Paying creators with clarity.
Location: United States, California, West Hollywood
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $287M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 11
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Funding Rounds 5
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 10.07.2023 | - | $250M | - |
| 19.04.2022 | - | $20M | - |
| 11.06.2017 | Series A | $8M | - |
| 07.02.2017 | - | $4.5M | - |
| 27.04.2016 | - | $4.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.05.2024 | OpenPlay Teams with Stem to Expand Direct Delivery Service for Seamless Music and Video Distribution | Using Stem’s DSP licenses, OpenPlay clients can send their music and video directly to DSPs from within the very system they already use to organize their metadata and assets.” — Jonathan Bender, Chief Operating and Growth Officer of OpenPl... |
| 19.04.2022 | Stem Finds $20M For Music Payments | Los Angeles-based Stem, a startup which provides independent record labels with tools to help manage payments to music artists, has raised $20M in a new funding round, the company disclosed late Monday. The funding was led by QED Investors,... |
| 16.02.2022 | Stem — Credits for Artists by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers. Present-day third-rate musicians earn on a dozen streaming platforms. Their revenue fr... |
| 12.09.2021 | This payments and distribution platform used by Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino is fighting the music industry's 'starving artist' culture | Music revenue is forecasted to reach $131 billion by 2030. Even still, many smaller artists struggle to get paid. Stem, a distribution and payments platform used by Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino, is trying to change that. "There's a... |
| 12.09.2021 | This payments and distribution platform used by Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino is fighting the music industry’s ‘starving artist’ culture | Milana Rabkin Lewis, CEO of , spent five years as a Digital Media Agent at United Talent Agency (UTA) before co-founding the company in 2015. Stem Music revenue is forecasted to reach $US131 ($AU178) billion by 2030. Even still, many smalle... |
| 13.07.2021 | Astellas signs on pluripotent stem cell partners at ExCellThera; Little Unicycive brings home $25M after floating a small IPO | Astellas has signed up on rights for a batch of pluripotent stem cells from Montreal-based ExCellThera, centering on the in vitro use of their UM171 compound. Astellas is handing over an unspecified upfront payment and promi... |
| 23.11.2020 | Founders seeking their first check need a fundraising sales funnel | Nathan Beckord Contributor Share on Twitter Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com, a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. He is also the host of Fou... |
| 08.09.2020 | Stem Music Startup Drives Social Change Plus $100 Million In Artist Royalty Distributions | Committed to taking substantive action against racial injustice, Stem continues to lead various ... [+] Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.Image by Patrick Strattner and courtesy of Stem Disintermedia Inc. |
| 26.08.2020 | Stem Helps Musicians Get Paid. It Just Scored a Big Payday Itself. | Stem, an L.A. music-fintech company that counts Zac Brown Band, Foster the People and Toro Y Moi as clients, announced a $10 million raise. The pandemic has hurt the music industry but has made Stem's tools and artist loan program 'more rel... |
| 19.08.2020 | The Pandemic Has Changed the Music Industry Forever. Meet the LA Music-Tech Startups Poised to Reshape It. | The pandemic has ravaged the music industry, but music-tech companies are poised to drive its growth into an industry where a music company is much more than music. Los Angeles is home to a bustling ecosystem of startups empowering musician... |
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