bold music tech visions live and in action
At the heart of MUSIC FRONTIERS 2025 lies the Innovation Showcase Stage, a live arena for groundbreaking ideas and transformative music tech tools.
Over two days on September 4 + 5 at AQUA-Höfe / Ritter Butzke Berlin, this stage will be dedicated to spotlight daring innovators, visionary entrepreneurs, and fearless thinkers. Each presenter will have 15 minutes to show (not tell) how their product, service, or solution aims to reshape the music ecosystem.
No pitches. Just real-time demonstrations of real-world impact.
From AI-powered tools and immersive experiences to artist funding and community-building and beyond, these showcases will widen your perspective about a potenital future for music and its ecosystem.
Come witness the new frontier of music innovation!
SELECTED STARTUPS
AIDAR
AIDAR is redefining artist discovery with AI-powered scouting agents that catalyze, not replace, your instinct - delivering tailored talent recommendations that fit your own needs and vision.
AISO Academy
AISO Academy presents Relay, an AI-powered, gamified DAW teaching tool designed for artists, producers, and educators. Backed by AISO Academy’s mission to redefine music education, Relay combines machine-learning–driven tutorials, real-time feedback and game-style challenges to turn complex audio production techniques into engaging, hands-on learning quests—helping users master music-making workflows faster and more enjoyably than ever before
Anecoica Studio
Anecoica is developing KÚMA a real-time emotional music engine that transforms biometric signals (EEG, HRV, GSR) into adaptive therapeutic sound. Powered by our Quantum Emotional Algorithm (QEA), KÚMA delivers clinically relevant, personalized audio that reduces stress and enhances focus. Designed for integration in clinics, XR, wearables, and immersive platforms.
BabyJam
A music‑tech startup founded by Ryoji Tamura in Tokyo. They developed NORDER, an AI‑powered manager app tailored for independent artists. NORDER automates email responses, scheduling, music data tracking, and marketing tasks, freeing musicians to focus on creative work.
Beam for Music
Beam for Music is a music rights tech platform that helps publishers, composers, and rights holders track, verify, and optimize their royalty collections. By aggregating and analyzing data from streaming services, broadcasters, SVOD platforms, and live performance sources, Beam provides real-time insights into how music is used—and where royalties may be missing.
Combining AI, OCR, and semantic analysis, Beam simplifies rights management and ensures fairer, faster payouts. The platform is trusted by major players like Universal, Sony, and Warner, and is now expanding internationally across Europe, Africa, and North America.
Bitlab
IloSys OÜ is an Estonian technology startup developing BitLab - a modular software platform for audio, video, and lighting professionals. BitLab simplifies and streamlines technical workflows by offering real-time control, monitoring, and diagnostics of live event systems through a unified, cross-platform interface. Designed for technicians, by technicians, BitLab enables seamless integration with industry protocols like OSC, MIDI, Telnet, and more.
Broadcast
Broadcast is a multisided platform built on a Single Source of Truth (SSoT) philosophy, designed to bring people together through shared live event experiences.
By centralising all event data in one place, we enable organisers to manage and publish events efficiently - while ensuring audiences discover them wherever they are. Our SSoT and API first approach allows for seamless synchronization of event information across a wide and growing range of channels, including music media, hospitality partners, mobile apps, websites, and event directories.
EarLick
The world’s first AI that clones guitar tones from any song - and makes them playable in real time.
European Artist Bank
E.A.B. is a dual-function financial and rights management hub designed to empower artists.
Unlike traditional industry models that favour intermediaries, E.A.B. puts artists in control, disrupting outdated copyright structures with automated rights management and the collecting of passive revenue streams.
Gig 'n' Pick
Gig 'n' Pick is an AI platform that automates content, bookings & career growth — built for independent musicians, venues & pros who need more time, more gigs, and better visibility.
A personal AI-assistant that never sleeps — so you can focus on the music, not the mess.
Hopcast
Hopcast orchestrates direct communications between customers toward efficient, inclusive content distribution on the Mobile Internet.
Hopcast’s main innovation is the ability to build, maintain, and explore, in a highly efficient way, the dynamic graph connecting customers and the content they need to harvest.
Just 4 Noise
Generative AI tools to fuel artist creativity, NOT replace it.
