Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Music space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Roland Lamb
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ROLI
After leaving school in the UK, Roland moved to Japan to practise Zen Buddhism. He then moved on to Harvard University, and a degree in Classical Chinese and Sanskrit Philosophy. This – naturally – led to an interest in technology and industrial design, so he won a scholarship to pursue an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. While at RCA, he invented an award-winning new approach to building pressure-sensing interfaces and ROLI was born. Roland is joined on ROLI’s board of Directors by Salahdin Imam, Sarah Chalfant and Tahmima Anam.
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About ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Mat Clayton
Co-Founder and CTO of Mixcloud
Mat Clayton is a specialist in social media and web 2.0 development projects. He has developed a range of successful Facebook applications, including Sponsor Me, and the Sony commisioned Become Rambo, which was awarded best Viral Application by the Facebook Developer Garage London, in association with Sun Microsystems. Mat is now a co-founder of Mixcloud and heads up the technical development of the site. Mat has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, specialising in Electrical and Information Sciences. He was sponsored throughout his BA by Qinetiq and by the Institute of Engineering and Technology, of which he is still a member. Mat has worked on a variety of systems and control projects, ranging from biometric monitoring for Electronic Arts to Zigbee based wireless data capture systems for the oil industry. In his spare time, Mat enjoys playing squash and rock climbing.
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About Mixcloud, Wakari: Mixcloud is an online long-form audio platform providing content such as radio shows, podcasts and DJ mixes.
Anthony Matchett
Founder of MelodyVR
Anthony Matchett is CEO of MelodyVR, a virtual reality technology company specialising in the music sector. He has extensive music industry experience and began his career as an audio engineer before moving on to the world of post-production for advertising. Then in 2011, Anthony was tasked with founding and building up Wave Recording Studios’ first interactive division, focused on servicing the audio requirements of game developers and publishers. During his time at Wave, he worked with the likes of King.com, Microsoft Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment and Ubisoft. In 2015, Anthony’s background and passion for music and technology inspired him to create Melody VR, with Steven Hancock.
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About EVR Holdings, MelodyVR: MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.
Steven Hancock
Founder of MelodyVR
MelodyVR’s Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, Steven Hancock, has an unwavering commitment to realizing great ideas and a belief in the power of personal relationships; an asset that helped him build events management company, Zest Hospitality Group, from scratch. The experience saw Steven work with FTSE 100 companies, while generating new revenue streams for stately homes. After selling the business in 2011, Steven joined Ibiza Rocks as Commercial Manager, overseeing sales and marketing to help build the business into one of Europe’s fastest growing youth lifestyle brands. Exposure to the A-list artists helped Steven deepen his relationships with the music industry; something that proved invaluable when securing MelodyVR’s partnerships with major labels. A true advocate for MelodyVR’s ability to benefits fans, artists and labels alike, Steven further raises the company’s profile through regular appearances on industry speaker panels.
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About EVR Holdings, MelodyVR: MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.
Alex Klein
Co-Founder and CEO of Kano
Alex Kleinis Co-Founder and CEO at Kano Computing.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Nick Sabine
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Resident Advisor
Nick Sabine is the co-founder of Resident Advisor (RA). Established in 2001, RA enables the discovery of new music and events through a unique combination of original content and listings. By providing a platform for artists, promoters and fans RA connects the global dance music community and plays an indispensable role in supporting the electronic music industry worldwide.
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About Resident Advisor: RA is an online music magazine and community platform that’s dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
Rafe Offer
Founder and Executive Chair of Sofar Sounds
Rafe Offer has held senior marketing positions such as Global Marketing Director of Coca-Cola, Director of Global Marketing at The Walt Disney Company and Director of innovation for Diageo. Rafe is an internationally lauded specialist in teamwork, leadership and brand innovation. Now he’s focusing his energy on SofarSounds.com
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About Sofar Sounds, Sofar Sounds: Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.
Philip Sheppard
CEO and Co-Founder of LifeScore
Philip is an award-winning film, television and video game composer, producer, virtuoso cellist, inventor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Philip has produced several large scale and high stakes projects including the 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremonies, all of the world’s national anthems for the 2012 Olympics, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France and the Montreal Grand Prix. Philip has composed more than 60 film, television, gaming and theatrical scores and has had 11 films premiere at The Sundance Film Festival in the last 10 years. Philip regularly performs with Odesza, Pretty Lights and Unkle and was a guest artist for music legends, such as, Scott Walker, Grace Jones, Jimmy Page, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Sia, Suzanne Vega and Jarvis Cocker. He regularly works as a creative consultant for large enterprises including, Google, EY, Deloitte, Kering, Kyu Collective, IDEO, and TTi Vanguard, specialising in innovative thinking and communication. Philip also invented and created, Compose Yourself, a game featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
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About LifeScore: LifeScore is a radically innovative platform for musical composition that generates original, bespoke, adaptive music in real time.
