Music AI is a trailblazing AI-powered music and audio technology company featuring the B2B Music.ai platform and the B2C Moises.ai app. Embraced by artists, record labels, agencies, technology firms, and developers, Music AI is synonymous with audio innovation and boasts a user base surpassing 50 million, processing over 2.5 million ...
Music AI, a leading player in the field of AI for audio and music, has successfully raised $40 million in a funding round led by Connect Ventures—an investment partnership between Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and NEA—and prominent Brazilian investor, monashees. Other participants include Kickstart, Samsung Next, Toba Capital, Valutia, and Pelion along with renowned music industry professionals including Steve Aoki (Aoki Labs), 3LAU, and Alexander23.
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Music AI, a leading player in the field of AI for audio and music, has successfully raised $40 million in a funding round led by Connect Ventures—an investment partnership between Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and NEA—and prominent Brazilian investor, monashees. Other participants include Kickstart, Samsung Next, Toba Capital, Valutia, and Pelion along with renowned music industry professionals including Steve Aoki (Aoki Labs), 3LAU, and Alexander23.
“We are deeply committed to partnering with ethically led AI companies that appropriately credit and compensate creators for usage of their work,” said Michael Blank, Managing Partner at Connect Ventures. “Music AI’s talent-friendly approach and unparalleled technology is helping them become the trusted and premier AI platform of the music industry. Beyond empowering artists, Moises enhances the creative process for musicians, producers, and content creators worldwide for practice, creation, and collaboration.”
After leading the company's Seed round, monashees is reaffirming its commitment by co-leading the Series A round. "Latin America is a hub of creativity, and we are thrilled to partner with Brazilian founders building a global company at the forefront of a new era powered by AI," said Eric Acher, co-founder and Managing Partner at monashees, the pioneer venture capital firm from Brazil.
This significant investment follows the remarkable success of the company's global consumer product, Moises, which has captivated over 50 million users worldwide and was honored as Apple's iPad App of the Year in 2024. The multi-platform suite of AI tools provided by Moises serves a broad audience, ranging from music beginners and students to world-class musicians and producers.
Originally launched in 2019 as an AI-first consumer app, the company has evolved into a research powerhouse for AI development that not only empowers creators, producers and musicians but also serves the broader audio industry. Thanks to its proprietary technologies and industry-leading AI, including the highest quality stem separation, Music AI has attracted industry giants, positioning the company at the forefront of a new era in AI-driven audio technologies for both server-side applications and edge computing.
"Music AI’s commitment to on-device AI aligns with the future of embedded technology, allowing models to run directly on hardware for faster performance, better privacy, and reduced cloud dependency," explains Carlos Castellanos, investor at Samsung Next. "Their proprietary models, third-party integrations, and on-device AI capabilities ensure reliability, security, and scalability across smartphones, smart TVs, and other connected devices—all while elevating the end-user experience with cutting-edge features.”
Music AI has been advancing a variety of technologies in the field of music. These include Music Information Retrieval (MIR) solutions, which encompass technologies like stem separation, chord recognition, key and beat detection, and music transcription. In 2023, the company expanded its focus to include generative solutions, such as singing voice modelling and assistive music creation.
The company is committed to developing ethical AI solutions strictly trained on fully licensed content that empower creators by compensating them fairly and that enhance artistic creativity. "Securing this Series A funding underscores the real-world impact our technologies have on the creative industry," said Geraldo Ramos, CEO of Music AI. "We're ready to advance our mission of making music innovation accessible to all, and we're eager to explore new possibilities with a focus on practical applications."
About Music AI
Founded by Geraldo Ramos, Eddie Hsu, and Jardson Almeida, Music AI is a leader in AI-driven music and audio technology. With a team of over 90 collaborators across the USA, Brazil, and Europe, the company provides solutions through its B2B Music.ai and B2C Moises.ai platforms. Music AI's technologies are used by artists, producers, record labels, agencies, technology firms, and developers. Serving over 50 million users and processing more than 2.5 million minutes of audio daily, Music AI offers over 50 AI models. These models, including stem separation and lyrics transcription, are available via Cloud APIs and Embedded SDKs.
