Music Technology & Innovation

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.

My Sheet Music Transcriptions is a professional music transcription service that converts audio recordings into accurate sheet music and digital notation formats. The company employs 80+ specialized musicians who manually transcribe music note-by-note by ear, explicitly rejecting automated AI transcription software. Services include audio-to-sheet music transcription for all instruments, music arrangements, MIDI preparation, and B2B solutions for music tech companies, with capacity to produce over 4,000 transcriptions monthly in multiple formats (PDF, MIDI, Sibelius, Finale, MusicXML, MuseScore, Guitar Pro).

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.

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.

Zongtopia is an educational mobile video game for musicians that combines gamified music learning with virtual studio building. Players learn music production techniques, music theory, and professional studio setup through interactive mini-games, quizzes, and challenges while customizing their dream music studio. The platform includes a social hub for musician collaboration and networking, with planned features for collaborative song creation and monetization education.

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.

Lahuella Audio is a Barcelona-based audio marketing and sound branding studio offering three main services: Lahuella AMBIENT (a cloud-based musical ambiance platform for commercial spaces with legal licensing and analytics), Lahuella STUDIO (creative audio production including sound branding, jingles, and music composition), and Lahuella PODCAST (professional podcast production services). The company provides B2B solutions for retail chains, hotels, and various commercial sectors, combining streaming technology with optional professional hardware and centralized multi-location management.

Huephonic is a B2B audiomarketing and sonic branding platform that provides customized music curation and sound experiences for commercial environments. The platform serves multiple industries including retail, hospitality, healthcare, fashion, and corporate sectors, delivering brand-aligned audio programming and ambient soundscapes. Operating from Barcelona, it focuses on leveraging sound as a marketing tool and enhancing customer experiences through professionally curated audio environments.

Soundcharts is a comprehensive music industry database and analytics platform that centralizes data on streaming, audience metrics, charts, playlists, radio airplay, festivals, and venues. The platform tracks over 14 million artists and 72 million songs, providing a dashboard for artists and industry professionals to analyze cross-platform performance and make data-driven decisions. Soundcharts also offers an API that powers data integration for music technology companies like Mogul, Beam for Music, and Base for Music.

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.

Sesh is an all-in-one fan community management platform for music artists that captures fan data across multiple touchpoints, consolidates it into owned first-party data, and provides AI-powered tools to activate fanbases. The platform includes features for data capture (landing pages, link-in-bio, wallet passes), engagement tools (email campaigns, push notifications, in-app sessions), and monetization capabilities (tickets, merchandise, memberships). It integrates with major streaming platforms and social media while positioning itself as a solution for artists to own their audience data rather than relying on rented social media audiences.

Chatmu is an AI-powered conversational assistant designed specifically for the music industry. It provides data analytics, strategic insights, and educational support to artists, managers, labels, and cultural institutions through a chat-based interface. The platform combines machine learning capabilities with music industry expertise to help professionals make data-driven decisions and accelerate their careers.

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.

RoEx creates AI-powered audio tools for mixing and mastering music. Their flagship products include Automix, an AI multitrack mixing and mastering service that processes stems in minutes, and Mix Check Studio, which provides objective feedback on mixes and masters with optional AI-driven enhancement. They also offer Tonn API and SDK for third-party platforms to integrate their audio processing capabilities into their own services.

BMAT is a music technology platform that provides rights management and music monitoring infrastructure for the global music industry. Using proprietary audio fingerprinting technology, it identifies and tracks music usage across TV, radio, streaming platforms, and public venues, processing 27 billion music matches daily. The platform manages data for 320 million sound recordings and 130 million musical works, facilitating approximately $2 billion in annual royalty distributions. BMAT serves publishers, labels, collecting societies, broadcasters, and digital service providers with automated reporting and metadata management tools.

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.