Ian Drew
Co-Founder of LifeScore
Ian Drew was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer and EVP Business Development in July 2012, having previously been EVP – Strategy since August 2011. He joined ARM in July 2005 as VP Segment Marketing. Prior to this, he worked at Intel Corporation for 14 years in various senior management roles around the world including Asia, Europe and the US, latterly as GM of the Russia/CIS office based in Moscow.
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About LifeScore: LifeScore is a radically innovative platform for musical composition that generates original, bespoke, adaptive music in real time.
Jake Lazarus
Founder & CTO of Keakie
Jake Lazarus is the Head of Growth at Keakie.
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About Keakie: Keakie is a new streaming platform for mixes, podcasts and radio shows.
Eloka Agu
Co-Founder of Keakie
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About Keakie: Keakie is a new streaming platform for mixes, podcasts and radio shows.
Monica Hyerim Lee
Founder & CEO / Managing Director of FrontRow Global
Monica Hyerim Lee is the founder and CEO at FrontRow Global.
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About FrontRow Global, Royal College of Art: Music Data Intelligence for Music Industry
William Adams
Founder of The Black Eyed Peas
William Adams, is a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator, and a seven-time Grammy Award winner. Known for his work with The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31 million albums and 58 million singles worldwide, he also works with some of the industry’s biggest names including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, David Guetta, and film composer Hans Zimmer. i.am+ is the developer of the dial, the first smart band device with an onboard, untethered mobile phone capability powered by AneedA, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused operating system. Fusing the worlds of technology and fashion, will.i.am and team also developed i.am+ EPs Bluetooth Wireless Headphone. EPs feature magnetic earpieces, when clipped together, transform the listening device into a stylish necklace made of spun metal and woven fabric that incorporates a microphone connected to AneedA for making calls and finding music, both hands-free. Frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas will.i.am has released three songs from his upcoming solo cd, #willpower on Interscope Records, due out in April, 2013. The three singles from the cd released in 2012 were: “This is Love” featuring Eva Simons; and “Scream & Shout” that has gone to number one on iTunes and radio play charts in dozens of countries. In 2013, he released his latest single “#ThatPower” featuring Justin Bieber. will.i.am is the first recording artist to send a song to Mars in conjunction with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Space Lab. Space and music industry firsts were achieved on August 28, 2012 when “Reach For The Stars (Mars Edition)” was played back from Mars during a youth education event hosted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His songs and imagery have entertained and inspired millions, and the power of his words resonated deeply in his song “Yes They Can” that mobilized an entire generation to action during the 2008 presidential campaign. Demonstrating that music, brands and causes can be intertwined to entertain and inform, “Yes They Can” garnered an Emmy Award for “Best New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment” as well as a CLIO award in the Interactive category. In addition to his music career, will.i.am is very active in front of, and behind the camera. His educational TV special “i.am.mars: Reach For The Stars”, a behind-the-scene look at the artistic and scientific elements involved in sending a song to Mars aired on Discovery’s SCIENCE Channel in August, 2012. In 2011, will.i.am executive produced and starred in his first prime time TV special “i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll” to get young people excited about math and science education, as well as technology and science-related careers. In front of the camera, will.i.am returned in 2013 for a second season as a Coach on reality TV hit show “The Voice” UK on BBC One.
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About 3D Systems, i.am+, i.am.angel Foundation, The Black Eyed Peas: The Black Eyed Peas is an American hip hop group, consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and singer Fergie.
Zack Sabban
Co-Founder and CEO of Festicket
While he was a student and later a banker in NYC and London, Zacharie traveled the world to fulfill his passion for live music. He attended countless festivals and concerts around the world where he realized the need for better access to information. His creativity, social network, and his amazing experience of music festivals are a competitive advantage for the growth of Festicket. Zacharie supervises all the operations and development of the company.
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About Festicket: Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.
