Top New York Music Startups (37)

Seminal is a world first label and licensing agency for visual artists. Seminal identifies and develops visual artists’ practices by helping them transform their artwork into products that have a deep, personal and emotive connection to fans. With offices and partners in over 20 countries, Seminal expands commercial opportunities for artists, helping them reach and engage with a global audience. Harness...

CreatorFi is a fintech platform built for music and content creators. We provide growth capital to invest in production and content creation, while connecting creators with brands and marketers looking to reach their audiences. The creator economy is booming, but music artists and content creators face a critical bottleneck: they lack the capital to scale and struggle to find the...

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...

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...

Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment. We create art through technology for humans to enjoy. In just 18 months, our work has been heard, watched and loved for over 2 billion minutes worldwide.

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...

WHO WE ARE: We are a producer's playground, delivering music creators the tools they need to bring their ideas to life. With a massive, industry-leading catalog of licensed samples, paired with powerful AI, and access to affordable plugins and DAWS, Splice kicks sound discovery, inspiration, and creative output into overdrive.

Amper’s mission is to enable anyone to express themselves creatively through music regardless of their background, expertise, or access to resources. Amper builds tools powered by our Creative AI to help people create and customize original music. We are a team of engineers and musicians bringing human know-how to AI music composition, performance, and production. Using our proprietary sample library and...

We build smart marketing and advertising tools for the music industry

Sound Collective is redefining music education and creative collaboration for the modern era. Founded in 2018 and located in New York City's Financial District, we’ve built a vibrant hub for musicians, producers, DJs, and songwriters. With flexible membership options, hands-on learning, and access to professional-grade studios, DJ booths, and hybrid production workstations, we support creatives of all levels in building skills,...

Live music starts on Bandsintown. Connect with your most passionate fans on the world’s #1 concert discovery platform, trusted by more than 95M fans and 645k artists. Grow and engage your fanbase, promote your music, drive sales and learn from analytics with Bandsintown for Artists.

Weav invented an interactive music format that can seamlessly change arrangements, tempo (60-240 BPM), and energy — all in response to the listener, and in real-time. Adaptive music enables entirely new active listening experiences for metaverses, gaming, extended reality (XR), fitness, social platforms, NFT’s and more!

The Gawker Media Group is the publisher of some of the web's best-loved brands and communities, including the eponymous Gawker and gadget sensation Gizmodo as well as Deadspin, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Lifehacker, and Jezebel. Founded in 2002.

mtheory provides a modern set of capabilities to managers and their artists, allowing them to to take more control over their careers. mtheory believes in a holistic approach to artist development that prioritizes streaming to build a large, engaged fanbase and optimizes campaigns to maximize revenue in artists' largest earnings areas (typically live music). Our services include marketing, digital and...

Mediachain uses smart contracts to get musicians the money they deserve. By entering into a decentralized, transparent contract, artists can agree to higher royalties and actually get paid in full and on time. Streaming giant Spotify acquired Mediachain in April 2017.

Proudly independent since 2002, we have offices and production studios in 15 countries, 15 unique labels and a custom music division spearheaded by our team in Los Angeles. From digital campaigns to full film scores, our ambition is simple—to create killer soundtracks for our clients. Let’s create something amazing together.

Audiam is an interactive streaming mechanical royalty collection agency. It gets its music publishing members accurately paid from YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Rhapsody, Beats, Amazon Prime, Mood Music, TouchTunes and other interactive streaming services. We license, police, research, audit, collect and distribute "interactive"​ streaming mechanical royalties.

Rad NFTV is the first streaming platform powered by NFTs. We invented Non Fungible Television. Rad NFTV’s suite of apps allow you to stream Live TV, Premium Video, and Live Events all unlocked through NFT's. Discover the hottest content in ESports, Music, Comedy, and Sports from companies like Complex, Showtime, The Bob Ross Channel, ESportsTV, Impact Wrestling and more. Rad NFTV’s...

Spirit music was founded in 1995 by a group of music industry rebels who wanted to return music publishing to its hard driving, entrepreneurial, service-and-results-oriented roots. We set out to create a haven for veteran songwriters, buzzing newcomers and other song owners in all genres and from all parts of the world, where mentorship would be encouraged, information shared and...

ArtistVerified is a first-of-it's-kind platform/application built to give music artists complete control and ownership of their relationship with their fans and their intellectual property across Web2, Web3 and all future iterations of the internet. ArtistVerified is the only Creator Economy platform designed entirely for music artists and music fans to engage in the most direct way. ArtistVerified gives music fans...