Cyanite is an AI-powered music analysis platform that automatically generates comprehensive metadata tags for audio content, including genre, mood, instruments, and tempo. The platform provides advanced search capabilities through similarity matching, natural language prompts, and multi-track reference searches, analyzing audio files directly using proprietary computer vision technology applied to spectrograms. With over 35 million songs analyzed, it serves music publishers, labels, production music companies, and streaming services through both a web application and API integrations.

Starmony is a mobile music creation platform that enables users to create professionally produced songs using just their smartphone. The platform offers multiple creation methods including voice-based song creation, AI-powered song generation from text descriptions, and voice transformation technology that converts vocals into various styles. It provides an end-to-end solution combining creation, production, and distribution, with integration to streaming platforms and social media.

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.

UpBeat Studio develops AI-powered mobile learning tools for drummers and percussionists, with two flagship apps: Drum Coach, which provides personalized lessons, 800+ exercises, and adaptive AI-driven practice plans, and Drum Notes, a percussion notation editor supporting 40+ instruments and a community library of 400,000+ user-created scores. The platform targets beginners through advanced players, as well as music educators and schools, with a freemium B2C model and a free educational tier for institutions. Founded in Spain and backed by accelerator programs including Lanzadera and Bcombinator, the company has achieved over 200,000 users across 180 countries and received recognition from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation.

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.

Claimy is an AI-powered music rights administration platform that helps publishers, labels, and rights holders maximize catalog value by automatically identifying missing royalties and generating claims to recover them. The platform uses machine learning to audit catalogs, enrich metadata, detect discrepancies in PRO payment reports, and forecast revenue in real-time. It addresses the music industry's problem of unclaimed royalties by automating the traditionally manual process of tracking and claiming missing payments across multiple territories and distribution channels.

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.

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.

Sonorus SoundScaping SL is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2025, specializing in professional sound environment management for public and collective spaces. The company offers services including audio marketing consultancy, public communication rights management, technical sound and acoustic projects for spaces, and wellness-focused sound initiatives. Sonorus operates as a collaborative ecosystem partner working with music and tech companies, acoustic professionals, professional audio equipment manufacturers, health experts, architects, and public administrations.

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.

Overgie is a B2B2C gamified fan community and loyalty platform built by Rungie, designed for creators, sports clubs, esports organizations, and brands to build and monetize dedicated fan communities. The platform uses a points-based gamification engine where fans earn rewards for actions taken inside and outside the app, climb leaderboards, and access exclusive content, auctions, and digital collectibles. It targets the music, sports, and creator economy verticals, offering first-party data analytics to help clients make strategic decisions about fan engagement.

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.

Odisei Music is a Barcelona-based company that designs and manufactures portable electronic wind instruments, including the Travel Sax 2 and Travel Clarinet, aimed at musicians who need silent or on-the-go practice solutions. Their products feature built-in synthesizers, MIDI compatibility, and real mouthpiece support, bridging the gap between acoustic feel and digital convenience. The company also offers Odisei Play, an AI-powered mobile learning app with real-time feedback, gamified progression, and song libraries tailored for saxophonists and clarinetists. Distributed in over 70 countries with 40+ B2B partners, the company additionally runs an adaptive instrument programme in partnership with the My Breath My Music Foundation.

Paisatge Sonor de Barcelona/Catalunya is a strategic initiative driven by the company Sonorus, with support from APECAT, aimed at transforming Barcelona and Catalonia's sonic landscape by promoting locally produced music—especially in Catalan—in ambient music settings for both local and visiting audiences. The project seeks to reinforce Catalan linguistic and cultural identity through curated soundscaping that bypasses algorithmic control. It also focuses on fair artist remuneration, personalized sonic experiences, and strengthening the Catalunya brand internationally.

OMD² (Open Music Database for Discoverability) is an open database initiative focused on improving the discoverability of music content through structured metadata. The project aims to address metadata gaps, rights information fragmentation, and catalogue accessibility challenges in the global music industry. It targets stakeholders such as streaming platforms, distributors, labels, publishers, researchers, and developers, and operates under open data principles to enable broad access and integration.

