Last Spring, the Amsterdam Dance Event and enterprise capital agency Antler requested the trade for his or her forward-thinking concepts in music tech. This week, two profitable ideas have been topped, with every receiving six figures of funding.
The ADE & Antler Startup Competition acquired greater than 100 entries, however after a rigorous interview and pitch course of, the pool was finally narrowed to only a handful of finalists who made their last pitch at Felix Meritis throughout ADE.
Un:hurd is an artist-facing platform which helps creators higher leverage their information and promotional insights by the assistance of synthetic intelligence. The firm was based in 2019 by Alex Brees.
The second winner, SYNKii, developed a transparent use case on account of the pandemic. Calling itself “the skilled various to Zoom for on-line music classes” the tutorial platform seeks to revolutionize the best way musicians practice and be taught devices in a distant surroundings. The on-line platform was created in 2020 by cofounders Boram Choi and Lawrence Jenner.
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Youri Doeleman, Partner at Antler, shared his key takeaways from the competitors.
“The music and leisure trade is present process a protracted wave of disruption because of the alternatives offered by new applied sciences,” Doeleman stated in a press launch shared with EDM.com. “This competitors has been a novel alternative for us to deep dive into the present state of know-how on this market and what’s coming subsequent, in partnership with a prime trade participant just like the Amsterdam Dance Event.”
“While within the candidates we noticed some startups with applied sciences like NFT and Web3, from the finalists you’ll be able to see that AI is at present main the pack as probably the most promising know-how throughout the music tech scene,” he continued. “All of immediately’s finalists are driving leaps ahead of their respective domains.”
Both Un:hurd and SYNKii will obtain an funding of €100,000 for profitable the competitors.