Kevin Brown
CEO & Founder of FanCircles
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About Brandaisy, FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Blaise Bellville
Founder & CEO of Boiler Room
Boiler Room founder Blaise Bellville created a new underground music network quite literally from a utility room. Blaise left school at 18 and founded many businesses before starting the worldwide phenomenon that is Boiler Room, which reaches over 72 million music fans every month worldwide. Beginning as a club promoter and DJ, Blaise’s first business to gain national recognition was All Age Concerts. Founded when he was 25, it kicked off an under-age gig movement across the country, even creating a festival for 10,000 in Victoria Park at the movement’s peak in 2010. In the same era, he created online magazine Read Platform, which was written by and run for teenagers. It was while running his, surrounded by other London music obsessives that Boiler Room was born. Bellville enlisted Thristian Richards, who worked for Soul Jazz and Gilles Peterson and Femi Adeyemi, founder of online radio station NTS and organised a weekly hang out/ session – broadcast from a webcam and Ustream to the world from the utility room in the warehouse it was run out of. The session run by the electronic music scene, for the electronic scene quickly drew big name guests. Jamie XX, SBKRT and Hudson Mohawke all turned up for early session to DJ and hang out. Though Read Platform was drawing 300,000 unique users, Boiler Room soon mushroomed passed it in popularity. Since 2010 it has gone global, with a growing and significant fan base in Latin America, partnership with Japan’s biggest streaming provider, key broadcast hubs in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and the dedication of the most hard core, committed music fans on the planet.
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About Boiler Room: Boiler Room is an online platform that enables its users to live stream and archive musical shows.
Michael Breidenbruecker
Founder and CEO of Last.fm
Michael is the founder of RjDj, a London – and New York – based startup. RjDj is an app that generates a dynamic soundtrack using the Phone’s external audio input. He is a musician who used to play saxophone, changed to laptop and now plays mobile phone and iPad. In the past, Michael was one of the original founders and CEO of Last.fm.
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About Last.fm, Reality Jockey: Last.fm is an online music catalogue providing users with personalized recommendations based on their taste in music.
Tejen Barbezat
Founder & CEO of Gignify
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About FIT.live, Gignify: Gignify aims to become the largest centralised talent marketplace in the world
Phil Hutcheon
Founder & CEO of DICE
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About DICE: DICE is a curated platform that connects fans to live shows.
Ant Ganjou
Founder & CEO of CÜR Media
Ant Ganjou a creative entrepreneur with a proven track record of building businesses and generating long term value for clients across a wide range of industry vertices. Currently in my role as CEO at CURB we have helped over 300 clients win hundreds of awards and generate hundreds of millions of pounds in exposure as well as direct business.
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About Airhead, Brand Advance, CÜR Media, DOOH, Gravity Industries, Handi, Hydra, Lifesaver, move.ai: CUR Media is a mobile application that enables its users to create online profiles to share music with their photos and videos.
Ben Drury
Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto
Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnership between BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe.
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About Pimoroni, Yoto: Yoto – The screen-free audio platform for kids.
James Fabricant
CEO & Founder of Emoticast
James is CEO at Emoticast where we are on a mission to bring the universe of popular culture (music, sounds, interactive content, you name it) into your chat stream making the communication more engaging and emotive. Formerly James was the Founder of IdeaPlane and served as its CEO. Prior to founding IdeaPlane, he was one of four founders of MySpace International and played an integral part in its global expansion, which included launching MySpace sites in 17 languages across 30 countries. He qualified as a corporate finance and private equity attorney at leading international law firm Linklaters which included a secondment at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Fabricant holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Law from Cambridge University.
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About Emoticast: Emoticast is a platform to share music GIFs with sound across all platforms.
Bobby Simms
Founder of Emoticast
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About Emoticast: Emoticast is a platform to share music GIFs with sound across all platforms.
Jamal Edwards
Founder & CEO of SBTV
Jamal Edwards founded SB.TV which he still runs as CEO. What started as a UK online urban music channel has quickly grown into an innovative and exciting music and lifestyle media platform with global reach. SB.TV now has over 200 million youtube views and has featured interviews with a varied list of guests from politicians such as David Cameron and Ed Milliband to globally recognized artists such as Nicki Minaj and Jessie J as well as urban stars like Giggs & Drake. In 2011 Edwards was the face of the Google Chrome ad which was the second most popular YouTube ad that year. In 2012 he was named one of Richard Branson’s ‘Young Pioneers’ and has since been described as ‘The Branson of the Urban Scene’. Later that year Edwards was named on the Sunday Times Rich List and gave a talk at a TEDx Talk hosted at the houses of parliament where he put forward a case for why the next Prime Minister could be found on YouTube. 2013 saw the release of Edwards’ groundbreaking innovative business book Self Belief: The Vision which was a number 1 bestseller in its first week! Edwards is a patron for The Prince’s Trust and Access to Music and committed to using his success to shine light on other young entrepreneurs and help spread Self Belief amongst all people.
