Open Labs

theDrop

Helping partners personalize their music experiences
theDrop provides a turn-key personalization tool for music apps and content publishers to increase user retention, engagement and ARPU. With theDrop Connect users can connect accounts from their favorite music services. theDrop processes the data from each user’s ...

vivogig

Putting brands and millennials together through events
Vivogig is a brand activation tool disguised as a fan photo contest that reaches deep into an event and extends a campaign's reach into mobile, social and web platforms around the world. Fans take and share thousands of event photos with their friends all around ...

Set.fm

Enabling real time commerce and sharing of high quality concert audio
Set.fm is built by music lovers for music lovers. Our free app helps working musicians tap into additional revenue streams. With Set.fm, artists can instantly capture, promote, and sell recordings of their live performances. It’s simple to set up and most artists ...

Apollo Vibes

Intelligent DJ Software
We are building DJ software for beginner DJs. The software analyzes and labels songs with musical structure that aids in mixing and accelerates the DJ learning process. Currently available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, with a web version in development.

JamFeed

Personalized Breaking Music News To Your Mobile Devices
JamFeed is a music news aggregation platform that allows fans and artists/bands/festivals to connect more effectively by sending breaking news stories (song/video/album/tour/lineup releases) directly to the user's mobile device through mobile push notifications. ...

MusicList

The graph of the music industry
Take MySpace's early-2000s dominance of the music graph. Add the AngelList approach to replacing verticalized service layers with software to de-consolidate power from the market head. That's a new music industry paradigm. IMO.

Moniker Guitars

Design your guitar online at MonikerGuitars.com
Moniker Guitars gives you the ability to design and purchase custom electric guitars online. Choose colors, shapes, and parts and even add text and graphics to make your new guitar truly unique. All our guitars are built in Austin, TX and shipped to your door. ...

Wheatposter

Better Event Discovery
Wheatposter provides a visually rich and interactive environment for event and music discovery. Giving poster art the highest priority instantly transfers a vast amount of more information about the event to users. Anyone is instantly able to gain an understanding ...

CrowdTogether

Tools brands use to manage co-creation for engagement marketing,product dev & mkt research
CrowdTogether believes in the power of a community’s collective creativity and is building tools brands can use to manage co-creation for engagement marketing, product development and market research. CT launched it’s first product—an engagement marketing contest ...

Gundriver

High Octane Rock n Roll!
America's love of great Rock music has never diminished, Gundriver is a great rock band founded and led by an Apache Pilot who left active duty for the sole purpose of making great music.  After our first national tour supporting Michael Schenker (UFO, Scorpions) ...

Sleeq Productions

Celebrating unsung artists around around the US while giving back to the community.
Sleeq Productions is hosting an Independent Award Show in Austin, TX July 18, 2015. We are looking for potential investors to help with the cost of the event.

ehco

love music. change the world.
ehco - The Entertainment Helping Company, is the new giving channel for music and entertainment. A dedicated marketplace for artists to showcase the causes they care about and directly give to these causes via digital and physical sales to fans that transparently ...

Eye in the Sky Collective

the music industry done right
Created by musicians and music fans, Eye in the Sky is presenting a new model to empower the emerging middle-class musician using our software solution to more easily manage their fans, sales and content across multiple platforms while developing a sustainable ...

Event Canvass

The leading online community for the event industry.
Event Canvass is the leading online platform for the event industry, connecting professionals and suppliers with clients in a uniquely visual community. With the largest event design database in the world and a vibrant community powered by social tools, Event ...

RevoStars

LucidTour

Data analytics and recommendations for the live music industry.
LucidTour helps musicians keep their focus where it should be -- on their music. We take the hassle out of scheduling a tour by crunching the numbers, so musicians don’t have to. We analyze fan and venue data to give musicians and band managers instant recommendations ...

Moonlight Social

The next big country music duo
Moonlight Social is an independent country music duo. With a unique but accessible style that can best be described as Sugarland meets The Civil Wars, Moonlight Social is poised to break into the mainstream country market — the number 1 music market in the U.S. Supported ...

TourGroove

Live Music's Peer-to-Peer Mobile Marketplace
TourGroove is Live Music's mobile marketplace. Buy-Sell-Trade all things live music on your mobile phone with the security of Paypal. TourGroove brings co-op commerce to the music scene. Fans and Artists set up their personal marketplaces by "GeoJack-ing" any ...

Moodfish

Local Search Based On Your Mood
Moodfish takes traditional contextual and demographic relevance and expands on it. 1) Users are in the mood to do something right now. 2) They're ready to spend money right now. 3) They're ready to spend money right now because of how they FEEL. We are quantifying ...

Clyp

Imgur of Audio
Clyp is a free, simple and fun way to record and share the sounds in your life with friends and family. Previously you had to record the audio using an external microphone, or maybe your phones standard recorder, and then you had to transfer the file to your ...

JamKazam, Inc.

Play music online from different locations in real time
JamKazam develops an innovative live music platform and social network for musicians. The company’s Internet service enables musicians to play music together in real time from different locations over the Internet as if they are sitting in the same room. The service ...

Lyric Champ

Social Hip-hop Collaboration
Lyric Champ brings together artists and fans in the hip-hop community, encouraging collaboration as well as healthy competition. Whether you’re up-and-coming or an experienced musician, Lyric Champ is here to help you make the most of your talent! DO IT! With unique ...

beDJ

beDJ is a piece of mobile software designed to help DJs, DJ.
beDJ is an Android, iOS and WP7 application that aids the DJ in connecting with you. This includes voting on songs for the set, creating a uniform song request system, enabling conversation, through chat, with their listener and establishes a ranking system for ...

Spout Software

Real time cloud collaboration and recording solution for the working musician
Spout Software is an online recording tool for the music and entertainment industries. It is browser-based and leverages the scalability and efficiency of cloud storage in order to bring a real time recording and collaboration experience. Spout provides an easy-to-use ...

Book512

Austin's DJ booking site
Book512 is Austin's premier site to book an DJ for your next party, wedding, or special event. We search through our network of over one hundred local Austin DJs to find the best fit for your style, setup, and pricing needs. We provide previous feedback and reviews ...

Mubu.fm

Your identity in music. Share it with the world.
Music is a big part of each of us. Mubu creates selfies of your music identity to share with friends your favorite social networks.  Mubu combines album art, music discovery, social sharing and word of mouth marketing in an ultra simple and elegant app. Mubu: ...

TicketKarma

AirBnB for ticketing
TicketKarma is a platform for exchanging and managing tickets for live music events. We act as the intermediary between users to ensure a safe and quick transaction. Think AirBnB for tickets. What AirBnB did within the market of rentals (vs. Craigslist, HomeAway, ...

Tuneburg.com

LinkedIn for Musicians
Tuneburg is a concept for an online community that will combine social-networking features such as first, second, and 3rd level connections, with features important to musicians and hardcore fans such as in-line recording, and live interaction. Our license terms ...

Modern Whole

Branding, Design & Development
We are a small, agile team of designers & developers focused on branding, UI/UX and development for startups and entrepreneurs looking to reach the beta or release phases of their product in shorter amount of time without sacrificing aesthetic quality or usability.

Stereocast

watch live music anywhere
Stereocast is an online live music streaming platform for independent bands and venues to expand their audience from the physical presence at the show. We blend the latest in low-cost, high-quality production technology into the workflow of the venue, then stream ...