Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Ohio based Music companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Music industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Ohio Music Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Soundstr
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Soundstr creates transparency on real world music usage and offers advertising opportunities to businesses and songwriters.
Rapchat
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Rapchat is democratizing music creation by enabling anyone to record and share songs from their phone.
VerseBooks, Inc.
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VerseBooks is a blockchain powered music licensing platform offering SaaS with its own NFT marketplace, utility token, and social network.
Sureal Music
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Connecting fans and empowering musicians for a better music experience for all.
SmithsonMartin Inc.
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SmithsonMartin Inc. is an award-winning software and hardware company that is changing the future of music technology.
Musicians’ Desk Reference
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Career management and learning tools for the music industry
udiospace
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A website which helps connect musicians with qualified audio engineers, using a bid based system.
SVS
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SVS offers Sound Experts technical support via phone, web, social media, chat, email, in forums, and wherever people want to connect.
Bunk Haus OTR
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Investors will see a good profit in this project. A small bunk haus with just 20 beds will bring in $100,000 + at 50% occupany.
VerseOne Media LLC
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Media company with specialty in digital music distribution and publishing administration
Parts Express
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Subwoofers, Home Audio, DIY Speaker Building, Pro Audio, Instruments, Music gear, Home theater
Dewey’s Pizza
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Dewey’s Pizza is a restaurant that provides beer, salads, pizza, and music.
United Skates of America Inc.
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United Skates of America is an entertainment company offering entertainment and facility management services.
T and R Recordings
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T&R Recordings is an independent music record label and small video production company.
Juss Russ Digital Marketing
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United States based marketing company that provides music marketing and music promotion services for artists, musicians and bands.
MusicStack
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MusicStack has helped hundreds of thousands of collectors add hard to find records, rare LPs, and out-of-print CDs to their collections.
Substream Magazine
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Substream Magazine is a digital magazine that focuses on discovering new music, film and fashion.
Fan Centric
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Fan Centric provides direct to fan communications via email, SMS and outbound voice for record labels, concert promoters and artists.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is a dynamic ensemble of some of the world’s finest musicians.
Paul Werth Associates
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Professional authors, musicians and designers Paul Werth Associates will provide you with new ideas you didn’t know you wanted.
A.C.S Corp.
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A.C.S Corp. is an entertainment company that provides alligator toys and revenue share services.
CAD Audio
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CAD Audio is the manufacturer of CAD Professional Microphones and Astatic Commercial Microphones.
Selective Sound Entertainment LLC
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Selective Sound provides DJ, staging, lighting, and audio services to PLV.
Bott Radio Network
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Bott Radio Network is a radio broadcast media company operating across the US.
App Ideas
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App Ideas is a mobile app developer company and developed apps like Total Downloader For Music Video and Mor
STAR 93.3
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STAR 93.3 is a radio station that broadcasts contemporary Christian music, messages and religious stories.
SongCast
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SongCast offers a streamlined & affordable music distribution service where artists & labels can easily release music on iTunes, Tidal etc.
PromoWest Productions
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PromoWest Productions is a music company offering entertainment services.
Heyman Talent Artist Agency
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Heyman Talent Artists Agency features the Midwest’s premiere models, actors and voice over artists
The Guitammer Company
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The Guitammer Company, Westerville, Ohio, is a leader in low frequency sound products and technology.
Prime Social Group
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Prime Social Group is an entertainment company offering music concert promotion services.
Gateway Film Center
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Gateway Film Centre is an entertainment-based movie theatre based in Columbus, Ohio.
Music Teachers National Association MTNA
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The mission of MTNA is to advance the value of music study and music making to society and to support the professionalism of music teachers.
NeuFutur Magazine
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NeuFutur Magazine offers articles and news related to travel, alcohol, music, movies, and more.
The Lorenz Corporation
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The Lorenz Corporation discover, develop, & deliver publications that worship musicians & music educators use to inspire their communities.
Crimson Moon Entertainment
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Crimson Moon Entertainment are the creators of the highest rating gunning app on APPLE app store.
