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THE THE UNITED STATES EDITION 2026

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

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

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Snapshot: Funding in USD
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Music Tech illustration
Companies tracked 1,080Music Tech ecosystem in the United States Disclosed funding $4.24B179 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 24With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 580 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore the United States’s music tech leaders

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

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Music Tech company highlights in the United States, snapshot 31 August 2026
Company
Create Music Groupcreatemusicgroup.com$615M7 roles350—
Sunosuno.com$375M———
Stem Disintermediastem.is$292.5M—72—
Trillertriller.co$237.5M—86—
Smulesmule.com$222.73M—77—
Tidaltidal.com$200M—419—
UnitedMastersunitedmasters.com$170M6 roles522—
Songtradrsongtradr.com$165.62M—95—
Broadcast Musicbmi.com—7 roles33—
APM Musicapmmusic.com—5 roles81—
TuneCoretunecore.com—4 roles120—
Kobalt Musickobaltmusic.com—3 roles514—
Global Music Rightsglobalmusicrights.com—2 roles14—
SoundExchangesoundexchange.com—2 roles180—
Audiusaudius.co——44—
Beatportbeatport.com——77—
DistroKiddistrokid.com——720—
Ekwe.appsec.gov——171—
Gumroadgumroad.com——111Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Looploop.tv——74Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Mode Mobilemodemobile.com——20Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Orfiumorfium.com——276—
Songtrustsongtrust.com——161—
Splicesplice.com——181—
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Music Tech industry KPIs in the United States

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

31 August 2026
Hiring participation2.2%

24 of 1,080 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation18.1%

195 of 1,080 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share30.3%

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

Median disclosed round$3M

Midpoint of 235 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 30.3% of disclosed capital, while 81.9% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How the United States 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 States music tech
$0$132.98M$265.96M$398.94M$531.92M2016: $56.43M20162017: $416.29M20172018: $147.14M20182019: $168.91M20192020: $181.89M20202021: $466.6M20212022: $419.19M20222023: $443.98M20232024: $415.87M20242025: $334.87M2025
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Annual music tech funding and company formation in the United States
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$56.43M4913
2017$416.29M5016
2018$147.14M5620
2019$168.91M5812
2020$181.89M8619
2021$466.6M9930
2022$419.19M8037
2023$443.98M7528
2024$415.87M5618
2025$334.87M2711
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Create Music Group14.5%
  • Suno8.9%
  • Stem Disintermedia6.9%
  • Other companies69.7%

Funding by stage

266 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel135 50.8%
Series A–B79 29.7%
Series C+ / PE26 9.8%
Grants, debt & other26 9.8%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
7 rounds

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Series A02/2026
Hook $15.75M

Backed by Point72 Ventures and Imaginary and others.

Seed02/2026
Mozart AI $6M

Backed by Balderton Capital and Mercuri and others.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Series C11/2025
Sunosuno.com$250M

Backed by Menlo Ventures and NVentures and others.

Series B08/2022
Trillertriller.co$200M

Backed by Global Emerging Markets and Falcon Capital Management and others.

Series B05/2024
Sunosuno.com$125M

Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founder Collective and others.

Series C03/2019
Splicesplice.com$57.5M

Backed by Union Square Ventures and True Ventures and others.

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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USD · 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 · 1 reporting entities from 1 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts—

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States 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 1 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 · 1 reporting entities

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THE UNITED STATES · 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 States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

55 of the 1,080 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (5.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 383,603 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Sunosuno.com94,359,2366846.5%
Gumroadgumroad.com26,491,9015546.8%
Smulesmule.com15,994,0487676.2%
DistroKiddistrokid.com13,930,4825845.5%
Audiomackaudiomack.com9,016,9886857.6%
Tidaltidal.com8,416,6206947.9%
Beatportbeatport.com5,605,2626034.6%
Brain.fmbrain.fm4,490,4034673.5%
Moisesmoises.ai4,460,7884613.4%
Splicesplice.com4,280,2865715.9%

