Music Ally SI:X is our global showcase, contest and mentorship support programme for early-stage music-tech startups, held annually.
This week we have announced the 21 startups chosen as finalists for the 2024 edition. You can find details of each of them, as well as links to check them out for yourself, below.
This year’s Music Ally SI:X is in association with Amazon Music, Ascap Lab, Music Foundry, Red Bull Media House, Reed Smith, 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 2025. The winners will also get mentoring from the six partners.
So, on with the finalists:
- Aiode, whose virtual AI musicians will accompany human artists
- Alloy Sync Distro, which is building a new sync-metadata format
- Ampy, which helps artists sell to superfans and tap into analytics
- Camb.ai, from the field of ‘voice LLMs’ putting AI to various audio uses
- China Music Audit, which is chasing down missing royalties in China
- Different Breed, a disabled-run startup serving disabled concertgoers
- Equa.ls, whose app gets people to curate music (and possibly earn money)
- Foreplai, a pay-per-play streaming service due to launch in 2025
- Hangout, a reinvention of famous social-music service Turntable.fm
- Human Native AI, a platform to fuel ethical licensing for AI training
- Maia Universe, which wants to deliver ‘frictionless’ sync licensing
- Memory Tracks, supporting people with ADHD and medication adherence
- Musikind, which helps people with dementia to sing with family and friends
- Overtune, an inventive music-creation app with a dash of AI included
- Rescape Innovation, treating pain and anxiety with music and virtual reality
- Setmixer, which is recording concerts in multi-track studio quality
- SoundLabs AI, founded by trance legend BT to help artists clone their voices
- Synkii, a clever service for piano teachers to hold online video lessons
- Vinil, which is building a system for consent and control in the AI world
- Voice-Swap, founded by DJ Fresh, also to enable ethical voice-cloning
- Vollou, putting a Shazam-style app to use for accurate PRO reporting
The criteria for Music Ally SI:X is simple: it’s for startups founded in the last five years (since 1 January 2019 in this year’s case) with a headcount of less than 200 people. What we’re looking for are startups building new and innovative businesses for the music industry.
Last year’s winners were 12on12, Flame2Fame, Masterchannel, Music Tomorrow, StanPass and Tickets For Good. You can read more about them in our news story announcing the 2023 winners.