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About SBTV: SBTV is an online platform that provides its users with news on media.
Phil Sant
Chief Engineer & Founder of Stage
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About Stage: Stage builds a technology platform that revolutionizes music payment pipelines.
Elomida Visviki
CEO & Co-Founder of Weav
Elomida Visviki is CEO and Co-founder at Weav and Cute Little Apps Ltd. She used to work at TEDxAthens ad Ambassador and Vice President at NGO Aniksi.
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About Weav: Weav Music has created a new format that relies on two pieces of software.
Amin Hamzianpour
Co-Founder of The Qube
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About The Qube: Creatives, Music, Art, Film, Photography
Sergio Mottola
Founder & President of Public Pressure
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About Public Pressure: Public Pressure operates an online NFT marketplace for the music industry.
James McAulay
Co-Founder & CEO of Encore Technologies
Our resident Cellist and CEO, James dreams of a future where live music is everywhere.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
James King
Co-Founder & CTO of Encore Technologies
An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
Marie-Alicia Chang
Founder of Musicmetric
Marie-Alicia is a Founder at Musicmetric Analytics.
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About Musicmetric, Semetric: Musicmetric offers analytics and trend forecasting services for the music industry.
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Jake Cossington
Founder & CEO of Terrabyte Studios Limited
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About Terrabyte Studios Limited: Terrabyte Studios Limited is a Media Company powering online services.
Timothy Armoo
Co-Founder and CEO of Fanbytes
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About Fanbytes: Creating unforgettable experiences with the stars you love.
Mike Hammerton
Co-Founder of Pirate Studios
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About Pirate Studios: Pirate Studios is the music technology company.
David Borrie
Founder of Pirate Studios
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About Pirate Studios: Pirate Studios is the music technology company.
Matus Maar
CEO & Co-Founder of Pirate Studios
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About Pirate Studios: Pirate Studios is the music technology company.
Pavel Maurus
Co-Founder of Deep Social
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About Deep Social: Freemium influencer ranking, discovery and AI-driven analytics platform providing in-depth insights for 43M+ influencers and their audience
Alena Golden
Co-Founder and CEO of BattleMe – Hip Hop Community and Rap Studio
Alena Golden is a Co-Founder and CEO of BattleMe – Hip Hop Community and Rap Studio.
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About BattleMe – Hip Hop Community and Rap Studio: Mobile app creating a community where freestylers and rappers can record tracks and grow their talent through winning contests.
Yiorgos Nikoletakis
CEO & Founder of 100mentors
Yiorgos enjoys surrounding himself with his role models: educators & entrepreneurs. After having worked in 4 US states, Spain, Greece & China, “arguing like I am right, listening like I am wrong” is his favorite motto.
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About 100mentors: We empower today’s youth to consciously take their once in a lifetime decisions & prepare them for the workplace of the future.
Martha Fox
Founder of Lucky Voice
Martha is the founder and executive chair of Doteveryone.org.uk. In April 2016 she was appointed as a non-executive director of Twitter. Martha became a crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords in March 2013. In March 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University. Martha co- founded and chairs LuckyVoice, revolutionising the karaoke industry. She is a non executive director of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Creative industries federation, the Scale Up Institute and the Open Data Institute. In 2007 Martha founded her own charitable foundation Antigone and also serves as a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. In 2013 Martha was awarded a CBE. In 1998. Martha co-founded Europe’s largest travel and leisure website, lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman. They took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005.
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About Doteveryone, Lucky Voice, The Open University: Lucky Voice, is offers music karaoke services.
Andy Agar
Co-Founder and CEO of Music TCHR
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About Music TCHR: Music TCHR is a platform that focuses on music, teaching, songwriting, live events, and the marketplace.
James Eddleston
CEO and Founder of GigList
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About : GigList is a music discovery site that brings fans closer to their next favourite artists and a world of live music.
Dumi Oburota
Founder & Director of Disturbing London
Founder and Managing Director of Disturbing London an entertainment and lifestyle company, which in addition to artist management, has a record label and fashion brand of the same name.
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About Disturbing London: Disturbing London is an entertainment company.
Sarah Jane Thomson
Co Founder of Discover Film
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About Discover Film: A technology and entertainment platform for short movies. Films can be watched online and via mobile and Smart TV Apps.
Steve Harmston
Founder of Discover Film
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About Discover Film: A technology and entertainment platform for short movies. Films can be watched online and via mobile and Smart TV Apps.
