Freshsound, a Stockholm, Sweden-based licensing platform for original music, raised €1.3m in pre-seed funding.
Investors included Aligned Ventures, Kristina Tunkrans (former Partner at Cederquist, CEO of PRMD publishing/AtNight and Chief of Music, Epidemic Sound), Shiv Prakash (former VP of Investment, Hipgnosis Song Fund), Marcus Konstantino (Partner, HDR Partners), Gustav Nordlindh (Founder and CEO at Royal Streaming), Kim Fai Kok and Dara Gill (Framtid).
The company intends to use the funds to continue onboarding talent, accelerate its commercial expansion, expand its catalog, product development and R&D, and launch its licensing platform in the Nordics, Germany and UK.
Founded in 2021 by Stephen Gyasi and Sara Larsson, Freshsound is a licensing platform for original music, which ensures that content creators and storytellers are enabled with the best possible music for their visual content. With a team already drawing from their experience at companies and record labels like Warner Music, V2 Music, Hipgnosis, Spotify, Epidemic Sound, EMI, Sony Music, iZettle, Dassault Systèmes and BCG, Freshsound has also recruited Helen McLaughlin, former Managing Director of Warner Music Sweden, Head of A&R at Sony Music Sweden, Head of A&R and Business Development at The Kennel and CEO at V2 Music Scandinavia to lead its expansion of catalog.
FinSMEs
05/07/2022