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Smule

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Smule is a creator of Interactive Sonic Media for mobile platforms. Smule’s first product, Sonic Lighter, is a virtual lighter iPhone application that launched on September 24, 2008. Sonic Lighter is the first application built on a new audio programming language called ChucK. Smule launched Ocarina on November 8, 2008. Ocarina transformed the iPhone into true wind musical instrument and allowed the player to hear others play the instrument around the world, and has experienced over half a million downloads.

Smule was founded in 2008 by CEO Jeff Smith and CTO/CCO Dr. Ge Wang. Jeff Smith previously co-founded and ran Tumbleweed, an email security software company which he took public on the Nasdaq and grew to $50M in sales before stepping down as CEO. CTO/CCO Dr. Wang is a Stanford professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), the chief architect of the ChucK programming language, the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). Along with Jeff and Ge, Smule was founded by a group of Stanford and Princeton music PhD’s and developers.

Recent Milestones

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  Smule acquired Khush. (12/2/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 7:51pm via techcrunch.com
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  Smule received $12M in Venture Round funding. (10/31/11)
  Posted 10/31/11 at 5:43pm via techcrunch.com
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  Smule received $8M in Series C funding. (12/16/09)
  Posted 12/16/09 at 1:08pm via mobilecrunch.com
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  Smule added Jim Routh as VP, Business Development. (9/1/09)
  Posted 6/21/12 at 9:25am
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  Smule received $3.9M in Series A funding. (2/13/09)
  Posted 2/13/09 at 10:50am via washingtonpost.com
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  Smule added Ryan Pfenninger as Director of Finance. (2/1/09)
  Posted 3/27/12 at 5:46am
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  Smule added James Hannon as Advisor. (8/1/08)
  Posted 3/10/11 at 3:32pm
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  Smule added Tom Ryan as Board Director. (7/1/08)
  Posted 3/25/10 at 6:11pm
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  Smule received $1.6M in Seed funding. (1/1/08)
  Posted 9/26/08 at 1:44am via techcrunch.com
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  Smule added Alex Li as CTO.
  Posted 5/7/13 at 3:54am
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  Smule added Prerna Gupta as CPO.
  Posted 5/7/13 at 3:54am
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  Smule added Sunil Pareenja as CFO.
  Posted 5/7/13 at 3:54am
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  Smule added Chris Hollenbeck as Director.
  Posted 1/5/11 at 3:01pm
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  Smule added Parag Chordia as Cheif scientist.
  Posted 5/7/13 at 3:54am
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  Smule added Ge Wang as Co-founder, CTO, CCO.
  Posted 9/26/08 at 1:44am
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  Smule added Jeff Smith as CEO, Co-founder.
  Posted 9/26/08 at 1:44am

Videos

Screenshots

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Products

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I Am T-Pain

Leaf Trombone

Ocarina

Sonic Boom

Sonic Lighter

Sonic Vox

Zephyr

Traffic Analytics

Compete

Sources

1. Smule Acquires Khush To Further Boost Their Music Cred (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. techcrunch.com [edit]
3. iPhone Developer Smule Raises $3.9 Million First Round (washingtonpost.com) [edit]
4. App Store Champ Smule Raises Another $8 Million. (mobilecrunch.com) [edit]
5. Confirmed: Music App Developer Smule Raises $12 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]

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