Alex Braga
CEO and Founder of Visionalia ltd
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About Visionalia ltd: A NEW KIND OF A.I. TO START A MUSIC REVOLUTION
Lina Naima
Co-Founder and Co-Owner of F4M Models
Lina Naima is the Co-Founder & Co-Owner of F4M Models and Confidence an Empowerment Coach, Author, and Entrepreneur who helps women become the best versions of themselves.
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About F4M Models: F4M Models is a modeling agency providing dancers, actresses, and models for music videos, promo work, and tv commercials for 5 years.
Ian Clethero
Founder & Director of 1Hub Media Ltd
Ian Clethero is the founder of 1Hub Media (London) and Platform8 Asia (Hong Kong). These are online media companies publishing platforms for two verticals: music education and choirs. Platform8 Asia is reponsible for marketing the projects in Hong Kong, SE Asia and the wider region. 1Hub Media takes the same role for the UK and European markets. The aim is to build MUSIC:ED and Chorally into ‘go-to’ global resources for their respective sectors. Each platform efficiently links individual users with organisations and businesses. The platforms combine independent media (news, magazine articles) with directories and listings (classifieds, project profiles, jobs, resources). Online membership, social networks and iOS/Android mobile apps will be launched in 2019 to provide new benefits for platform users, boosting overall engagement and traffic. MUSIC:ED is designed for students, educators, performers and parents as end-users. Advertisers include education providers (including university and college music departments, international schools, private music schools), music and software publishers, providers of specialist services, charities, government departments and arts councils, membership organisations and performance venues. Chorally serves the global choral sector, a market of an estimated 2m performing groups and 60m singers. The platform brings together choirs, singers and audiences in one place (the idea for Chorally came from Ian Clethero’s extensive experience as a church musician). From mid 2019, choirs will be able to create profiles and add jobs, events and news to Chorally. Both platforms are monetised through advertiser subscriptions, individual listing fees (eg for summer schools and jobs) and individual membership subscriptions (from 2019). Additional revenue is derived from sponsorship and affiliate commissions from sales originated on the platforms. The projects have bases in both Europe and Asia. Ian Clethero’s aim is to expand MUSIC:ED and Chorally in these regions. After this, the projects will be extended worldwide including to North and South America.
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About 1Hub Media Ltd: Publisher of digital information platforms, MUSIC:ED (https://musiceducation.global) and Chorally (https://choral.ly).
Ben Schogler
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
David Skulina
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
David Skulina
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
Chris Meehan
Founder & CEO of Sentric Music
Chris Meehan joined Sentric Music as Founder & CEO in 2005.
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About Sentric Music: Sentric Music is an independent music publisher home to thousands of bands/artists/writers.
Stuart Logan
Founder & CEO of Twine
As the Big Boss, Stuart spends his days in a large leather armchair, staring out over the Manchester skyline while smoking a cigar and plotting world domination. (He doesn’t really). Originally from Salisbury, he studied computer science at Manchester University but was always keen to break into the exciting world of start-ups, and was involved in a number of ventures before finalising his plans for Clowdy. When not wearing his chief executive hat (metaphorically speaking) he enjoys harbouring unrealistic expectations for Manchester United’s future success and live music.
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About Twine: Twine connects companies to diverse creative and digital freelancers
Yaw Asamani
Founder and CEO of DooWapp
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About DooWapp: An API and App to add playable lyrics to any part of your message to express yourself with music you love
George Asamani
Co-Founder and COO/CFO of DooWapp
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About DooWapp: An API and App to add playable lyrics to any part of your message to express yourself with music you love
George Asampong
Co-Founder and CTO of DooWapp
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About DooWapp: An API and App to add playable lyrics to any part of your message to express yourself with music you love
Alex Hunter
Founder & CEO of Rushmore.fm
Alex Hunter is an angel investor and company incubator.
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About Ignite Accelerator, Rushmore.fm: We want to bring artists and music fans closer together.
Maria Baibakova
Founder & Director of Baibakov Art Projects
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About Baibakov Art Projects: Baibakov Art Projects is a contemporary art organization with a mission of supporting Russian artists globally.
Nathan Harrigan
Founder of Kindrd
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About Kindrd: A discovery service powered by humans, not algorithms.
Jacob Payne
Founder of Kindrd
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About Kindrd: A discovery service powered by humans, not algorithms.
Jacob Payne
Founder of Kindrd
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About Kindrd: A discovery service powered by humans, not algorithms.
