1) SoundCloud Anyone may produce and share sounds on SoundCloud, a social sound platform.
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Country: Germany State: Berlin City: Berlin Started in: 2007 Founders: Alexander Ljung, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss Number of employees: 251-500 Funding: $542,820,688 Funding rounds: 10 Number of investors: 17 (Index Ventures, GGV Capital, Temasek Holdings, Union Square Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners) You can find their website here .
2) Acast Acast is a podcast and audio-on-demand platform that hosts, monetizes, and distributes audio content throughout the world.
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Country: Sweden State: Stockholms Lan City: Stockholm Started in: 2013 Founders: Johan Billgren, Karl Rosander, Mans Ulvestam, Markus Ahlstrand Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $126,228,642 Funding rounds: 9 Number of investors: 10 (European Investment Bank, Bonnier Ventures, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Alfvén & Didrikson, Swedbank Robur) You can find their website here .
3) Soapbox Labs SoapBox Labs' privacy-first speech recognition software allows kids of different ages, accents, and dialects to have voice-enabled experiences.
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Country: Ireland State: Dublin City: Dublin Started in: 2013 Founders: Patricia Scanlon Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $11,777,501 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 6 (Enterprise Ireland, Astia Angels, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Elkstone Capital Partners, Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund) You can find their website here .
4) Podimo Podimoa is an open podcast platform that provides creators with a subscription service.
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Country: Denmark State: Hovedstaden City: Copenhagen Started in: 2019 Founders: Andreas Sachse, Eva Lægdsgaard, Morten Strunge, Nikolaj Koppel, Sverre Dueholm Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: € 32,200,000 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 6 (83North, Heartcore Capital, Headline, Stefan Blom, Meridia Capital) You can find their website here .
5) Native Instruments Native Instruments is a software and hardware company that specializes on computer-based music production and DJing.
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Country: Germany State: Berlin City: Berlin Started in: 1996 Founders: Daniel Haver Number of employees: 501-1000 Funding: € 50,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 1 (EMH Partners) You can find their website here .
6) Voices.com Voices.com is a website that connects businesses with voice-over artists.
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Country: Canada State: Ontario City: London-Canada Started in: 2005 Founders: David Ciccarelli, Stephanie Ciccarelli Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $21,293,956 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 2 (Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, BDC Capital Corporation) You can find their website here .
7) Dive Dive is an unique audio-community for professionals who want to share their job or industry insights and learnings.
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Country: Germany State: Berlin City: Berlin Started in: 2020 Founders: Dmytro Boguslavskyy, Fernando Barrera, Lucas Consoli Number of employees: 1-10 Funding: € 700,000 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 4 (Min-Liang Tan, Boon Hwee Koh, zVentures, Lim Kaling) You can find their website here .
8) Resemble AI Resemble Custom Voices are created by AI utilizing unique Deep Learning models capable of producing realistic Speech Synthesis.
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Country: Canada State: Ontario City: Toronto Started in: 2018 Founders: Saqib Muhammad, Zohaib Ahmed Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $2,000,000 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 7 (Craft Ventures, Betaworks, Canaan Partners, Firstminute Capital, AET Fund) You can find their website here .
9) Pratilipi Pratilipi is a platform for language storytelling that connects readers, writers, and their stories.
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Country: India State: Karnataka City: Bengaluru Started in: 2015 Founders: Prashant Gupta, Rahul Ranjan, Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Sahradayi Modi, Sankaranarayanan Devarajan Number of employees: 51-100 Funding: $29,833,055 Funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 12 (Tencent, Qiming Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Shunwei Capital, Omidyar Network) You can find their website here .
10) Headfone Headfone is a social audio platform for recording, listening, and sharing audios.
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Country: India State: Karnataka City: Bengaluru Started in: 2017 Founders: Pratham Khandelwal, Yogesh Sharma Number of employees: 44470 Funding: $3,012,075 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 4 (Hashed, Axilor Ventures, Fosun RZ Capital, Seung Yoon Lee) You can find their website here .
11) Ximalaya FM Ximalaya is a website that allows users to share music and create their own personal radio stations.
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Country: China State: Shanghai City: Shanghai Started in: 2012 Founders: Jianjun Yu Number of employees: 501-1000 Funding: $123,117,134 Funding rounds: 9 Number of investors: 31 (General Atlantic, Xiaomi, TAL Education Group, JD Digits, Kleiner Perkins) You can find their website here .
12) SoundAI SoundAI is a technology and artificial intelligence interface firm that specializes on acoustics frontier technologies.
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Country: China State: Beijing City: Beijing Started in: 2016 Founders: Chang Le, Xiaoliang Chen Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: CN¥580,000,000 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 10 (Baidu, InnoVen Capital, Linekong, FREES FUND, Addor Capital) You can find their website here .
13) Bose Bose is a sound research and development business that focuses on the entertainment, home audio, aviation, and automotive industries.
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Country: United States State: Massachusetts City: Framingham Started in: 1964 Founders: Amar Bose Number of employees: 10001+ Funding: $430,165 Funding rounds: 1 You can find their website here .
14) LISNR LISNR uses the most modern ultrasonic data technology to provide secure and seamless data transmission.
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Country: United States State: California City: Oakland Started in: 2012 Founders: Chris Ostoich, Chris Ridenour, Josh Glick, Nikki Ridenour, Rodney Williams Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $30,800,000 Funding rounds: 10 Number of investors: 19 (Techstars, Intel Capital, Visa, SeedInvest, Endeavor Catalyst) You can find their website here .