Byta, the private music sharing service for pre-releases and more, raises seed round –
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They include musician Scott Kannberg, one of the original members of 90s indie rock band Pavement, whom I’m told discovered Byta as a user of the service. Launched as an MVP in 2015, today Byta describes itself as “the platform for music before it’s on streaming services.” The service lets anyone send and receive digital audio in a “clean, simple and secure way,” and is said to be used by bedroom artists to large record companies for sharing music files during the pre-release process and for collaboration, such as with bandmates, labels, promoters, writers and DJs, etc. “Throughout the music ecosystem, everyone is privately sharing audio files and streams, long before tracks and albums are released on streaming services and pressed to vinyl,” explains Byta co-founder and CEO Marc Brown, who has worked in the music industry for 25 years. Though hard to believe, these simple tasks are difficult to accomplish efficiently on a desktop, and virtually impossible on mobile. To that end, Byta is competing most directly with generic file-sharing services, such as WeTransfer and Dropbox, along with artist streaming platforms like Soundcloud.
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