Via simple text prompting, Just 4 Noise's ML workflow generates high-quality one-shot samples, cutting down search time from hours to seconds and allowing audio creators to find the exact sound they envision.
Ranging from drum sounds to synth voices and traditional instruments, our tools enable music creators to stop wasting time and money searching for sounds. This modernized workflow enables producers to preserve their creative energy, finish their projects, and monetize as soon as possible.
Klangio
Klangio is revolutionizing sheet music creation with AI-powered transcription tools that convert any audio, whether from live recordings or MP3 uploads, into digital scores and MIDI within seconds.
From solo vocals to complex multi-instrument pieces, our intuitive apps like Piano2Notes and Transcription Studio empower musicians of all levels to analyze, edit, and share their music with ease.
By bridging the gap between sound and notation, Klangio is unlocking new creative possibilities and transforming the way music is learned, composed, and produced.
KonnektWerk
At KonnektWerk , we are a team passionate about technology, creativity,
and entertainment. Since our founding, we have been committed to
delivering innovative solutions that improve the way groups interact,
collaborate, and enjoy shared experiences.
Konnektwerk develops and implements the StageLink Project.
Melodie Music
Melodie is a tech-enabled music licensing platform and API solution, delivering exceptional music for all kinds of content—and meaningful income for artists.
With intuitive search and workflow tools designed to streamline the path from discovery to sync, Melodie makes it fast and easy to license original, pre-cleared music for any application.
Myxt
Myxt is a new AI assisted streaming music app leading a pivotal shift in economic models for music by including new digital products for fans and artists to build communities
ohr
ohr is a community-first platform for club culture that reimagines how value flows in the electronic music ecosystem.
By connecting DJs, producers, venues, and fans through fair compensation and social interaction, ohr recognises and rewards everyone who contributes—from the artist who makes the track to the dancer who brings it to life.
Playlo
Playlo is a mobile app that gamifies music discovery, giving underground artists more exposure while letting users win money with their favourite songs.
Slovox
R&D Lab for spatial sound. We believe the future of sound is spatial. That’s why we envision, design, and build spatial sound instruments, systems, and installations — empowering artists, researchers, and institutions with access to technology and expertise for immersive sonic experiences.
Welcome to Slovox, the R&D Lab for spatial sound.
SPOZZ
The Music Network Owned by Artists and Fans — Where Music Has Value, Fans Are in Control, and Artists Earn Fairly and Instantly.
Spred
Spred connects artists with the right industry opportunities - playlists, gigs, and festivals, labels, sync deals - by analyzing their sound and identifying subcultural fit. This helps labels promote their artists more effectively, DJs discover fresh tracks, and industry pros find the right music faster.
Stager
Planning software, event marketing tools and an online ticketing system, all in one. Stager offers a clear overview in one system, reclaiming your team's time, energy, and budget. Collaborate better, work smarter, and sell more tickets.
Eierlegende Wollmichsau basically.
Sync Discovery
Sync Discovery is an AI-powered platform that helps artists distribute music to radio stations across Africa and track airplay and royalties in real time.
With 90% of artists globally earning less than $100 a year due to discoverability and monetisation challenges, we're giving artists direct access to radio, a powerful revenue channel that reaches 75% of Africa’s population every week.
SyncHub
SyncHub is a music licensing marketplace that simplifies the entire music licensing process from beginning to end. The platform brings together music providers (labels, publishers and artists) and music users (ad agencies, game developers, film producers, content creators and more), facilitating the music licensing process.
twelve x twelve
welve x twelve transforms future music revenues into immediate cash - whether from publishing or recorded rights. Twelve x twelve provides flexible financing that preserves your creative and financial independence.
UniteSync
UniteSync is a rights management platform designed for music creators, especially independent artists and songwriters, who want to collect all the royalties they’re owed globally without dealing with the complexity of music publishing administration.
Wavelab
The Wavelab is the innovation lab and start-up center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich for experiments and ventures at the interface of music, arts & media with new technologies. Wavelab
is a place for students, as well as young professionals from the cultural and creative industries, who are interested in innovation, entrepreneurial thinking and action and/or the use of new technologies in the arts and cultural context. Wavelab aims to arouse enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and innovation as it supports entrepreneurs at the interface of culture and new technologies with the implementation of their start-up projects in an incubator porgram.
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