Best Music Tech Companies in Austin, United States
The 36 best Music Tech companies in Austin, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Royal.
Ranked: Best Music Tech companies in Austin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Online marketplace for buying, selling, and owning music rights | $71M | 57 mo ago | 32 | Series A | — | Cart FunctionalityProton MailApple iCloud Mail+14 | 177 patents Provides sealed incubators and edge‑sealing solutions for biotech culture plates | — |
| 2 | Wave Provider of virtual concert technology | $38M | 64 mo ago | 66 66 → 80 (+21%) | Series B | Mike Fischer Investor | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 24 patents Advanced antenna designs and distributed antenna systems for heterogeneous wireless networks | — |
| 3 | BeatStars Digital production marketplace for music producers to license, sell, and giveaway free beats | $10M | 78 mo ago | 432 | Series A | — | Cart FunctionalitySentryZendesk+28 | — | — |
| 4 | Prism Platform for managing live music events | $6M | 35 mo ago | — | Series B | Matt Ford CEO | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+38 | 25 patents AI-driven software engineering, secure transaction systems, and gaming hardware control | — |
| 5 | Hello Music Operator of a digital platform for music-related content and community | $4M | 199 mo ago | 10 | Seed | Brendon Cassidy Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 6 | Earbuds Online community platform for music enthusiasts | $3M | 61 mo ago | 16 | Series A | — | Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Font APISendinblue+6 | 2 patents Synchronized multi-device audio playback for earbuds | — |
| 7 | EarBuds App-based music streaming and sharing platform | $3M | 61 mo ago | 19 | Series A | Jason Fox Founder & CEO | — | 2 patents Synchronizing playback of multiple audio streams across devices | — |
| 8 | OpenLabs Music creation application | $3M | 201 mo ago | 18 | Seed | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | — |
| 9 | Set.fm Live concert audio streaming platform | $2M | 133 mo ago | 4 | Acquired | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Mood Media In-store music solution provider for business owners | $899K | 169 mo ago | 592 592 → 1,355 (+129%) | Acquired | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | JamKazam Music learning platform | $800K | 139 mo ago | 5 | Seed | Peter Walker Board Member/Cofounder and CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 7 patents Real-time networked audio streaming and synchronization for interactive music collaboration | — |
| 12 | Musx Music discovery and sharing app | $800K | 141 mo ago | 7 | Seed | John Reardon Co-Founder | — | 4 patents Distributed peer-to-peer recommendation algorithms for music content personalization | — |
| 13 | MP3Ready Music search and recommendation engine | $756K | 150 mo ago | — | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Solstice Online collaboration platform for artists | $690K | 109 mo ago | — | Deadpooled | Matt Ford ex-Co-Founder | — | 2 patents Medical fiducial markers for image-guided surgery and diagnostic imaging | — |
| 15 | FanTrail Online platform for artists to connect with their fans | $500K | 185 mo ago | — | Deadpooled | Joshua McClure Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 16 | TourGigs Concert film technology company specializing in live streaming and concert videos | $336K | 119 mo ago | 10 | Seed | Jake Saxbe Founder | — | — | — |
| 17 | FreqSho Music playlist discovery platform | $100K | 159 mo ago | 2 | Seed | James Lewin Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Music Tech companies in Austin
#1
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2016$6Mraised▾
Platform for managing live music events. It allows users to manage the calendar, track costs, generate offers, and organize the shows. It offers software solutions for concert promoters, artists, agents, fans, buyers, venues, theaters, and arenas. It provides collaboration, budget adjustments, and real-time data visualization solutions for concert promotion, artist management, venue operations, festival, and event productions.
- Sep 2023Series B$5M
- Jul 2018Seed$1M
#2
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 32 employees$71Mraised▾
Online marketplace for buying, selling, and owning music rights. It is a blockchain-based platform that enables ownership and trading of music rights as digital assets. The platform allows fans to purchase and co-own rights in music, providing a new way for artists and investors to monetize their music.
- Nov 2021Series A$55M
- Aug 2021Seed$16M
#3
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 66 employees$38.5Mraised▾
Waves provides virtual concert technology. Music creators and concert organizers can customize the venues from realistic night clubs to outer space with a single click button. It also creates digital fan avatars in such concerts.
- May 2021Series B—
- Nov 2020Series B—
- Jun 2020Series B$30M
- Apr 2018Series A$6M
#4
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 16 employees$3Mraised▾
Online community platform for music enthusiasts. It is a social platform that enables users to build playlists with others, chat, share music, create and join groups. It also provides AI driven games for users.
- Aug 2021Series A$3M
#5
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 19 employees$3Mraised▾
EarBuds is more live than a podcast, more accessible than streaming radio, more personal than Twitter, more dynamic than a livestream, and more inclusive than any live group listening experience. EarBuds (Techstars Austin '20) is the real-time social music platform that combines simplified cross-platform sharing with live voice broadcasting, premium content curation, community-building, and live group experiences. We're the first social platform bringing together 70% of the world's music subscribers through direct integrations with Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and Amazon Music - through both LIVE and EVERGREEN activities. Former NFL player Jason Fox conceived the idea for EarBuds while a li
#6
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2008 · 432 employees$10Mraised▾
Digital production marketplace for music producers to license, sell, and giveaway free beats. It is a digital production marketplace that enables music producers to license, sell, and distribute their beats and music tracks. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for music creators to monetize their content, connect with other artists and producers, and manage their music assets.
- Feb 2020Series A$10M
#7
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 10 employees$4Mraised▾
Operator of a digital platform for music-related content and community. The platform provides access to various resources related to music. It offers a space for individuals to connect and engage with each other. The platform includes options for subscription to newsletters.
- Jan 2010Seed$4M
#8
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2011 · 4 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Live concert audio streaming platform. It enables artists to capture, promote, and sell recordings of their live performances. Fans can access concerts and performances based on music genre and artists. The mobile app is available for iOS devices. Generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Aug 2015Seed—
- Jan 2014Seed—
- Aug 2013Seed$1.2M
- Jul 2012Seed$750K
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2003 · 18 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Open Labs is a music creation app. It creates software products for professionals. One of its product Stagelight, is a music creation application. Stagelight includes loops, instruments, and effects for music creation. Users can create multi-track songs with drum, instrument, audio and vocal tracks. Available for Windows, Android, and Mac operating system devices. Generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Dec 2009Seed$2.5M
#10
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2014$690Kraised▾
Online collaboration platform for artists
- Aug 2017Seed$240K
- Jun 2016Seed$450K
#11
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2012 · 5 employees$800Kraised▾
JamKazam is a music learning platform. It offers various solutions such as JamKazam, that allows users to create and stream live music in sync and collaboratively, Jamblaster, an innovative hardware smartphone accessory for live streaming, Jamtracks, a music creation, and learning platform through soundtracks, Jamclass, an online music learning platform from artists through videos.
- Feb 2015Seed$500K
- Aug 2014Seed$300K
#12
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2004 · 592 employees$898.7Kraised▾
In-store music solution provider for business owners. It offers audio-visual content, mobile marketing, and interactive systems for enabling business owners to connect with their customers and grow their businesses. It provides services for various business verticals such as hotels, restaurants, local banks, and more.
- Aug 2012Grant (prize money)$298.7K
- Jul 2010Grant (prize money)$600K
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