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Websitethe.echonest.com
Blogblog.echonest.com
Twitter@echonest
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Phone617-628-0233
Emailpress@echonest.com
Employees40
Founded7/05
DescriptionMusic Intelligence Platform

Offices

Somerville, USA
48 Grove St.
Suite 206
Somerville, MA, 02144
USA

People

Co-Founder, CTO
Co-Founder, CSO
CEO
Board of Directors
Board of Director
Board of Director
Director of Application developer community
Director of Strategic Partnerships

Former People

Chairman & CEO
Head of Strategy and Corporate Development

Funding

TOTAL $25.6M
FUNDING TOTAL $25.6M
Series A, 9/08
Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Venture Round, 1/10
$1.31M
Venture Round, 10/10
Matrix Partners
$7M
Series D, 7/12
Norwest Venture Partners
Matrix Partners
Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Jim Pallotta
$17.3M

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The Echo Nest

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.

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Uploaded: 3/23/11

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