• Facebook ‘BandPage’ Creator RootMusic Raises $16 Million

    Wednesday, August 31st, 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

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    RootMusic, the company behind BandPage, a platform that helps musicians make the most of their Facebook presence, has raised a Series B round of funding to the tune of $16 million after raising $2.3 million earlier this year.

    The financing round was led by GGV Capital with new investor Northgate Capital and existing backer Mohr Davidow Ventures participating.

    Since its launch – which was less than a year and a half ago – BandPage has grown to over 30 million monthly active users, making it the 6th largest overall app according to AppData.

    Roughly 250,000 bands from all over the globe use BandPage to enhance their Facebook presence, as do artists such as Rihanna, Katy Perry, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and Kanye West.


    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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