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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Music Streaming startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Music Streaming industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups 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
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Top Music Streaming Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Mandolin
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Mandolin is a digital platform designed to help artists, venues, and fans connect through live music.
Vurbl
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Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user generated audio.
geojam
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geojam is the first rewards-based music platform where every action earns points that can be redeemed for personalized experiences and customized merchandise; never before has there been a more authentic and direct way uniting artists and fans. geojam enables artists to transform the way they connect, market and share their music to significantly expand fan bases and drive new revenue streams.
By providing innovative technology, compelling infrastructure and dynamic marketing reach, geojam purposefully connects artists and fans.. .
PlayTreks
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Playtreks, AI Driven marketing intelligence platform for the music industry
Matter
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Matter is a music streaming platform intended to change the way music is distributed and listened to. It provides deep engagement opportunities and utilizing technology to deliver a frictionless transfer of value to all users.
It offers live streaming, live chat, merchandise, tickets, and exclusive content. Matter was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California..
Bopdrop
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Bopdrop is an application that makes it easy to share music. They empower the music community to share the music that matters most with the people that matter most.
It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.. .
Lingopie
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Lingopie is the world’s first language learning platform that uses TV shows & movies to teach languages. Lingopie’s mission is to empower 100’s of millions of users globally to learn languages by doing what they already love to do everyday.
With Lingopie, language learners get access to 1000’s of hours of blockbuster foreign TV shows & movies from all around the world. Each TV show & movie is offered with a layer of interactive language learning tools and features that turns any episode into a language lesson.
The product leverages NLP and behavioral analytics to create a rich and immersive binge-learning experience.. .
SameTunes
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SameTunes is a music social network. You can compare your music libraries, generate shared playlists, and discover new music.
It is the answer to the classic question “What kind of music do you listen to?”. Perfect for a friend, parties, first dates, and more!.
Rebelation
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Rebelation is a music streaming platform that builts around the concepts of deep personalization and ease of use.
Craft Music
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Craft Music is a social media app, pocket studio, and peer-to-peer marketplace for musicians, visual artists, and brands. Visual artists can sell digital art and video clips.
Music producers can sell instrumentals and sample packs. Multiple users can collaborate in the app studio in real time and import or record music, photos, and videos.
Brands can hire musicians and artists to create unique, authentic ads for their products and services. Beta testing expected to begin in September 2019..
Webspace
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Webspace is a video and music sharing and streaming platform, dedicated to creating and providing movement for creators to become more accessible and recognizable on the internet. Users are able to share their unique stories by posting amateur content on their channels for others to see.
Webspace runs primarily on advertisements and user monetization, however they offer Creators and Users with premium and “Pro” features to expand their viewing, listening, and creating experiences.. .
Gbedu
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Good music has a new home! Gbedu is not just another music player; Gbedu is a music discovery and streaming service built to dispense the rich sound of Africa. We have built an experience that gives young, upcoming (up and coming) artists the chance to get discovered and earn per stream of their music content.
Gbedu will power Africa’s first open music ecosystem – connecting Africans to the largest catalog of free localized content, leveraging the power of playlisting, offline and radio-integration to create new interactions and vast unique music experience per user locale. Music has never been so free and rich at the same time; Gbedu is free to all users and pays every content owner..
Songstats
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Music Data Analytics for Artists & Labels
Gigs Live
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A new way of bringing live music and concert to audiences and make meaningful connections.
Great Lakes Made
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Explore small businesses and locally made art, crafts, food, beverages, music, photography, travel, and more in e-commerce marketplaces on greatlakesmade.com. Offering multiple platforms to buy and sell from your local neighborhood to international shipping.
Choose from over 100 online business tools that provide software as a service (SaaS) for your startup or small business. Great Lakes Made online marketplace includes 8 USA states and one Canadian Province.
