Start Pill
This article showcases our top picks for the best Texas 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 Texas Music Based Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
iHeartMedia
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iHeartMedia is a mass media company that provides a range of multiplatform advertising and marketing opportunities.
Royal
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Royal is a developer of an NFT-based music platform used to allow buy ownership in songs.
BeatStars
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BeatStars is a social music marketplace and distribution company with over 300,000+ users.
Topgolf Entertainment Group
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Topgolf Entertainment Group operates as a technology-enabled global sports and entertainment community.
Mood Media
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Mood Media is a digital marketing firm focusing on the customer experience.
Backtracks
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Backtracks helps podcasts, audio content creators, and brands know and grow their audiences.
AiMi
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Not a playlist. Not radio. Aimi is an entirely new listening experience. Just press play.
Prism.fm
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Prism is the all-in-one live music management software. Built by music industry professionals for music industry professionals.
EarBuds Music
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EarBuds Music is a social music app that offers friends a way to connect and create shared moments.
Music Audience Exchange
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Brand New Music – Brand the most anticipated releases to engage your target audience.
Rooster Teeth
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Creator of online media content such as Red vs. Blue, Immersion, Achievement Hunter, the Rooster Teeth podcast, RWBY, and more.
Muzooka
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Muzooka is a free platform for artists and their teams to manage assets and report live performances.
VOKAL Media
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VOKAL Media is the home of the VOKAL Now app streaming premium digital radio, video, and podcasts.
JamKazam, Inc.
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Disrupting the $8B music lesson marketplace with unique technology platform that lets musicians play live in sync from different locations.
Explica
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Explica is a digital media start-up, a destination site covering the latest sports, music, and gaming news.
Univoice
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Univoice is a language-learning app that is teaching the world foreign languages through catchy songs.
Clyp
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Clyp is a community where musicians can upload, share and collaborate on the songs they’re creating.
Lightside Games
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Lightside is a social gaming company creating Bible-based games that feature graphics, strong music and fun gameplay.
EXPOSURE EXPLOSION FESTIVAL
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The Exposure Explosion Festival is a weekly mash-up of music festivals and small business marketing events.
Set.fm
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Set.fm is an application that allows musicians to record and sell their recordings online.
hearo.fm
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hearo.fm is a global music marketplace and local community that enables artists to showcase and sell their music directly to fans.
VIDBOX Inc.
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Company focuses on technology and consumer product on audio and video!
TourGigs
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TourGigs is a concert film technology company specializing in live streaming and concert videos.
Heartstrings Media
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Heartstrings media in an entertainment company that distributes feel-good streaming and home entertainment content.
Boss Fight Entertainment
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Boss Fight Entertainment is an independent game development studio.
SXSW
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SXSW organizes conferences and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries.
The Native
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The Native is an upscale youth hostel offering handcrafted design and unique experiences.
Moniker Guitars
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Moniker Guitars gives you the ability to design and purchase custom electric guitars online.
Broadcast.com
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Broadcast.com is an internet radio company.
Green Room App
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SaaS business tools for the live music industry
NFT FM
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NFT FM is a full-length music NFTs that support artists directly by means of private donations.
C3 Presents
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C3 Presents is a concert promotion, event production and artist management company based out of Austin, Texas.
Musicbed
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Musicbed is a music company offering the country, folk, hip-hop, indie, and pop music.
MediaTech Ventures
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Venture development group, employing a proprietary framework connecting capital and advancing opportunities in modern media.
Open Labs
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Open Labs develops customized computer music keyboards suited to fit a variety of studio and stage needs.
Pump Audio
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Pump Audio is an independent music agent licensing and advertising television, film, and web clients.
Splice
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Splice is a free video-editing app that enables iPhone users to edit their videos with music and other effects.
Chamillitary Entertainment
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Chamillitary Entertainment is a record/entertainment company owned and run by rapper Chamillionaire.
TDI Bassline
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TDI Bassline was an idea, which sprouted from their passion for music, and audio systems.
TalkBass
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TalkBass is the premier online community for bass players, Bass guitar & double bass forums, classifieds, gear reviews, stores, and more.
PeerTracks
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PeerTracks is a music retail website that sits on top of the Bitshares music blockchain.
Front Gate Tickets
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Front Gate Tickets provides technology solutions such as ticketing software for the live entertainment industry.
AXS TV
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AXS TV is a live entertainment television network.
LGND Group
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E-commerce & Interactive platform builder delivering the benefits of blockchain through consumer-friendly technology built for mass adoption
Group 1200 Media
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Group 1200 Media is a fully integrated next-generation independent entertainment studio.
CrowdFeed
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CrowdFeed is a concert companion application that allows its users to receive real-time information.
MusicMaster
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MusicMaster provides music scheduling software for radio and music television stations.
festivalPass
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festivalPass is the world’s first festival & events subscription marketplace across music, film, food & wine.
MultiTracks
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MultiTracks provides a digital platform for music & audio streaming, as well as video streaming for religious worship programs.
Audioengine
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Audioengine designs and builds audio products such as speakers, amplifiers, subwoofers, accessories, and cables.
