| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.06.2014 | After ditching Echo Nest, Rdio acquires music discovery startup TastemakerX | Rdio has acquired music discovery service TastemakerX, according to a Pando report published today.
TastemakerX started as a streaming music service that sought to appeal to the inner music enthusiast (or music snob) in all of us by enticin... |
| 30.06.2014 | After ditching Echo Nest, Rdio acquires music discovery startup TastemakerX | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Rdio has acquired music discovery service Tastema... |
| 12.12.2013 | Spotify’s revised plan to dominate the crap out of rival music services | Spotify is sitting on top of the world. With 24 million monthly active users, 6 million paying subscribers, and $538 million (not a typo) in venture funding, it’s the dominant streaming music service in most of the English-speaking world.
F... |
| 12.12.2013 | Spotify’s revised plan to dominate the crap out of rival music services | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Spotify is sitting on top of the world. With 24 m... |
| 19.09.2013 | Music Service TastemakerX Relaunches, Allowing Fans To Show Off Their Taste With Artist Collections | Music startup TastemakerX has been described as a stock market or fantasy sports league for bands, but today it’s launching version 2.0, which co-founder and CEO Marc Ruxin described as “a totally new direction.”
The centerpiece of the new ... |
| 19.09.2013 | TastemakerX pivots into a music service that plays nice with Pandora, Spotify, SoundCloud, & others | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Try as they might, entrepreneurs haven’t yet mana... |
| 19.09.2013 | TastemakerX pivots into a music service that plays nice with Pandora, Spotify, SoundCloud, & others | Try as they might, entrepreneurs haven’t yet managed to figure out an ultra successful method for discovering, listening to, and sharing music — and it’s not for lack of effort.
Music startup TastemakerX thinks it has an explanation for why... |
| 31.03.2013 | All Things SXSW (Re)Considered | Editor’s note: Marc Ruxin is CEO and co-founder of TastemakerX. Follow him on Twitter @ruxputin.
If you went to SXSW 20 years ago, you would have been there to see and discover new music. You worked at a label or publishing company, or perh... |
| 10.03.2013 | TastemakerX Raises $1.25M in Venture Capital Funding | TastemakerX, a San Francisco, CA-based music discovery app, has raised $1.25m in venture capital funding.
Backers included AOL Ventures, Baseline Ventures, True Ventures and Guggenheim Venture Partners.
Co-founded by CEO Mark Ruxin and CTO ... |
| 07.03.2013 | TastemakerX Raises Another $1.25M To Position Itself As “Fantasy League” For Bands | TastemakerX, a music discovery mobile application, which previously operated as something of a “stock market for bands,” is today announcing $1.25 million in new funding from Baseline Ventures, True Ventures, Guggenheim Venture Partners and... |
| 07.03.2013 | TastemakerX’s new game for music snobs nabs $1.25M to improve artist discovery | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gritting your teeth long enough to ask the resident music snobs what they’ve been listening to usually provides much better results tha... |
| 07.03.2013 | TastemakerX’s new game for music snobs nabs $1.25M to improve artist discovery | Gritting your teeth long enough to ask the resident music snobs what they’ve been listening to usually provides much better results than most social music discovery technologies.
Music startup TastemakerX understands this. It has created a ... |
| 07.03.2013 | Funding Daily: I heart Sriracha | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Happy Sriracha Week, everyone! With all the chaos... |
| 14.06.2012 | TastemakerX Builds a “Taste Graph” to Reward Music Trendspotters | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Take a guy with dual lifelong passions for new music and fantasy sports; run him through business school, the dot-com gold rush, and the world of big-brand advertising; and th... |
| 14.06.2012 | TastemakerX Opens Its Music Stock Market To Everyone | TastemakerX, the startup that lets music fans get credit for discovering popular bands before they become cool, is opening to the public today.
If this sounds like an app where your annoying music hipster friends can be their annoying music... |
| 13.04.2012 | ‘Stock Market For Music Hipsters’ TastemakerX Hits Beta In Time For Coachella | Almost all currency is virtual — In that it relies on the people who are trading it to define its value. Thus we are an economy of taste by default, so it’s about time some startup owned the taste graph. TastemakerX has the potential to be ... |
| 05.04.2012 | Spotify Says It’s Just Like Radiohead, Turntable.fm Says David Bowie | Yes, that’s one of the more random headlines I’ve written, but look — I wasn’t the one who said it. Executives from Spotify and Turntable.fm really did compare themselves to popular musicians, and Pandora and TastemakerX took turns, too.
Al... |
| 08.02.2012 | TastemakerX, The App For Hipsters Who Totally Heard That Band First, Raises $1.8M | TastemakerX, an about-to-launch startup that will help music fans get credit for discovering the next big thing, has raised $1.8 million in Series A funding.
The company plans to launch its mobile app in early March, at South by Southwest —... |
| 08.02.2012 | TastemakerX Raises $1.8M in Funding | TastemakerX, a San Francisco, CA-based social mobile platform focused on developing a targeted taste graph, has raised $1.8m in funding.
Backers include Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, True Ventures, AOL Ventures, Tekton Ventures, J... |
| 08.02.2012 | Mystery music app TastemakerX nails down a $1.8M funding round pre-launch | It hasn’t even launched yet, but TastemakerX has already sealed a reasonable deal to lock in funding from Silicon Valley investors.
Now that’s what we call rock n’ roll.
The social-mobile-music app raised a $1.8 million chunk of change for ... |
| 08.02.2012 | Mystery music app TastemakerX nails down a $1.8M funding round pre-launch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It hasn’t even launched yet, but TastemakerX has ... |
| 08.02.2012 | TastemakerX Grabs $1.8M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Social mobile platform focused on developing a targeted taste graph, today announced that it has raised $1.8 million in funding from leading venture capital firms and angel investors.
>> Click here for more fundi... |
| 08.02.2012 | TastemakerX lands $1.8M before launch of mobile app | The new startup gains Baseline, AOL, True Ventures and others to support "fantasy football" of music
A yet-to-be released Silicon startup called TastemakerX has already announced a $1.8 million round of funding for its social appl... |
| - | Startups Win at SXSW | In the past few years, South by Southwest has become increasingly famous for producing “winners.” These winners—Twitter (2007), Foursquare (2009) and GroupMe (2011)—can credit the festival for an early boost within the press and influencer ... |
| - | Gameifying Culture with TastemakerX | All music lovers know there is a certain amount of clout and swagger that comes with being the first to discover a new band. And our desire to establish bragging rights about new music discovery can fuel a bit of friendly competition as we ... |
| - | Congratulating TastemakerX | I am happy to announce that True portfolio company TastemakerX has been acquired by independent music streaming service Rdio, an acquisition that will further both companies’ missions to deliver the world’s best music experience.
True firs... |
