Northzone

Northzone is a venture capital firm established in 1996, headquartered in London, with additional offices in New York, Oslo, and Stockholm. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in technology-driven companies across Europe and the United States, with interests spanning healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming sectors. Northzone has raised over €1.5 billion in funds and has a notable track record of partnering with founders of successful companies, including Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, and Hopin. By leveraging its extensive network, Northzone aims to connect its portfolio companies with customers, business partners, and talent on an international scale.

Alex Agureev

Associate

Torleif Ahlsand

General Partner

Molly Alter

Principal

Tomas Bennich

Venture Partner

Jörgen Bladh

General Partner

Nick Boesel

Associate

Justin Cooke

Venture Partner

Pascual Cortés-Monroy E.

Vice President

Dominik Esen

Vice President

Harriet Hamblin

Associate

Pieter-Jan Van Haute

Vice President

Jackson Heddy

CFO

Michiel Kotting

General Partner

Aaron Liu

Vice President

Sanjot Malhi

Partner

Naseem Moumene

Associate

Michelle Nacouzi

Principal

Sarah Nöckel

Vice President

Hans Otterling

General Partner

Par-Jorgen Parson

General Partner

Deepka Rana

Investment Manager

Wendy Xiao

Partner

Jessica Schultz

Partner

Christopher Steinau

Principal

Lena Stocker

Associate

Bjorn Stray

Partner

Paula Weber

Associate

Past deals in Music Streaming

Wagestream

Series C in 2022
Wagestream allows your employees to have complete control over when they get paid. It effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans and employee stress suffered from short term, unplanned financial obligations. Mission 1#: Provide Financial Freedom to UK workers. Mission 2#: Destroy the Pay Day Loan industry. Ahmee.

Livepeer

Series B in 2022
Livepeer, Inc. operates a decentralized platform for live video broadcasting over the Internet. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, the company enables broadcasters, developers, and users to share content freely. It integrates a blockchain-based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server, facilitating a peer-to-peer network for video streaming. This platform is designed to cater to user-generated content needs, providing tools, APIs, and resources for developers to incorporate live video into their projects. By promoting open-source code and fostering creative contributions, Livepeer aims to enhance and secure its network while supporting diverse user interests and skill sets.

Livepeer

Series B in 2021
Livepeer, Inc. operates a decentralized platform for live video broadcasting over the Internet. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, the company enables broadcasters, developers, and users to share content freely. It integrates a blockchain-based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server, facilitating a peer-to-peer network for video streaming. This platform is designed to cater to user-generated content needs, providing tools, APIs, and resources for developers to incorporate live video into their projects. By promoting open-source code and fostering creative contributions, Livepeer aims to enhance and secure its network while supporting diverse user interests and skill sets.

Heygo

Series A in 2021
Bringing the world closer together through live-streamed, bite-sized and interactive tours of places around the world. Our guides stream themselves live as they walk around their city as our users watch, learn and connect from the comfort of home.

Wagestream

Series B in 2020
Wagestream allows your employees to have complete control over when they get paid. It effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans and employee stress suffered from short term, unplanned financial obligations. Mission 1#: Provide Financial Freedom to UK workers. Mission 2#: Destroy the Pay Day Loan industry. Ahmee.

Livepeer

Series A in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. operates a decentralized platform for live video broadcasting over the Internet. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, the company enables broadcasters, developers, and users to share content freely. It integrates a blockchain-based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server, facilitating a peer-to-peer network for video streaming. This platform is designed to cater to user-generated content needs, providing tools, APIs, and resources for developers to incorporate live video into their projects. By promoting open-source code and fostering creative contributions, Livepeer aims to enhance and secure its network while supporting diverse user interests and skill sets.

Wagestream

Series A in 2019
Wagestream allows your employees to have complete control over when they get paid. It effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans and employee stress suffered from short term, unplanned financial obligations. Mission 1#: Provide Financial Freedom to UK workers. Mission 2#: Destroy the Pay Day Loan industry. Ahmee.

Kitab Sawti

Private Equity Round in 2019
Kitab Sawti AB is a company that specializes in producing and distributing audiobooks in Arabic. Founded in 2016 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, Kitab Sawti also develops software that provides Arabic speakers with access to a wide range of books in audio format. The application allows users to easily find and listen to audiobooks, offering features that enable them to start, stop, and resume playback at their convenience. In addition to audiobooks, Kitab Sawti offers podcasts, enhancing its position as a comprehensive Arabic audio entertainment service. As of July 2020, Kitab Sawti operates as a subsidiary of Storytel AB.