Groove Labs
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Groove Labs is a Broadcasting & media production company that deals in event management & virtual entertainment services.
BitCake
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BitCake is a next generation marketplace where artists and collectors can create, sell and collect digital items secured with blockchain.
JAZZRADIO.com
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JazzRadio offers 42 channels of curated jazz music ranging from the earliest days of Jazz to the swinging sounds of the Big Bands.
Monytize
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Monytize is a social media platform that monetizes the community through rental subscriptions of movies, music, and games.
KYTX CBS19
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KYTX CBS19 is a broadcast media company offering music, weather report, and entertainment news.
Weathermatic
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Arthur Murray Dance Studio is an entertainment company that provides dance and wedding dance instruction services.
Hastings Entertainment
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Founded in 1968, Hastings? is a leading multimedia entertainment retailer that combines the sale of new and used books.
Austin Bazaar
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Austin Bazaar is an online retailer of musical instruments based in Austin, Texas.
reVolver Podcasts
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reVolver Podcasts is an audio content & advertising network, connecting companies and brands to sponsor.
Radda
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Radda is an online platform where musicians can submit recordings of their performances and compositions to experts around the world.
Austin City Limits
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Now in production of its 40th season on @PBS.
Upstage Center Inc.
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Upstage Center is an entertainment company offering event management services.
Music World Entertainment
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Houston-based entertainment company that houses a record label, performance venues, an education center, and more.
Onstage Systems
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Onstage Systemsis an Audio visual equipment supplier in Dallas, Texas.
CloudAround
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CloudAround is a tech company specializing in a multi-cloud music player for Google Play.
Affiniscape
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Affiniscape is a leader in the Association Software Management industry
Dwell App
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Dwell App is a Bible listening app that offers features such as listening plans, topical playlists, curated stories & passages.
Brook Mays Music
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Brook Mays Music is an online musical instrument store.
StarQuest International, Inc.
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StarQuest International is an entertainment company that offers dance competition services.
MVP Vibe
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Mobile App, social media platform for independent artists, poets, and fans
Reach Media
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Reach Media Inc is founded by America’s #1 radio host Tom Joyner. Reach Media Inc. is among the most effective media platform to reach
DivaDance
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DivaDance is a dance academy that provides dance choreography services.
JRT Studio
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JRT Studio is an android development firm that focuses on offering a wide range of music applications for android, PC or Mac.
J & S Audio Visual
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J & S Audio Visual provides Event Production Services like Video, Audio, Lighting Scenic and Motion Graphics.
Texas Public Radio
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Texas Public Radio (TPR) operates five non-commercial radio stations.
Cloud 9 Games
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Cloud 9 Games develops and publishes Christian entertainment software.
The Secret Group
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The Secret Group is a Comedy Club, Music venue, and full time bar of live entertainment and parties without DJ.
FanBuff
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FanBuff is a social network for groups of people who share the same interests to interact with each other.
Austin360
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Austin360 is a city guide that features event listings, reviews, movie showtimes, details on area recreation activities, and more.
Hipcast
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Hipcast is a podcast hosting and management platform that allows users to upload, record, and manage podcasts from anywhere.
Anytickets.Com
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Anytickets.Com is a web portal that handles procurement, sales, and distribution of tickets for music, sports, arts, and other events.
Live Music Tutor
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Live Music Tutor provides Interactive Real-Time Online Music Lessons from a Trusted Community.
Gorilla vs. Bear
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Gorilla vs. Bear is a Texas-based music blog. Once called the New Yorker of hipster blogs, they blog about relevant artists of the day,
Dallas Observe
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Dallas Observer, a weekly newspaper, offers news about the government, politics, and business as well as sports, music, and the arts.
Pinot’s Palette
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Pinot’s Palette is an upscale, entertainment art studio based in Houston, Texas.
Spout Software
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Spout is a mobile friendly, cloud-based recording and collaboration platform for the working musician.
Motion Media Solutions
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Dallas video production company produces smart business video to present yourself.
90.9 KCBI FM
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90.9 KCBI FM is a Christian radio station in North Texas.
Pyware
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Pyware engages in software development, mobile applications and IT solutions for band directors and music educators.
MadeLoud
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MadeLoud is a website created by Howard Huang, in where he gives advice to people on any topic, and provides entertainment.
Sound Bridge
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Sound Bridge is a manufacturing company that produces a wide range of professional loudspeakers, stage monitors, and floor monitors.
Paravel
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Paravel is a three-man web design and branding shop involved in designing and coding.
Legacy Music Group
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Legacy Music Group is an artist development company and a full-service recording studio in Dallas, Texas.
Plano Magazine
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Plano Magazine is a print and digital lifestyle magazine covering events, food, drinks, people, artists and live music.
DX Media Direct
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Dx Media Direct specializes in digital marketing, television advertising, radio advertising, outdoor advertising, and media tracking.
Theatre Under The Stars
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Theatre Under The Stars, Houston’s nonprofit home for musical theatre, is dedicated to enriching lives through innovative musical theatre.
Mercury Radio Arts, Inc.
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Mercury Radio Arts is a media production company that produces radio, television content, and live events in New York.
