# Rio Caraeff

> Rio Caraeff is a grant investor at Musixmatch (Austin) backing Big Data and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Musixmatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/musixmatch)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/riozilla
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/riozilla
- Website: https://x.com/riozilla
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/riozilla
- AngelList: https://angel.co/riozilla

Rio Caraeff is a grant investor at Musixmatch in Austin focused on Big Data and Software. Rio Caraeff is the current Co-President of Musixmatch. He previously worked at Syng as an Advisor.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Virtual Reality | 1 | 100% |
| Augmented Reality | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BadVR | BadVR uses virtual reality to craft immersive data experiences that help you see the whole picture and gain actionable insights.BadVR is a platform for immersive data visualization. It helps companies significantly increase the value of their data by giving users the tools they need to make faster - and better - decisions. This is possible via aproprietary virtual reality experience that enables you to literally step inside your data.By using virtual reality and machine learning, we make data easy. VR unlocks your brain’s processing potential, allowing you to get value from your data with minimal effort or special training. | $100K | Grant |  |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Musixmatch

VC Fund · Bologna, Italy

Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc

5 contacts available at Musixmatch.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Max Ciociola | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massimo-ciociola |
| Rio Caraeff | Chief Business Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rio-caraeff |
| Adrian Sarosi | Chief Revenues Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-sarosi |
| Francesco Delfino | API Engineer- Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesco-delfino |
| Gianluca delli Carri | Founder & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gianluca-delli-carri |

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## FAQ

### What does Rio Caraeff invest in?

Rio Caraeff invests primarily in Big Data, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Grant stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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