Audible Magic’s gold standard music identification joins Music AI’s industry-leading stem separation to give rightsholders new music licensing superpowers
Music AI and Audible Magic are teaming up to make music replacement easier thanks to AI. Films and television shows are often created with one licensing structure in one licensing territory–leading to issues later when rightsholders release the content in new territories. Now, thanks to this new partnership, production companies can use Audible Magic and Music AI’s high-caliber cinematic stem separation to tease out music, identify that music, and make informed decisions about whether to relicense or replace it.
An innovative new tool, cinematic stem separation requires a finely tuned model that untangles dialog, background noise, and music in an existing video, film, or show to result in clean audio files that can then be edited independently. Music AI’s best-in-class model has outperformed other services in this area in side-by-side tests.
This partnership aligns with recent activity for both companies as they work to build an ethical ecosystem for the future of audio innovation—inclusive of AI. “We’re creating an ecosystem of all of these companies that, while making sure we do things the right way, are at the bleeding edge of innovation,” explains Matt Henninger, Music AI’s VP of Business Development and Sales. “We’re incredibly excited to bridge our efforts with Audible Magic to make life easier for film and TV rightsholders to do more with their content.”
Known as the gold standard for automated content recognition (ACR), Audible Magic’s content identification services can help identify what song was used in the video. “This partnership just makes sense,” says Kuni Takahashi, Audible Magic’s CEO. “Audible Magic is proud to join Music AI’s network of state-of-the-art tools. This alliance offers creators unprecedented access to a suite of stackable tools in one place that is unified by a commitment to ethical AI practices.”
About Music AI
Music AI is a trailblazing AI-powered music and audio technology company featuring the B2B Music.ai platform and the B2C Moises.ai app. Embraced by artists, record labels, agencies, technology firms, and developers, Music AI is synonymous with audio innovation and boasts a user base surpassing 50 million, processing over 2.5 million minutes of audio each day. Music AI offers more than 50 stackable AI audio solutions including industry-leading stem separation.
About Audible Magic
For more than 20 years, Audible Magic has innovated B2B music rights management solutions for digital platforms. Powering billions of monthly transactions for customers around the world, its industry-leading music identification services help platforms remove unlicensed music and administer music licenses for user generated content (UGC). Its catalog delivery services are a robust set of APIs that enable custom, interactive music experiences. Audible Magic is a trusted intermediary and approved vendor between major platforms and rights holders. For more information, visit https://www.audiblemagic.com/.
In a new partnership, Music.AI will seamlessly integrate its AI tools into SourceAudio, giving clients archival quality stems and instrumentals through cutting-edge stem separation technology driven by AI.
Music.AI is partnering with SourceAudio, the entertainment industry’s choice to simplify and streamline asset and rights management with downstream connectivity to commercial music licensing opportunities in sync, radio, and beyond.The new integration will provide AI-powered stem separation to 567,000 SourceAudio active users. This will allow more than 140 broadcasters and 3000 catalogs to create stems on-demand from any content at scale.
This integration will open up a world of possibilities to SourceAudio customers, which include some of the biggest names in streaming, film, and music. Stems allow rights holders to do everything from turning a stereo mix with a vocal into a broadcast quality instrumental, to replacing soundtrack elements so that a piece of music can fit perfectly into any visual project. Meanwhile, the partnership will provide SourceAudio customers with the best archival quality stems in the business. Music.AI’s models beat out competitors’ in signal-to-distortion ratio with the least amount of artifacts, the deciding benchmark of quality among audio professionals for stem separation.
“Thanks to continuous model training and infrastructure investments, stem separation quality and speed have never been better,” explains Matt Henninger, VP of Business Development at Music.AI. “In SourceAudio, we've found a partner that shares our obsession with quality while also appreciating the value of allowing customers on-demand access to these technologies across their full catalogs.”
“Our platform is trusted by the largest TV, streaming, and radio networks as their primary access point for music for production on a daily basis,” said Andrew Harding, Co-Founder and CEO of SourceAudio. “We are dedicated to enhancing creativity and increasing productivity for both our rightsholder and media company clients. Integrating this best-in-class stem separation tech into the fast-paced workflows of our professional users is a game changer for everyone involved. Add this with our own AI tagging capabilities, stem separation and management will be a huge new unlock for every single user of SourceAudio.”
