Live Music & Events

Kultur is a mobile-first ticketing platform that offers last-minute discounted tickets to live cultural events and performances. The app aims to fill empty seats at events by connecting price-conscious attendees with unsold inventory from venues and event organizers. Operating primarily in the Spanish market, the platform provides a marketplace for spontaneous event-goers to discover and purchase same-day or near-term entertainment options at reduced prices.

Into Reality is a Barcelona-based startup that provides an immersive, interactive, multi-device web player for audiovisual and musical content. The platform combines traditional 2D signals with 360º/180º video and virtual reality, enabling users to access live events and concerts through mobile devices, tablets, PCs, and VR headsets without requiring apps. The technology features proprietary SYNCX multi-camera synchronization and Gaze Control for eye-tracking navigation, with a particular focus on accessibility for people with reduced mobility.

Hulahoop Media is a B2B fintech platform combining financial advisory services and AI-powered technology for entertainment industry financing. The company provides financial structuring expertise for film, music festivals, and live events while offering a SaaS platform that automates paperwork, provides analytical dashboards, and creates transparency throughout the funding lifecycle. Their technology specifically addresses entertainment sector challenges including cultural tax incentives management and project-based financing across Europe's €44.5B content production market.

El Pumarejo is a non-profit cultural association and live music venue operating as an incubator for emerging artists and cultural projects. Founded in 2015 and based in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, it provides a physical warehouse space for concerts, DJ sets, workshops, and performances, primarily focusing on experimental, folk-contemporary, and underground music scenes. The organization hosts resident collectives, runs La Penca Radio for community broadcasting, and creates programming that integrates diverse cultural forms including music, cinema, and visual arts. It operates through a volunteer-driven model with support from public institutions and ticket sales.

Sonia Linares is an independent electronic pop artist creating cinematic soundscapes influenced by artists like Kate Bush, Massive Attack, and Röyksopp. Her project FORCES combines synthesizers with contemporary vocal delivery, drawing inspiration from science fiction media like Stranger Things and 1980s film soundtracks. The music is produced by Xevi Collado and Albert Pardo from Moon Vision, with a focus on sync opportunities for science fiction films and visual media.

GlassMusic is an augmented reality platform that enables musicians to view digital sheet music floating in their field of vision using Glassear AR glasses. The system eliminates the need for paper scores by projecting musical notation in real-time, allowing for hands-free reading during performance and practice. Built on Glassear's 10-year AR technology foundation, the platform works with mobile phones to provide an accessible and affordable AR experience for musicians.

Gigmor is an AI-powered discovery platform designed to help music fans find artists they love while providing artists with tools to convert fans into paying customers. The platform connects bands, venues, and fans within the live music ecosystem. Originally launched in 2017, the company pivoted in 2025 to focus specifically on fan engagement and artist monetization.

Get Moments is an AI-powered video platform that transforms fan-generated content from live events into personalized highlight videos. The platform collects videos uploaded by event attendees, uses proprietary visual AI to analyze and edit the footage, and creates unique aftermovies for each user with integrated brand sponsorships. It serves music festivals, concert venues, sports teams, and event organizers, processing thousands of videos per event with demonstrated capacity of 56,000+ uploads at major festivals like Sziget.

Ticketr is a B2B API-based ticketing interconnection platform that aggregates event inventory from over 20 ticketing systems (including Ticketmaster, Fnac Spectacles, and Fever) into a unified API. The platform enables white-label distribution of cultural, sports, and tourism events across multiple channels, allowing venues to share ticketing data with distribution partners without switching providers. It features automated metadata enrichment, real-time inventory synchronization, and direct booking integration for seamless user experiences.

Setmixer is a live music recording and distribution platform that captures studio-quality audio of performances at independent music venues. The system records sets during live shows, mixes them overnight, and makes them available for streaming and purchase within 12 hours, with artists retaining 70% of revenue. Operating across 66 UK venues with 60 shows recorded daily, the platform aims to digitize the live music industry while preserving authentic performances without artificial enhancement.

