# Abbey Road Red

> Abbey Road Red is a VC fund in London backing Music and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 82%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbey-road-studios/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/abbeyroad
- Website: http://www.abbeyroad.com/abbeyroadred
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abbeyroad

Abbey Road Red is a VC fund in London focused on Music and Software. Building on a legacy of more than 80 years of groundbreaking technological advances at the Studios, Abbey Road Red is Abbey Road Studio's open innovation department designed to support the endeavours of the brightest music tech entrepreneurs, researchers and developers. They run a unique music tech start-up incubation program to support themost promising music tech startups, as well as collaborating with the brightest minds in academic research. The white lab coats are long gone at Abbey Road but the spirit of adventure is still as present as ever.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 10 | 91% |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Audio | 3 | 27% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 18% |
| Social Media | 2 | 18% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 91% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 2 | 18% |
| Finland | 2 | 18% |
| United States | 2 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Spain | 1 | 9% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Isabel Garvey | Board Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isabel-garvey |
| Marc Lazarus | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-lazarus |
| Mirek Stiles | Head of Audio Products | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirek-stiles |
| Pete Cobbin | Board Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pete-cobbin |
| Jon Eades | Project Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-eades |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MyPart | MyPart is an AI-powered song search and matching platform for anyone in pursuit of songs, including the music industry, TV/Film and advertising.For Music and Creative Executives: MyPart’s award-winning technology uses reference songs- rather than conventional “tagging” techniques- to help A&Rs, Sync, and Music Supervisors “dig” throughand prioritize their musical catalogs and/or discover new talent. This helps these industry decision-makers find songs that share common harmonic, melodic, lyrical, sonic and structural features with their predefined benchmarks, and ensures they only listen to the “right” songs that actually match their needs. For Songwriters: MyPart’s AI analyzes songs submitted by emerging songwriters from all over the world, in order to place them with opportunities in the Music, TV/Film and Advertising Industries. We believe your songs deserve a shot, and create matches purely based on song relevance, rather than personal connections or industry access.MyPart graduated from Universal Music's exclusive Abbey Road RED program in London and Capitol Records' gBeta program in LA, as well as Deloitte's LaunchPad Growth program, and won the MassChallenge 2018 gold award and Music Week 2021 Tech Summit.Its proprietary 'Song Mining' engine conducts comprehensive and granular analysis of lyrical, musical and sonic relevance based on a wide technology stack that combines machine learning, computational linguistics, and digital signal processing to determine the likely relevance of any song to any set of reference songs. Our unique approach combines two key qualities: The ability to search for songs with a set of reference songs We created a song fingerprinting technique that abstracts song DNA to enable searching for songs with reference songs, based on common harmonic, melodic, lyrical, sonic and structural features A distinct focus on the semantics and aesthetics of song lyrics. At the heart of our distinct approach is a special focus on the deep comprehension of song lyrics | $650K | Seed | Oct 01, 2020 |  |
| Broomx Technologies | Broomx Technologies is the projected VR company creating the most advanced tools to enjoy virtual reality in real spaces. Founded in 2014 in the heart of Barcelona Technological Hub, they develop propietary solutions in the fields of Software, Hardware and Cloud Services. Their team is a mix of designers/creative minds,developers/engineers and communication/marketing/business development specialists. Broomx Founders and Directors, Serrano Brothers, have melt different disciplines with their passion for disruptive solutions and advanced technologies, always with the human factor and user experience in mind. |  | Seed | Oct 04, 2018 |  |
| COTODAMA | COTODAMA is a music technology company offering lyric sync technology, a technology that show up lyrics in a beautiful way. In addition to our own product COTODAMA Lyric Speaker, we are also offering a software technology to the 3rd party. |  | Seed | Jul 18, 2018 |  |
| LICKD | Lickd is a digital platform helping YouTube content creators legally use the music they love. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2018 |  |
| Humtap | Company DescriptionHumtap's consumer app provides a social media outlet for everyone to create music together, non-musicians and musicians alike. Humtap's industry solutions do for music what Google did for web pages by delivering the world’s most advanced search engine and musical content intelligence.Team ExperienceBain& Company, Bose, eBay, Imagine Research (sold to isotope), Intelsat, IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), Isotope (received an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering in 2013), LinkedIn, Native Instruments (Producer of Traktor, #1 DJ software), Pandora, Renault Audio, Sony, SoundHound, Stanford University CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2018 |  |
| CloudBounce | CloudBounce is a cloud-based online mastering service that helps producers, DJs, musicians, bands and sound engineers sound better though mastering their songs. Unlike competing online mastering services, CloudBounce delivers a good, crystal clear sound quality. | $250K | Seed | Jan 17, 2017 |  |
| QRATES | Qrates is an on demand crowdfunding platform powering the future of music on vinyl. Through its intuitive online platform, QRATES gives artists, labels and brands the tools to design, fund, press, sell, fulfill and distribute their vinyl within minutes to customers and retailers worldwide. |  | Seed | Oct 12, 2016 |  |
| The Audio Hunt | The Audio Hunt is a web based peer to peer (P2P) rental marketplace providing equipment, instruments and services. Browse a wide range of audio gear and services, send your files with a reference mix to the Owner and receive processed audio back for a small fee. |  | Seed | Sep 29, 2016 |  |
| Scored AI | Unique music for every person in the world.Scored is a music & audio tech startup based in London and Los Angeles and alumni of Abbey Road Studios music-tech incubator program.They are creating new ways to sync, consume and interact with music by development of a new innovative music format and platform for todays rights holders &future creators.They develop advanced music and sound technologies to create new value for end customer-driven solutions while shaping the way music and sound is created and consumed in the music, audio, advertising, film and gaming markets. Scored technologies are innovative, modular in design, proprietary and scalable. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2016 |  |
| Uberchord | Uberchord offers a mobile, interactive learning experience that is new, effective and motivating.Unlike competing products, like Yousician, JoyTunes or Flowkey, Uberchord's unique audio analysis technology is able to understand precisely what the user plays - even down to single finger mistakes within complex chords. This was unheard ofpreviously to Uberchord's new technology.As a result exercises can adapt automatically to the users needs and show them exactly how to improve. Further, Uberchord teaches musical understanding instead of mere note reproduction.Guitar is the first instrument Uberchord addresses, but technology and concept are applicable to any other instrument. |  | Seed | Mar 09, 2016 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firstime Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsttime-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Abbey Road Red invest in?

Abbey Road Red invests primarily in Music, Software and Audio startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Abbey Road Red?

The team at Abbey Road Red includes Isabel Garvey (Board Member), Marc Lazarus (Analyst) and Mirek Stiles (Head of Audio Products). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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