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Jukedeck is developing an artificially intelligent music composer.
Europe Disrupt London 2015 2015 Winner
2014
Acquired
Patrick Stobbs Founder
A key change is in the works for Jukedeck, a pioneering AI startup out of the U.K. which was building technology to create music using AI — including the ability to interpret video and automatically set music to it. The London company has reportedly been acquired by hot social media music startup TikTok, owned by […]
It's been a tough fight, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, we hand-picked the 15 greatest companies from Europe and beyond so that they could compete in our incredibly competitive startup competition -- the Startup Battlefield. They all presented in front of multiple groups of industry leaders serving as judges. The startups were competing for £30,000 and the highly coveted Disrupt Cup.
Disrupt London Day One was a smashing success, and included speaking appearances from Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, former Arsenal footballer; and sports broadcaster Thierry Henry (yep, there was plenty of football on our stage); Postmates' Bastian Lehmann; and a host of investors from Sonali De Rycker and Andy McLoughlin to David Hornik.
Everyone can shoot video but few can record or afford a legal soundtrack. Until now. With Jukedeck’s new artificial intelligence music composition technology, creators can get a cheap, royalty free soundtrack custom-made for their video. Jukedeck users don’t even need musical talent. They just select the mood, style, tempo and length, and Jukedeck returns a unique song to match their short film, YouTube series or 6-second Vine.
TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 14 startups selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London 2015. Over the next two days, these companies will compete on tech’s biggest stage for a €30,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. The Battlefield represent the crème de la crème of the European tech scene. The startups onstage represent just under three percent of those that applied. Startup Battlefield serves to showcase the most promising early-stage and disruptive startups in the industry.
As per usual the Le Web startup competition has been showcasing a smorgasbord of Europe’s hottest startups this week, and three stood out for the judges. But out of Easysize, Naturalcycles and Jukedeck, it was Jukedeck that won the top prize in the end. London-based JukeDeck has received a small seed funding round for its platform […]
George Orwell once wrote about “an instrument known as a versificator” which composed words for songs without any human intervention. Heaven knows we are probably close to that with any Justin Bieber song these days, but the music sometimes still requires a human touch. But not any more, if new startup JukeDeck has anything to […]