AI music generation startup that raised a $250M Series C with origins at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit.
“Suno v6 — The first Suno model built with the music industry (137 votes)”
Source→“You couldn't build a Suno four years ago, or you could maybe build a much worse Suno four years ago.”
Source→“Suno Studio 2.0 — Browser-based generative DAW (105 votes)”
Source→“AI has been awesome... we love Noah Flan. We sing Noah Flan at our house.”
Source→“People are coming into Suno. They're making music for the pure joy and entertainment value of making music... AI has made music creation so much fun that you're making music to make music.”
Source→“People are coming into Suno. They're making music for the pure joy and entertainment value of making music... AI has made music creation so much fun that you're making music to make music.”
Source→“I was really fortunate at Lightspeed to collaborate closely with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross before they went over to Meta. And yeah, when Nat would send me a deal... I always knew to pay attention.”
Source→“Suno is actually a great example of something that started for beginners and sort of vibe sound designers that wanted to just one-shot a quick song. But now it expanded very much into real music production. There are producers using it for all sorts of things now.”
Source→“Suno raised $400M at $5.4B valuation — doubled in six months — Bond led the round.”
Source→“AI-generated music is commanding billion-dollar valuations at Series D, indicating that generative media has crossed from novelty to institutional investment category.”
“Music startup, Suno, has raised over $400 million in Series D funding at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation.”
“Suno, a Cambridge, Mass.-based AI music developer, raised over $400m in a Series D at a $5.4b post-money valuation.”
“Suno, the developer of an AI music generator, secured a $400 million round led by Bond Capital at a $5.4 billion valuation.”
Source→“Suno: $400M Series D at $5.4B valuation. Led by Bond Capital; 'generates music from text prompts for professional musicians and everyday users'”
Source→“The growth has slowed more recently, and the industry faces challenges from a new generation of artificial intelligence tools that can easily replicate music. — Bloomberg”
“Bond agreed to lead a new investment in AI music startup Suno, which would be valued at around $5b.”
Source→“Warner Music Group... Mentioned for being the first major label to reach a landmark settlement and partnership with Suno, signaling a shift from adversarial to collaborative in AI music.”
Source→“I will get shit inside of the music industry for saying that there's a lot to learn from gaming. But there's a lot to learn from gaming.”
Source→“described as the largest AI music company in the world, at ~$300M revenue run rate”
Source→“When you hear yourself in the song, you get so much more attached to it. But actually even more so is when I send you a song and you can hear me in it, that song will resonate much more than some nondescript voice.”
Source→“We kind of took the example of Mid Journey and we said, it's really easy to put a Discord bot out and see will people enjoy it.”
Source→“My favorite example is Zania Monet, who it's the stage name of a poet who took all of her beautiful poetry that she had been writing for like a decade and started to make music out of it.”
Source→“Our mutual friends, Harrison Chase, was one of the earliest Suno Discord users. And he was having far too much fun making songs in your Discord.”
Source→“Reportedly weeks away from closing a Series D round at a $5+ billion valuation, more than twice the valuation of a round it raised in November.”
Source→“Suno, a Cambridge, Mass.-based AI music generation startup, is raising Series D funding at a valuation north of $5b.”
“Suno's $250M Series C began at our summit the following year.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.