The first-ever SXSW Music Startup Spotlight will focus on some of the most innovative new companies in the music world. The Spotlight coincides with the popular Music Startup Village programming, where VCs, entrepreneurs, and the tech-minded music industry will be meeting/mingling/discussing in sessions across the hall.
Participants will demo their product, service, or app in the pre-function area of the Hilton Downtown Austin.
WHEN
4:00–6:00pm on Tuesday, March 15, 2016
WHERE
Hilton Downtown Austin
How to Attend
Open to Music, Interactive, Gold, and Platinum badgeholders.
Music Startup Spotlight Participants
Allbeat 
Allbeat is a music discovery platform that connects Indie artists with listeners through 11-second music previews.
Cleerkut Royalty 
Cleerkut Royalty is an automated DIY [copy]rights and royalty administration platform for independent music creators, copyright owners and their agents.
feature.fm
feature.fm is the first self-service native ad platform designed exclusively for music, giving artists access to advertise directly inside streaming services.
Festivus 
Festivus is app that provides information and user curated content about upcoming festivals and artists.
Filmstro 
Filmmakers! We're all Composers Now. The world's first soundtrack creation studio — easily create professional soundtracks in real time.
Geekin Radio 
Stream your favorite music. Anyone can jump into your headphones and listen with you from anywhere in perfect sync.
Geo Track ID 
Next generation music id services for the future music industry. Our ATI (Advanced Track Identification) algorithm enables for the first time the correct identification of music usage in remixes, DJ performances and in derivate works. This opens up new innovative revenue streams for rights-holders: everywhere from on UGC platforms to during public DJ performances.
Holyvent 
Holyvent is an event-focused live streaming app that lets artists engage with their audience through an immersive and social experience.
Jamwar 
A live video streaming tool designed for musicians to provide their fans an uncut, transparent and exclusive look at music.
LSTNIN 
LSTNIN.COM is a marketing service financially benefitting independent musicians by strengthening their brand and expanding their fan base.
Mix’d 
A dating app for music lovers. Meet people who share your taste in music.
Moodelizer 
An application for adding music to film. Built on the new technology Dynamic Payback™ which makes film scoring easier and faster.
Musimap 
Musimap (cognitive technologies) revolutionizes music recommendation (400 complex moods, 100 contexts, IoT compliance) with its humanized algorithm and neuronal music network (3B+ data points, 2B+ relations, 50M+ tracks.
PerDiem 
PerDiem is a platform where you can invest in music. We give artists the opportunity to get funding by having fans directly invest in their music. Fans can earn money by discovering and promoting their favorite artists.
Spot Caller 
Spot Caller is the simplest music event discovery app, and is building the platform to modernize all live entertainment commerce.
Synesthesia 
Synesthesia combines the audio and visual into one visceral experience by creating visuals as you play your music, live.
TipCow 
TipCow is an artist-oriented digital tip jar and mobile tipping application to facilitate e-Tips and interactive engagements between artists and fans, while providing artists with an interactive dashboard for tracking fan metrics, tipping and engagement.
ToneTree 
ToneTree creates Birch – the world's first augmented reality instrument. Play piano on a park bench or drums on your kitchen counter!
TunesMap 
TunesMap is a visual medium that contextually organizes cultural content from preferred partners and artists around existing streams of music.
Wrkbench 
Wrkbench is an iOS application for groups to visually communicate and collaborate - so you can turn ideas into reality.
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Photo by Merrick Ales
