MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a non-equity startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK. Founded in 2009, it focuses on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting high-potential startups across various industries globally. MassChallenge provides expert mentorship, a tailored curriculum, and access to corporate partners without taking any equity from the startups. Its programs, including specialized initiatives like MassChallenge FinTech and MassChallenge HealthTech, aim to facilitate partnerships between startups and established companies to drive innovation and growth. To date, MassChallenge has helped over 1,200 alumni raise more than $2 billion in funding and create over 65,000 jobs, demonstrating its significant impact on the global innovation ecosystem.

Cait Brumme

Acting CEO

Cait Brumme

Managing Partner

Siobhan Dullea

CEO

Matt Lashmar

Managing Director

Camila Lecaros

Managing Director

Yonit Serkin

Managing Director

Devon Sherman

Founding Director, Head of MassChallenge FinTech

Michelle Williams

Vice President and Head of Texas Strategy

Past deals in Music

Pro Indie Music

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Pro Indie Music is a SAAS for independent artists, managers and agencies to learn how to manage their projects and optimize their administrative processes. Measure their growth, connect with festivals, venues, markets and opportunities around the world; Automated tools with personalized goals and objectives to take your artist to the next level, plan tours and improve your performance in the music business.

CompaSStage

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
CompaSStage is a platform to Learn music from the best with our online courses.

Fanear

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Fanear is a Chilean company that offers a mobile application designed to enhance the live music experience. It functions similarly to Foursquare but is focused on music events, enabling fans to provide real-time feedback to artists and gather important metrics about their audience and performance. Users can check in at concerts, indicate which artists they are attending, and participate in a gamified system that rewards them with points for their engagement. This interaction allows fans to subscribe to their favorite artists, rate performances, and share feedback. By fostering a sense of community among attendees, Fanear positions itself as a platform that recognizes and ranks dedicated fans, ultimately enhancing loyalty for artists, brands, event producers, and record labels. The application is a pivot from SonicPollen, developed by three of its original founders, and has been noted for its potential to create an addictive experience for users.

Mavity

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Mavity is a platform that connects over 7,500 creative professionals with various opportunities in the music and entertainment sectors. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company utilizes a skill-quantification method to form effective, on-demand teams. Mavity addresses the evolving needs of the creative workforce, particularly in response to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. By providing digital tools, Mavity aims to re-activate economies and combat unemployment within the creative industries, fostering collaboration and enabling professionals to showcase their talents effectively.

Mavity

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Mavity is a platform that connects over 7,500 creative professionals with various opportunities in the music and entertainment sectors. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, the company utilizes a skill-quantification method to form effective, on-demand teams. Mavity addresses the evolving needs of the creative workforce, particularly in response to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. By providing digital tools, Mavity aims to re-activate economies and combat unemployment within the creative industries, fostering collaboration and enabling professionals to showcase their talents effectively.

Indiefy

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of an online music publishing platform intended to distribute and stream music. The company's platform helps music operators publish their music on the top online music platforms worldwide with copyright facilities belonging to them and facilitates tracking of revenue with a free earnings report, enabling music operators to make money from their music.

MusicianPro

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Musician Pro is developing a music theory learning platform to help musicians learn music theory more efficiently with practical practice.

Tomplay

Grant in 2019
A digitised score that automatically scrolls across the screen, synchronised with the accompanying music. Tomplay invented the Interactive Sheet Music and offers all musicians a unique tool to learn and play music.

MyPart

Grant in 2019
MyPart Ltd is an innovative company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializing in an artificial intelligence platform that transforms song discovery within the music industry. The platform enables songwriters and visual artists to create and privately offer their content to performing artists. MyPart's advanced 'Song Mining' technology conducts deep analysis of lyrical and musical elements, utilizing a combination of digital signal processing, natural language processing, and machine learning techniques. This allows music publishers and record labels to identify valuable, often overlooked songs in their catalogs by comparing them to reference songs based on harmonic, melodic, and lyrical similarities. Additionally, MyPart's songwriter portal facilitates the instant discovery of global songwriting talent, enhancing opportunities for collaboration and maximizing revenue potential for all stakeholders in the music industry. Through its unique approach, MyPart connects creative professionals with relevant songs and talents, streamlining the process of song matching and catalog utilization.

Rhythmo

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Manufacturer of music production instruments intended to provide products for teenagers to learn music production. The company's product is a midi drum machine and speaker combo in a cardboard box bundled with the application, sound packs, and tutorials, providing customers with a cheaper alternative to music production equipment with educational and customization aspects.

2Gether Music

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
2Gether is a community app-based service that uses music to reduce loneliness. 2Gether is helping Alzheimer's caregivers take care of their loved ones.

