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THE THE UNITED KINGDOM EDITION 2026

the United Kingdom’s
music tech industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping music tech in the United Kingdom. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Music Tech Industry Landscape of the United Kingdom
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Music Tech illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore the United Kingdom’s music tech leaders

21 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Music Tech company highlights in the United Kingdom, snapshot 3 September 2026
Company
3tone Music3tonemusic.com$50M—4—
Audooaudoo.com$31.66M2 roles30—
MelodyVRmelodyvr.com$28.57M—78—
ROXiroxi.tv$26.19M—24—
7digitaluk.7digital.com$23.86M—51$9.31MFYFY2024 filing
Akazooakazoo.com$18.48M—26—
LifeScorelifescoremusic.com$14.55M—4—
Shodementshodement.com$13.68M—8—
Synchtanksynchtank.com—2 roles11—
Sonnoxsonnox.com—1 roles14—
AI Song Generatoraisonggenerator.io————
Ditto Musicdittomusic.com——79$13.37MFYFY2024 filing
Human Native AIhumannative.ai————
Last.fmlast.fm——13—
Lickdlickd.co——19—
Lyrics into Songlyricsintosong.com————
MakeBestMusicmakebestmusic.com————
Music Gatewaymusicgateway.com——101—
Musicfulmusicful.ai————
RouteNoteroutenote.com——124—
Wondercraftwondercraft.ai——3—
21 featured companies

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Company discovery

Recorded evidence only

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Music Tech industry KPIs in the United Kingdom

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

3 September 2026
Hiring participation0.9%

3 of 318 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation18.2%

58 of 318 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share33.5%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$1.15M

Midpoint of 91 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 33.5% of disclosed capital, while 81.8% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How the United Kingdom music tech has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

the United Kingdom music tech
$0$28.67M$57.35M$86.02M$114.7M2016: $2.34M20162017: $28.52M20172018: $2.57M20182019: $6.83M20192020: $40.98M20202021: $51.72M20212022: $100.61M20222023: $20.49M20232024: $16.23M20242025: $4.85M2025
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Annual music tech funding and company formation in the United Kingdom
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$2.34M174
2017$28.52M228
2018$2.57M194
2019$6.83M235
2020$40.98M2411
2021$51.72M278
2022$100.61M2513
2023$20.49M209
2024$16.23M149
2025$4.85M84
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • 3tone Music15.2%
  • Audoo9.6%
  • MelodyVR8.7%
  • Other companies66.5%

Funding by stage

105 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel63 60.0%
Series A–B24 22.9%
Series C+ / PE2 1.9%
Grants, debt & other16 15.2%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Series A07/2015
Akazooakazoo.com$18.48M

Backed by Toscafund Asset Management and Penta Capital.

Series B04/2023
ROXiroxi.tv$8.73M

Backed by Adam Clayton and Paul Mcguinness.

Series B09/2021
Lickdlickd.co$6.97M

Backed by Epic Games and Warner Music Group.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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GBP · millions · consolidated

Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.

FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 2 reporting entities from 83 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts—

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United Kingdom market sales.

Net profit / loss—

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin—

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue—

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities—

None of 2 covered entities.

Top-five concentration—

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2025 · 2 reporting entities

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THE UNITED KINGDOM · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does music tech compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.

The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.

Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the the United Kingdom companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

13 of the 318 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (4.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 358,064 visits.

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

42 of these companies (13.2%) publish at least one Android app — 45 apps in all, carrying 39.8M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
Rap Fame - Rap Music StudioRap Tech Studios28.3M4.7Music & Audio
Last.fmLast.fm6.7M2.7Music & Audio
PlayScore2 needs hi-end cameraPlayScore776.1K3.6Music & Audio
Music Writer - Music ComposerMusic Writer753.8K4.1Music & Audio
AI Song & Music Maker-MusicfulMusicful727.6K4.4Music & Audio
Saarey MusicSaarey Music720.9K4.5Music & Audio
Sing King: The Home of KaraokeSing King362.8K3.3Music & Audio
nkoda: sheet musicnkoda275.5K2.3Music & Audio
RouteNoteRouteNote232.4K3.3Music & Audio
Ninja JammNinja Jamm190.6K3.8Music & Audio

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2022Q4: 12022Q4: 02022Q42023Q1: 32023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 32023Q2: 02023Q22023Q4: 32023Q4: 12023Q42024Q2: 22024Q2: 02024Q22024Q3: 22024Q3: 22024Q32024Q4: 22024Q4: 02024Q42025Q1: 52025Q1: 22025Q12025Q2: 12025Q2: 32025Q22026Q1: 12026Q1: 112026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 42 of 45 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The the United Kingdom music tech market map

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Enterprise tech178
Consumer digital170
B2c e-commerce81
Enterprise software67
Saas28
Marketplaces23
Artificial intelligence18
Blockchain in media and entertainment13
Web 3.012
Fintech11
Passion economy11
Decentralized finance10

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Enterprise tech

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

178companies
1.1%have hiring activity

2 companies hiring · $294.66M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription281
Advertising77
Commission on transaction74
E-commerce - service35
E-commerce - product26
Fee-for-service18
Freemium8
Sponsorship4
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 4 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsroxi.tv ↗

Now Sky News has reported that the company will be announcing a ‘management buyout… with backing from two major US-based broadcasters’ this week.

Mergers & acquisitionsinnovateaudio.co.uk ↗

Immersive audio company Focusrite, acquired spatial audio software house Innovate Audio.

