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.

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.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free, along with tools to help them expand their audiences. Focused on emerging artists and scenes — hip-hop, electronic, Latin, reggae, Afrobeats, and other top and emerging genres — Audiomack has played a pivotal role in the careers of some of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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!

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...

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...