Kitab Sawti

Private Equity Round in 2019
Kitab Sawti AB is a company that specializes in producing and distributing audiobooks in Arabic. Founded in 2016 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, Kitab Sawti also develops software that provides Arabic speakers with access to a wide range of books in audio format. The application allows users to easily find and listen to audiobooks, offering features that enable them to start, stop, and resume playback at their convenience. In addition to audiobooks, Kitab Sawti offers podcasts, enhancing its position as a comprehensive Arabic audio entertainment service. As of July 2020, Kitab Sawti operates as a subsidiary of Storytel AB.

Kitab Sawti

Venture Round in 2018
Kitab Sawti AB is a company that specializes in producing and distributing audiobooks in Arabic. Founded in 2016 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, Kitab Sawti also develops software that provides Arabic speakers with access to a wide range of books in audio format. The application allows users to easily find and listen to audiobooks, offering features that enable them to start, stop, and resume playback at their convenience. In addition to audiobooks, Kitab Sawti offers podcasts, enhancing its position as a comprehensive Arabic audio entertainment service. As of July 2020, Kitab Sawti operates as a subsidiary of Storytel AB.

Neverthink

Seed Round in 2017
Neverthink Oy operates an online platform and a mobile application that aggregates video content from various online sources, including Reuters, YouTube, and Reddit. The platform organizes this content into dedicated channels such as news, music, food, beauty, technology, adventure, and talk shows, making it easy for users to find engaging videos without the hassle of searching or scrolling. Founded in 2016 and based in Helsinki, Finland, Neverthink aims to simplify the video viewing experience by providing a continuous stream of curated content across multiple categories. The service is available on both Android and iOS devices, catering to users looking for a convenient way to consume diverse video offerings.

Soundtrack Your Brand

Series C in 2017
Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music

Soundtrack Your Brand

Series B in 2015
Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music

Spotify

Series G in 2015
Spotify is a leading music streaming service headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and operates on a global scale with 602 million monthly active users as of 2023. Founded in 2006, Spotify offers an extensive catalog of music and podcasts, allowing users to access content on various devices, including computers, mobile phones, and tablets. The platform features both a premium subscription model, which provides ad-free streaming, and an ad-supported service, generating revenue from ads. In 2023, 86% of Spotify's revenue came from premium subscriptions, while 14% was derived from advertising. Users can discover music collections, create and share playlists, and receive personalized recommendations. Spotify's infrastructure supports integration with social media platforms, enabling artists to promote their music and engage with fans effectively. The company operates various subsidiaries, including Spotify India Private Limited, enhancing its presence in international markets.

Jukely

Seed Round in 2015
Jukely Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that provides information services related to music concerts and events. Founded in 2012, Jukely offers members daily guestlist access to a wide range of concerts, parties, and DJ sets each month. The company utilizes a platform that analyzes users' music preferences and social connections to recommend shows and potential concert companions. This personalized approach not only enhances the concert-going experience but also helps concert promoters and venues attract more attendees through targeted recommendations. Jukely's services are available via its website, mobile application, and social media channels.

Vionlabs

Seed Round in 2015
Vionlabs AB is a developer of advanced video discovery platforms aimed at enhancing user experience for carriers, cable networks, and Internet providers in Scandinavia, Europe, and the Middle East. The company's innovative technology leverages artificial intelligence, including computer vision and machine learning, to analyze content on a scene-by-scene basis. This multi-layered approach generates unique sentiment data, which feeds into its recommendation engine to deliver a highly personalized viewing experience. Vionlabs offers several products, including an app for discovering music through movies and a digital ecosystem for streaming films and TV shows. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company also maintains an office in Barcelona, Spain.

Jukely

Seed Round in 2014
Jukely Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that provides information services related to music concerts and events. Founded in 2012, Jukely offers members daily guestlist access to a wide range of concerts, parties, and DJ sets each month. The company utilizes a platform that analyzes users' music preferences and social connections to recommend shows and potential concert companions. This personalized approach not only enhances the concert-going experience but also helps concert promoters and venues attract more attendees through targeted recommendations. Jukely's services are available via its website, mobile application, and social media channels.

Spotify

Secondary Market in 2014
Spotify is a leading music streaming service headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and operates on a global scale with 602 million monthly active users as of 2023. Founded in 2006, Spotify offers an extensive catalog of music and podcasts, allowing users to access content on various devices, including computers, mobile phones, and tablets. The platform features both a premium subscription model, which provides ad-free streaming, and an ad-supported service, generating revenue from ads. In 2023, 86% of Spotify's revenue came from premium subscriptions, while 14% was derived from advertising. Users can discover music collections, create and share playlists, and receive personalized recommendations. Spotify's infrastructure supports integration with social media platforms, enabling artists to promote their music and engage with fans effectively. The company operates various subsidiaries, including Spotify India Private Limited, enhancing its presence in international markets.