Dumisani Kapanga
Founder of Mvelani
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About Mvelani: Mvelani is an on-demand African music platform that helps music lover discover and listen to old and new music on all of their devices
Neil Pollard
Founder of Ents24
Neil graduated with a MSc in Advanced Computing from Bristol University in 1997. He developed the UK’s first ever mobile website in 1999 – “The UK Entertainment Centre” – which won several awards and formed the basis of Ents24, a company that he co-founded in 2000. Ents24.com now receives 2m visitors per month, making it the third most popular destination for tickets in the UK, after Ticketmaster and See Tickets.
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About Ents24: Ents24 is a live entertainment website covering live music, comedy, theatre and shows.
Adam Blair
Founder of PUMP Audio
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About PUMP Audio: PUMP Audio is to Dance Music what Beats were to Hip Hop. We make some *seriously* good headphones.
Matt Auckland
Founder & Broadcaster of Sumo Radio
Founder of digital media startups Sumo Radio & The DJ Book, and proprietor of The Laughing Buddha IT Solutions. Matt is a talented freelance Full Stack Web developer, IT Consultant, Broadcaster, Producer, DJ, and Blogger. Head of Broadcast IT at Unity 101 Community Radio, and Voice FM (Southampton), Matt has been featured in the book “Make it Happen: The Prince’s Trust Guide to Starting your own Business”. Matt is producer and co-host of the weekly Global House Party, a globally syndicated radio show and podcast, co-hosted by international DJ/Producer Ridney. The show is available weekly around the world on 16 stations in 6 countries including UK, Spain, Canada, and USA. As well as over 9,000 podcast listeners per month. Matt also works with renowned multi award winning music producer Artful (Mark Hill, formerly of Artful Dodger). As a DJ, Matt has been spinning for over 25yrs. His passion for dance music has taken him into clubs, radio and beyond. In the last two years his Deep House mixes on YouTube have notched up over 166,025 views, an achievement he is extremely proud of. A self-confessed geek and keen amateur photographer, Matt has a passion for broadcasting, radio, music, and tech. He enjoys new challenges, and creating solutions.
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About After Partie, Sumo Radio: Love Dance Music? Love Sumo. Live streaming only the very best in dance music.
Charlie Ryan
Founder & Director of Moshhh Ltd.
I’m the Founder of Giguana, a new kind of streaming service that rewards fans for supporting the bands they love. I have an 11 year background in Design and Development, and worked with a number of big name clients before joining the team at football statistics startup Squawka to build the initial product. I exited Squawka in 2014 to try and disrupt the music industry with Giguana.
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About Moshhh Ltd.: Giguana is new kind of streaming service that rewards fans for supporting the bands they love. Launching Soon!
Manon Clayeux
Co-Founder of Trax & Wax
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About Trax & Wax: Trax & Wax is the first record box subscription for Dance Music fans.
Paul Custance
Founder and CEO of Lirica
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About Lirica: Lirica harnesses the power of music to make learning both memorable and fun.
Rob Lewis
Founder & CEO of Electric Jukebox
Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group, Omnifone, rara.com, and most recently The Electric Jukebox Company. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, London. He gained a MA degree in Economics from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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About Electric Jukebox: Electric Jukebox: Taking on music streaming services, home entertainment systems
Peter Stephenson
Founder/CEO of Musitude
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About Musitude: A web & app music learning/playing solution for non-musicians
Andrew Fisher
Co-Founder & CEO of Cute Media Corporation
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About Cute Media Corporation, Tabl: Cute Media Corporation is a company that specializes in interactive digital entertainment.
Kevin Godley
Founder of Youdio
Kevin Godley: WholeWorldBand was founded by Kevin Godley – originally drummer, singer and songwriter of the hugely successful Art Pop band 10cc and later multi-award-winning director of music videos for artists such as U2, Bryan Adams, Paul McCartney, Blur, Lou Reed and countless other successful acts. Kevin’s vision was of a system where artists and fans could collaborate together to create new music tracks and video mixes that could be shared and enjoyed worldwide – hence the name WholeWorldBand.
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About Youdio: Youdio is a video and music collaboration app platform.
Jake Doolin
Co-Founder and Owner of VisTech Studios
Jake has a strong passion in directing, photography and cinematography, producing professional work to the highest standards. He thrives off challenges and will put his mind to anything that’ll let his creativity shine. Jake pays a lot of attention to detail and is very much a people person. He has worked on several projects inside and outside of college whilst reaching top grades for his practical work.
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About VisTech Studios: VisTech Studios is a film and video production company.
