Top California Music Startups (90)

Stem empowers artists and their teams to thrive while retaining full control over their music careers. Through a comprehensive distribution offering, including artist-development services and data-driven insights, Stem arms artists with the tools & resources needed to flourish creatively & commercially. Founded in 2015 by the visionary Co-Founder and C.E.O. Milana Rabkin Lewis, Stem’s mission is to revolutionize the way...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Nero is building the monetization rails for interactive livestreaming. We're infrastructure that works alongside existing platforms like Twitch, Instagram and TikTok to let creators monetize their audiences. We're starting with music, but the model extends to gaming, sports, chess, and any vertical where fans pay for direct creator engagement. We aren't another enterprise SaaS company or an AI wrapper startup....

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....

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 are Luminate, entertainment’s preeminent data, and insights company, unleashing access to the most essential, objective, and trustworthy information across music, film, and television. Our work isn’t just powerful — it’s prescient. We’re rooted at the intersection of tech and media, in today’s challenges and tomorrow’s plans. Never losing sight of our client's needs, we deliver them essential guidance with the...

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...

DoStuff runs 22 local event guides (Do312, DoNYC, DoLA, etc) and a Ticket Membership that drives 60m event attendees a year. Our local teams make us a trusted part of the local scene, and our tech platform ensures we’re introducing people to the best stuff to do. We cover all events, not just those we’re paid to promote, because that...

Seamlessly blending content and e-commerce, Blackwhiz.com is a crowd-sourced online platform that enables passionate global hip-hop fans to deconstruct and shop the equipment and style of their favourite hip-hop artist. All layered with original programming Blackwhiz.com connects a fast-growing global hip-hop audience with content, commerce, and community, giving them all the tips, tricks, and tools they need to be more...

Bandcamp is a thriving, global community where fans discover new music and directly support the artists who make it.

Envelop’s mission is to unite humanity through profound communal listening experiences. We achieve our mission through community-supported immersive audio venues, inspiring events, educational programs, and free open-source spatial audio software tools. Our immersive audio venues and free open source spatial audio tools, provide a space to deeply listen together. Envelop hosts events ranging from live performances and listening events, to wellness...

Reverb Lessons is changing the way people learn to play music. As an online marketplace for music lessons, we connect inspired students to qualified music instructors. Reverb Lessons is a subsidiary of Reverb.com, one of the largest music gear websites.

Riptide Music Group is a sync driven music publishing company and record label that has proactively generated over $60 million in licensing fees for its clients. As a hands-on creative music company, Riptide fosters collaboration and provides guidance for its creator community. Riptide’s publishing catalog includes songs released by Migos, Selena Gomez, Juice WRLD, Quavo, Big Gigantic, Foster The People,...

Jelli is the largest technology platform for the $40 billion global audio market. We believe audio is the next big thing for advertising, so we created the most innovative way to buy and run radio ads. Our cloud-based technology allows advertisers and publishers to buy and sell audio ads with a few clicks in minutes. We work with some of...

The ONE Music Group is an innovative company in music instrument & music education, which is based in Beijing,China and San Francisco,USA since 2013. The ONE developed smart musical instruments incorporating digital technology to make musical learning more enjoyable and affordable, the smart piano classroom combined with hardware and software for group class teaching solution to make learning more fun and...