Sushi Venture Partners

Know What's Loved is a company that specializes in data analytics and processing solutions tailored for the music industry. It has developed a data intelligence platform that utilizes robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning technologies to track trends and discover new talent. This platform identifies emerging artists and genres, providing insights for royalty advances and investment strategies. Additionally, it monitors song performance, market trends, and consumption patterns, allowing music industry stakeholders to make informed decisions in areas such as artist management, marketing, and investment opportunities. By leveraging data-driven insights, Know What's Loved aims to optimize the overall business strategies of its clients in the music sector.

MySphera is an online media company that provides music platform solutions to help content creators connect with music hassle-free.

Musimap S.A. is a Belgium-based company that specializes in developing a music intelligence platform designed to enhance personalized content curation for various clients in the music industry. Utilizing advanced cognitive computing technology, Musimap's platform employs a synaptic-like network with cross-weighted music taxonomy, allowing for the precise sorting of complex emotional states and contextual relationships. This innovative approach supports a range of sectors, including streaming services, telecommunications, audiovisual professionals, music promoters, and retailers. The platform integrates over 3 billion data points, facilitating emotion-based discovery and enabling businesses to leverage emotional metadata for improved recommendation systems, targeting, and user engagement. With a focus on scalability and immersive experiences, Musimap aims to redefine standards in music-related industries through its emotional artificial intelligence capabilities.

Remixology is a music technology company that specializes in remix services. It collaborates with music rights holders, such as artists and labels, to create high-quality remixes. The company's core offering is a user-friendly platform that facilitates the remix commissioning process. This platform enables users to upload their tracks, define their remix objectives, and receive personalized recommendations for suitable remixers. It then guides them through the entire remix delivery process, helping the music industry leverage remixes to expand their reach, enter new markets, and generate additional revenue streams.

Cyanite is a pioneering company that specializes in AI-based tagging and music search services. It provides tools for music companies to analyze their catalogs and improve content placement, effectively transforming their offerings into user-friendly platforms akin to a personalized Spotify experience. With over 100 music companies and 65,000 users utilizing its free web app, Cyanite has established a strong presence in the industry. The company leverages its expertise in music emotions and psychology to deliver features such as auto-tagging, similarity search, song visualizations, and free text search through both its web app and API. Founded by a team with academic backgrounds from the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg and the Technical University of Berlin, Cyanite combines advanced data science with a deep understanding of music information retrieval to enhance music discovery and organization for creative enterprises.

Musiio is an artificial intelligence company specializing in the music industry, primarily serving B2B clients such as sync companies, labels, and streaming services. The company has developed an AI platform capable of "listening" to music, which allows for advanced tagging, searching, curation, and playlist creation. By employing deep learning algorithms, Musiio's technology can analyze a vast array of music tracks, identifying key characteristics such as recording quality and artist skill, as well as predicting the likelihood of a track's success. This capability enables users to manage large music catalogs more efficiently, delivering actionable insights that enhance their decision-making processes. Ultimately, Musiio's solutions aim to improve the hit-rate for its clients and drive revenue growth by addressing the challenges of content curation and data processing in the music sector.

Chainvine Ltd, established in 2015 and headquartered in Ipswich, UK, specializes in developing bespoke blockchain-based platforms for identity, asset, and encryption management. Its distributed ledger technology (DLT) decentralizes data across a network of nodes, providing secure, permanent cloud storage for transactional data. Chainvine's key products include Intelligent Commodities, which facilitates tracking and recording of physical commodities and supply chain data when integrated with IoT partners, and Intelligent Contracts, enabling businesses to manage digital contracts and store data changes. The company supports multiple blockchain technologies and offers enterprise-grade security, increasing businesses' financial margins and accountability.

Magnetic is a boutique video network that specializes in YouTube channel management and optimization services for content owners, brands, and individual creators. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes tailored rights management, catalog exploitation, monetization, branding, marketing, content strategy, and production services. By focusing on the needs of music and film owners, as well as individual creators, Magnetic enables its clients to effectively grow, monetize, and manage their video and audio assets across various platforms. The company's expertise helps clients generate revenue and enhance fan engagement, contributing to their overall success in the digital landscape.

InPlayer, established in 2010, specializes in video and digital asset monetization. It helps clients generate revenue from their online media libraries, supporting live, recurring, and on-demand content. With a global reach, InPlayer processes transactions for over 100,000 clients' subscribers, 24/7. Its platform facilitates payments on any platform, with any device, and in multiple currencies, offering both self-serve solutions and bespoke options for special events.

Pico is a data-driven fan marketing platform. We are a channel-agnostic SaaS platform that identifies fans across all digital channels, continually add data about them, and create lifetime value by making data-driven business decisions. Our technology is trusted by more than 50 sports giants from over 10 leagues in Europe, USA, Asia, South Africa, and South America.

FunToad is a creative technology platform for live events that is designed to harness the power of mobile devices and network technologies to offer new artistic and commercial options in mass spectator events. FunToad allows its users to send videos and images, spatial sounds, lyrics and subtitles, vibration effects, colors, and lights to its friends. The partners of the company are MAGNETIC, FESTYVENT, Ruckus, stagelink, and FLOVIRAL. FunToad is based in the United States and the company was founded in 2014 by Oren Mamet, Gur Ziv, Ilan Tiagai, and Gadi Seri.