These locations make up the Great Lakes Region. Buy nearby and get free shipping from vendors selling in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Buy, sell, and network with makers of unique things and small businesses in our online marketplaces on greatlakesmade.comtoday.. .
musicube
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Good music deserves to be found. That is why musicube develops revolutionary music search technology.
Music streaming services and other companies can forward any user request to musicube and get back high quality data in real time (e.g. to return playlists etc.)..
Musixen
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Musixen serves as a live music and entertainment platform.
Paket Media
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Paket helps viewers make sense of streaming while helping streaming services find – and keep – new audiences.
Fidarr
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Fidarr is a Family-friendly Social Music and Short Video App to Discover Faith, Connect with friends, Support Christian Creators and Live Your Life freely. You can stream music, talk in Chats (DM, groups), create & share your short video clips one time.
The Fidarr team is made up of people who are just like you – dedicated to wholesome entertainment. People just want to be able to stream clean music, access faith and family-friendly contents that carries a great message that inspires their faith and belief.
In turn, Christian creators can gain visibility of their works, build a fan base, and monetize their contents to make money and build a career. The Fidarr platform is a social community that is very secure, spirit-lifting, friendly, engaging, inspiring, entertaining and fun..
GudSho
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A Unique OTT Platform that helps passionate Content Creators, Distributors, and Content Owners to Promote & Monetize Videos Online.
WiredVibe
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We’ve made music purpose-driven, convenient and efficient.
Melodia
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Melodia is a smart music streaming platform, offering a simpler way to play and explore music. It provides every user with one personalized music station that adapts to their unique taste and every moment.
With its state-of-the-art machine learning and AI algorithms, Melodia learns from your listening patterns to dynamically curate the best music flow. Our vision is for Melodia to be the next dominant music streaming service.
We want to build a smart yet beautifully simple music platform. We want Melodia to be to Spotify and Pandora what Google was to Yahoo and AOL in the 90s.
We want to be what Apple is to the computer industry and what Tesla is to the electric car industry. Our motto is “simplicity in design, intelligence in action”..
HUDL Music
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HUDL Music is a robust, comprehensive music discovery & sharing platform engineered for discovery of the hottest, independent created music
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. Radda’s mission is to facilitate the seeking and giving of advice for musicians to grow in their craft.
Radda allows people to network worldwide and connects with fellow musicians while building a community of members who are invested in helping one another.. .
Muju AI
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MUJU (a.k.a Music Juggle) uses A.I. for music license rights enforcement and procurement.
In short, the company tracks media across the web to ensure licensed music is being used appropriately and not in content that does not reflect the values/wishes of the rights holders. Muju’s content analysis, license management, and ID system helps streaming video platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Triller and TikTok better enforce music rights.
For end-users we stop annoying and damaging demonetization and take-down notices by giving video platforms an API to quickly check against a database of active licensing deals and the associated terms.. .
SoundStage.fm
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SoundStage makes it easy for electronic music fans to book their favorite artists for private gigs that are delivered by way of videoconferencing. We are trying to help artists unlock new revenue streams by putting themselves on the market in a way that gives their fans direct access to them by way of “virtual” performances that they can carry out from their own home or studio, for audiences anywhere in the world.
By eliminating the travel costs and logistical overhead typically associated with live acts, the cost for performances is vastly reduced, making it affordable for fans to hire artists for private acts.. .
Spectre Software
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Mobile App and Software Development company with a focus on music.
VerseOne Media LLC
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VerseOne Distribution provides digital music distribution services for artists to sell their music and music videos on digital streaming and download stores worldwide. Music and music videos submitted to us gets distributed to 250+ endpoints.
Artists keep 100% of their copyrights.. .
Nerve
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Subscription mobile app for superfans of musicians, comedians, politicians, athletes, etc.
Popitalk
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Popitalk is a website that let’s you watch together with friends. With an amazing design, Popitalk-ers love our site because of how smooth it is.
