Napster

http://ex.fm/

Last activity: 15.10.2014

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Overview

Location

United States, Washington, Seattle

Total raised

$2.25M

Founded date

2001

Funding Rounds 2

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Apr 19, 2011	Funding round	$750K

Mentions in press and media 23

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Aug 8, 2014	Seattle Roundup: Rover, Tune, Rhapsody, Rightside, Zillow, Ada	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints This week’s Seattle tech news roundup features an acquisitions by Rover, Tune, and Rhapsody; the emergence of Rightside Group as a publicly-traded player in Internet domain na...
Aug 4, 2014	Rhapsody Acquires Music Discovery Startups SoundTracking and Ex.fm	Rhapsody, the Seattle-based online subscription music service, announced today that it has acquired the NYC-based music discovery startup Ex.fm, as well as the Bay Area-based Schematic Labs, which created the music moment sharing platform S...
Aug 4, 2014	Rhapsody acquires music discovery service Ex.fm & 'Instagram' for music SoundTracking	Updated at 2:35 p.m. PST with a comment from Rhapsody exec Paul Springer and details about the company’s acquisition of Schematic Labs. Music discovery startup Ex.fm has been acquired by Rhapsody for an undisclosed amount, the companies ann...
Aug 4, 2014	Rhapsody Acquires SoundTracking And Exfm To Boost Music Sharing And Discovery	Rhapsody, the stalwart music streaming service with 2 million paying subscribers, today acquired Schematic Labs, makers of “Instagram for songs” app SoundTracking, and Exfm, a social music discovery service that had been shut down since May...
Aug 4, 2014	Rhapsody acquires music discovery service Ex.fm & 'Instagram' for music SoundTracking	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Updated at 2:35 p.m. PST with a comment from Rhap...
Jan 6, 2014	Whyd, The Music Streaming Social Network, Launches Publicly After Raising $700,000 Seed Round	Whyd, the French startup that lets you curate your favourite music tracks from YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Dailymotion and various MP3 blogs, and connect with likeminded tastemakers, is ditching its invite-wall today to open fully to the pu...
Sep 11, 2013	Songdrop Brings Its ‘Delicious For Music’ To iOS As It Finds A Fan In Japan	Songdrop, the service that lets you bookmark, create playlists and stream music from the Web, has made good on its promise to launch an iOS app enabling curated music to be listened to on-the-go. The new Songdrop app supports music/video fr...
Mar 3, 2013	Songdrop Is A Delicious For Music That Lives Outside Of Paywalls	With competitors such as Ex.fm and Whyd, it may not be the most original idea, but newly-launched Songdrop — which is perhaps best described as a ‘Delicious for music’ — is a fun and well designed take on solving the music discovery and sha...
Apr 15, 2012	Tomahawk: Fixing Our Fractured Digital Music Collections	Technology has done amazing things for music in the last decade. Sure, the large, traditional industry players are making less money, but there are now vastly more players, and the ecosystem that’s emerging looks pretty awesome. Despite all...
Feb 15, 2012	Listen up! Exfm triples its user base following relaunch, raises fresh $1.5M	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Above: Screengrab of trending chillwave on Exfm Back in October music discovery service Exfm attempted to transform itself from a brows...
Dec 30, 2011	No Year End Music List This Year	Longtime readers will recall that in the early days of this blog, I would spend the last days of the year posting about music. I'd post a record every day for 10 to 14 days. These would be my top records of the year. Then a few years ago, I...
Oct 11, 2011	With A New Platform And Multi-Browser Support, exfm Turns The Web Into Your Social Music Library	There’s a lot of free, legal music working its way across the world wide web, and there are more than a few ways to access it. Which is terrific, but there are still quite a few paint points out there for we digital music listeners. How man...
Oct 5, 2011	Startup News: Fitocracy Mobilizes, Exfm Extends and Blueprint Health and Facebook Both Want You	Fitocracy goes mobile. FITOCRACY MOBILE. “After what seems like an eternity, we’ve finally released the very first version of our mobile web app. That’s right, you can now log your workouts on the go if you have an iPhone or an Android phon...
Aug 12, 2011	No Facebook Music Yet? No Problem! Meet The Wonderful +Music Chrome Extension	Facebook is working with a number of partners to prepare for the launch of a music service – possibly called ‘Vibes’ – inside the astoundingly popular social networking site. While you wait, I advise you to check out the amazing +Music exte...
Jul 5, 2011	New Apps for iPhone & Android, June 2011	In our continuing tradition of rounding up new mobile application releases we found interesting and/or exciting over the past month, we present you with this new list of apps for June 2011. Previously in June, we shared a list of apps that ...
Jun 23, 2011	Music Discovery Platform exfm Goes Mobile With A Killer App For iOS	The artist formerly known as Extension Entertainment, now known simply as exfm, has officially gone mobile today, releasing its first mobile app for iOS. I’ve been enjoying exfm for a few months now through the startup’s Chrome extension, s...
Apr 20, 2011	Extension Entertainment Raises Funding for MP3 Browser Tech	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints New York-based Extension Entertainment raised $750,000 in an equity-based funding round, according to an SEC filing. The company developed an extension for the Chrome browser ...
Apr 19, 2011	Social Jukebox exfm Raises $750,000 For Its Music Discovery And Sharing Extension	exfm, a Chrome extension that allows you to discover new music while browsing, today announced that it has raised $750K in seed funding. The round was led by Spark Capital, Betaworks, Founder Collective, and Dave Morgan. exfm adds to the $5...
Apr 16, 2011	Behind The Scenes At The New York Tech Meetup (TCTV)	Since launching in 2004, the New York Tech Meetup has mushroomed to more than 17,000 members, making it the largest MeetUp in the world. Once a month the community pours into the Skirball Center on NYU’s campus to network and watch nascent ...
Mar 13, 2011	ex.fm	I blog a song every day on my tumblog. At the bottom of the page on my tumblog is a banner which you can click and play every song in reverse chronological order. And I've gone one step further and created a website called fredwilson.fm whe...
Feb 14, 2011	Nerds Ditch Grammys for New York's First Music Hackday	With more references to Justin Bieber than a Valentine’s day party at an all-girls Canadian middle school, Music Hackday rolled into New York City this past weekend. Event organizers John Britton and Dave Haynes noted this had been the bigg...
Dec 2, 2010	ExtensionFM Becomes exfm: An Extension That Makes The Web Your Social Jukebox	I’m the type of music listener who finds one album he likes and listens to it constantly for about 6 months. Then I move onto the next album. One that’s often old. Part of the reason for this is that I don’t have a really good way to find n...

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FAQ about Napster

When was Napster founded?

Napster was founded in 2001.

How much funding has Napster raised?

Napster has raised $2.25M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has Napster raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Napster, among them a funding round of $750K on Apr 19, 2011.

What has the press written about Napster?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Napster, among them “Seattle Roundup: Rover, Tune, Rhapsody, Rightside, Zillow, Ada” (Aug 8, 2014) and “Rhapsody Acquires Music Discovery Startups SoundTracking and Ex.fm” (Aug 4, 2014).

Is Napster still active?

Yes, Napster is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 15, 2014.