PRESS RELEASE

Cyanite announces new investors to support vision of universal music translation

New investment round fuels Cyanite’s goal to develop universal intelligence that understands, connects, and recommends the world’s music

Berlin, July 27, 2022 – Cyanite, a tech company with various solutions in AI-powered music tagging and search, has closed an investment round with leading entrepreneurs from the music and technology industries. The goal is to sustain the company’s vision of universal music translation. 

The investment round was led by former finetunes founders Oke Göttlich and Henning Thieß. Other experienced music and tech experts, such as Michael Shmilov (former COO of Viber), Patrick Joest (former EVP Global Content Partnerships & Sync at BMG), as well as Lars Ettrup (CEO and co-founder of Linkfire) support the round with their deep market expertise. 

In addition, family office Lioncorn Capital and other tech business angels (Daniel Kondermann, Oliver Lesche, Andrea Kranzer, Edmund Ahrend) invested in this round. The round builds on earlier investments in which BWM GmbH also participated.

The investors support Cyanite’s vision to provide the entertainment and advertising industries with an AI-powered universal music translation engine capable of finding the objectively appropriate music for any desired emotional target. 

The news follows considerable consolidation in the AI-powered music tagging and search market, as many competitors such as Musiio, Musimap and Musicube have been acquired by larger companies in 2021 and 2022.

Cyanite was launched in 2019 with the purpose of connecting everyone with the right music at the right time. The AI is used by different leading music rights holders, music tech companies and brand agencies to gain deeper insights and understanding about individual songs. Cyanite makes it easy for them to take control of their repertoire by offering intuitive AI solutions that provide better ways to sort, search, and match songs.

Markus Schwarzer, CEO, Cyanite, said: “The investment demonstrates the excitement in the worlds of music and technology about our objective of making it possible for any input – be it keywords, sounds, free text, or images – to be understood by AI and translated into music.

“Our investors recognise that we are closing in on our goal, and that trust shows us that we are in the right place at the right time. At this time when competing companies are being bought out, we’re excited to continue our journey towards creating a universal intelligence that understands, indexes and recommends the world’s music.”

Investment round leader Oke Göttlich, former finetunes founder, said: “I am excited to be playing a part in the future of Cyanite. They have the right team and a powerful plan for the future of music recommendation, one that has the potential to transform the way that music’s emotional power is understood, quantified and monetised.“

About Cyanite

Cyanite helps music companies to turn their catalogues into their own personal Spotify – powering music libraries with the simplicity, visibility, and functionality to perform how they and their users expect them to. 

From its main office located in Berlin, Cyanite builds powerful AI-based analysis and recommendation solutions that enable effective tagging and music search to improve the ability of music, entertainment, and advertising companies to deliver the right songs for the right search.

Cyanite helps companies to unlock the full potential of their music catalogues to leverage their full depth at a time when more music is accessible than ever before. Their goal is to let everybody find the right music for any use case – and the right use case for any song.

Cyanite supports some of the most renowned and innovative players in the music and advertising industry. Among the music companies using Cyanite are the production music libraries APM Music and Far Music (RTL), the radio station SWR, the music publishers Nettwerk, NEUBAU Music and Schubert Music, and the sound branding agencies amp sound branding, Universal Music Solutions, and Human Worldwide.

Cyanite’s vision is to become the universal intelligence that understands, connects and recommends the world’s music – an intelligence that can translate music into anything and anything into music.

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PRESS RELEASE

APM Music partners with Cyanite to Enhance Music Tagging

Mannheim/Berlin/Los Angeles, September 9, 2021 – APM Music, the largest production music library in North America, and Cyanite, a technology company developing a suite of AI-powered music search products announced today a strategic partnership that will provide users with improved tagging and metadata to enhance their search queries.

A superior music discovery experience begins with content that is comprehensively, consistently, and accurately tagged. With an ever-growing music library such as the one APM Music has been providing the marketplace for nearly four decades, maintaining high-quality tagging and precise metadata at a large scale is a primary concern. Incorporating Cyanite’s AI will allow APM Music to introduce human-assisted auto-tagging to the music submission and review process, thus increasing the quality and consistency of tagging.

APM Music’s President/CEO Adam Taylor comments: “For APM Music, accurate and reliable music tagging has always been of the utmost importance and we are aligned with Cyanite on this constant strive for quality. Markus and the team have proven that they are able to quickly react to our feedback and improve their algorithms at a rapid speed. We are excited to integrate artificial intelligence into APM and create the best possible support for our team.”

Cyanite’s artificial intelligence listens to and categorizes songs, helping to deliver the right music content, no matter the use case. Integrating this technology will benefit the end user by ensuring search queries continue to yield accurate and tailored results as APM’s music library expands in depth and breadth.

Markus Schwarzer, CEO of Cyanite: “We look forward to working with such a prestigious and renowned partner as APM Music. Everyone on their team is a unique expert in their field. Being the chosen AI partner for the important and extensive transition into this new age of music distribution fills our entire team with pride.”

The addition of Cyanite’s technology extends APM’s commitment to continually increasing the quality and performance of its search engine, thereby delivering a superior quality discovery experience to match its richness of catalog.

Anyone wishing to try Cyanite’s technology can register for the Web App free of charge and upload music or integrate Cyanite into an existing database system via their API.

Full press material including German press release can be found via this link.

Background to APM Music:
APM Music is located in Hollywood, California, and is the premier go-to source for production music. Founded in 1983, APM Music is the largest production music library in North America. To find out more, please visit www.apmmusic.com. 

Background to Cyanite:
Cyanite believes that state-of-the-art technology should not be exclusive to big tech companies. The start-up is one of Europe’s leading independent innovators in the field of music-AI and supports some of the most renowned and innovative players in the music and audio industry. Among the music companies using Cyanite are the Mediengruppe RTL, the record pool BPM Supreme. the radio station SWR, the music publishers NEUBAU Music and Schubert Music, and the sound branding agencies Universal Music Solutions, TAMBR, and amp sound branding.

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