# Spotify

> Spotify is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Music and Internet. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/spotify
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/spotify
- Website: http://www.spotify.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Spotify

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users wantrecommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists.Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Spotify. Shizune tracks 24 team members at Spotify. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/spotify?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 3 | 43% |
| Internet | 3 | 43% |
| Music Streaming | 3 | 43% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| China | 1 | 14% |
| Sweden | 1 | 14% |
| Germany | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Björn Melinder | Senior Staff Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bj%C3%B6rn-melinder |
| Catie Edwards | Machine Learning Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catie-edwards |
| chris pinel | Global Head of Ad Sales, Commercial Partnerships | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pinel |
| Christopher Wright | TPM | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-wright |
| Courtney Holt | Head of Studios and Video | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-holt |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anam | Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction.. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Doinstruct | Doinstruct is a digital-based company with video functionality created for industry personnel onboarding and training. With the use of the company's platform, businesses can train their staff members and service providers via smartphones, throughout supply chains, and from any place, allowing all front-line personnel to participate in trainingat their convenience. | $8.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Artory | Artory prepares collectible, real-world assets for the rapidly developing digital, financial ecosystem. The Artory team’s deep experience in the art industry, combined with our network of partners and technology, allows Artory to accelerate the liquidity and investment opportunities for the most trusted physical artworks. With our unique DueDiligence Tool, Artory secures trusted information from expert partners to tokenize physical artworks and real-world assets. This process prepares these objects to be incorporated in traditional financial instruments, next-gen digital-first financial products, and other Web3 opportunities.Artory’s database, which contains over 44 million transaction records from auction houses across the globe, is a core dataset for the annual UBS + Art Basel Global Art Market Report, published by renowned economist Dr. Clare McAndrew. The database is essential to asset valuation when artworks or collectibles participate in digital primary or secondary markets, or other financial products.Artory was founded in 2016 by Nanne Dekking to accumulate and secure trusted data about artworks and collectibles. In 2018, The Artory Registry was the first platform to immutably record artwork information on the blockchain when Artory partnered with Christie’s to exclusively register each piece of art sold from the $323M Barney A. Ebsworth Collection. Through the partnership, Christie’s became the first auction house to record artwork transactions on the blockchain. Artory was launched for public use in late 2019 in partnership with Winston Art Group–the world’s leading independent appraisal firm. The collaboration with Winston Art Group allows individual collectors to register validated information about their personal artworks on the blockchain, giving collectors unprecedented access to the benefits of blockchain security.Since then, Artory has verified, secured on blockchain, and tokenized over $1.5B worth art and collectibles. Starting in 2021, Artory began leveraging the trusted artwork information to tokenize physical artworks to prepare them for safe and efficient trade in the digital financial markets. Artory also owns, maintains, and develops one of the largest databases of art market data. These data are used for sophisticated data insights and data-driven valuations and solutions. Artory’s investors include Hasso Plattner Capital, Knickerbocker Capital LP, Borderless Capital, and Jsquare. | $15.9M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Sounder.fm | Sounder is the cutting-edge technology platform at the forefront of AI/ML-driven content classification and data extraction for the audio industry. By providing contextual intelligence and brand safety solutions to audio publishers, advertising marketplaces, and brands & agencies, Sounder enables significant monetization opportunities atscale | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 10, 2020 |  |
| DistroKid | DistroKid is a service for musicians that puts your music into online stores so that people can buy it. DistroKid is the only service that lets you upload unlimited music to stores for one low price. DistroKid was designed for solo musicians, bands, DJs, and producers who record music at home or in the studio. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 18, 2018 |  |
| Tencent Music Entertainment | Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) is the largest online music entertainment platform in China, operating the top four music mobile apps in terms of mobile MAUs. Our platform comprises our online music, online karaoke and music-centric live streaming services, supported by our content offerings, technology and data. Our platform is an all-in-onemusic entertainment destination that allows users to seamlessly engage with music in many ways, including discovering, listening, singing, watching and socializing. On our platform, social interactions, such as sharing, liking, commenting, following and virtual gifting, are deeply integrated in our products and highly complementary to the core music experience, thereby enhancing our user experience, engagement and retention. We had over 800 million total unique MAUs in the second quarter of 2018, covering the full spectrum of user demographics in China. | $998.3M |  | Dec 15, 2017 |  |
| Soundtrack | Soundtrack Your Brand is a Spotify joint venture and the exclusive provider of Spotify Business and Spotify Enterprise. We connect brands and fans, and our vision is to grow the music market and thereby support artists, so that they can give the world more great music | $10.9M | Series B | Jun 23, 2015 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/borderless-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Concept Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concept-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D11Z.Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d11z-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ElevenLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevenlabs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Spotify invest in?

Spotify invests primarily in Music, Internet and Music Streaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Spotify?

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### Who are the partners at Spotify?

The team at Spotify includes Björn Melinder (Senior Staff Engineer), Catie Edwards (Machine Learning Engineer) and chris pinel (Global Head of Ad Sales, Commercial Partnerships), among 24 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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