Top California Music Startups (88)

Chartmetric helps the music industry make smarter and faster music business decisions by providing reliable data, beautiful visuals, in-depth insights, innovative features, and rockstar customer support. Access market-level data from more than 20 music streaming and social media sources — plus, the power of data science … all in one place. We are the music industry's leading data analytics platform, and...

APM Music is the premier production music library, offering an extensive catalog of high-quality tracks tailored for film, TV, video games, sports content, agencies, brands, and digital creators. With four decades of experience, APM Music provides original music that elevates storytelling across all media platforms. Whether you're scoring a blockbuster film, crafting a compelling TV show, producing adrenaline-pumping sports content, designing...

Feed Media Group is for businesses that need licensed popular music to create the most engaging customer experiences in their digital apps and physical spaces. Unlike navigating complex, time-consuming negotiations with music labels and publishers, Feed Media Group’s proprietary streaming platform and SDKs deliver pre-cleared music—compiled by the industry’s best curators—complete with user analytics, payments to rightsholders, and legal indemnification...

We help music labels and artists track their songs to collect royalties. Beatdapp is a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real time. It reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure, expensive audit costs, and lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it...

Rockbot is the leading media platform transforming the in-location experience for businesses and brands since 2010. Backed by Google and trusted by nearly 50,000 businesses across North America, Rockbot’s clients include Planet Fitness, Walmart, Shake Shack, and Ashley Furniture. We deliver premium content and cutting-edge technology to power dynamic audio and visual solutions including, music, TV, digital signage, and advertising....

hello82, wherever you are! Since 2019, hello82 is a platform deeply rooted in the vibrant world of K-pop. We specialize in creating connections between fans and their favorite K-pop artists through a fusion of innovative marketing strategies, immersive music distribution, and providing unparalleled experiences that resonate with fans worldwide. As an independent music label and distribution arm, hello82 is rapidly expanding...

SUBPAC is revolutionizing how sound is experienced. Our personal Tactile Audio Systems allow users to be physically immersed in sound, providing a deeper connection to music, games, VR and other media. SUBPAC is a company devoted to the development of disruptive audio technology, delivered to the masses via the grassroots. We are made up of a cross-disciplinary team of engineers,...

Tixr has served as a focal point for evolving the ticketing space and beyond, redefining what it means to plan and attend an event at any scale. Started by fans for fans, we were founded with the mission to upgrade the world of ticketing by delivering an unparalleled experience for event creators and fans. As an experiential commerce partner to some...

Since 2008 BeatStars has been the pioneering and go-to online music marketplace to connect millions of recording artists and music producers worldwide. BeatStars is also the leading artist discovery tool for all the major and independent labels. Most recently, BeatStars partnered with Sony Publishing to launch its publishing arm on the platform. Now, with over 3 million monthly active users, we've...

ABOUTMusic production school in Eagle Rock, CAoffers a unique, dynamic classroom environment engaging the students to make music and learn while having fun.BIOGRAPHYYeuda Ben-Atar, AKA Side Brain, is a producer, performer, and music educator based in Los Angeles, California. Hestarted out his musical career playing the keys and guitar in the 90s. Then went on to produce hip-hop and soul-influenced...

Founded by digital music veterans from Apple Music, Google Play, Beats Music, and Rhapsody, Gimme (www.gimmeradio.com), builds interactive audio and video experiences for the most passionate music fans who want more than just a digital stream and an algorithm. By providing a powerful suite of engagement and discovery features Gimme is able to build global communities of the most valuable...

Floshare is a mobile iOS and Android app that gives music artists and enthusiasts an interactive platform to record over royalty-free, licensed music, instantly share their creations, and compete with fans, friends, celebrities, producers, and other artists. Users are able to interact with the music in anyway (listening, singing, rapping, etc.), while DJs and Producers can upload their beats/music as...

The best place to discover and buy merchandise from your favorite bands. We have over 1 million items from 35,000 of the greatest artists in the world from The Beatles, to Justin Bieber and everyone in between. We are always hiring amazing designers, engineers and distribution hackers. Get in touch!

There’s a shift happening. We have been accustomed to choosing convenience over quality, especially with audio. Imagine a technology that could change all of that; music so real and so immersive that you’d be able to accurately pick out the exact direction of an instrument in a song or an explosion in an action flick.

"The First Music Rights Marketplace"​ Vezt is the first mobile app where music fans can acquire rights in their favorite songs and recordings. We exist to improve the music industry by providing artists, songwriters and producers with funding sourced directly from their fans on a global basis. In exchange, fans get the right to receive royalties earned by their favorite songs...

Plug.dj is an international community where people enjoy music and videos together in a real-time socially interactive environment. Our users choose from a wide array of expressive characters, join any number of virtual rooms where they can discover and share music and videos, and communicate with international cohorts using our real-time chat translation.looking to reach a wider international audience, and people that...

Artists and marketers use Topspin's direct-to-fan platform to grow their audience and turn fans into customers. Topspin integrates enterprise functions critical in running a meaningful direct-to-fan business including product bundling, fulfillment, customer service, direct marketing, viral analytics, and fan-base segmenting and targeting.

Earbits is a streaming music service designed to help artists and record labels connect with new fans and customers. Listeners can enjoy over 400 channels of hand curated music from over 14,500 artists and 700 record labels. Content owners acquire contactable mailing list signups, FB fans and more. Earbits is a well funded Y Combinator company.

ARTISTdirect, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media entertainment company in the United States. The company, through its MediaDefender subsidiary, is a provider of anti-piracy solutions in the Internet-piracy-protection (IPP) industry

Miso Music teaches anyone to play the guitar. Our real time polyphonic pitch detection will tell people if they are playing the right note. We have a distribution deal with Sony/ATV and Universal Music Publishing Group to offer songs from their catalogs, which includes The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Carrie Underwood, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, and hundreds of other platinum artists