Bookr.fm is a B2B SaaS platform designed for music festival programmers and concert venue bookers to centralize and automate their workflow. The platform manages artist submissions, provides analytics and streaming data through partnership with Soundcharts, enables team collaboration, and handles offer management, budgets, and scheduling. It replaces scattered email, spreadsheet, and file-based workflows with a unified system for discovering emerging talent and making programming decisions.

Creast provides ISO 14067-certified software and services for measuring, reducing, offsetting, and certifying carbon footprints in the entertainment and hospitality industries. The platform offers sector-specific carbon calculation tools for film/TV production, advertising, live events, distribution, exhibition, and hotels, with automated invoice processing, sustainability reporting, and certification services. The company's methodology covers prediction, reduction, calculation, offsetting, and certification phases, helping clients achieve carbon neutrality while complying with environmental regulations like CSRD and FSRD.

Motion for Music is a creative studio specializing in motion design and visual content for the music industry. They provide comprehensive design solutions for various music industry stakeholders including artists, labels, venues, and festivals. The studio offers services ranging from music videos and social media content to live event visuals and branding materials.

The SoundShirt is a wearable haptic garment that translates sound into touch sensations in real-time using 28 micro-actuators seamlessly woven into the fabric. The wireless system maps different sound frequencies and dynamics across the wearer's body as gentle vibrations, enabling deaf and hard of hearing audiences to physically experience music, sports events, and gaming. The technology has been deployed in permanent installations at major venues including Premier League stadiums, opera houses, and cultural institutions across the US, Europe, and Middle East.

Memories of the Melted is an interactive climate art installation that transforms over 130,000 scientific data points about glacier decline into a real-time, multisensory experience. Visitors use hand gestures to navigate through time (1890s to 2100) and adjust temperature scenarios while interacting with a physical ice sheet that drips water at rates corresponding to projected glacier melt. The installation combines AI-powered generative art, motion sensors, projection mapping, and synchronized soundscapes to visualize the Rhône Glacier's past, present, and future states under different climate scenarios. Created in collaboration with leading glaciologists, it bridges scientific accuracy with emotional engagement for policy makers, educators, and the general public.

Auditio is a platform designed to monitor offline music usage in retail, hospitality, and music venues, collecting music data and reporting it to collective management organisations for royalty distribution. The platform also provides music insights and recommendations—such as charts, playlists, and DJ sets—to help venues optimise their music usage. It aims to increase compliance with music licensing regulations and improve the fairness and sustainability of royalty distribution. The project is a joint initiative between BMAT, Dengun, and MusicMagnet, co-funded through the Eurostars-3 programme and the European Union's Horizon Europe.

Nordic Music Tech is a Swedish non-profit ecosystem association that connects artists, startups, industry leaders, and researchers at the intersection of music and technology. Operating primarily through events, meetups, and online/offline community-building activities, it curates the Nordic Music Tech List—a comprehensive directory of music tech companies across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. As a founding member of Music Tech Europe (established January 2024), it serves as the Nordic chapter of a pan-European advocacy and innovation network for the music technology sector.

FestivalPro is a cloud-based event management software platform designed specifically for festivals, conferences, and large-scale events. The platform provides comprehensive 360-degree event lifecycle management including artist/performer management, vendor coordination, staff/volunteer management, stage scheduling, integrated ticketing with QR codes, guest management, and marketing tools. Founded in 2018 by developers with over 10 years of festival production experience, the platform now serves 550+ events worldwide across music festivals, food festivals, conferences, and cultural events.

FANPLAYMUSIC is a dual-platform system designed to serve the entire music business ecosystem. The first platform functions as a marketplace connecting all stakeholders in the music industry, from artists and venues to labels and fans. The second platform enables tokenization of artistic projects, allowing creators to fund and develop their work independently of the traditional music industry. Both platforms are described as interconnected and aimed at a global audience, with current headquarters in Barcelona.

