Best Music Tech Companies in China
The 66 best Music Tech companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ximalaya.
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Ranked: Best Music Tech companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ximalaya 🦄 Online platform for streaming internet radio, audiobooks, and more | $1.3B | 66 mo ago | Acquired | 4,342 | Li Haibo Co-Founder | SentryTengineReact+4 | — | — |
| 2 | Qingting Mobile-based radio station aggregator platform | $160M | 55 mo ago | Series F | 59 | — | ReactMobXLodash+4 | 3 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 3 | Musical.ly Online musical video creation and sharing app | $100M | 121 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 500 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Lizhi Online indie radio station streaming app | $80M | 92 mo ago | Public | 699 | — | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+8 | 35 patents Precision laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrumentation and consumer fashion accessories (purses, shawls). | — |
| 5 | Zeepin Blockchain-based platform for the creative industry | $63M | 101 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Karl Xu Co-Founder & CSO | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | — | — |
| 6 | Boomplay On-demand music streaming platform | $20M | 86 mo ago | Series A | — | Joe He CEO | SentryJavaFacebook Login+16 | — | — |
| 7 | The ONE Self learning of piano music lessons | $17M | 127 mo ago | Series B | — | Ye Bin Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | KLKTN NFT-based marketplace platform offering fan engagement solutions | $10M | 52 mo ago | Series A | 4 | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Beijing Brush View Network Technology Music and video streaming platform | $10M | 86 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Chen Mengyu Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 10 | Joox Music Online music streaming application | $5M | 96 mo ago | Seed | 18 | Ma Huateng Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsReactNext.js+8 | — | — |
| 11 | Zebra Labs Online metaverse fan engagement platform for the music industry | $5M | 43 mo ago | Seed | 6 | Vlad Bina Co-Founder & CCO | — | — | — |
| 12 | Musiclife Blockchain-based solutions for the music industry | $5M | 93 mo ago | Series A | — | Kaiming Liu Founder | — | — | — |
| 13 | Musikid Crowfunding platform for music in China. | $3M | 130 mo ago | Series A | — | Mark Zhao Founder | — | — | — |
| 14 | MusicLens Smart glasses provider for music consumption | $3M | 93 mo ago | Deadpooled | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Yuenr Online platform for streaming music | $3M | 128 mo ago | Deadpooled | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Element Black Decentralised music streaming platform | $3M | 50 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Mark Rau Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 17 | Newband App-based music learning platform | $3M | 124 mo ago | Series A | — | Tiger Hu CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Maichang Music karaoke app | $2M | 153 mo ago | Series A | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Kuke Online music streaming focused on non-pop music | $2M | 130 mo ago | Public | 118 | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | vipSing Provider of an online music learning platform | $1M | 61 mo ago | Series A | — | Shen Yanshu CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | Poputar Smart Guitar | $1M | 112 mo ago | Seed | — | Bohan Zhang Founder | VideoJSNginx | — | — |
| 22 | VFine Music Online music licensing and music selling platform | $1M | 120 mo ago | Seed | — | Tang Ziyu Founder | Ant DesignNginxOpenResty+4 | — | — |
| 23 | Music2Gather Interactive and micro-learning content for learning music | $800K | 110 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Derek Chim Founder | — | — | — |
| 24 | 3fenban Online crowdfunding platform music projects | $769K | 128 mo ago | Seed | — | Zhao Kefeng Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 25 | Jamn Application for learning instruments | $300K | 142 mo ago | Seed | 4 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Music Tech companies in China
#1
Ximalaya 🦄Acquired · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2012 · 4342 employees$1.3Braised▾
Online platform for streaming internet radio, audiobooks, and more. It enables users to stream music, audiobooks, and playlists on the platform. It provides various categories such as finance, IT, health, campus radio, technology, car, travel, education, movies, games, and more. Listeners have the ability to download and share on the portal. Users can search for articles based on the keywords. The app is available for iOS and Android devices.
- Dec 2020Series C$147M
- Aug 2018Series C$584.1M
- Nov 2015Series B—
- Apr 2015Series B$50M
#2
Series F · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2011 · 59 employees$160Mraised▾
Mobile-based radio station aggregator platform. Users can stream Chinese music through multiple radio stations. It provides radio channels across various categories such as music, education, news, comedy, and more. Available for Android and iOS devices.