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

Most-installed apps

147 of these companies (13.6%) publish at least one Android app — 255 apps in all, carrying 1.7B installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
StarMaker: Sing Karaoke SongsStarMaker618.9M4.4Music & Audio
Smule: Sing, Duet & KaraokeSmule378.1M4.1Music & Audio
Audiomack: Music DownloaderAudiomack179.7M4.8Music & Audio
Magic Piano by SmuleSmule90.1M3.8Music & Audio
Make Money: Play to Earn CashMode Mobile57.7M4.5Personalization
Moises: The Musician\'s AI AppMoises53.4M4.5Music & Audio
StarMaker Lite: Sing KaraokeStarMaker43.3M4.5Entertainment
AutoRap by Smule: Rap to BeatsSmule40.1M3.9Music & Audio
TIDAL Music: HiFi soundTidal36.9M4Music & Audio
Suno - AI Music & Songs MakerSuno35.2M4.8Music & Audio

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

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q1–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Music Tech2531.7BStarMaker: Sing Karaoke Songs 618.9M
Non Fungible Tokens458.6MMake Money: Play to Earn Cash 57.7M
Mobile App Studios518.5MdoubleTwist Music & Podcasts 16.8M
Book Tech41.8MGumroad 1.7M
Ott Video21.7MLoop TV 30.8K
Radio Tech91.3MFit Radio: Train Inspired 1.2M
Investment Tech3894.2KAudius Music 839.6K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

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.

2023Q2: 22023Q2: 292023Q22023Q3: 22023Q3: 42023Q32023Q4: 52023Q4: 22023Q42024Q1: 52024Q1: 12024Q12024Q2: 72024Q2: 52024Q22024Q3: 72024Q3: 82024Q32024Q4: 52024Q4: 52024Q42025Q1: 82025Q1: 92025Q12025Q2: 42025Q2: 142025Q22025Q3: 32025Q3: 262025Q32025Q4: 22025Q4: 172025Q42026Q1: 72026Q1: 222026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 216 of 255 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 States music tech market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital642
Enterprise tech507
B2c e-commerce293
Enterprise software173
Saas88
Marketplaces81
Blockchain in media and entertainment59
Web 3.051
Passion economy51
Fintech49
Decentralized finance47
Artificial intelligence44

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

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

642companies
1.6%have hiring activity

10 companies hiring · $2.38B disclosed funding

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How companies make money

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

Subscription915
Advertising238
Commission on transaction221
E-commerce - service99
E-commerce - product90
Fee-for-service59
Sponsorship25
Freemium24
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 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsplaylist.com ↗

Playlist, the powerhouse behind fitness giants ClassPass and Mindbody, has finalized a transformative merger with EGYM valued at $7.5 billion.

Funding roundscreatemusicgroup.com ↗

Now it has replenished its budget for further deals via a $450m round of equity and debt capital.

Mergers & acquisitionskobaltmusic.com ↗

Primary Wave is in advanced talks to acquire Kobalt Music Group.

Funding roundshookmusic.com ↗

Hook – $10M Series A MUSIC TECH Hook, a creative social music app for making and sharing song remixes and mashups, has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures.

Mergers & acquisitionsdistrokid.com ↗

MBW reported that the company has enlisted Raine Group and Goldman Sachs to drum up a potential $2bn-plus acquisition.

Funding roundsaudioshake.ai ↗

"US‑based AI audio‑separation company AudioShake has raised USD 14m in Series A funding to advance its mission of “making […] sound as flexible, editable, and programmable as text or images.”

Funding roundseverwave.xyz ↗

everwave raises growth capital for AI-powered river cleanups

Mergers & acquisitionsaudius.co ↗

audius SE today signed an agreement to purchase all shares in Munich-based CompuSafe Data Systems AG.

Mergers & acquisitionssplice.com ↗

Splice — valued in 2021 at nearly USD $500 million after securing $55 million in funding – has acquired UK-based “high-end” virtual instrument library Spitfire Audio.