Iceblink Digital
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Iceblink Digital’s first product is Gemma. Gemma is a platform that enables people to easily create, share and monetize music creation apps.
ICB Audio and Video
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ICB Audio and Video offer professional sound recording, video control, and lighting equipment for businesses and governmental entities.
WKSU Public Radio
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WKSU is an award winning NPR news and classical music public radio station.
Columbus Alive
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Columbus Alive is a weekly entertainment magazine.
Rubber City Radio Group
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Rubber City Radio Group is a radio broadcast media company based in Akron, Ohio.
EarthQuaker Devices
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EarthQuaker Devices manufactures handmade pedals for special effects and musical sounds in musical instruments like guitars.
Toledo School for The Arts
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Toledo School for The Arts is an educational institute that offers courses like health, science, foreign language, music and visual arts.
Maple Leaf Strings
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A wholesale orchestral string instrument supplier with a fleet of sales associates representing the entire United States.
C A Music House Company
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C A Music House Company offers all kinds of music classes along with the sale, rental and repair of musical instruments.
Royalton Music Center
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Royalton Music offers a full line of band and orchestra instruments, guitars, amps, keyboards, percussion, sheet music and accessories.
Stantons Sheet Music
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Stanton’s Sheet Music is an instrument retailer company that provides buy sheet music, songbooks, scores and tabs methods.
Mortenson Broadcasting Company
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Mortenson Broadcasting Company operates radio stations that offer commercial advertising, aural programs, music, events and contest.
Iformata Communications
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Iformata Communications is an Audio company.
Sharp Interactive
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SlideSix is multimedia enabled presentation sharing. The company allows users to create a unique and powerful impression by giving them a
Spinnaker Media Fund LP
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Spinnaker Media Fund LP is a developer of innovative entertainment and digital media company.
Thrive Industries
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Helping local businesses, independent artists, and film makers grow.
Nationwide Arena
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Nationwide Arena specializes in sports, music, stadium and a variety of world-class entertainment eventing services.
Wax Music
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Wax Music is a social platform where passionate fans power music and concert discovery.
EMITTI
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EMITTI provides cloud solutions, mobile development and web development. Internet of things? Oh yeah, we do that too.
Chris Graham Mastering
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Chris Graham Mastering provides online music mastering services.
TWIOA
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TWIOA offers a social networking platform that enables its users to share audio and video clips, play games, and connect with other users.
BAYarts
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Bayarts is an organization that promotes artists and artistic projects and collaborations.
2 LIVE MUSIC
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2 LIVE MUSIC are a locally owned music store.
Axe A.I. Tech
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Axe Digital Guitar is not a video game, nor is it a video game controller.
ProducerLife
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Music Group, Community, Education, Lifestyle, Apparel and Distribution.
37 Entertainment LLC
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Artist Representation | Music Publishing | Record Label
Motter’s Music
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Motter’s Music operates as a music retailer and provider of lessons.
Same3Guys Entertainment Network
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They produce a number of different weekly podcasts that you can subscribe to on your favorite music player.
The Counter Rhythm Group
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Artist development & marketing company
Macgamut Music Software Inc
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Macgamut Music Software Inc is a computer software company providing computer programming & computer-assisted music instruction.
Leo Bowers
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Leo Bowers is a musician who promotes his music on his personal website.
Starsound Studios
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Starsound Studios is a Cleveland recording studio based in North Royalton, Ohio. Quality Recording, Mixing, and Sound Mastering for less.
zCage Apps
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zCage Apps is a software company that develops iOS applications for Apple products such as Amidio and MySongbook.
GuerillaStudios
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A Full Service Recording Studio in Panama catering to Artists of all Kinds complete with Music Social Network
Henderson Music
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Henderson Music is an online store for piano and other music instruments.
Cool Record Players
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Cool Record Players have a vast selection with over 50 different options of record player.
Hotel Eden
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Hotel Eden is a music company offering piano rock, and pop performances.
LetsPreGame
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The Music Behind Big Plays and Championships.
Questa Media Works
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Questa Media Works is a web development and audio production company.
