• RootMusic Raises $2.3 Million To Help Bands Build Spectacular Facebook Pages

    Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    RootMusic, a San Francisco-based startup that essentially makes it easier for bands and musicians to set up phenomenal-looking pages on Facebook, has raised $2.3 million in financing according to an SEC filing.

    If you’d like to learn more about RootMusic, check out Orli’s post, but basically, RootMusic lets musicians and bands establish fancy Facebook pages, featuring artwork, music, photos, videos, a concert calendar and whatnot.

    There’s a free option and a paid option for bands who want to dive deeper into the customization of their so-called ‘BandPage’.

    This is the BandPage for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers if you’re interested in an example, or check out RootMusic’s tour.

    We reached out to RootMusic about the financing round, but they declined to provide more details at this point. We’ll update their CrunchBase profile when they get around to do so.

    Company: BandPage
    Website: bandpage.com
    Launch Date: October 1, 2009
    Funding: $18.3M

    We founded BandPage to level the playing field; we turn two days of hard work into two clicks online. Whether it’s your band’s first gig or scheduling your second arena tour, BandPage gives you the power to get it done. BandPage is the industry’s leading social media promotion and distribution platform that directly turns revenue for the artist. Integrations with other popular services like YouTube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Bandsintown, SonicLiving, TopSpin, SongKick and blogs make BandPage easy to manage...

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