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The SF MusicTech Summit is pleased to partner with the hottest companies and organizations in the music/tech space. If you'd like to get YOUR company involved, contact us.

 

LyricFind aggregates the rights and licensing for the use of song lyrics online. With licenses from over 2,000 publishers and lyrics to over 1.4 million tracks, LyricFind powers services such as Microsoft's Bing Entertainment, Lyrics.com, Shazam, Slacker, Rhapsody, Virgin Media, and more, including 's own direct-to-consumer mobile applications, available for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android platforms.

Live Nation Labs is a small division of a big company. We build connections between passionate fans and live experiences. We make great products. And mischief. #disruptfromwithin

We are: music meets technology. We operate like a lean startup. We don't have a lot of adult supervision. We're veteran dot commers and experienced entrepreneurs. Our approach to development is: Build. Measure. Learn. (Rinse. Repeat.) We believe in: excellence and fearlessness. And tube amplification. Success=talent+determination+luck. We are code monkeys.

Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Official.fm offers music professionals advanced uploading & hosting capabilities, data management, analytics, embeddable / branded audio widgets and other tools for digital audio. Official.fm users are able to dynamically & virally market music online for wider and deeper engagement with both fan base and marketplace. Hypebot.com recently named the company one of the "10 Smartest Start Ups" at SFMusicTech 2011. Digital Music News cited the platform as "a rising underdog; in a good position to grab the best of the (competition)."

PayPal is the trusted, secure solution for digital goods publishers who need to monetize online games, news, video, books, blogs, software and all forms of digital content. Processing payments with PayPal, allows you to tap into a global buyer base of over 100 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies. We enable publishers to set sensible prices for their customers by offering special low rates for micropayments. PayPal is the ideal choice - offering access to a global market with a secure, trusted payment experience, competitive micropayment pricing, and a two-click in-context checkout for your customers.
More information can be found at www.paypal.com/digitalgoods.

DigitalRealty Trust, Inc. focuses on delivering customer driven data center solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each customer's unique data center needs. Digital Realty's customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty's 100 properties, comprise approximately 17.9 million square feet as of December 31, 2011. Digital Realty's portfolio is located in 31 markets throughout Europe, North America, Singapore and Australia.

Spinlet is a lifestyle entertainment company focused on meeting the needs of music lovers allowing them to buy, listen, share, and manage music all within a free user friendly mobile platform. As the premier mobile music digital distribution to emerging markets in Africa, Spinlet assists artists in capturing revenue often lost to piracy markets. We offer a localized service for the music listeners in each market and allow exploration of music from throughout the world.

The Orchard, a pioneering music and video distribution company operating in more than 20 global markets, provides an innovative sales and marketing platform for content owners. With industry-leading technology, The Orchard streamlines its clients' business while amplifying reach and revenue across digital, physical and mobile outlets around the world. Founded in 1997.

Clik Interactive provides the easiest way to discover and control content on any screen, using a smartphone. Developed by the creators of Kik Messenger which was founded in 2009, and already has millions of smartphone users, Clik will redefine the way people interact with the screens around them, and the way developers and content providers deliver experiences to their users. The company is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Mashery is the world leader in enterprise API technology and services. We help more than 150 top brands in retail, media, travel, and information services manage API-powered digital platforms for speeding mobile deployment, scaling partnership/affiliate programs, and spurring innovation. Mashery's holistic approach includes API strategy consulting, global API management and distribution infrastructure, and next-generation tools for better engaging API partners. Mashery was founded in 2006.

Mowgli is a gaming company based around a simple concept - connecting people through social creation. Our first game, Songster, enables players to create something real, something they can take outside the game - damn good music.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati offers a broad range of services and legal disciplines focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law. For more information, please visit www.wsgr.com.

Rovi is a premier source of entertainment metadata including reviews, artist bios, music clips and more. Leading companies rely on us to help them deliver highly relevant information which may increase consumption, ensure customer loyalty and boost ad revenue. Rovi's content about music, movies, TV, books and games is curated by a 300-plus editorial team. Our customers include: Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, MTV and Netflix.

TuneCore, the world's largest music distribution company, allows all artists global distribution into iTunes, Spotify and more while keeping all their rights and getting 100% of the revenues from their music sales. TuneCore Artists have sold over half a billion songs and earning over US$250MM in 3.5 years. TuneCore Artists include Nine Inch Nails, Jay Z, Joan Jett, Beck, The Civil Wars, Girl Talk, and many more.

SoundCloud is a social sound platform that lets anyone record, create and share their sounds everywhere on the web.From music to voice memos, poetry to politics, if it's a sound it belongs on SoundCloud. Sounds posted to SoundCloud can be shared privately or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks.

Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) represents more than 500,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 7.5 million musical works. The company provides licenses for businesses that perform music, and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents. Find out more at www.bmi.com

Mobile Backstage is an interactive fan club service that helps develop and maintain deep and meaningful relationships between artists and fans. Easily accessible on the web, Facebook and mobile devices, Mobile Backstage lives wherever fans are, and strengthens every artist's most important asset - the Core Fan Base.

Jammit is a significant development in music education-technology, allowing users to virtually practice and perform in the recording studio with their favorite artists. Jammit utilizes the original multi-track recordings, allowing musicians to isolate a specified instrument from the mix. Available for the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Mac OS X.

