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Best Music Tech Companies in Australia

The 70 best Music Tech companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Guvera.

70companies tracked
$172.4Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
12have raised
Sources & further reading
  • ResearchAndMarkets.com
  • Technavio

Ranked: Best Music Tech companies in Australia

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Guvera
Music streaming platform
$130M127 mo agoPublic—2008——
2Splash
Developer of PC and console-based musical gameplay
$20M55 mo agoSeries AStephen Phillips
CEO
2017WebflowMicrosoft Advertisingcore-js+17—
3Tuned Global
Provider of B2B music streaming technology and integrated platform solutions
$5M130 mo agoSeries ACon Raso
Co-Founder & CEO & Managing Director
2008HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesFancyBox+231 launch
4Serenade
NFT marketplace platform for the music industry
$4M50 mo agoAcquiredMax Shand
Founder
2013Node.jsTypeScriptGraphQL+17—
5Qsic
Music streaming solutions for businesses
$4M16 mo agoSeries BMatthew Elsley
Co-Founder & CEO
2012WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+221 partnership
6Surreal
Cloud based solutions for managing live entertainment events
$4M56 mo agoSeedBrandon Crimmins
Co-Founder
2018WebflowSvelteVercel+22—
7Melodie
AI-powered online music distribution and purchasing platform
$3M25 mo agoSeries AEvan Buist
Founder & Managing Director
2017WordPressMySQLPHP+26—
8Discovr
Algo-based music & artist discovery platform
$1M175 mo agoDeadpooledDavid McKinney
CEO
2010——
9GiggedIn
Crowdfunding and ticketing platform for live music
$500K131 mo agoSeedEdwin Onggo
CEO
2013——
10AirShr
Interactive radio platform
$200K131 mo agoDeadpooledPhil Hayes St Clair
Ex-Co-Founder & CEO
2014——
11The Naked Song
Online music collaboration platform
$200K168 mo agoDeadpooledPaul Bransby
CEO & Director
2012——
12Zimrii
Digital music platform leveraging blockchain
$150K112 mo agoSeedMo Jalloh
Co-Founder & CEO
2016——

Top 12 Music Tech companies in Australia

#1
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2012 · 36 employees
$4Mraised
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QSIC is a music solution provider for businesses, shops, pubs, and professionally curated in-store music playlists. They cover a catalog of commercially licensed tracks. It monetizes through subscription charges.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 15.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. DG Media Network) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Series B$25M
  • May 2021Series A$4M
Founders & team
Matthew ElsleyCo-Founder & CEONick LarkinsCo-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Investors
Carthona Capital, Hedosophia, Flying Fox Ventures, Uluwatu Capital
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBunnyCloudflare
#2
Series A · Glebe, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 8 employees
$2.6Mraised
▾

AI-powered online music distribution and purchasing platform. Users can browse and purchase licensed music based on genre, mood, instrument, purpose, BPM, musical keys, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 4.8% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2024Series A$1M
  • Apr 2023Series A$1M
  • Sep 2021Seed$600K
Founders & team
Evan BuistFounder & Managing Director
Investors
Future Now Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerAwinBootstrapChargebeeChart.JsCloudflare
#3
Public · Gold Coast, Queensland · founded 2008 · 118 employees
$130.5Mraised
▾

Guvera is a music streaming platform for local and international music. Allows users to stream the music based on the artists and genres. Users can create their personalized playlists and download the songs. Awards won include "Australian Mobile Awards" in 2013, "Asia App Design Awards, entertainment category" in 2015, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2015Series C$100M
  • Oct 2014Series B$362.3K
  • Aug 2010Series B$100K
  • Jan 2010Series B$20M
Investors
AMMA Private Equity, TechFinance Ventures
#4
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017 · 103 employees
$20.1Mraised
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Developer of PC and console-based musical gameplay. It offers AI-based instruments with virtual performance venues which allow players to compose music and sing lyrics to any melody. It is available on the web, play store, and ioS.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2021Series A$20M
  • May 2017Seed$120K
Founders & team
Stephen PhillipsCEO
Investors
Techstars, Alexa Fund, BITKRAFT Ventures, Khosla Ventures, King River, MK Venture Capital
Tech stack
CloudflareCookiebotCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#5
Acquired · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 33 employees
$4.4Mraised
▾