Black Fret

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Black Fret is a community of music fans dedicated to good music, good times and the sustainable success of Austin’s local musicians.

Capricia Productions

Grant in 2017
Capricia Productions specializes in creating video games tailored and interacted with musical albums, compositions and other audible art. They are currently working on their first Music Video Game (MVG).

Bubo Technologies

Grant in 2017
Bubo Technologies, founded in late 2016 by a group of friends, specializes in creating an online platform that enhances the reading experience through the integration of e-books and synchronized music. The platform offers a collection of e-books paired with carefully crafted music and unique illustrations, enabling users to read at their own pace while enjoying a more immersive and emotional connection to the stories. By combining literature with music, Bubo aims to enrich the reading experience, allowing users to discover new books and soundtracks that complement their reading journey.

Lyriko

Grant in 2016
Lyriko: Learn Languages with Music, makes learning fun, effective, convenient, and social, empowering independent learners everywhere to reach these goals.

Sonic Bloom

Grant in 2016
We started Sonic Bloom out of a desire to enable creators, developers, artists, and technologists to leverage music and audio to create experiences that can deeply connect to audiences. Our technologies will always simplify the complexities of working with music for the benefit of creators and audiences alike.

Revelator

Grant in 2016
Revelator Limited, founded in 2013 and based in Jerusalem, Israel, offers comprehensive business and marketing solutions tailored for music professionals. The company's platform integrates various functions such as sales, marketing, accounting, and analytics, serving both independent artists and record labels. Revelator employs a data-driven fintech approach to revolutionize music intellectual property management, utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to streamline the forecasting, settlement, and payment of royalties. By modernizing copyright administration, Revelator enables creators and rights holders to register their works, license rights, manage revenue splits seamlessly, and receive real-time royalty payments directly to digital wallets. The company aims to create a more efficient connection between artists and fans while providing a robust marketplace for financial services related to music royalties and digital collectibles.

SoundBridge

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
SoundBridge is a music production powerhouse providing state-of-the art software and educational products. Their team consist of music producers and musicians with years of professional experience working in all aspects of music technology.

Choosic

Grant in 2015
Choosic is a music discovery app which brings users personalised music recommendations and fast playlist building in a simple and intuitive user interface. They deliver fresh and trending music from around the web straight to the people who will most likely appreciate it. They learn user preferences by serving one recommendation at a time. Fast and effortless music discovery at the swipe of a finger.

Ivory

Grant in 2015
Ivory is an iOS app that gives any musician, regardless of skill level, useful tools to engage with their sheet music electronically. They are using the recently updated audio recognition capabilities of the iPad to develop a lesson app that will provide curated lessons, easy access to digital sheet music, and real-time feedback as you learn to play piano. By doing this aspiring musicians can embrace their passion for music in the most convenient way possible. Ivory is a music education app which listens to you play, providing real-time analytics, targeted lessons, and gamified elements.

Sonation

Seed Round in 2015
Sonation apps make singing and playing music more fun and interactive. They serve students, professionals and amateurs playing music who face a problem that hasn’t been solved for centuries. Imagine playing basketball alone your whole life and never playing on a team. That’s the reality for most musicians. Instrumentalists and singers need to hear and interact with all the parts of the music they're learning. But they rarely can because it costs $50 an hour to play with one other person. We’ve developed the only solution that enables people to play with all the parts they need in an interactive, lifelike setting. Their first app, Cadenza, enables you to practice your instrument with a full orchestra (a market of 5.2 million people in the US). The orchestra listens to you and adapts to your tempo in real time, allowing you to improve your expressiveness and musicality. In the future, they will expand into singing, many styles of music, and user-generated content.

Beat Farm

Grant in 2014
Beat Farm USA is a company dedicated to creating original music that enhances physical movement, particularly in action sports. Founded in April 2013 by three members, Beat Farm offers a unique smartphone application that customizes music based on the user's movements, such as tricks and turns. This innovative approach provides an enriched experience for riders by integrating sound and action, allowing users to engage with music in a dynamic way. The company's online store launched in May 2013, marking the introduction of a new product category known as Body-Activated Music, which underscores Beat Farm's commitment to merging creativity and physical activity.

Leiva Strings

Grant in 2010
Leiva Learning Strings provides a method for teaching students how to correlate musical notes to the cumbersome fingering positions of any stringed musical instrument by color-coding each note. The seven different colors are set to match the seven natural notes (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,) in music theory. With their patented Learning Strings, individuals can learn to play and read sheet music by matching colors making stringed instruments as fun and easy to learn as they are in the video game Guitar Hero.
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