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Audioshake can take any song--even if it was never multi-tracked--and break it into its stems.
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AudioShake raises $14M to make audio editable
October 1, 2025
AudioShake has raised $14 million in Series A funding to grow its platform that splits audio into components, CEO Jessica Powell exclusively tells Axios. Axios
AudioShake named a TIME Best Invention of 2023
October 24, 2023
In a year of historic AI innovation, TIME selected AudioShake as one of this year’s inventions changing “how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible.” TIME
How AI Music Startup AudioShake Is Expanding Content Localization
July 31, 2023
AI music startup AudioShake is disrupting the music industry with its on-demand platform and API that makes quality dubbing and content localization viable for content creators at all levels. The company’s AI music-separation technology allows musicians, audio engineers, producers, publishers, labels and other content creators to apply their audio content to new uses in karaoke, sync licensing, re-mixes, spatial audio, VR/AR, gaming, dubbing and social apps. Forbes
Everything Old Can Be New Again — Thanks to AI
July 28, 2023
Catalog owners and estate administrators are turning to AI-driven tech, such as Audioshake, to make music freshly available for remixes, samples or synch placements. Billboard
‘Dynamic Music’ Promises to Soundtrack Life on Demand — and in Real Time
May 18, 2023
In the case of preexisting tracks, companies like Minibeats partner with Audioshake, a firm that uses AI to break down songs into individual, standardized stems, so that they can easily manipulate a song’s instrumental mix — guitar, drums, vocals, etc. — in real time. Audioshake’s proprietary technology is especially helpful in the case of older recordings in which the copyright owner no longer has the stems. Billboard
AudioShake Raises $2.7M in Seed Funding
May 9, 2023
AudioShake, a San Francisco, CA-based AI music startup, raised $2.7M in Seed funding. FinSMEs
AudioShake wins Wallifornia Music Tech Pitch Contest
July 19, 2022
The Wallifornia Music & Innovation Summit took place earlier this month in Belgium, and it included a pitch contest for startups. Artfuse, Brots, Hawkr Live, Kloov, Moonai, Mubert, Music Traveler, Our Man in the Field, Pianity, Ringo and SyncVault all took part, but the winner was AudioShake. That’s the US startup that has developed technology for separating music tracks out into stems when the original versions are not available. It’s part of a run of such wins for AudioShake, which prevailed in a ‘Demixing Challenge’ run last year by Sony. After Wallifornia, CEO Jessica Powell told Music Ally that her company’s AudioShake Live enterprise service has now signed up customers from all three major labels, as well as publishers (Hipgnosis, Primary Wave, Downtown, Spirit, Concord, and Reservoir); distributors (CD Baby); and production music libraries (Warner Chappell Production Music and Audiosocket). Music Ally
Startup Files: Audioshake wants to help artists make more of their stems
February 17, 2022
Jessica Powell, CEO of Audioshake, is telling Music Ally the origin story of her startup and its AI-powered tool for separating music recordings into their component stems. Music Ally
Industry Insider: Audioshake Co-Founder & CEO Jessica Powell
February 16, 2022
Magnetic Magazine chats with the CEO and co-founder of AI stem splicing company AudioShake Jessica Powell about its goals, where the company came from and more. Magnetic Magazine
Houston Kendrick x Audioshake: The World’s First AI Stem Remix Contest!
November 17, 2021
The independent artist Houston Kendrick builds intricate, genre-bending worlds that blend rap, R&B, and pop with rich lyrics and visuals. A popular artist on Spotify, with over 2.5 million streams, Houston is always interested in finding new, deeper ways to connect with his fans beyond a social media post. When he heard about Audioshake’s ability to separate songs into their stems, it sparked an idea: What if an artist could run a remix contest powered by AI stems? Audioshake
Audioshake wants to pull songs apart so artists can do more with their music
October 27, 2021
A couple decades ago, the music industry was fighting emerging technology and tamping down on pirated content to protect its profits. Today, if an artist isn’t on a major streaming platform, they’re losing out on money. Audioshake wants to empower artists in the 21st century to go even further. Bay Area Inno
Audioshake adds $2M for AI stem creation platform
October 18, 2021
Audioshake has announced the completion of a $2 million seed funding round. Audioshake’s on-demand A.I.-driven platform deconstructs songs into their parts (“stems”) so that they can be monetized for new uses in re-mixes, samples, sync licensing, and more. Hypebot
Five ways to separate acapellas and stems in 2021
September 27, 2021
Audioshake gets featured in DJ Mag as part of their rundown of sound separation tools. DJ Mag
Audioshake Wins Sony Demixing Challenge
August 18, 2021
This summer, Sony launched the first-ever “Demixing challenge.” In this global contest, participants from around the world — including research institutes, private companies, and hobbyist coders — submitted their AI models to run against the same test set so that their results could be compared by SDR score.
Audioshake scored nearly a half decibel higher than the second-place winner, a researcher from Facebook. In third place was a research team from Korea University. TikTok parent company, Byte Dance, was also in the top ten. Particularly notable was Audioshake’s vocal stem, which was a full decibel higher than any other competing team. Audioshake
Launching Audioshake Live – An On-Demand Stem Creation Platform for the Music Industry
July 22, 2021
Learn why the founders of Audioshake launched earlier this year!Medium