The features we support are: – Add friends and watch togehter in private DMs. – Create public channels and discover interesting channels.
– Private group DMs with friends – Play, pause, skip in sync. And much more!.
Fidarr Partners Limited
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Fidarr Partners Limited an online media company focused on the Christian Entertainment Industry. Fidarr Partners Limited offers a range of online media products including its music streaming and lip-syncing short-video community service known as Fidarr among others.
The company was founded by Enyo Sam in January 2020.. .
MIXO
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Liberate Your Library. On your phone, in your car, at your home. Music library sync for DJs.
Playfre
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Playfre lets you stream unlimited music for free, build playlists, share them with other listeners, follow other listeners and their playlists, and much more. Here’s a brief overview of Playfre’s features: – Stream any song for free.
– Create playlists and organize all the music you love in one place. – Follow other users and their playlists.
– Get the Top 50 trending songs, popular albums, and top releases. – Listen to officially curated playlists by Playfre editors.
– View Official lyrics to your favorite songs. – Watch Official music videos of your favorite songs.
– Awesome user interface for amazing music experience. – Artist radio containing songs from your favorite artists and other similar artists.
– Add songs, artists, and albums you like from any page to your library, where you can manage and listen to them. – Artist page containing full discography, similar artists, and biography.
Paddle
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Paddle is a mobile application specifically designed for sharing music with friends. In the digital age of the twenty-first century, it’s no secret that social media and music streaming are enormous and rapidly growing industries.
Paddle is designed like a typical social media platform with the ability to follow other users, like and share posts, and customize a profile, however, rather than posting pictures or captions, Paddle allows users to share songs. Whether it’s one of their favorite songs or a new song they discovered, Paddle offers a convenient platform for friends to share and discover music with each other.
People take pride in their music tastes and love sharing the music they discover with their friends. Thanks to music streaming services, exploring music has become easier than ever.
The problem is that a convenient, virtual platform for sharing music doesn’t exist. While you can text your friend the link to a song or post a small section of a song on your Instagram story, texting was designed for texting and Instagram was designed for sharing pictures.
It seems that a mobile application specifically designed for sharing music will inevitably be created, and when it is, its growth potential will be massive. Our team understands that the time to create an app like Paddle is now and only now.
Paddle will collect revenue by displaying ads and offering an enhanced subscription version of the app. The Paddle team is determined to deliver an exceptional platform that shakes the worlds of music and social media..
Virve
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A virtual venue with exclusive, online, live events.
Watermarked.io
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Watermarked is the new innovative approach to protect digital media copyright with an invisible and inaudible digital watermark that no impact on content presentation but it is always there to track unauthorized spread. The digital watermark survives various content processing, such as compressing, cropping, rotation, and mirroring.
By having your digital content Watermarked, you secure your intellectual property throughout its lifecycle and its supply chain and will also be able to prove the origin of the content. Watermarked is expected to release as a cloud-based SaaS for regular people and businesses in 2021.
Stay tuned!. .
Freefy
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Free streaming music with no ads between songs and other free premium features
PiperEye
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We create the next generation of online events Pipereye allows content organisers to raise the experience of online concerts to the next level. Our technology allows artists to activate their global fan base, allowing each viewer to interact with their favourite artists in real-time.
Viewers can also interact with each other and participate in global fan activities. This allows artists to attract a global audience which is much larger than even the biggest of world tours.
For the concert organizers, we provide a set of tools that allow concert organisers to create interactive shows with full immersive experience for the audience. Our show format allows viewers to interact with the artist in real-time, affect the show and participate in challenges on the global scale.
Viewers can be part of the online audience visible to the artists. Viewers can applause, sing-along and affect the lighting of the stage as if they were right in the front row.
Each viewer can choose between several vantage points, allowing to watch lead singer, his band or the audience at any time during the show. Performances can be organised in unique locations such as roof-tops, libraries, small theatres, beach and have millions of people watching the show, offering them a novel and exciting experience..