Mergers & acquisitionsnapster.com ↗

Hot on the heels of its jaw-dropping $207 million Napster acquisition, Infinite Reality has announced the acquisition of AI company Touchcast for $500 million...

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 174 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Lawsuit
49
Leadership moves
43
Mergers & acquisitions
27
Funding rounds
15
Earnings
13
Board Updates
5
IPO activity
5
Layoffs
4
Company announcements
4
New products
4
7 activity cards

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Leadership moves

32 tracked people moves

Beatport ↗
Robb McDaniels

Appointment Executive Chairman

Beatport ↗
Helen Sartory

Appointment President and Chief Operating Officer

Beatport ↗
Matt Gralen

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

TuneCore ↗
Nicki Shamel

Appointment Head of TuneCore in the US

TuneCore ↗
Andreea Gleeson

Departure Strategic Advisor

TuneCore ↗
Brian Miller

Appointment Chief Business Officer

AudioSalad ↗
Björn Sandberg

Appointment head of commercial marketing

Too Lost ↗
Nate Fisher

Appointment Director of Research & Label Acquisition

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Playlist ↗
Kite

Fitness SaaS management platform

Contract wins

1 recorded customer wins

Customer: tiktokMusic

Workforce actions

4 companies with reported reductions

Napster ↗

Scale not stated rolesworkforce redundancies due to acquisitions

Ekwe.app ↗

15.0% rolesgovernment downsizing

InnerPulse ↗

18 rolescost reduction due to testing setback

DistroKid ↗

37 roles

Regulatory events

3 recorded events

Ekwe.app ↗

Developing regulatory frameworkSEC

Ekwe.app ↗

referral of evidence to SEC OIGSEC Office of Inspector General

Ekwe.app ↗

in final stages of investigationSEC Office of Inspector General

Litigation

40 tracked suits

Company
as you sow v sec

Shareholder proposal regulationRegulatory ·

Company
investor advocacy groups v sec

shareholder rights and corporate accountabilityRegulatory · Filed

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

2companies
13period observations
6.2%median reported growth

Median across 13 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

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

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Playlist→egymCompleted2026-03-31$7.5B
primary wave→Kobalt Music ↗Rumored2026-03-02$1.5B
Na→DistroKid ↗Rumored2026-02-02$2.0B
DistroKid→NaRumored2026-01-31$2.0B
DistroKid→bandzoogleCompleted2026-01-31Not stated in snapshot
Audius→CompuSafe Data Systems AGAnnounced2025-09-10Not stated in snapshot

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

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

1,008 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 1,262-posting snapshot covers 57 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Marine Captain39
Chief Engineer27
Engineer Marine16
Assistant Manager15
Front Desk Supervisor Healthcare15
Account Manager14
3 internship postings

6 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

506 postings specify a level.

unspecified
756
manager
284
senior
163
lead
29
intern
27
entry
3

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 1,262 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Python
25
Sql
23
Pytorch
16
Excel
15
Figma
13
React
13
Terraform
13
Typescript
13
Aws
13
Kotlin
12
ADVERTISED PAY$112.5K/ year

Median across 180 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$126.0K/ year49 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

449 founders and chief executives across 308 companies.

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12 profiles

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RCo-Founder, CFO & CRO

Robert Vanech

TREBEL ↗

CFO Zealot Networks, Los Angeles World's Fair, Co-Founder & CFO railLA, Accelerate-IT Advisors, Co-Founder Woodstock Academy of Music, CADFORCE…

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Education networks

79 profiles with education records.

Stanford University
20
Columbia University
6
University of California (Berkeley)
6
Harvard University
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
University of Pennsylvania
4
Stanford Business School
4
King’s College London
4

Prior employers

28 profiles with prior-work records.