- Nov 2021Series F—
- Mar 2020Series F—
- Sep 2017Series E$150M
- Feb 2016Series D—
#3
Seed · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2021 · 6 employees$5Mraised▾
Online metaverse fan engagement platform for the music industry. The platform allows artists to create their avatars and create a metaverse. The avatars can be used for virtual events, social platforms, merchandise, and more.
- Oct 2022Angel$5M
- Nov 2021Seed—
#4
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2021 · 4 employees$10.5Mraised▾
NFT-based marketplace platform offering fan engagement solutions. The platform offers NFT-based digital collectibles of various artists. This allows artists to monetize their content and fans to support their favorite artists.
- Jan 2022Series A$6.4M
- Jul 2021Series A$4M
#5
Funding Raised · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2021$2.8Mraised▾
Decentralised music streaming platform. It provides a rewarding gaming ecosystem that encourages the creation and trading of Metaverse digital assets and facilitates social engagements with global celebrities and KOLs.
- Apr 2022ICO$2.8M
#6
Public · Guangdong, Jilin · founded 2010 · 699 employees$80.4Mraised▾
Online indie radio station streaming app. It allows users to set their own radio station and record their own programs from their mobile devices. Offers various other features including recording, editing, uploading, downloading, storing, listening. Allows users to create the programs by adding various songs and editing them using an automotive mix and noise-reducing features. The mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.
- Sep 2018Unattributed$437.4K
- Jan 2018Series D$50M
- Jan 2015Series C$20M
- Dec 2011Series B$10M
#7
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2019$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of an online music learning platform. It offers features such as one-one tutoring, AI and big data technology-enabled personalized solutions, and more. Its app can be downloaded on Android and the iOS platform.
- May 2021Series A—
- Jun 2020Seed$1.4M
#8
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$62.6Mraised▾
Zeepin is a blockchain-based platform for the creators, distributors and manufacturers. Users get access to a suite of dApps that enables them to manage the copyright of their projects. They can also authorise, insure, connect, crowdfund and launch projects via dApps. Transactions are facilitated via ZPT tokens.
- Jan 2018ICO$62.6M
#9
Acqui-Hired · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 500 employees$100Mraised▾
Musical.ly is an online video creation and sharing app that allows users to record videos and create the videos. Users can select a track from the database in the platform or from their device. The platform also supports features such as filter, fast motion, slow motion, time-lapse, reverse, etc. Users can share their videos on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Messenger, WhatsApp, and other social networking sites.
- May 2016Series C$100M
- 2015Series B—
- Apr 2015Series A—
- Dec 2014Angel—
#10
Series A · Guangdong, Jilin · founded 2015$20Mraised▾
On-demand music streaming platform. Users can create their playlists on the platform or listen to the curated playlists on the platform. The platform offers features like synchronized lyrics, equalizer, and more. Users can download and stream music from various genres like Gospel, Hip-Hop, and more. The application is available for Android and iOS users. It monetizes through in-app purchases and ads.
- Mar 2019Series A$20M
#11
Seed · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2014 · 18 employees$5.3Mraised▾
Joox Music is a China-based, On-demand online music streaming application. The app is free to download, however, they also have a subscription-based, Joox VIP feature which is ad-free and lets users download songs. The app also allows its customers to share their favorite songs through Wechat. They also provide services like recommended playlists and karaoke. As of November 2017, the app is only available on Android with over 50 million downloads. The service is currently available in countries like China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Arica and plans to launch in India soon. The App contains songs from Chinese, K-Pop and Western Music amongst many others. In Asia, its main competitor is Spotify.
- 2018Seed$2.3M
- 2017Seed$1.6M
- 2015Seed$1.2M
- 2014Seed$200K
#12
Deadpooled · Chaoyang, Beijing · founded 2018$10Mraised▾
Brush to see Network Technology provides music and video streaming platform. The application offered by the company is Brushing. It enables the user to stream music from a wide range of albums and categories. It also includes video from a wide range of categories such as shopping, entertainment, travel, and food.
- Apr 2019Series A$10M
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