Festivals Terres de l'Ebre is a regional cultural brand that aggregates and promotes festivals across the four counties of Terres de l'Ebre in southern Catalonia. The initiative operates as a coordinated network bringing together diverse festivals spanning music, cinema, theatre, dance, and other arts under a unified promotional framework. It provides a digital platform with festival discovery tools, calendars, and mapping to connect audiences with cultural events throughout the region.

La Musicleta is an electric bicycle that transforms into a fully autonomous, battery-powered mobile stage for live performances. The system achieves zero net CO2 emissions and brings professional-grade performances directly to streets, plazas, and remote communities without requiring external power infrastructure. Developed in collaboration with Austrian technology partner VeloConcerts, it serves as sustainable cultural infrastructure focused on democratizing access to live arts.

Bosc dels Sentits is an immersive interactive exhibition designed to raise awareness about the human-nature relationship, climate change, and environmental conservation. Using Playtronica® technology, visitors can generate electrical impulses by touching conductive natural objects (trees, plants, leaves, fruits), which are then translated into visual landscapes and sounds via Smode® and Ableton®. The experience engages multiple senses—hearing, sight, smell, and touch—to encourage reflection on climate consciousness. The project has completed a first edition and is now planning a second edition targeting the Barcelona/Catalunya market.

Breakevent is an AI-powered data analytics platform designed for live music industry professionals, including concert promoters, venues, and artist managers. The platform predicts concert success with over 80% accuracy by analyzing streaming data, social media metrics, ticketing information, and venue data. It offers modules for artist analysis, venue analysis, market discovery, and an AI assistant chatbot, helping professionals optimize tour routing, ticket pricing, and venue selection while reducing financial risk in event organization.

Extra Møenia is a Barcelona-based boutique music strategy consultancy and creative agency founded and led by three senior women professionals with over 15 years of combined experience in the music industry. The company offers artist development and release strategy, digital and data-driven marketing campaigns, and live event production, serving artists, labels, festivals, and music tech startups. They leverage analytics, AI tools, and digital platform strategy to deliver growth and international positioning, and run CompáSñeras, a recurring concert and talks series spotlighting women in flamenco and world music.

Ruta Lokal is a grassroots music media and promotion platform focused on live original music in the province of Barcelona. It operates a subscribable concert agenda, an interactive venue map, a biweekly podcast covering local concert listings, and an editorial blog featuring artist profiles and festival coverage. The project is led by a single creator and is funded through Patreon community support, with podcast distribution across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Google Podcasts.

Unframed Collection is a B2B SaaS platform and marketplace dedicated to the distribution of immersive VR/AR experiences to cultural venues such as museums, galleries, libraries, and location-based entertainment spaces. It provides a curated catalog of premium immersive works, a content management system for remote management of VR headsets, DRM-protected content licensing, and editorial resources for the cultural immersive sector. The platform operates a dual-sided marketplace connecting rights holders and content creators with cultural institutions, using a subscription plus credit-based pay-per-use business model with a 70/30 revenue split favoring creators.

Desilence is a Barcelona-based creative visual arts studio founded in 2005 that specializes in live visuals, projection mapping, and immersive visual experiences for concerts, festivals, theatre, and institutional venues. The studio creates real-time generative visuals and large-scale installations using tools like Notch and VDMX, combining a painterly artistic sensibility with advanced digital technology. Their client portfolio spans major international festivals (Sónar, Primavera Sound), top cultural institutions (Tate Gallery, Le Grand Palais, Guggenheim Bilbao), and global brands (Apple, Adidas, Red Bull). Beyond their studio work, they are also driving the Academia de las Artes Digitales, an initiative to strengthen the digital arts ecosystem in Barcelona.

TORXA is a Barcelona-based cultural and music startup focused on identifying trends, activating collaborations, and developing initiatives to grow musical talent. The company operates at the intersection of music, culture, community, and value creation, connecting artists, industry professionals, and audiences through projects with long-term potential. TORXA's offering centers on discovering, developing, producing, and amplifying talent through formats, experiences, and tools, working alongside labels, venues, promoters, producers, and music technology platforms.