Google
10
Amazon
6
Microsoft
3
Goldman Sachs
2
Salesforce
2
Morgan Stanley
2
Cisco
1
Apple
1

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

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

2,028,366 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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2,028,366articles in the measured year
226,931articles in 2026Q2
41.4%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Music Tech coverage across United States · articles per complete quarter

0287,865575,730863,5951,151,4602021Q2: 431,1872021Q22021Q3: 458,4972021Q4: 422,1532022Q1: 470,5722022Q2: 469,5752022Q22022Q3: 460,6662022Q4: 506,4282023Q1: 535,4892023Q2: 547,5832023Q22023Q3: 503,1242023Q4: 484,4262024Q1: 527,8772024Q2: 498,1232024Q22024Q3: 522,6522024Q4: 546,4272025Q1: 808,2912025Q2: 521,2412025Q22025Q3: 1,001,2702025Q4: 354,5592026Q1: 445,6062026Q2: 226,9312026Q2
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QuarterArticles
2021Q2431,187
2021Q3458,497
2021Q4422,153
2022Q1470,572
2022Q2469,575
2022Q3460,666
2022Q4506,428
2023Q1535,489
2023Q2547,583
2023Q3503,124
2023Q4484,426
2024Q1527,877
2024Q2498,123
2024Q3522,652
2024Q4546,427
2025Q1808,291
2025Q2521,241
2025Q31,001,270
2025Q4354,559
2026Q1445,606
2026Q2226,931

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
557,400 positive · 543,443 neutral · 312,797 negative
2022
736,598 positive · 739,688 neutral · 428,899 negative
2023
854,055 positive · 760,528 neutral · 453,777 negative
2024
995,628 positive · 595,883 neutral · 501,195 negative
2025
1,109,433 positive · 835,017 neutral · 737,764 negative

Leading coverage topics

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

Administrative And Political Subdivisions4,346,881 articles in the full recorded period
533,670 recent · 454,778 prior
Geopolitical Disputes And Contested Areas320,771 articles in the full recorded period
61,057 recent · 46,842 prior
International And Transnational Geographic Entities320,609 articles in the full recorded period
61,028 recent · 46,798 prior
Cryptocurrency Impact On Forex Markets235,486 articles in the full recorded period
36,087 recent · 35,730 prior
International Political Relations209,588 articles in the full recorded period
31,020 recent · 30,095 prior
Security And Defense Policies150,013 articles in the full recorded period
24,723 recent · 20,989 prior
College Athletics News111,165 articles in the full recorded period
13,033 recent · 24,460 prior
International Relations And Diplomacy95,161 articles in the full recorded period
12,621 recent · 14,129 prior
Trade Policies And Agreements85,915 articles in the full recorded period
16,004 recent · 21,378 prior
Geographic Naming Conventions And Etymology81,833 articles in the full recorded period
25,556 recent · 5,322 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Music Tech coverage across United States

KeywordRecentPriorChange
stablecoin fx impact5,9874,09046%
conceptual rock albums4,0143231143%
investment deal2,4081,56554%
countries2,2861,046119%
prog rock epics2,224239570%
technical rock journeys2,168268238%
artemis program2,1681361494%
symphonic rock pieces2,166425057%
theatrical rock personas2,162633332%
etf trading2,1161,50341%
tariff negotiations7,89113,105-40%
college playoffs3,73511,270-67%
ncaa updates2,9626,756-56%
flood stage forecasting5266,195-92%
college football finals1,5886,118-74%

Event and signal lenses

Music Tech coverage across United States

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

3,044,122 classified articles

territories, disputed islands, tariff negotiations

40.4% critical · 29.8% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

681,458 classified articles

inflation reports fx, investment deal, currency intervention policies

38.2% critical · 49.1% positive
Rising

Growth

880,904 classified articles

earnings report, nba expansion teams, nba team legends

35.7% critical · 46.7% positive

Music Tech coverage across United States. 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 States: 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.

KEEP EXPLORING

Put the United States in context

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Company ecosystem snapshot: 31 August 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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