Glissandoo is a SaaS and mobile platform designed for the management of musical ensembles, including bands, choirs, and orchestras. It provides tools for scheduling rehearsals and concerts, attendance tracking and forecasting, member management with analytics, and digital repertoire distribution. The platform consolidates communications, logistics, and data insights into a single app, targeting both group directors and individual musicians. With over 60,000 musicians and 400+ institutions served, it operates on a freemium/subscription model available on web, iOS, and Android.

AUDIOBREEZE is a Swiss B2B startup that delivers algorithmically generated, never-repeating 3D spatial nature soundscapes for healthcare facilities, retail spaces, hotels, and offices. The system uses proprietary 8-channel field recordings recombined in real time by an AI-driven algorithm, distributed via a local mini-computer subscription device paired with compatible multichannel speakers. Targeting stress reduction and wellbeing improvement, the product is currently deployed in Swiss hospitals, utility flagship stores, and retail locations, with scientific validation underway through partnerships with the University of Basel and FHNW.

Aani is a Finnish deep-tech startup building a proprietary acoustic metadata and machine listening platform that processes multi-channel audio in real time (under 10ms) to extract spatial, semantic, and contextual intelligence from sound. Their patented software runs on low-powered processors and is hardware-agnostic, designed to be embedded in devices ranging from mobile phones and smart glasses to autonomous vehicles and robotics. The technology outputs structured acoustic metadata including source count, spatial localization, semantic classification, and environment classification, enabling applications in immersive media, safety monitoring, and industrial automation. Their first product, the Stereo2Binaural upmixer plugin, was released in January 2026.

SoundStorming is an interactive platform that connects artists and their super-fans through a participatory creative process, allowing artists to share raw audio snippets, beats, and unfinished ideas with their most engaged followers. Fans can participate via community polls, live chats, and feedback sessions, earning a proprietary loyalty currency called '$ounds' for their engagement. These $ounds can be redeemed for exclusive experiences, concert discounts, and other benefits through an integrated marketplace, turning fan participation into tangible rewards.

Mehearsal (by Muse Scene Lab) is an AI-powered interactive music practice platform that transforms rehearsal into an engaging, measurable, and accessible experience for music learners and educators. The flagship product, MuseLab Conductor VR/AR, allows orchestral conducting students to practice with a virtual orchestra in real time using immersive VR/AR technologies and gesture-based hand tracking. The platform provides detailed performance metrics, gamified progress tracking, and teacher dashboards, targeting music schools, conservatories, and individual musicians globally.

Stringtheory SL is a Barcelona-based guitar hardware company that develops and sells precision-engineered guitar nuts and bridge pins designed to solve the long-standing intonation problem in fretted instruments. The company holds patents on adjustable nut systems that provide intonation calibration at the headstock end of the string — a complement to standard bridge saddle intonation that has traditionally been ignored. Their product range spans static calibrated nuts, dynamic multi-tuning systems, mechanical adjustable nuts, and calibrated replacement necks, using advanced engineering materials including PEEK, titanium, and stainless steel. Stringtheory operates both direct-to-consumer e-commerce and a B2B/OEM model targeting luthiers and guitar manufacturers.

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.

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.

Nabla Audio develops AI-powered acoustic optimization software that analyzes how sound behaves in real spaces and automatically optimizes speaker placement for clearer, more consistent audio reproduction. Their flagship product, SPOT (Speaker Placement Optimization Technology), combines neural acoustic simulation, LiDAR-based 3D room scanning, and a 1,900+ material database to recommend optimal speaker configurations without requiring specialized acoustic consultants. The platform targets a broad range of users including home audio enthusiasts, sound engineers, venue owners, and architects. Two additional products — ARC (AI-powered Room Correction) and LouDS (Loudspeaker Design Suite) — are in development.

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.