NFT marketplace platform for the music industry. The platform allows artists to register themselves on the platform. This allows the fans of the artists to buy and sell their digital content NFTs and support their favorite artists.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 8.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Angel$4.4M
Founders & team
Max ShandFounder
Investors
OIF Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCookieyesFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#6
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2018 · 18 employees
$3.5Mraised
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Cloud based solutions for managing live entertainment events. It allows users to interact with fans, connect with each other, and share interests during events. It allows users to connect with artists and manage live streams. Its features include automatic website promotion and live event guides, creating invoices for entertainers, using entertainment data to increase sales and understand ROI, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2021Seed$2M
  • Oct 2019Seed$1.5M
Founders & team
Brandon CrimminsCo-FounderAlan JinCo-FounderJeremiah SiemianowCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Investible, Alberts, UNIFIED Music Group, Rampersand, Flying Fox Ventures, Hotel Esplanade
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#7
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2008 · 29 employees
$5.1Mraised
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Provider of B2B music streaming technology and integrated platform solutions. The company delivers music catalog ingestion, streaming service application programming interfaces, and music licensing consultation. It offers tools for playlisting, seamless song transitions, and social radio integration. The company provides content management systems, reporting, analytics, and infrastructure for music streaming services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 26.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2015Series A$5.1M
  • Seed—
Founders & team
Con RasoCo-Founder & CEO & Managing Director
Investors
Artesian, Exto Partners, Exit Velocity
Tech stack
AddthisAmazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#8
Deadpooled · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2010
$1.1Mraised
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Discovr is a music discovery app that lets one find music by entering an artist they like. Based on that artist, the app shows an interactive map of potential songs and artists that a user would probably enjoy. The company is a part of Filter Squad and closed a $1.1 million seed round of funding on 26 Oct'11. The company is seeing the traction more from Japan than Austrailia or the US.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2011Seed$1.1M
  • Aug 2011Grant (prize money)$25K
Founders & team
David McKinneyCEO
Investors
Tech23, Yuuwa Capital
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 2 employees
$500Kraised
▾

Crowdfunding and ticketing platform for live music. It provides a crowdfunding and ticketing platform dedicated to live music. It helps event organizers and artists make successful shows, tours and festivals occur with a guaranteed amount of pre-sales by giving fans the power to pledge to buy tickets in order to activate events

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2015Seed$500K
  • Apr 2014Seed—
Founders & team
Edwin OnggoCEO
Investors
BlueChilli, Social Family Group, QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, Dominet, Artesian
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareHttp/3
#10
Deadpooled · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014
$200Kraised
▾

AirShr is an interactive radio platform that allows listeners and broadcasters to interact with each other in real-time. Also lets users remember, share, and buy anything they hear on AM, FM, and digital radio.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2015Grant (prize money)$200K
Founders & team
Phil Hayes St ClairEx-Co-Founder & CEOOpher Yom-TovEx-Co-FounderGordon ChildsCo-Founder
Investors
Right Click Capital, Quinzieme Holdings
#11
Deadpooled · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2012
$200Kraised
▾

The Naked Song is an online music collaboration platform for musicians. Musicians can create the songs collaboratively. Allows artists to upload songs to the portal and get music analytics. Artists can stream music and comment on them through the chat system. Also allows artists to update and make suggestions to the uploaded music content.

Funding rounds
  • 2012Seed$200K
Founders & team
Paul BransbyCEO & Director
#12
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 6 employees
$150Kraised
▾

Digital music platform leveraging blockchain. The platform allows using automated contracts to reward collaborators, and music network when music is sold, in real time. Musicians can have a permanent record of their copyright holdings, to sell music, instrument patterns, and merchandise. The platform provides analytics to monitor a range of music business stats, number of downloads, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2017Seed$150K
Founders & team
Mo JallohCo-Founder & CEOPaolo GavaCo-Founder & CTO
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpAnimate.CssWpbakeryWordpress Super Cache

Funding & investor landscape

$172.4Mtotal disclosed funding
12companies funded
22disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Artesian3 rounds
Flying Fox Ventures2 rounds
A and J Mullins Holdings1 rounds
AMMA Private Equity1 rounds
Ab2c Investment1 rounds
Alberts1 rounds
Alexa Fund1 rounds
BITKRAFT Ventures1 rounds
Ballindreen1 rounds
Blockchain Founders Fund1 rounds

Notable founders

Matthew Elsley
Co-Founder & CEO · Qsic
Nick Larkins
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer · Qsic
Evan Buist
Founder & Managing Director · Melodie
Stephen Phillips
CEO · Splash
Max Shand
Founder · Serenade
Brandon Crimmins
Co-Founder · Surreal
Alan Jin
Co-Founder · Surreal
Con Raso
Co-Founder & CEO & Managing Director · Tuned Global
David McKinney
CEO · Discovr
Edwin Onggo
CEO · GiggedIn
Phil Hayes St Clair
Ex-Co-Founder & CEO · AirShr
Opher Yom-Tov
Ex-Co-Founder · AirShr
Prism market signals · Australia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 93,673 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Music Tech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Music Tech companies are there in Australia?
Radar tracks 70 indexable Music Tech companies headquartered in Australia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Music Tech companies in Australia?
The Music Tech companies in Australia on this list have raised a combined $172.4M in disclosed equity funding across 12 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Music Tech company in Australia?
Guvera is the highest-funded Music Tech company in Australia, with $130.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Music Tech companies in Australia are funded?
12 of the 70 Music Tech companies in Australia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Music Tech unicorns are there in Australia?
None of the Music Tech companies in Australia on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Australia Music Tech companies?
The most active investors in Australia Music Tech companies on this list include Artesian, Flying Fox Ventures, A and J Mullins Holdings, AMMA Private Equity, Ab2c Investment.
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