Music Ally SI:X is our global showcase, contest and mentorship support programme for early-stage music-tech startups, held annually.
Today, we’ve announced the 21 finalists in this year’s contest. You can find the list below, along with links to their websites to find out more about what they do.
This year’s Music Ally SI:X is in association with Amazon Music, Ascap Lab, Push Entertainment, Reed Smith, Rock Paper Scissors and Universal Music Group Digital Innovation.
Our panel of judges from these partners will now narrow the list down to this year’s winners, who will be presenting at our Music Ally Connect conference in January 2026. So, on with the finalists rundown!
Music Ally SI:X finalists 2025
Bonza Music (UK)
A startup that has built technology for virtual ‘digital acoustic twin’ rehearsal spaces for musicians to collaborate online as if sharing a real room.
Breakevent (Spain)
Uses concert data from more than 1,500 venues to help promoters decide who to book, as well as to help artists decide how to route their tours.
Claimy (France)
AI-powered auditing of music catalogues to identify missing royalties across covers, remixes and social-media usage, with automated filing of claims.
Deep Noise (US)
“The Canva for Audio”: a GenAI tool that generates editable, copyright-free loops and stems via text prompts for musicians to work with in their DAWs.
Divisi (Chile)
An app that aims to help musicians sort out their royalty chaos with split sheets, contracts, credits and an AI assistant feature for working artists.
Dog Paw (US)
This startup has built a weighted grid instrument that sits somewhere between keyboard, controller and sampler, with add-ons made by its developer community.
Ellevate (UK)
A service for artists who don’t have a manager – yet – but who could benefit from training and coaching from veterans in the field on a monthly basis.
Innovation Syndicate for RadioPromo (US)
This DIY radio-promotion tool uses AI to find the right stations, DJs and program directors for artists to run targeted airplay campaigns for their music.
InTempo (Ukraine)
A mobile game that synchronises players’ heartbeats with music by getting them to tap on the screen, customising the app to attune to their current stress levels.
Just 4 Noise (Germany)
A prompt-based GenAI sample maker that musicians can use to create royalty-free sounds as an alternative to library-digging. It’s trained on licensed data.
Kowl (France)
This startup’s product is an AI-powered ‘OS for the music industry’. Aimed at labels and managers, it provides analytics but also “clear, actionable priorities”.
Listening Party (US)
A platform for artists to hold online listening parties with their fans, driving engagement as well as streams on DSPs for new releases, anniversaries and more.
MuseAI (Australia)
This freemium app is for musicians: a “second brain” that stores and organises their musical ideas, transcribes lyrics, and can remind them of older ideas that match new ones.
Music League (US)
A social game where friends pick songs for themed rounds and vote, discovering music together – with artists and labels potentially accessing data too.
Orphiq (US)
A dashboard and AI agent (called ‘Apollo’) that helps artists and their teams to plan releases, marketing campaigns and social-media strategy.
Plates (US)
Founded by former UMG data experts, this is an AI-marketing tool that pulls in a host of analytics then makes sense of them with recommended actions.
Poison Pill (UK)
Clever technology that uses “adversarial noise algorithms” to make audio files (and images) harder for AI companies to scrape and use for model training.
Songpact (UK)
One of the startups applying AI to the lawyerly business of contracts, splits and other legal tasks, aimed at DIY musicians who need to get their terms in order.
StreamPush (Netherlands)
This startup works with labels and artists to turn their catalogues into round-the-clock radio stations on YouTube and Twitch, generating revenues 24/7.
Tuttii (US)
A licensed AI-remixing app where fans can mash up tracks to share on social media – but where everything is generating royalties for rightsholders and musicians.
wildwildsky (UK)
A location-based “music as an adventure” app offering exclusive tracks that can only be unlocked in real-world nature spots – founded by a musician.
Music Ally SI:X is for startups founded in the last five years (since 1 January 2020 in this year’s case) with a headcount of fewer than 200 people. Last year’s winners were Aiode, Different Breed, Human Native AI, Maia Universe, Rescape Innovation and SoundLabs AI.