Soundrop

Series B in 2013
Soundrop is a social music application that enables users to listen, vote, and interact about songs with their friends. It allows Spotify users to create listening rooms with their existing Spotify playlists. They can also share these listening rooms with their friends, and let their friends help curate the rooms by adding songs or voting up tracks. Everyone can chat about the music as they listen. Additionally, Soundrop has many public rooms dedicated to various music genres such Dubstep, Indie Rock, and Hip hop. Users can chat, add new tracks and vote up tracks they want to listen to next. Soundrop was founded by Inge Andrè Sandvik, Johann Prieur, Ali Sabil, and Ole Andrè Vadla Ravnås in 2011. It launched as a social jukebox app inside Spotify’s App Finder in November 2011.

Soundrop

Series A in 2012
Soundrop is a social music application that enables users to listen, vote, and interact about songs with their friends. It allows Spotify users to create listening rooms with their existing Spotify playlists. They can also share these listening rooms with their friends, and let their friends help curate the rooms by adding songs or voting up tracks. Everyone can chat about the music as they listen. Additionally, Soundrop has many public rooms dedicated to various music genres such Dubstep, Indie Rock, and Hip hop. Users can chat, add new tracks and vote up tracks they want to listen to next. Soundrop was founded by Inge Andrè Sandvik, Johann Prieur, Ali Sabil, and Ole Andrè Vadla Ravnås in 2011. It launched as a social jukebox app inside Spotify’s App Finder in November 2011.

doubleTwist

Series B in 2009
doubleTwist Corporation, founded in 2007 by Monique Farantzos and Jon Lech Johansen, develops multimedia applications for Android, Mac, and Windows platforms. Based in Austin, Texas, with additional operations in San Francisco and Portugal, the company offers a range of products, including CloudPlayer for streaming music from cloud services, Classic Player for managing music and podcasts on Android, and doubleTwist Sync for synchronizing media content across devices. Other notable applications include doubleTwist Alarm, which allows users to set alarms, and AirPlay Recorder, enabling real-time recording of AirPlay streams. With over 10 million downloads and a user base of more than two million daily on Android, doubleTwist has established itself as a significant player in the media app ecosystem, serving users in over 150 countries and collaborating with major companies like Intel and T-Mobile. Recognized as a top developer by Google, doubleTwist has received multiple accolades, including the Android Market's "Editor's choice award."

Spotify

Series A in 2008
Spotify is a leading music streaming service headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and operates on a global scale with 602 million monthly active users as of 2023. Founded in 2006, Spotify offers an extensive catalog of music and podcasts, allowing users to access content on various devices, including computers, mobile phones, and tablets. The platform features both a premium subscription model, which provides ad-free streaming, and an ad-supported service, generating revenue from ads. In 2023, 86% of Spotify's revenue came from premium subscriptions, while 14% was derived from advertising. Users can discover music collections, create and share playlists, and receive personalized recommendations. Spotify's infrastructure supports integration with social media platforms, enabling artists to promote their music and engage with fans effectively. The company operates various subsidiaries, including Spotify India Private Limited, enhancing its presence in international markets.

doubleTwist

Series A in 2008
doubleTwist Corporation, founded in 2007 by Monique Farantzos and Jon Lech Johansen, develops multimedia applications for Android, Mac, and Windows platforms. Based in Austin, Texas, with additional operations in San Francisco and Portugal, the company offers a range of products, including CloudPlayer for streaming music from cloud services, Classic Player for managing music and podcasts on Android, and doubleTwist Sync for synchronizing media content across devices. Other notable applications include doubleTwist Alarm, which allows users to set alarms, and AirPlay Recorder, enabling real-time recording of AirPlay streams. With over 10 million downloads and a user base of more than two million daily on Android, doubleTwist has established itself as a significant player in the media app ecosystem, serving users in over 150 countries and collaborating with major companies like Intel and T-Mobile. Recognized as a top developer by Google, doubleTwist has received multiple accolades, including the Android Market's "Editor's choice award."

IndigoBoom

Series A in 2007
IndiGoBoom is a digital music distributor with an annual fee structure as opposed to the majority of its competition who charge per song or album. We are hard nosed internet music biz veterans always ready to go to bat for the independent artist.
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