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Acquired bySony
Price$260M
Date4/08

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Websitegracenote.com
Twitter@Gracenotetweets
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Employees
Founded1998
DescriptionDigital Media Recognition

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Investments

MOG 5/06

Funding

TOTAL $33.4M
FUNDING TOTAL $33.4M
Series C, 9/02
Sequoia Capital
$9.5M
Series D, 3/04
Bessemer Venture Partners
Sequoia Capital
Steve Simon
Scott Jones
$13M
Series E, 8/05
$10.9M

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Gracenote

Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Gracenote powers the biggest names in digital media, enabling their products with Gracenote’s leading edge solutions, which include their digital media recognition system dubbed MusicID. The company also provides technology that generates playlists and provides music recommendations after analyzing music that already exists in a user’s library.

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  1. Sony Buys Gracenote for $260M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. EDGAR [edit]
  3. Gracenote Raises $9.5 Million in Third Round of Financing Led by Sequoia Capital; Funding Will Accelerate Next Generation Technologies, Strategic Initiatives (findarticles.com) [edit]
  4. Gracenote Closes $13M Round of Funding, Led by Bessemer Venture Partners (findarticles.com) [edit]
  5. Gracenote Acquires Audio “Fingerprinting” Technology; Raises $10.9 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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