SureShot is a Copenhagen-based B2B SaaS platform that enables event organizers to collect, curate, and redistribute user-generated video content (UGC) captured by attendees at live events. Using a PIN-gated system, audience members contribute footage via a mobile app, which is instantly uploaded to an organizer dashboard for AI-assisted curation and management. The platform targets a wide range of events including concerts, festivals, sports events, corporate gatherings, and weddings. Organizers can repurpose and reshare the curated content back to attendees in a TikTok-style browsing experience to drive fan engagement and community building.

MiMU Gloves are wearable musical instruments that allow musicians to control sound, effects, lighting, and visuals through hand gestures and movement. The product ecosystem includes the physical gloves (with flex sensors, orientation sensors, Wi-Fi, and haptic feedback), Glover (mapping software with ML-based gesture recognition), the Gliss mobile app, and granular audio plugins. Designed for professional live performance and composition, the gloves connect to third-party music software via MIDI and OSC, enabling expressive, movement-based control without traditional controllers. Founded around the work of Grammy-winning artist Imogen Heap, MiMU targets professional and semi-professional musicians seeking more dynamic, visually engaging stage performances.

Happaning is an AI-powered multi-view video platform that captures, synchronises, and transforms fan-generated content at live events into immersive viewing experiences, sponsorship analytics, and brand ROI reporting. Powered by patented ViiVid® technology, the platform enables fans to contribute video footage without downloading an app, aggregating crowd-sourced content into a unified multi-angle archive. The platform includes AI-driven logo detection for sponsorship visibility tracking, real-time Jumbo Screen integration, and content rights management, serving event organisers, brands, and agencies.

LiveLoop is a professional live-looping desktop software application designed for real-time stage performance. It functions as a next-generation DAW offering 16-track simultaneous looping, multiple loop modes, a 256-step sequencer, VST/AU/M4L plug-in support, complex time signature handling, and networked collaboration for up to 16 users via its Live Jam feature. The platform targets musicians of all levels—from beatboxers and electronic performers to classical instrumentalists—and is expanding into Web3 with a forthcoming NFT marketplace (LoopNFT) for minting and monetising looped compositions.

Nevent is a B2B SaaS CRM and omnichannel marketing platform built specifically for the live events industry. It enables venues, festivals, and promoters to capture, centralize, and activate audience data through email, SMS, WhatsApp, and AI-powered chatbot campaigns. The platform integrates with leading ticketing systems to build enriched fan profiles, enabling segmented marketing, gamified data capture, and real-time analytics. Its core value proposition is replacing generic CRM tools with an events-native solution that understands the unique data and communication patterns of recurring live events.

Nysus Pro is an end-to-end platform for booking live talent, contract management, and payments in the live events and creative industries. It combines escrow-based payments, automated contract creation, proof-of-work delivery verification, and payout splitting into a single workflow. The platform targets agencies, brands, venues, and individual creators seeking to eliminate ghost bookings, payment disputes, and administrative overhead in live performance booking.

Gig 'n' Pick is an AI-powered platform for independent musicians, venues, and music fans that automates content creation, promotion, booking, and career guidance. The platform features a Studio Engine for generating AI video highlights from live performances, a smart matching system for connecting artists with venues and collaborators, and a fan-facing event discovery tool. It operates as a three-sided marketplace currently in beta, with early community activity focused on Berlin. The platform aims to reduce the administrative burden on independent artists while increasing their visibility and revenue through automation and AI-driven career advice.

Festiverso is a comprehensive digital platform for managing and promoting music festivals, consisting of a web-based administration panel for organizers and native mobile apps (Android/iOS) for attendees. It handles lineup management, scheduling, automated roadmap generation, artist contest and voting management, real-time push notifications, and sponsor metrics. The platform is open-source (GNU AGPLv3), designed with full accessibility compliance, and includes gender equity data tracking and sustainability reporting features. It is developed by Simbiótica Tech, a Spanish workers' cooperative, and targets independent promoters and municipalities seeking an end-to-end, ethically-designed festival management solution.