A3C's Startup Spotlight highlights music startups that help music makers create, market, share and monetize music & videos.
These 5 Startups will present at the Music Tech Experience (MTX) on Thursday, October 5th from 11am - 8:30pm. MTX converts the Loudermilk Center Ballroom into a hybrid exhibitor space + conference room. Meet and learn from those behind the most innovative advances in music apps, streaming, VR, AR, hardware, data analytics, and software.
Top 5 Finalists
Record Gram
RecordGram is an all in one mobile production marketplace, recording studio and social network that allows our users to create original songs with award winning music producers from under $5 all from the palm of their hand.
Presenter: Erik Mendelson
Website: https://www.recordgram.com/
"RecordGram is excited to be part of A3C because they’re providing a platform to showcase our music technology directly to artists and producers who we’re targeting to use our app, A3C and the city of Atlanta combines the perfect ecosystem of world class artists and producers along with a growing technology scene that provides value for growing our business." - Erik Mendelson
Jammber
A pioneering cloud-based platform serving the music and film industries. The first technology platform to capture the entire creative workflow collaboration process. It organizes your projects in a simplified, intuitive way, tracking credits, payments, and paperwork to ensure proper payments, while collecting valuable metadata.
Presenter: Marcus Cobb
Website: http://www.jammber.com/
"Hip-Hop is the largest category in the music industry for the first time ever and we believe we can help it grow even more." - Marcus Cobb
The UpNext
UpNext is the game of music discovery that maximizes exposure for upcoming artists while also rewarding fans for their talent recognition abilities. Fantasy Sports meeting the music industry.
Presenter: Ayinde Arnett
Website: http://www.theupnext.com/
"I am excited to participate in the A3C Startup Spotlight and in the overall conference. The industry knowledge, contacts, and creative energy will make for a fun and enlightening three days." - Ayinde Arnett
BrandSnap
BrandSnap is the world first self-service music brand partnership platform connecting Music artists and Brands together for social media campaigns.
Presenter: Calvin Mabi
Website: http://www.brandsnap.co.uk/
"I'm excited about meeting like minded entrepreneurs who are on the same mission to change the music industry and the A3C Conference is the perfect place for this. I'm also excited to see where the industry is going in terms of streaming, new ways to create, collaborate and ultimately get the insists from the expects speakers who are going to be attending" - Calvin Mabi
RapChat
Rapchat is an app that lets your record freestyle raps over hundreds of free hip hop beats
Presenter: Pat Gibson
Website: https://www.rapchat.me/
"I'm stoked to be apart of A3C this year as it'll be the biggest, centralized event in hip hop! Our mission at Rapchat is to provide more tools and opportunities for those who are under-resourced, and we couldn't be more excited to be involved." - Pat Gibson
Why Hip-Hop?
Hip-Hop is the most important, influential and potentially largest user-base for many music tech companies. Hip-Hop artists are early adopters and often the most active and engaged community on most social and music technology platforms.