Mergers & acquisitionsmqa.co.uk ↗

Minsait, a company of Indra company;ía, has acquired 100% of MQA, the company of reference in management solutions SAP in Colombia and Centroam´rica (Panamaá, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Caribbean).

Leadership moveslickd.co ↗

Lickd has brought on Christopher Collins as marketing director.

Full recorded event mix

Top 2 categories among 5 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Mergers & acquisitions
4
Leadership moves
1

Leadership moves

1 tracked people moves

Lickd ↗
Christopher Collins

Appointment Marketing Director

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
FastStream Interactive→ROXi ↗Completed2025-07-15Not stated in snapshot
Na→ROXi ↗Announced2025-05-19Not stated in snapshot
apple→AI Music ↗Completed2025-01-22Not stated in snapshot
sony→EMI Music Publishing ↗Announced2025-01-21$2.0B
focusrite→Innovate Audio ↗Announced2024-12-12Not stated in snapshot
minsait→MQA ↗Announced2024-12-12Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

0 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 5-posting snapshot covers 2 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Seo Specialist Retained Contract1
0 internship postings

0 tracked postings mention remote work.

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 5 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Event Planning
2
Event Management
1
Event Coordination
1
Social Media Management
1
THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

165 founders and chief executives across 119 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

17 profiles with education records.

Imperial College London
7
University of Oxford
6
London School of Economics and Political Science
2
King’s College London
2
Harvard University
1
New York University
1
The University of Edinburgh
1

Prior employers

2 profiles with prior-work records.

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

994,284 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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994,284articles in the measured year
193,812articles in 2026Q1
48.9%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Music Tech coverage across United Kingdom · articles per complete quarter

0130,043260,086390,129520,1732021Q2: 139,4602021Q22021Q3: 154,6102021Q4: 134,7442022Q1: 147,9752022Q2: 145,5122022Q22022Q3: 143,1892022Q4: 156,9652023Q1: 161,7802023Q2: 168,4362023Q22023Q3: 172,5682023Q4: 159,2642024Q1: 178,4372024Q2: 183,8542024Q22024Q3: 195,6762024Q4: 198,7042025Q1: 270,7402025Q2: 196,0842025Q22025Q3: 452,3242025Q4: 162,6252026Q1: 193,8122026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q2139,460
2021Q3154,610
2021Q4134,744
2022Q1147,975
2022Q2145,512
2022Q3143,189
2022Q4156,965
2023Q1161,780
2023Q2168,436
2023Q3172,568
2023Q4159,264
2024Q1178,437
2024Q2183,854
2024Q3195,676
2024Q4198,704
2025Q1270,740
2025Q2196,084
2025Q3452,324
2025Q4162,625
2026Q1193,812

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
274,959 positive · 36,216 neutral · 145,018 negative
2022
354,495 positive · 56,077 neutral · 182,053 negative
2023
411,234 positive · 69,136 neutral · 180,671 negative
2024
456,377 positive · 104,503 neutral · 194,469 negative
2025
528,359 positive · 161,431 neutral · 390,474 negative

Company share of voice

3 recorded company events across 3 companies; percentages use that event total.

Human Native AI ↗humannative.ai
33.3% 1 events
Lickd ↗lickd.co
33.3% 1 events
Wondercraft ↗wondercraft.ai
33.3% 1 events

Leading coverage topics

Music Tech coverage across United Kingdom · ranked by full-period article count.

Geopolitical Disputes And Contested Areas300,186 articles in the full recorded period
108,090 recent · 81,379 prior
International And Transnational Geographic Entities300,186 articles in the full recorded period
108,092 recent · 81,382 prior
Administrative And Political Subdivisions300,144 articles in the full recorded period
108,068 recent · 81,374 prior
International Political Relations45,486 articles in the full recorded period
13,396 recent · 9,337 prior
Professional League Updates39,666 articles in the full recorded period
8,782 recent · 8,804 prior
Cryptocurrency Impact On Forex Markets31,134 articles in the full recorded period
8,574 recent · 5,645 prior
Security And Defense Policies29,517 articles in the full recorded period
9,365 recent · 6,368 prior
International Sports Competitions28,709 articles in the full recorded period
5,958 recent · 6,795 prior
Strategic Partnerships And Collaborations23,025 articles in the full recorded period
5,922 recent · 4,816 prior
Athlete Transfer Rumors22,162 articles in the full recorded period
6,131 recent · 4,985 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Music Tech coverage across United Kingdom

KeywordRecentPriorChange
tariff negotiations4,3742,61168%
countries4,1921,862125%
conceptual rock albums3,8832941221%
theatrical rock personas3,740665567%
technical rock journeys2,7472411346%
symphonic rock pieces2,575318206%
rock concerts2,5321,43377%
glam rock style2,4802310683%
alternative rock concerts2,3451,32277%
free trade deals2,3441,135107%
europa league6271,713-63%
free casino games901,181-92%
social casino871,177-93%
sweepstakes casino871,176-93%
simulated gambling apps891,176-92%

Event and signal lenses

Music Tech coverage across United Kingdom

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

1,160,035 classified articles

territories, disputed islands, countries

28.2% critical · 24.6% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

196,019 classified articles

club valuation, inflation reports fx, angel investors

35.1% critical · 49.5% positive
Rising

Growth

285,943 classified articles

vehicle sales forecasts, league expansion news, gdp growth forex

30.9% critical · 48.6% positive

Music Tech coverage across United Kingdom. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Music Tech in the United Kingdom: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

Company ecosystem snapshot: 3 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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