David Martin
Founder of Martin Audio
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About Martin Audio: Martin Audio manufactures and supplies professional loudspeaker systems for touring, theatre, and installation applications.
David Jacobs
Founder of Festyvent
Entrepreneur and pragmatic business and technology leader operating in the telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors. In 2015 launched Festyvent (www.festyvent.com) an App-as-a-Service for engaging and monetising fans and audiences for artists and events. Founded, led and sold a Jacobs Rimell Limited, a recognised independent telecommunications software and services company to a Amdocs, a leading BSS & OSS software vendor. A proven track record of innovation and business development combined with building successful teams to develop and bring to market mission critical products and services for telecommunications and media companies.
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About Festyvent: Engaging and Monetising Audiences
Howard Scott
CEO & Co-Founder of PopWorld
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About PopWorld: Live streaming and on demand video pop music news and views.
Mark Moriarty
CEO and Founder of Awesound
Mark Moriarty is Founder and CEO at Awesound. Previously, he was consultant at McKinsey and Company. He also used to work at UC Berkeley as an open educational resources researcher, and at Claritics as predictive analytics software developer.
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About Awesound: Awesound is a platform for personalized and interactive audio.
Tersha Willis
Co-Founder & CEO of terrible*
Tersha is a Goldsmiths College graduate with a background in Financial Services, Private Equity, and Fashion. She’s been named on the AIM AltPower 100 Music List and has talked at BBC introducing Live, MIL and AIM Connected. She has been featured on the BBC and C4 as well as in Wallpaper Magazine, Vox and MusicAlly for her progressive views on Merchandise and her uniquely artist-focused work. She is also a finalist in the Creative Industries Entrepreneur of Year in The Great British Entrepreneur Awards, 2019.
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About terrible*: Music Merchandise, Tech, Analytics, Marketplace, Supply Chain
Jan Zastera
Founder of CEDAR Audio
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About CEDAR Audio: CEDAR Audio is the world in noise suppression and audio restoration.
Iain McLean
Managing Director, Founder of Musations
Iain has over 150 apps submitted to the apps stores and over 100 Million downloads to his name, Iain is a serious developer with an eye for new technology and the Internet of things!
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About CarryCado, Musations: Mutations is a social media messaging platform that enables its users to share their inner most feelings through music.
Joe Wade
Co-Founder of Don’t Panic
Joe Wade is a BAFTA winning British filmmaker, TV writer, producer and the CEO and co-founder of creative agency Don’t Panic. In 2012 he co-created the BBC 3 TV show The Revolution Will Be Televised, winning a BAFTA for Best Comedy in May 2013. Joe has helped DP transition from famous flyer packs to a leading creative agency, best known for making viral content such as ‘Most Shocking Second a Day’ (Save the Children), ‘Can I Be Your Friend’ (ENO) and ‘Can You Make it to the End?’ (NAS).
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About Don’t Panic: An online arts, music, style & culture magazine accompanied by an offline poster pack.
Benjamin Durrenberger
Founder of Signum Audio
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About Signum Audio: Developers of cutting-edge audio software that delivers an incredibly user-friendly experience and superior sound quality.
Marcus Adetola
Founder of Potentiam
Marcus Adetola is the Founder at Potentiam.
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About Potentiam: Redesigning the Music landscape using modern technologies.
Iyke Onyemelukwe
Founder of Ikonfete
Founder at Ikonfete. Strong business and UI/UX background.
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About Ikonfete: Ikonfete helps artists identify and leverage their core fan base.
Iyke Onyemelukwe
Founder of Ikonfete
Founder at Ikonfete. Strong business and UI/UX background.
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About Ikonfete: Ikonfete helps artists identify and leverage their core fan base.
William Junior
Founder of Ikonfete
Co-Founder at Ikonfete.
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About Ikonfete: Ikonfete helps artists identify and leverage their core fan base.
Christopher Dawes
Co-Founder of Electronic Sound Magazine
Christopher Dawes is a Co-Founder at Electronic Sound Magazine.
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About Electronic Sound Magazine, Pam Communications: Electronic Sound – the new iPad magazine about electronic music.
Brad Cohen
Founder of Tido Music
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About Tido Music: Creator of the Tido Music app, an inspirational resource and learning tool for pianists and singers of all abilities.