Murph Workout Radio
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Motivational fitness radio station, Murph Workout Radio, offers free streaming music on their online radio station channels. Channels are broken down by music type, activity type, and other fitness-related categories.
Additionally, they have SmartPhone apps available in both Google Play and the Apple App Store. Their unique music offering incorporates recognized songs with motivational quotes from top speakers and popular films.
The custom transformations create highly energized, original music aimed at the Fitness fans worldwide.. .
Soundcrawlers
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A social network for Electronic Music
Sedition Music
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An online music streaming platform incentivising music fans to share & stream unknown/independent artists. Users can earn a share of the revenue just by creating and sharing playlists.
The lesser-known the artists you have included in your playlist, the more you earn!. .
Joove
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Joove is an undiscovered talent site allowing talented individuals to share their music and have the opportunity to connect with other creators and reach higher levels to their art. We are talent discovering platform that allows creators to share their content and be discovered.
We are in the market of getting more and more artist to be discovered and while do so we want to focus on getting some sort of revenue.. .
Setlist
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Setlist is a social music application that streamlines and analyses users’ history and provides a clear tailored playlist for the groups.
Limacast
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Limacast is an in-house video marketing portal that creates ads and television commercials for a variety of products and organizations.
AirXone Musik
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AirXone Musik is a home for sorts of great musical ideas, AKA music label.
Mysticadii
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Hello and Welcome to Mysticadii. We are glad to see that you have taken the time to stop by and know more about us.
Mysticadii is a brainchild of our founder Aditi Das. Being spiritually inclined she wanted to share the same with the whole world.
We aim to bring back the magical stories about Gods and Goddesses of this world for our modern mystics. Anyone who is seeking for spiritual contentment and is curious to know more about the knowledge and wisdom shared through our ancient scriptures and texts, Mysticadii is the right place for him/her.
We aim to empower our modern mystics by sharing ancient wisdom through several short stories and folklore. Mystics from across the world have time and again showed us a very different reality and their perception of this world.
Several ancient scriptures and texts have been written to provide ideological guidance to humans. However, most of the knowledge has been lost somewhere.
Considering modern times people hardly get time to go through these elaborate scripts. These scriptures are nothing less than a fortune hidden in some ancient cave.
Morabia Law P.C.
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Entertainment and media law firm
Euphoria Club
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Euphoria Club’s vision is to rationalize online entertainment towards sustainability. We are trying to evaporate the boundaries around art so that art transcends geographical, regional and cultural differences to be appreciated in its purest form.
We want to empower, let’s say, a standup comedian from Abu Dhabi to perform a live show to audience from India, China and Nigeria with the click of a button – something that is not possible in the offline world.. .
Popshift
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Popshift is a platform that unites artists from around the world to increase their global footprint. We are building an alternative to traditional record labels that is at the intersection of music, brands, and technology.
Through in-house tools and services such as distribution, marketing, and management, we help create and sustain the career of top-level artists and bands.. .
Mozart Network
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A new model for how music is distributed and enjoyed
HomeWay Record
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HomeWay record is a Berlin-based Record label created by a group of independent Syrian artists, for the aim of Expanding the relations to the different kinds of musical scenes and artists who they do still believe that “music cares.” One of the highest priorities of HomeWay record is creating a unique non-profit abstract and uncategorized musical scene for the aim of supporting the affected children in Syria. For most of the Syrian artists crafting music, it’s not only about euphoria of being a celebrity of achieving a very relative and personal goal, it’s all about finding the meaning of the art they’re presenting and the most proper way to support the people who they live in the damaged place they came from.
To expand offer and provide them new pattern different than the inherited ones to appreciate the value of art in general in the Middle East area by replacing the despair seen for the expected Physical goals of art and replacing it with the fact that music actually able to make a difference with the prove of that music is able to support the affected children in general.. .
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.
