--- title: Techstars Music comes to A3C to discuss Venture Capital for music startups description: Bob will be joined by Jen Nicholas (Director of Techstars Music) and Brad Spahr (VP of Innovation at Sony Music) as well as Techstars Music Mentor image: https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hubfs/bob-moz-1.jpg --- [**](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/techstars-music-comes-to-a3c-to-discuss-venture-capital-for-music-startups#) - Oct 8-13, 2019 - [Home](https://www.a3cfestival.com) - [Schedule](https://a3cconference.com/shows/index.html) - [Lineup](https://a3cconference.com/lineup/index.html) - [Oct 8-13, 2019](https://www.a3cfestival.com) - [Blog](https://blog.a3cfestival.com) - [Buy Tickets](https://www.a3cfestival.com/tickets) ![](https://udxsva.com/tag?id=11009) - [Home](https://blog.a3cfestival.com) - [Artist Advice](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/artist-advice) - [Music Industry](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/music-industry) - [A3C Updates](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/a3c) - [Events](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/events) - [Atlanta](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/atlanta) - [Opportunities](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/topic/opportunities) # Techstars Music comes to A3C to discuss Venture Capital for music startups ![Mike Walbert](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hubfs/Mikelinkedin.png) Posted by [Mike Walbert](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/author/mike-walbert) on Sep 12 Come join Techstars Music Managing Director, Bob Moz, for an open discussion about Venture Capital for music start ups.    Bob will be joined by Jen Nicholas (Director of Techstars Music) and Brad Spahr (VP of Innovation at Sony Music) as well as Techstars Music Mentor Joe Bellioti (Head of Global Music Marketing at Coca-Cola).   **Thursday, Oct 5th ** **@ ****3:00pm** **Loudermilk Center**    [![buy a3c pass 2017 teal](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/73154/8c69f217-0a53-4a88-8088-e24a8f0cc6ab.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/73154/8c69f217-0a53-4a88-8088-e24a8f0cc6ab)   [![techstars.jpg](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hs-fs/hubfs/techstars.jpg?width=400&name=techstars.jpg)](http://www.techstars.com/programs/music-program/)   The Music Tech Experience (MTX) connects music tech startups, end-users and music industry leaders to spark innovation and partnerships. MTX converts the Loudermilk Center Ballroom into a hybrid exhibitor space + conference room on Thursday, October 5th.    Techstars Music is a startup accelerator run by Techstars and a group of leading companies from the global music business: Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Sonos, Harmonix Music Systems, Silva Artist Management, Era Of The Engineer, Bill Silva Entertainment and QPrime Management. Each year, they invest $120k into 10 of the best music-related startups from around the world.  ### **[Techstars Music Applications Open NOW](http://www.techstars.com/programs/music-program/)** - **Application Deadline = Oct 15, 2017** - **Start of the Program = Feb 5, 2018** - **Demo Day = May 3, 2018**  # MEet the 5 A3C Startups Finalists A3C's **Startup Spotlight** highlights music startups that help music makers create, market, share and monetize music & videos.  ### **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/](https://www.recordgram.com/)****   ### **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/](http://www.jammber.com/)**   ### **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/](http://www.theupnext.com/)****   **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/](http://www.brandsnap.co.uk/)****   **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/](https://www.rapchat.me/)**** ## **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. # Atlanta is the capital of Hip-Hop and A3C is the annual gathering for Music, Tech & Hip-Hop. ![Mike Walbert](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/hubfs/Mikelinkedin.png) ### Written by [Mike Walbert](https://blog.a3cfestival.com/list/author/mike-walbert) Mike Walbert is the Executive Director of the A3C Festival & Conference. As as partner in the business Mike oversees various aspects of the business, including: Business Development, Sponsorship, Branding and Marketing. Mike officially joined A3C in 2009 as the Artist Director. Since 2010 Mike has managed the strategy and team that have grown A3C from a regional showcase to an internationally recognized institution in hip-hop culture. 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