Top New York Music Startups (39)

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

Sunhouse is a technology company creating the future of AI for the music industry. Our mission is to shift the paradigm in music creation by powering transformative musical experiences based on human intuition. By adopting the latest advances in machine learning, music information retrieval, and signal processing we make products to empower musicians, not replace them. Our technology listens and responds...

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...

Scratch Music Group was co-founded in 2002 by Jam Master Jay of Run DMC. We are made up of three unique brands, each leveraging the power of the DJ to entertain and educate audiences around the world… Scratch DJ Academy is the world’s leading DJ and music production learning center co-developed by Jam Master Jay of Run DMC. Scratch DJ Academy...

Since its relaunch in October 2018, Dubsmash has become the go-to music and dance platform for tomorrow’s entertainers. As ground zero for the biggest challenges, Dubsmash is both an essential part of creators’ toolkits and a secret weapon for artists looking to promote their music. Millions of teens discover the latest songs and use them as soundtracks for ten second...

Jammer is a music platform with a big innovation: songs are no longer fixed tracks, but interactive experiences. We turn songs into ready-to-go interactive sound boards, where you can dive deep into your favorite music. With major label partnerships in place, Jammer is the leading interactive music platform for the industry—and we’re just getting

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...

We build smart marketing and advertising tools for the music industry

Yousician is a revolutionary music platform for anyone to learn, play, create and teach music. Millions of people around the world use Yousician to advance their music skills and play the music they love. When you work at Yousician, you’ll help shape the future of music education and profoundly impact the lives of millions of people. Doing what has impact We are a...

Slip.stream is the first ever music platform built for Creators, where songs can be used, not just listened to. We empower musicians to amplify their exposure and monetize their work by making their music available to video creators and streamers without the worry of copyright claims and DMCA issues. Music for your content. No takedowns. Creator safe. Website

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.

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.

Soundcloud is a great music streaming platform, but it doesn't have a download button for the songs. That's where Soundcloud To Mp3 comes in. We are a web tool that helps you download any song released on Soundcloud to your device in MP3 format. We are fast, reliable, and easy to use - just enter the URL of the song...

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...