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The Echo Nest

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The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that connects the greatest application developers to the best data and music to enable the next generation of music experiences. Powered by the world’s only machine learning system that actively reads about and listens to music everywhere on the web.

The Echo Nest opens up a massive repository of dynamic music data to application developers ranging from one-person operations to multinational corporations. In addition to the most advanced music application development software and developer toolkits.

The Echo Nest’s intelligence platform offers over 5 billion data points on over 30 million songs and over 2 million artists. Over 220 music applications have been built on its platform to date and The Echo Nest’s customers reach over 100 million music fans every month.

The Echo Nest was co-founded by two MIT Media Lab PhDs. Winner of three National Science Foundation SBIR grants, The Echo Nest’s investors include Matrix Partners and Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Argos Management and three co-founders of MIT Media Lab.

For more information, visit echonest.com.

Recent Milestones

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  The Echo Nest received $17.3M in Series D funding. (7/12/12)
  Posted 7/12/12 at 6:37pm via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest — Announce hire of Robert Spina as VP of Engineer (10/24/11)
  Posted 11/3/11 at 1:44pm via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest — Announce hire of Jeff Bronikowski to the role of Head of Corporate Development and Strategy (9/26/11)
  Posted 11/3/11 at 1:44pm via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest added Shane Tobin as Director of Strategic Partnerships. (3/1/11)
  Posted 5/31/11 at 12:21pm
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  The Echo Nest — The Echo Nest added Matt Ogle as Head of Independent Products (2/14/11)
  Posted 3/22/11 at 11:02am via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest — Announce hire of VP of Product, Dave Rodger (2/7/11)
  Posted 3/22/11 at 11:05am via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest received $7M in Venture Round funding. (10/5/10)
  Posted 10/8/10 at 6:40pm via venturebeat.com
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  The Echo Nest — Announce hire of Eliot Van Buskirk as Lead Analyst, Editor-in-Chief of Evolver.fm (9/20/10)
  Posted 3/22/11 at 11:06am via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest received $1.31M in Venture Round funding. (1/5/10)
  Posted 1/5/10 at 12:44pm via sec.gov
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  The Echo Nest received () in Series A funding. (9/9/08)
  Posted 9/10/08 at 2:10pm via paidcontent.org
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  The Echo Nest — The Echo Nest promoted Jim Lucchese as CEO (8/1/08)
  Posted 3/22/11 at 11:02am via echonest.com
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  The Echo Nest added Jim Lucchese as CEO. (4/1/07)
  Posted 3/26/08 at 2:42pm
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  The Echo Nest added Brian Whitman as Co-Founder, CTO.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 2:42pm
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  The Echo Nest added Don Rose as Chairman & CEO.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 2:42pm
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  The Echo Nest added Tristan Jehan as Co-Founder, CSO.
  Posted 3/26/08 at 2:42pm
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  The Echo Nest added Paul Lamere as Director of Application developer community.
  Posted 4/9/10 at 2:45pm

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2. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
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