Go4Venture is a UK-based platform established in 2015, initially operating as Go4Venture Advisers, a corporate finance advisory firm. The company specializes in facilitating interactions between investors and scale-up tech companies, offering research tools to aid investment decisions.

Stagelink GmbH is an online tour promotion company based in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in New York, New York. The company provides a comprehensive toolset for artists, managers, and agents to effectively engage with their fans and promote live shows. By leveraging real-time fan-driven demand, Stagelink enables artists to plan, pre-finance, and reduce risks associated with touring. The platform allows users to identify and track their fan base, alert them about upcoming events, and facilitate ticket sales. Additionally, it empowers fans to become promoters, enhancing audience reach and engagement. Stagelink's services also include data analysis to help artists understand sales trends and customer behavior, ultimately supporting a more successful tour planning process.

Pixtr Ltd. is a mobile photo editing application company founded in 2012 and based in Haifa, Israel. The application transforms photography by providing users with professional-quality editing tools designed for anyone, regardless of their photography expertise. Pixtr focuses on enhancing key elements in photos, particularly people, to ensure they always appear at their best. Its features include removing skin blemishes, correcting red-eye, and improving the natural look of selfies, even in group settings. By making advanced image improvement accessible to all, Pixtr aims to set a new standard in photography, positioning itself as a go-to solution for enhancing photographs across various platforms.

Festyvent is a platform that enables promoters and touring artists to better engage and monetize their audiences before, during and after events. It provides essential event-app capabilities to fans and audiences, whilst capturing 1st party data for the acts and events they attended that can be used for immediate retargeting and retargeting of future events. Monetizing opportunities are further increased through simplification of at-event sales and interactive sponsorship capabilities. Promoters and artists can easily use Festyvent’s white label app and supporting CMS and data platform for their events and tours. Alternatively these same capabilities can be integrated into a existing event and artist apps using Festyvent’s SDK.

Marathon Artists Limited is an independent music label based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2012. The company focuses on producing, publishing, and managing artists, prioritizing their needs and creative visions. Committed to fostering new music expressions, Marathon Artists emphasizes long-term partnerships with artists, enabling them to build sustainable careers. The label supports a diverse range of musical styles and is home to various sub-labels, including House Anxiety Records, which showcases emerging talent like Jamie Isaac and the band Childhood. By investing in genuine relationships and innovative practices, Marathon Artists aims to create a supportive environment for artists to thrive in the evolving music industry.

Founded in 2012, Voiceitt develops mobile applications that use automatic speech recognition technology to enable individuals with speech impairments or motor disabilities to communicate effectively. Its AI-driven engine translates distorted pronunciation into intelligible speech, enhancing independence and quality of life for users.

Startupbootcamp Israel is a mentor-driven program that provides a massive amount of support and connections to accelerate a startup's growth. The program team led by Paul-Rene and Shahar Namer run an annual program that utilizes their extensive backgrounds to focus on startups developing technology for the Media and Advertising industries.

TribZi empowers consumers to have their say – share their ideas – have a positive impact on your brand - be part of your promotional campaigns." - a sales landing page widget to allow users to be active in the promotion of merchandise bought online.

Thingies Ltd. is a company based in Israel that operates an online platform designed for social interaction and entertainment through mobile applications, specifically on iOS devices. It allows users to upload and share personal items, referred to as "Thingies," which can include favorite clothing, gadgets, books, and other everyday possessions. Users can set a price for their items and engage in a unique feature of the app that enables them to "steal" items from others while protecting their own belongings. This engaging and interactive platform fosters a sense of community and competition among users, making it an addictive social gaming experience.

VideoStir Ltd. is an Israeli company that offers an online tool enabling users to create floating video clips that can easily be embedded on websites. Founded in 2012 and based in Tel Aviv, VideoStir provides an advanced video editing software known as the VideoStir Engine, which utilizes computer vision technology to remove backgrounds from videos without requiring a green screen. This service allows users to transform amateur video recordings into professional-looking clips, including options for video on various backgrounds and the addition of virtual spokespersons. By simplifying the process of video creation, VideoStir enhances website content and boosts visitor engagement, making it accessible for anyone with a basic video camera.

Audiotube Ltd. is an online video management, promotion, and distribution service based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2006. The company specializes in providing artist services, label services, and publishing services tailored for the music industry. Its platform offers a comprehensive content management system that enables users to efficiently manage artists and catalogs, as well as track and publish music videos. Audiotube empowers independent artists and music publishers by providing tools to effectively showcase their work, thereby enhancing their visibility in the digital landscape.

Giraffic, Inc. specializes in video-on-demand streaming acceleration technology, designed to enhance the delivery of high-definition content for online media providers. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Giraffic's technology facilitates simultaneous data retrieval from multiple sources, effectively eliminating re-buffering pauses during video playback. This capability allows media companies, content distributors, and social networks to provide seamless access to HD videos and images, as well as support for games and software downloads. The company gained recognition for its Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) technology, which significantly improved streaming performance and was adopted by industry leaders like Samsung and Roku. Following the sale of its AVA technology, Giraffic shifted focus to the Data Cloud Storage sector with its Distributed Adaptive Storage (DASS) platform, offering innovative solutions for distributed and hybrid cloud environments, including a consumer backup application that emphasizes virtually unlimited storage capacity.