Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco 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 San Francisco Music Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Patreon
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Patreon is an online platform connecting musicians and other artists with their fan base.
TuneIn
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From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.
Descript
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Descript is building a platform for creative tools, making audio and video creation as fast, accessible, and collaborative as Google Docs.
Smule
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Smule develops music-making apps that connect people online.
Castbox
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Castbox is a global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content.
Feed.fm
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Feed.fm is music-powered commerce helping brands create engaging mobile experiences through music.
Songclip (Audiobyte)
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Songclip is the first Social Music API, offering a SaaS technology platform for integrating licensed music on social and digital platforms.
Merchbar
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Merchbar is an operator of an online marketplace used to be used for selling music band merchandise.
Mixhalo
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Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events.
Viki
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Viki is a prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners.
Scout FM
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Scout FM is a hand-curated podcast radio stations personalized with the power of data and artificial intelligence.
Gigwell
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Gigwell is building the next generation collaborative gig booking platform for live entertainers and venues.
8tracks Radio
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8tracks is an internet radio and social network that streams user-curated song playlists that contain at least 8 tracks.
Gimme Radio
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Gimme Radio is a digital music platform designed for passionate music fans.
Arctop
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Arctop provides brain decoding technology that analyzes brain signals to produces an accurate measure of the mind in real-time.
Loudr
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Loudr allows content creators, aggregators, and digital music services to identify, track, and pay royalties to music publishers.
Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.
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Solving complexities behind rights-holder identification, licensing and distribution associated with derivative content across all media
Isolation Network
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Isolation Network is a digital media infrastructure company specializing in distribution of media, marketing and promotion services.
Bandcamp
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Bandcamp is an online music store and a promotion platform for independent artists.
The ONE Music Group
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Using technology to improve the musical experience, we embody the concept of classic + smart.
Bandpage
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BandPage is the distributed marketplace that musicians use to engage and sell to fans across the largest music services in the world
Playlist Media
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Playlist is a fully licensed, ad-supported music streaming service that generates 10 times the user engagement of Pandora and Spotify.
Audius
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Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend music.
Kurslab
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Kurslab is an online education platform bringing instructors and students together in a completely online environment.
Humm.ly
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Humm.ly is making mindfulness fun and motivating through music therapy informed content!
Mevio
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Mevio, an entertainment website, is engaged in the production of technology, music, sports, health and fitness, and comedy content.
WillCall
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WillCall is a music discovery and ticketing application that allows users to reserve and book tickets for music events held in U.S. cities.
DistroKid
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DistroKid is a service for musicians that puts their music into online stores so that people can buy it.
SoundFocus
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SoundFocus is building a new hardware product that delivers amazing sound, tailored to you.
The Music Fund
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The Music Fund provides capital to musicians and allows investors to gain exposure to the music industry through an investment fund
Jamiphy
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Jamiphy is a music video application for people to post their own short, live-music videos.
Trqk
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Music Royalty Intelligence platform for publishers and creators
SoundRex
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SoundRex is building the next generation of sound technology.
Schematic Labs
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Schematic Labs is a mobile technology company developing entertainment apps for Android and iOS devices.
Acrossio (Across Lab Inc.)
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Ai company providing a context-augmented intelligence platform for high-stakes discussions. #Ideas #Opportunities and #Risks in Enterpises
Audios
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Audios is the creator of the world’s first completely cableless loudspeaker speaker system.
TastemakerX
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TastemakerX enables users to create and share their music playlists in social networks.
Weeshing
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The first crowdfunding for shows, connecting artists with fans who could profit from a VIP experience.
Audiodraft
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Audiodraft helps companies outsource their music and audio production to a global community of sound designers and music composers.
Lomotif
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Lomotif is the video-sharing social networking platform that is democratizing video creation.
The Social Radio
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The Social Radio allows you to take advantage of your time while driving, having breakfast, running and so on.
PonoMusic
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PonoMusic is a company founded by Neil Young and sells high quality audio players and recordings.
Senzari
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Senzari develops data and intelligence solutions for the media and entertainment industry.
Tappur
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World’s first industrial quality wearable musical instrument. Watch someone play it to believe it.
Dacast
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Dacast offers API-based and easy-to-use streaming solutions to host, manage, monetize and deliver OTT video worldwide.
Creative Action Network
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Creative Action Network is a community of artists and advocates making art with purpose
RABBL
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RABBL is a social booking platform for live music. RABBL lets fans prove real demand for potential concerts by reserving tickets in
Ringz.TV
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Ringz, an addictive video sharing application, connects users to shared playlists that are watchable on any web-connected device.
Seven Seas Music
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Seven Seas Music is an international music discovery & licensing company.
Ultimate Guitar
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The world’s largest community of musicians paired with an extensive catalog of tabs.