A pioneer in digital media, Gracenote provides music and video content and technologies to the world's hottest entertainment products. The company's partners in the entertainment community include major music publishers and labels, prominent independents and movie studios and television networks. A wholly owned, independent subsidiary of the Sony Corporation of America (SCA), Gracenote has offices around the globe.

There's a better way to do music online - whether you're a fan who wants to listen to your favorite band's music, or a musician that wants to get their music out there. That's exactly what RootMusic does: make everything easier for you. Musicians and fans, we got your back.

Bandzoogle is the most effective platform for musicians to build their website and manage their direct-to-fan marketing and sales. Independent and DIY musicians can create a pro and fully functional website without having to code anything or hire expensive designers. They can add features like mailing list management and e-mail blasts, centralized social netowrk updates, blogging and detailed fan analytics. With Bandzoogle, artists can also quickly build an online store to sell their digital and physical goods, at no commission. Bandzoogle is free to try, and offers affordable monthly subscriptions plans, with the best support in the industry.

SoundHound is revolutionizing the way people interact with mobile devices by delivering innovative technologies and compelling user experiences in sound recognition, at home, at work, at play and on the go. SoundHound's applications, SoundHound and Hound, are powered by the company's breakthrough Sound2Sound technology. Sound2Sound has resulted in numerous breakthroughs including the world's fastest music recognition, the world's only viable singing and humming search, instant-response large scale speech recognition systems, and large scale lyrics alignment.

Walden Venture Capital targets Sprout Stage™ investments. We seek products or services with mass-market potential and powerful underlying technologies taking active supporting roles typically as first institutional investors. Our target sectors are digital media and cloud services for consumers and enterprise. We care deeply about Founders and Management and work diligently to help manifest their vision. Our portfolio includes leaders in music, mobile, internet media and breakthrough cloud services.

TuneUp is the #1 selling plug-in for iTunes with support for Windows Media Player that lets you get more out of the music you love. Fix mislabeled song information (like "Track 01"); fill in missing cover art; intelligently remove duplicate tracks and explore your world of music!

IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, is one of the industry-leading digital distribution companies for the global independent music and video community. IODA provides comprehensive services to record labels, physical distributors, artists, and filmmakers, including license negotiations; media encoding and metadata management; royalty payment administration and reporting; and marketing and promotional support. Founded in 2003, IODA represents a rapidly expanding roster of more than two million music tracks and thousands of independent film and video titles. IODA distributes its catalog to hundreds of digital storefronts worldwide, including all major digital music services like Amazon MP3 and iTunes, new access services such as Deezer, MOG, Rdio and Spotify, and mobile carriers including AT&T, Orange, Rekochoku, Verizon and Vodafone. The company's website is www.iodalliance.com.

SoundExchange is the non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio, Internet radio, cable TV music channels, and similar platforms for streaming sound recordings and distributes these digital performance royalties to recording artists and sound recording copyright owners. To date, SoundExchange has paid out more than $800 million in royalties; register to get your share at www.soundexchange.com!

BAMM.TV has developed an end-to-end solution for producing and distributing HD video content to a global audience. The traditional view of music content is that it's difficult and expensive to make, and even harder to license. BAMM.TV disrupts that: we don't charge bands to record, we split net profits 50/50 and maintain a worldwide, exclusive, royalty-free license to use and monetize the content.

Thrillcall is the most accurate, local live event discovery service with real-time new show and ticket on-sale alerts. Using proprietary data cleaning and matching technology, Thrillcall keeps you up-to-date on the local live music scene. Thrillcall also offers an innovative promotion and analytics platform to help venues, artists and artist managers maximize their social media presence and event visibility. With the upcoming launch of the Thrillcall mobile app, users will have the best guide to today's local concerts and exclusive access to event offers available only through Thrillcall.

TuneWiki is building lyric based products that inspire people to experience, understand, and share the lyrics and songs they love. Its award winning Social Music Player has a unique synchronized lyrics feature that offers unrivaled music playback to its users, including synced lyrics for streaming radio and videos. Users can also share and discuss their favorite lyrics with friends, and discover new music through Song ID with synced lyrics, song maps, top 50 charts, and the new trending feature. Lyric Legend and Lyric Legend 2, TuneWiki's best-selling mobile music games, offers another fun and engaging way to interact with lyrics for the biggest hits in music.

Monstro unleashes the power of Twitter for music discovery. Monstro captures all music tweets and identifies the song in music catalogs. You and your friends are free to share music anywhere and listen, watch or buy music through any service or store. Come and discover new music and friends.

The SF MusicTech Fund invests in early stage internet music and technology companies which we identify as they flow through and participate at the SF MusicTech Summit. The SF MusicTech Summit is the world's leading internet music and technology conference. Event producer Brian Zisk is a partner in the SF MusicTech Fund.

Since 1997, Oakland's ABB Records has represented independent hip-hop with an emphasis on artist development and better distribution models. ABB Records is interested in working with artists, labels, brands or companies who want to make positive and consistent contributions to the music, culture and local communities. email: info@abbrecords.com, twitter: @abbrecords

Future of Music Coalition is a national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for their work, and where fans can find the music they want. www.futureofmusic.org

Sonic.net is a full-service Internet provider, dedicated to delivering fast, reliable and inexpensive connectivity while providing award-winning technical support. Based out of Santa Rosa, California, we were one of the first ISPs to bring DSL access to the wine country, and continue to lead the way in making new access and hosting solutions available to the public.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. We guard free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, support emerging technologies, defend digital innovators, and work to ensure that our rights and freedoms are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of technology grows.