offers business-to-business delivery solutions for the music and advertising industries.
PianoShelf
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Social platform + sheetmusic for piano players.
etickets.ca
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etickets, concerts, music, sports, theatre, broadway, musicals
JamCam
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Capture and share life’s musical moments, in short looping videos.
Grayson Matthews
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Grayson Matthews specializes in music, sound and experiential work across film and television, advertising and immersive content.
RUNE Entertainment
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RUNE Entertainment is a broadcasting and media production company that specializes in producing creative content.
Gidilounge
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Gidilounge is a digital media company that is reinventing the way Africans discover, listen and enjoy African Music.
Sworly
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Sworly offers a community-based platform that enables its users to find, listen, and share music playlists.
Merriam School of Music
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Merriam School of Music is a music school that provides music education, and offers piano instruments.
officialCOMMUNITY
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officialCOMMUNITY is a brand management agency that develops online communities for touring artists.
Mongrel Media
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Mongrel Media is an entertainment company that focuses on the film distribtution of local and world cinema to audiences.
Classé Audio
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Classé Audio is a maker of high-performance music and theater components.
Synapz Productions
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We are a full-service Entertainment Production Company located in downtown Toronto.
Image Dynamics
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Image Dynamics is a manufactures and retails speakers, subwoofers, amplifiers and its components.
Anthem Entertainment
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Anthem Entertainment is a music and entertainment content and distribution company that has grown with technology and entertainment.
Motive Unknown
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A strategic digital marketing consultancy working primarily in the music business
Splashtones
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Splashtones develops interactive aquatic technologies for architecture, education, attractions, therapy, and musicians.
Urban Post Production
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Urban Post Production is a motion picture production and services firm that specializes in sound design and editing.
Sheet Happens
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Sheet Happens is a sheet music company that transcribes and produces music books.
Juicebox
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Juicebox is a music video channel devoted to kids featuring parent-approved videos from today’s biggest stars, 24-7.
CMRRA
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Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd is a music licensing.
Dataclef
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Dataclef is an online platform that provides database solutions to store music data for customers.
Musicpeaks
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Musicpeaks provides entertainment metadata to enhance high-quality information about music videos.
Beevision Productions
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Beevision delivers quality concept development and design, video production, editing, animation and web design.
Musicu.Live
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MusicuLive is a internet music company located in Markham.
Control Play
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Control Play is providing top-quality music playlists, music videos, and digital signage solutions.
The Feldman Agency
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The Feldman Agency is a premiere entertainment talent agency that has an experience in talent, artist representation, and event services.
MusicMelter
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MusicMelter is an online community connecting every musical artist and music-related business, built to enhance the entire music industry.
Inkster
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Inkster allows artists, musicians, and creatives to host their entire portfolio of work and sell through its platform.
Pirate Toronto
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Pirate Toronto is an award-winning audio production company, crafting sound and music for the past 30 years.
FRC Marketing
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FRC specializes in using music as a medium to develop relevant, authentic and unforgettable connections between brands, bands and fans.
Smiley Guy Studios
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Smiley Guy Studios is a digital media production company that offers animation, VFX design, sound design, visual development, and music.
Decoda
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Decoda is a chamber comprised of musicians, entrepreneurs, and passionate advocates of the arts.
PetBot
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Innovative entertainment gadget for the whole family and their pets
MuchVibe
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MuchVibe is devoted exclusively to hip-hop, R&B, soul & reggae music Videos, interviews, and concert specials.
MuzeLounge
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MuZeLounge is an online music and entertainment community.
Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music
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Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music is a musical instrument with a multi-touch surface with realistic synthesis.
Casa Blanca Media
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Casablanca provide domestic and foreign music publishing administration services to copyright owners around the globe.
Music Marketing
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Music Marketing is music software and hardware distributor with offices in Los Angeles and Beijing.
DaDJ
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Find a DJ, listen to their latest remixes, see their number of followers, and attend their events.
Graph Tech Guitar Labs
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Graph Tech Guitar Labs is a manufacturer of guitar nuts and saddles.
Nationwide Audio Visual
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Nationwide Audio Visual is a leading supplier and integrator of Audio-Visual products and services.
Newseon
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Newseon creates bite sized news playlists from trending topics in tech so you can listen to it whenever you want.
NWC
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NWC provides information, marketing, and communications services for the music, pro audio, and lighting industries.
Metalworks Studios
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Metalworks Studios is a music recording studio.
Bowling Music Network
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Bowling Music Network is a company built on the needs of the business of bowling.
Sullivan Entertainment
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Sullivan Entertainment is media production and distribution company financing features, movies, series, and documentaries.
Evil Twin Music
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Evil Twin Music is a composer/sound designer who offers music, sound design, film score, game music, and electronic/ambient textures.
Vidque
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Vidque offers clients, users, and web sites the opportunity to become channels on its curated network.
Herd.fm
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Herd.fm is the only way you’ll want to share and discover new music with friends on your mobile.
Strings.fm
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Strings is a music application that enables its users to create soundtracks.