Music startup Soundstripe attracts $9m in contemporary funding shortly after launching cell app

Nashville-based music startup Soundstripe has raised an additional $9 million in funding from a gaggle of buyers led by non-public fairness agency Topmark Companions and present buyers together with Craft Ventures.

The most recent funding spherical was introduced only a day after Soundstripe, which helps creators dodge copyright claims with royalty-free music, unveiled its first mobile app for creators to entry royalty-free music on the go. 

The Sequence B fundraising introduced as we speak comes two years after the startup raised $2 million from Craft Ventures, an organization led by David Sacks, founding COO of PayPal and co-founder/former CEO of Yammer.

Soundstripe raised $4 million in its Sequence A fundraising previous to the take care of Craft.

“The crew at Soundstripe has constructed a powerful enterprise that’s extremely differentiated within the royalty-free content material business, and we’re really honored to companion with them.”

Travis Milks, Topmark

Alongside Craft and Topmark, the newest (Sequence B) spherical noticed participation from Overline Ventures and Escalate Companions.

Vocap Companions, which participated in Soundstripe’s Sequence A spherical, additionally joined the newest capital elevate.

Talking in regards to the funding, Topmark Managing Associate Travis Milks, mentioned: “The crew at Soundstripe has constructed a powerful enterprise that’s extremely differentiated within the royalty-free content material business, and we’re really honored to companion with them.”

Established in 1999, Tampa, Florida-based Topmark has invested over $75 million in over 45 companies together with business promoting and company video, movie and TV producer Vū Applied sciences, based on its web site.

For Soundstripe, the funding from Topmark and different buyers will assist the startup increase its choices, permitting creators, filmmakers and types to entry almost 200,000 “use anyplace” digital content material belongings of their movies, adverts, and different artistic tasks.

“The explosive progress of the creator economic system has catapulted Soundstripe ahead, with our mission to ‘Hold Creators Creating’ resonating strongly with those that want quick, hassle-free music, sound results, and video clips for his or her tasks,” Soundstripe co-CEO Travis Terrell mentioned.

Terrell mentioned his startup “will now use this Sequence B financing to speculate closely in our enterprise enterprise, which has already confirmed to be an enormous space of progress for our firm whereas remaining ripe with alternative”.

Based in 2016, Soundstripe gives limitless, royalty-free music, inventory video, and sound results that can be utilized in movies, podcasts, and different media tasks. By way of its subscription mannequin, content material creators pay a payment for the usage of all the media in Soundtripe’s catalog.

“The explosive progress of the creator economic system has catapulted Soundstripe ahead, with our mission to ‘Hold Creators Creating’ resonating strongly with those that want quick, hassle-free music, sound results, and video clips for his or her tasks.”

Travis Terrell, Soundstripe

So far, the startup has issued greater than 10 million licenses for tens of 1000’s of consumers in additional than 140 nations, it mentioned.

“The mix of the corporate’s content material catalog, distribution platform and shortly increasing gross sales and advertising capabilities creates a powerful platform for continued speedy progress in a really dynamic business,” Topmark’s Milks mentioned.

On Monday (August 29), Soundstripe launched its first-ever cell app that enables creators to get the instruments and options that they want even when they’re away from their desktops.

The app options curated and featured playlists, seamless music playback, waveform management, search and filters, related music options, the choice to save lots of favorites, edit customized playlists, obtain songs straight to units and share songs and playlists.

Soundstripe’s companions embody Microsoft, Amazon, sports activities media firm The Gamers’ Tribune, Spotify, Samsung and sportswear model Puma.

The startup has additionally teamed up with Adobe Premiere, Body.io and Twitch to combine its catalog of music and sound FX straight to those platforms. For Twitch customers with Soundstripe accounts, they will use Soundstripe-licensed tracks as backgrounds for his or her livestreams.

The attraction of Soundstripe as a royalty-free music supplier comes as music rights house owners beef up their battle in opposition to the unlawful use of their copyrighted materials, and because the emergence of various media platforms had led to a surge within the variety of media creators globally.

This catapulted six-year previous Soundstripe to changing into one of many fastest-growing non-public corporations within the U.S. The corporate was just lately named to the High 100 of the 2022 Inc. Regionals: Southeast checklist and the High 2,000 of the 2022 Inc. 5000 checklist of fast-growing corporations.

It was additionally bagged the Recreation-Altering Startup award within the Leisure, Sports activities, and Media class at The Nashville Entrepreneur Middle’s 2019 NEXT Awards, and was named one of many metropolis’s High 10 startup cultures by Powderkeg.Music Enterprise Worldwide