Mediachain

http://mediachain.io/

Last activity: 19.12.2024

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A universal media library. http://blog.mediachain.io

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Location

United States, New York

Total raised

$1.5M

Investors 2

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	a16z	a16z.com

Funding Rounds 1

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Jun 30, 2021	Add to Cart: Spotify’s Acquisitions	Launched in 2008, Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a staggering 356 million users, including 156 million subscribers and is available in 178 countries. In the past two years, the audio streaming ...
Jun 25, 2018	Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon	Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has some big, and bigger, news today. First, it closed a dedicated crypto fund late last week from a subset of its limited partners, who’ve provided the firm with $300 million in capital ...
Feb 2, 2018	Spotify debuts a new Songwriter Credits feature on desktop	Spotify addressed one of the long-standing complaints about its service with the introduction of a new songwriter credits feature, which is initially available on the Spotify desktop app. The streaming service has had a contentious history ...
Jul 12, 2017	«Любовь к музыке может стать инвестицией» Статьи редакции	Основатель блокчейн-проектов MasterCash и Soundchain Артем Абаев о том, как смарт-контракты могут изменить музыкальный рынок. 44 44 комментария 7672 просмотров Артем Абаев В прошлой статье я рассказывал о том, как работает блокчейн и к чему...
Apr 27, 2017	Term Sheet — Thursday, April 27	PETER PAN NEVER HAD TO GROW UP The following article is from Fortune’s latest issue. Paid Content What you need to know about growing cyberattacks From ExtraHop They’re so exuberant, one VC even declared on CNBC that this year “could be one...
Apr 27, 2017	Spotify Acquires USV-backed Blockchain Startup Mediachain Labs	Mediachain announced Wednesday it has been acquired by music streaming giant Spotify for an undisclosed amount. The startup developed proprietary neural network software called the Mediachain Indexer Core to spot the signs of the alteration...
Apr 27, 2017	Brooklyn blockchain startup acquired by Spotify	Mediachain announced Wednesday it has been acquired by music streaming giant Spotify for an undisclosed amount. The startup developed proprietary neural network software called the Mediachain Indexer Core to spot the signs of the alteration...
Apr 27, 2017	Spotify Acquires Mediachain Labs	Digital music service Spotify has acquired Mediachain Labs, a Brooklyn-based developer of a blockchain research agenda and open source protocol to manage data for the music industry. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Mediachain Labs...
Apr 27, 2017	Spotify Acquires USV-backed Blockchain Startup Mediachain Labs	Mediachain announced Wednesday it has been acquired by music streaming giant Spotify for an undisclosed amount. The startup developed proprietary neural network software called the Mediachain Indexer Core to spot the signs of the alteration...
Apr 26, 2017	Spotify acquires Mediachain to develop blockchain technology that matches royalties with rightsholders	Spotify has acquired Mediachain, the New York-based startup behind an open source peer-to-peer database and protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works across the internet. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launch...
Apr 26, 2017	Spotify acquires New York startup Mediachain Labs for undisclosed amount	Spotify has acquired US blockchain startup Mediachain Labs, though no terms were disclosed. Mediachain Labs, headquartered in Brooklyn, has created a solution called the Mediachain protocol, via the blockchain, that links a creator’s conten...
Apr 26, 2017	Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain to solve music’s attribution problem	Spotify has acquired the Brooklyn-based blockchain startup Mediachain Labs, whose team will join the company’s office in New York where they will work on developing better technology for connecting artists and other rights holders with the ...
Apr 26, 2017	Spotify acquires Mediachain to develop blockchain technology that matches royalties with rightsholders	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! Spotify has acquired Mediachain, the New York-bas...
Dec 23, 2016	Fixing The Internet	Walter Isaacson wrote a blog post last week suggesting that the Internet is broken and outlining how he would fix it. I think that most of his suggestions are currently being built using blockchain technologies. Here is his list (in italics...
Oct 31, 2016	It’s too easy to lift images. Here’s a blockchain-powered solution for proper attribution	Char Mullin makes drawings and publishes them online, and yesterday she found that someone posted one of her drawings on their own site without attributing the drawing to her. How profoundly wack. Here’s the drawing: The purloined Tumblr po...
Jul 2, 2016	Video Of The Week: Explaining Mediachain	Here’s a presentation Denis Nazarov, co-founder of our portfolio company Mediachain, made about their open platform for creating a universal media library.
Jun 4, 2016	Blockchain Startup Mediachain Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding	Mediachain, a New York-based developer of a blockchain platform that automatically connects media to its creator and information about it, raised a seed funding round whose amount was reportedly $1.5m. Backers included Union Square Ventures...
Jun 1, 2016	Mediachain	“This picture of Justin Bieber getting choked at a nightclub looks like a Renaissance painting” This photograph, and its caption, were posted on Imgur on April 17th. It quickly made it to the front page of Reddit, ultimately garnering over...
Jun 1, 2016	Mediachain enivisions a blockchain-based tool for identifying artists’ work across the internet	On the internet, where “aggregation” is often the highest form of flattery, not everyone appreciates the compliment. Content (in all its forms) is increasingly both the commodity and currency of the digital era, but the speed and ease of ne...

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FAQ about Mediachain

How much funding has Mediachain raised?

Mediachain has raised $1.5M in total across 1 funding round.

Who has invested in Mediachain?

Parsers VC lists 2 investors of Mediachain, among them a16z.

What has the press written about Mediachain?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Mediachain, among them “Add to Cart: Spotify’s Acquisitions” (Jun 30, 2021) and “Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon” (Jun 25, 2018).

Is Mediachain still active?

Yes, Mediachain is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 19, 2024.