Audoo was founded in 2018 with a vision to create a more accurate system for compensating artists and composers for the public performance of their work.


Our Journey

2018

Audoo is born

After hearing his music being played in a famous London department store—and subsequently discovering he was not getting paid for the usage of his Top 10 song—former musician Ryan Edwards delves into the challenge.

Finding that public performance royalties were often from estimations based on popular radio play and manual data-entry, Ryan creates Audoo, with a vision to deliver a more accurate system for compensating artists and composers for the public performance of their work.

2019

Joined Abbey Road Red’s tech incubator

Joined Abbey Road Red’s tech incubator

Renowned as Europe’s first music-tech incubator, Audoo is part of a select cohort on this prestigious programme, which finds and nurtures inventors and early-stage businesses introducing the next generation of technology into the music industry.

Winners of CEBIT Australia

Audoo is among a British delegation of innovative tech companies selected to join the UK Department for International Trade and the Mayor of London for the UK’s flagship showcases at leading tech events CES (US) and CEBIT (Australia), additionally beating 250 businesses to win the CEBIT pitch competition.

2020

Close seed funding round with Tileyard

Close seed funding round with Tileyard

Audoo eclipses its latest funding target by raising £1.5 million and relocates to Tileyard London, an innovative hub for music creatives with over 70 state-of-the-art music studios.

Win our category at MIDEM

Among 20 finalists, Audoo takes the title in the Music Marketing/Data Analytics category at the acclaimed MIDEM Music Industry Conference.

Series A(BBA) funding round closed

Embarking on a Series A funding round, backing comes in from Edinv, Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA founder and CISAC President) and more from existing investors Tileyard London, to the tune of £5.2m ($6.5m). Audoo CEO Ryan says: “To have the continued support from our musical heroes like Björn further helps deliver our vision globally.”

2021

Techround Top 3

Techround Top 3

It is the magic number, and the Techround team votes in Audoo among the crème de la crème of UK music and audio-tech companies.

Pilots launched on 3 continents

APRA, SACEM, GEMA, JASRAC, PRS for Music and PPL pilot our technology. The evidence and feedback is beyond all expectations... the Audio Meter is the tool PROs/CMOs have been looking for.

Series B(eatle) funding round closed

Backers of the Audoo mission continue to pour in. Raising a further £7.2m ($8.9m) in this funding round led by Edinv, and attracting the notable investment from MPL Ventures.

Selected for CreaTech 100 ‘Ones To Watch’

The UK Creative Industries Council (CIC) selects Audoo in its annual showcase of innovative UK-based companies demonstrating British creativity and ingenuity.

2022

We deliver a panel at SXSW Music & FIlm conference

We deliver a panel at SXSW Music & FIlm conference

The first Audoo panel at the Austin-based conference called ‘Are You Getting Yours? Public Performance Explored’ is hosted by lawyer and Audoo board advisor Cliff Fluet, joined by Nigel Elderton (PRS for Music Chairman), Pam Shayne (Songwriter) and Molly Newman (CEO of Songtrust America) to an audience of influential executives across music and technology.

First commercial rollout starts in Australia, then New Zealand

In conjunction with APRA AMCOS, OneMusic Australia & OneMusic New Zealand Audio Meters are adopted nationally across both countries.

CISAC partnership

Audoo collaborates on an industry-first data partnership with the body which governs performing right organisations globally.

Included on FEBE Growth 100 ‘watch list’

The inaugural list celebrating the greatest entrepreneurs in Britain places Audoo among 25 companies to keep an eye on that are ‘on a mission, making great things happen [and] achieving amazing things truly worthy of celebration’.


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