We power Music Moments.
Every meaningful connection with music starts with finding the right song at the right time. We help make that possible. Cyanite builds the intelligence layer behind modern music discovery. Our AI understands music on a deep, emotional, and structural level, making it searchable, comparable, and usable at scale.
Company Story
This is what we do & who
we are.
Cyanite gives music companies — and the AI agents now built on top of them — a deep, structured understanding of music: powering search, recommendation, and metadata at scale, through our Web App or API, built directly into existing workflows.
But the real story is the team behind it. We’ve brought together people who built recommendation and search systems at Spotify — including the original Spotify API — advanced music AI at Sony AI and Fraunhofer, and shaped how people discover music at WhoSampled and Twilio, alongside researchers trained at UPF Barcelona and TU Berlin, two of the world’s leading centers for music information retrieval. Cyanite itself grew out of that same world, founded in 2019 out of Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. That mix of industry practice and research is what lets us build technology that understands music the way people actually hear it, not just how to process audio.
Today, more than 200 music companies and 250,000+ artists worldwide rely on Cyanite to power search, recommendation, and metadata for their catalogs.
Numbers
This is Cyanite
in Numbers
200+
Customers Worldwide
17
Team Members
32
Tagging Categories
60m
Songs Analyzed Growing Daily
250k
Users of our Free Web App
60m
Songs Analyzed Growing Daily
250k
Users of our Free Web App
Our Story
This has been
our Journey
2017
Markus Schwarzer, Joshua Weikert, and Jakob Höflich spin off the company as a founding team from the renowned German music business university Popakademie in Mannheim.
2018
Roman Gebhardt, Ph.D. candidate from the Music Information Retrieval chair at Technical University Berlin, joins Cyanite to start developing first algorithms.
2019
Cyanite is officially launched at Tech Open Air Berlin with the first set of genre and mood algorithms in response to the masses of music flooding the internet.
2019
TechCrunch awards Cyanite as one of the most promising German startups in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the Disrupt conference in Berlin.
2020
After successes in Germany with national broadcaster SWR and media powerhouse RTL, Cyanite partners with international companies such as the US record pool BPM Supreme.
2021
Advanced tagging and search capabilities enable industry leaders in production music and sound branding such as APM Music and amp sound branding to integrate Cyanite’s technology.
2022
Music industry veteran Jay Ahern joins the further growth of Cyanite as a Director of Music Industry Relations and with previous stations at LANDR, PIAS, Domino, Beatport, Hardwax and The Orchard.
2022
Cyanite closes seed round of €800,000 led by former finetunes founders Oke Göttlich and Henning Thieß to further expand its AI-based solution for the music industry.
2023
Cyanite launches Free Text Search – the first prompt-based music search engine that can instantly translate complex text input into its closest musical equivalent.
2023
Cyanite acquires AI-based sample platform aptone to expand its AI solutions for the music industry and drive international growth.
2023
Celebrating its fourth birthday, Cyanite marks the occasion with the unveiling of a brand-new, re-branded website, and refreshed corporate design.
2023
At Reeperbahn Festival, Cyanite received the VIA Award 2023 in the category “Best New Music Business” by Germany’s Association of Independent Musicians and Music Companies.
2024
Cyanite welcomes two new members to its developer team: Christopher Darlington and Bastian Werner – strengthening the company’s development capabilities and supporting its ongoing growth.
2024
Cyanite releases the most significant web app update to date, introducing the most accurate genre tagging model in the industry. In addition, the update includes new instruments and new library views.
2024
Cyanite celebrates reaching the milestone of 100,000 monthly users on its web app, enabling music analysis, search, and discovery for everyone. This achievement underlines the company’s commitment to influence and innovate the music industry.
2025
Cyanite is now integrated with almost all major music content management systems worldwide, including SourceAudio, Synchtank, Reprtoir, Harvest Media, Cadenzabox, Soundminer, and MusicMaster.
2026
Cyanite launches its own AI music detection, answering artists’ and music professionals’ calls for transparency amid the rise of AI-generated music. Built independently and conservatively, it adds another layer of analysis to Cyanite’s product suite, alongside music tagging and search.
Our Story
This is has been
our Journey
2017
Markus Schwarzer, Joshua Weikert, and Jakob Höflich spin off the company as a founding team from the renowned German music business university Popakademie in Mannheim.
2018
Roman Gebhardt, Ph.D. candidate from the Music Information Retrieval chair at Technical University Berlin, joins Cyanite to start developing first algorithms.
2019
Cyanite is officially launched at Tech Open Air Berlin with the first set of genre and mood algorithms in response to the masses of music flooding the internet.
2019
TechCrunch awards Cyanite as one of the most promising German startups in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the Disrupt conference in Berlin.
2020
After successes in Germany with national broadcaster SWR and media powerhouse RTL, Cyanite partners with international companies such as the US record pool BPM Supreme.
2021
Advanced tagging and search capabilities enable industry leaders in production music and sound branding such as APM Music and amp sound branding to integrate Cyanite’s technology.
2022
Music industry veteran Jay Ahern joins the further growth of Cyanite as a Director of Music Industry Relations and with previous stations at LANDR, PIAS, Domino, Beatport, Hardwax and The Orchard.
2022
Cyanite closes seed round of €800,000 led by former finetunes founders Oke Göttlich and Henning Thieß to further expand its AI-based solution for the music industry.
2023
Cyanite launches Free Text Search – the first prompt-based music search engine that can instantly translate complex text input into its closest musical equivalent.
2023
Cyanite acquires AI-based sample platform aptone to expand its AI solutions for the music industry and drive international growth.
2023
Celebrating its fourth birthday, Cyanite marks the occasion with the unveiling of a brand-new, re-branded website, and refreshed corporate design.
2023
At Reeperbahn Festival, Cyanite received the VIA Award 2023 in the category “Best New Music Business” by Germany’s Association of Independent Musicians and Music Companies.
2024
Cyanite is excited to welcome two new members to our developer team: Christopher Darlington and Bastian Werner. Their addition strengthens our development capabilities and supports our ongoing growth.
2024
Cyanite releases the most significant web app update to date, introducing the most accurate genre tagging model in the industry. In addition, the update includes new instruments and new library views.
2024
Cyanite celebrates reaching the milestone of 100,000 monthly users on its web app, enabling music analysis, search, and discovery for everyone. This achievement underlines the company’s commitment to influence and innovate the music industry.
2025
Cyanite is now integrated with almost all major music content management systems worldwide, including SourceAudio, Synchtank, Reprtoir, Harvest Media, Cadenzabox, Soundminer, and MusicMaster.
2026
Cyanite launches its own AI music detection, answering artists’ and music professionals’ calls for transparency amid the rise of AI-generated music. Built independently and conservatively, it adds another layer of analysis to Cyanite’s product suite, alongside music tagging and search.
Our Offices
Where you can find us
We are a fully remote team that often gets together to celebrate our successes. We work with clients worldwide including the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, South Korea, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, and Switzerland.
Berlin
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c/o HUM Systems
Schinkestraße 9
12047 Berlin
Germany
Mannheim
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Heinz-Haber-Str. 4
68163 Mannheim
Germany
Jobs
We’re hiring!
Check out our job board for new opportunities and don’t hesitate to drop us your CV via careers@cyanite.ai.