About Music.AI
Music AI is a trailblazing AI-powered music and audio technology company featuring the B2B Music.ai platform and the B2C Moises.ai app. Embraced by artists, record labels, agencies, technology firms, and developers, Music AI is synonymous with audio innovation and boasts a user base surpassing 50 million, processing over 2.5 million minutes of audio each day. Music AI offers more than 50 stackable AI audio solutions including industry-leading stem separation.
About SourceAudio
SourceAudio, the music industry's most widely adopted sync platform serving more than 560,000 users, over 100 media giants, and 2,500 US radio stations daily, aggregates more than 33 million songs from top-tier labels, libraries, catalogs, and publishers. Processing over 500,000 music searches weekly for sync licensing, the platform provides unparalleled connectivity between rights holders and major content creators, broadcast networks, and streaming services. At its core, SourceAudio excels in four high-value areas for clients: music discovery, distribution, protection, and payments. Its users maximize revenue opportunities through various channels, including YouTube Content ID, distribution, performance royalty collection, and global sync licensing at scale, effectively future-proofing catalogs in the ever-evolving music industry landscape.
Providing its hard-won expertise to help other companies instantly connect to AI
The rapid development of AI resulted in a range of AI-powered tools dispersed across separate platforms. Now as the market matures, companies recognize the need to combine multiple AI-driven solutions to tackle unique and complex projects. Along with its proprietary AI-powered tools that can be easily combined and scaled within a code-free drag-and-drop interface, Music.AI now launches third-party modules on its platform–allowing businesses to save time, save money, and scale on demand.
With the introduction of both Masterchannel’s AI mastering and spatial audio mastering and Cyanite’s AI-based music tagging and search solutions to its platform, Music.AI expands its hub of best-in-class AI technologies, offering businesses an array of drag-and-drop modules from multiple suppliers in a single platform.
No two businesses are finding value from AI technology in the same way. For this reason, Music.AI has targeted premier third-party partnerships to allow partners to combine technologies from multiple vendors to create never-before-seen value. Combining Music.AI’s stem separation technology with Masterchannel’s spatial mastering, for example, creates a singular workflow to produce spatial mixes at scale. Marrying Cyanite’s metadata tagging with Music.AI’s stem separation and lyric transcription and alignment modules can allow businesses to perform advanced analytics on in-house and competitive content offerings.
All of this is made possible via Music.AI's flexible drag-and-drop platform, enabling quick testing, validation, and deployment.
"Music.AI is a leap into the future of an AI-powered music industry," says Geraldo Ramos, CEO and Co-Founder of Music.AI. "Music.AI is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in both music creation and the music business. Combining the technological infrastructure we’ve developed with innovative modules like Masterchannel and Cyanite, Music.AI is set to become the foundational fabric for any company that wants to scale and quickly adopt AI without an in-house research and development team."
Cyanite provides AI-based solutions that automatically generate comprehensive creative metadata for every song or catalog in seconds. From genre and mood to instruments and tempo, Cyanite extracts a rich set of valuable tags directly from any audio file. Together with state-of-the-art search algorithms, this helps labels, publishers, production music libraries, DSPs, and radio & TV stations better and more efficiently organize, manage, and distribute their media catalogs.
Masterchannel has been pioneering industry-first AI approaches to conventional mastering and now also spatial audio mastering. Digital streaming platforms have recently created incentives for labels to create spatial audio mixes for their platforms. Leveraging Music.AI, record labels can now easily combine Music.AI’s high-fidelity stem separation with Masterchannel’s Spatial Audio Mastering module to efficiently process and remaster extensive catalogs.
“With a blend of creativity and expertly developed AI models, Music.AI is well-positioned to become the world’s most comprehensive and capable AI ecosystem specializing in music and audio,” says Matt Henninger, VP of Sales and Business Development. “We realize that it’s rarely a single AI technology that a partner needs to leverage, so we built an ecosystem capable of combining multiple technologies in a single place.”
Music.AI plans to partner with specialists in the coming months to launch more AI-driven solutions that can be combined, integrated, and deployed quickly. These first integrations are now available to users of the Music.AI platform.
About Music.AI
Music.AI is a leading provider of an AI-powered music and audio platform used by record labels, agencies, technology companies, and developers. More than 40 million users leverage tools powered by the Music.AI platform to process over one million minutes of audio daily.