Ben Allen
Founder of Ben Allen Media
With 12 years’ experience working for other music industry organisations observing how it should – and in some cases should not – be done, in May 2010 Ben Allen went it alone and launched BAM! He is a recognised figure in the UK music industry and has provided music promotions consultancy for independent artists & labels, digital music platforms, festivals , lifestyle brands and represented bands at international level. Prior to BAM! Ben worked for and independent music PR company, Virgin EMI Records, Universal Music Group and marketing roles with start-up initiatives. Successful marketing and PR campaigns for: Hop Farm Festival, Cornbury Festival, Benicassim Festival (Spain), Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg) and artists like Deadmau5, Unicorn Kid and DJ Louie Vega, Keane, Sugababes, Kelis, Air, Jamie T, Bryan Ferry, Willy Mason, The Spinto Band, The Bees, Rolan Bolan, The Parlotones, Imelda May, Nell Bryden and one or two more.
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About Ben Allen Media: Ethical, honest, effective consultancy and services to the music industry. Informed advice for bands, festivals, events and music platforms.
Josiah Holloway
Founder of Marketing Musicians Ltd.
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About Marketing Musicians Ltd.: Marketing Musicians are a Music Marketing and PR agency in the UK, dedicated to helping launch music careers through affordable services.
Pavan Mukhi
Founder of Brapp
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About Brapp: Brapp is a free and powerful platform enabling people to create and discover exciting musical collaborations from all over the world.
Raad Haider
Founder of Brapp
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About Brapp: Brapp is a free and powerful platform enabling people to create and discover exciting musical collaborations from all over the world.
Javed Khan
Founder of Riffly
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About Riffly, Schmoooze: RIFFLY is a music and entertainment channel, broadcasting content that features emerging and established artists via Facebook live.
Graham Gabie
Founder of SoundVault Ltd
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About SoundVault Ltd: SoundVault is online marketplace for music licensing, representing rights owners & licensing music to the world’s media production industry.
Rafael McDonnell
Founder of Talent & Brands
Raf has spent most of his career in marketing working with major brands and famous celebrity talent. After starting his brand career at Fosters Lager, he has held senior marketing roles at Pepsico/Walkers Crisps and Coca-Cola. While at Coca-Cola as Head of UK Marketing Activation, he founded MyCokemusic.com, one of Europe’s first major legal music download and streaming websites. In 2005 he left Coca-Cola to set up RED Entertainment Marketing, an agency helping brands work with music and entertainment partners. In 2008 he joined EMI Music and was Senior Vice President for Brand Partnerships Licensing & Synchronisation for Europe & Rest of World, where he was responsible for creating partnerships between brands and music talent, and licensing music to partners in the advertising, gaming, TV and film industries. In 2012 he joined Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world’s leading entertainment agency, to lead Brand Partnerships and Sponsorships in London for their roster of music and entertainment artists, representing many of the biggest names in the industry. He joined Amazon in 2017 as Head of Business Development and Partnerships for Amazon Tickets negotiating partnerships with major music artists and venues.
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About Talent & Brands: Talent & Brands is specialise in connecting celebrity talent & brands.
Rafael McDonnell
Founder of Talent & Brands
Raf has spent most of his career in marketing working with major brands and famous celebrity talent. After starting his brand career at Fosters Lager, he has held senior marketing roles at Pepsico/Walkers Crisps and Coca-Cola. While at Coca-Cola as Head of UK Marketing Activation, he founded MyCokemusic.com, one of Europe’s first major legal music download and streaming websites. In 2005 he left Coca-Cola to set up RED Entertainment Marketing, an agency helping brands work with music and entertainment partners. In 2008 he joined EMI Music and was Senior Vice President for Brand Partnerships Licensing & Synchronisation for Europe & Rest of World, where he was responsible for creating partnerships between brands and music talent, and licensing music to partners in the advertising, gaming, TV and film industries. In 2012 he joined Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world’s leading entertainment agency, to lead Brand Partnerships and Sponsorships in London for their roster of music and entertainment artists, representing many of the biggest names in the industry. He joined Amazon in 2017 as Head of Business Development and Partnerships for Amazon Tickets negotiating partnerships with major music artists and venues.
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About Talent & Brands: Talent & Brands is specialise in connecting celebrity talent & brands.
Joseph Carter
Founder of Golden Child
Founder at Golden Child
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About Golden Child: Music & Fashion Go Hand n Hand””
Ruaridh Currie
Co-Founder of Rockifi Ltd
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About Rockifi Ltd: The Heavy Streaming Platform
Ruaridh Currie
Co-Founder of Rockifi Ltd
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About Rockifi Ltd: The Heavy Streaming Platform
Keisher Downie
Founder & Vocalist of SHE Function Band
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About SHE Function Band: S.H.E. aka Sophisticated Hot Entertainment is one of the best live party bands based in London, UK.
