Social music platform Stationhead has closed a $12 million Collection A financing spherical led by Buttonwood Group Advisors.
The startup has additionally secured funding from a heavyweight checklist of music trade backers, together with Pink Mild Administration, TMWRK, Spherical Hill Publishing, Avex Leisure, Craig Kallman and Julie Greenwald of Atlantic Data, Kevin Liles of 300 Leisure, and Jason Flom of Lava Data, and DJ, songwriter and music producer, Diplo.
Stationhead plans to make use of the capital to speed up the dimensions of its international platform, and put money into engineering and consumer expertise.
Stationhead says that it permits customers to create “international stations in seconds” the place they’ll stream music, speak stay, and join with different customers.
The US-based startup says that it makes use of patented know-how to let customers stream music straight from their Apple Music and Spotify accounts “with none danger of copyright infringement”.
Artists launching stations on the platform to date together with BTS, Think about Dragons and Cardi B, amongst others.
Since launching out of beta in 2021, Stationhead says that has reached 5 million customers with 30,000 stations throughout 200 nations.
Stationhead claims that singular stay streams on the platform have exceeded 600,000 individuals and all customers are averaging over two hours per day on the platform.
Customers also can seamlessly combine music and chatting with Stationhead’s performance to take live-calls or co-host reveals with different members.
Moreover, Stationhead has employed Andrew Cornett as Principal Product Designer, to supervise the design and engineering of latest know-how and merchandise for the platform.
Cornett joins Stationhead with over ten years of expertise in product design and engineering.
Previous to this, Cornett was Product Designer for HEIR, digital platform to attach athletes with followers, Product Design Director at music software program firm Splice, and iOS Engineer for Universe Inc, an internet site constructing app.
He additionally labored at Kickstarter, designing the corporate’s first iPhone app and Co-Based Jukely, a month-to-month live performance subscription app.
Cornett’s preliminary work will likely be centered on engagement and discovery instruments like the brand new ‘Channels’ function, which acts as a “group hub” for artists and followers and highlights the highest performing stations on the platform.
The inaugural ‘Channels’ options artists who’ve used Stationhead to have interaction straight with followers together with, BTS and Nicki Minaj.
Stationhead claims that the BTS Channel hosted over 600,000 followers in sooner or later, making BTS’ channel “the biggest social audio channel on the planet”.
“Stationhead is the subsequent evolution of music on-line. By constructing this with nice empathy for artists and followers alike now we have grown to turn into the popular international platform of the brand new technology to devour music collectively.”
Ryan Star, Stationhead
CEO and Co-Founding father of Stationhead, Ryan Star, stated: “Stationhead is the subsequent evolution of music on-line. By constructing this with nice empathy for artists and followers alike now we have grown to turn into the popular international platform of the brand new technology to devour music collectively.
“On launch week, we’re the center of the motion. The completion of this elevate signifies Stationhead’s rising & pivotal position in your complete music ecosystem.”
“We look ahead to the corporate’s continued development and innovation as a enterprise”
Joseph A. Alagna, Joseph Gunnar & Co. / Buttonwood Group Advisors
Joseph A. Alagna, Chairman & CEO of Joseph Gunnar & Co., and Founder & Co-Supervisor of Buttonwood Group Advisors, added: “Stationhead has gained important traction with its distinctive social streaming platform which has been rapidly adopted by each listeners and artists.
“We look ahead to the corporate’s continued development and innovation as a enterprise.”
“Stationhead has turn into an integral a part of music releases, including a model new method for followers and artists alike to have fun new releases collectively on a worldwide scale all whereas driving music up the charts.”
Murray Levison, Stationhead
Murray Levison, Stationhead Co-Founder & COO, stated: “Stationhead has turn into an integral a part of music releases, including a model new method for followers and artists alike to have fun new releases collectively on a worldwide scale all whereas driving music up the charts.
“Artists like BTS, Cardi B, NBA YoungBoy, & Stray Children have efficiently used Stationhead to create superb experiences with their followers and drive their music to No.1. These incomparable artist-fan encounters have transpired organically and replicate the distinctive worth that Stationhead affords.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