More about Music.AI: music.ai
About Masterchannel
Masterchannel was founded with the aim to make audio engineering technicalities obsolete for music producers and labels. While some areas of music creation are arguably best handled by humans, audio technicalities can be automated, to make it easier for artists to focus on what matters – making great music. Since Masterchannel’s launch of its AI mastering service, Grammy-winning producers and people with strong credits have become Masterchannel converts, such as JT Roach and Skinny Days, and platforms like amuse and Groover use Masterchannel’s technology stack for their services.
About Cyanite
Cyanite is one of the first companies to offer AI-based tagging and music search as-a-service. The quality of Cyanite’s technology is confirmed by over 100 music companies and over 60,000k users, mainly artists and producers, who use their web app and API on an everyday basis to analyze their music and better organize and work with their catalogs.
More about Cyanite: https://cyanite.ai/
Music.AI platform delivers enterprise-grade models and infrastructure as enterprise demand explodes for ethical AI for audio applications
As the award-winning Moises consumer apps have grown to reach over 40 million users, the company has built an unequaled AI platform infrastructure that currently processes more than one million minutes of audio daily. Combined with a vast collection of AI models capable of processing massive amounts of content and rendering results quickly, the company has been quietly serving enterprise clients for years. Exploding demand among enterprise clients, including agencies, record labels, publishers, tech partners, and developers has been a key driver in the launch of Music.AI.
Rather than sourcing multiple services from multiple providers, Music.AI allows companies to quickly build and scale AI products and services. The first-of-its-kind ecosystem includes a wide range of proprietary AI models as well as carefully vetted best-in-class third-party technologies. The ability to easily combine any of Music.AI’s models without coding means Music.AI’s customers can save time in implementation and testing to quickly prototype and bring exponentially more powerful products and services to market.
“Our models are individually capable unto themselves, but we’ve built a one-stop hub with the ability to combine our various modules with those of third parties to create the powerful solutions demanded by top-tier clients,” says co-founder and CEO Geraldo Ramos. “The market for AI-powered music and audio applications is maturing away from point solutions in favor of broader, more capable, scalable solutions like Music.AI.”
Music.AI is currently operating at a massive scale–processing 1.2 million minutes of audio every day, powering 1700 applications, and serving more than 40 Million musicians and producers using the Moises B2C applications. The company will announce additional B2B partnerships with enterprise clients in the coming weeks.
Music.AI is seeing new demand beyond the music industry for applications such as voice modeling for localization. The company recently worked with Papa Johns to help localize TV commercials and adapt Hispanic translations featuring Shaquille O’Neal. The company also recently announced a preferred partnership with HYPERREAL®, leveraging Music.AI’s advanced voice modeling capabilities to generate synthesized speech and singing.
The company has also seen an influx in AI-powered audio restoration projects, similar to the technology used to capture John Lennon’s voice in The Beatles’ last single, “Now and Then.” Music.AI played an integral role in the production of “Elis and Tom,” the documentary about legendary Bossa Nova artists Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim that debuted in the US this September. Much of the film was comprised of behind-the-scenes footage recorded in the studio in 1972. These original recordings were restored using Music.AI’s state-of-the-art source separation models.
Matt Henninger, Music.AI’s VP of Business Development and Sales, adds, “The launch of Music.AI perfectly reflects our vision and mission. Beyond the ability to scale, providing our platform to enterprise clients requires the highest quality, precision, and ethical standards. Serving a variety of client use cases has allowed us to create novel workflows that wouldn't be available from any single vendor.”
Music.AI's investment in attracting some of the world’s leading data scientists exemplifies the company’s commitment to bridging the gap between academic research and industry. The Music.AI platform provides an ideal environment for researchers to quickly actualize their innovations in the form of new applications and products.
“We believe that the synergy between scientific exploration and practical applications leads to faster advancements,” says Ramos, “This is why we continue to engage in key academic events to foster an exchange of ideas and engage with the leading thinkers in the field.”
Music.AI's investors include Kickstart, Monashees, Norwest, Goodwater, Toba Capital, Alumni Ventures, and Valutia. The company has over 80 employees based in Salt Lake City, New York, Europe, and Brazil.
About Music.AI
Music.AI is a leading provider of an AI-powered music and audio platform used by record labels, agencies, technology companies, and developers. More than 40 million users leverage tools powered by the Music.AI platform to process over one million minutes of audio daily.
More about Music.AI: music.ai