The Echo Nest
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| Industry | Music |
| Founded | June 2005 |
| Founder | Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman |
| Headquarters | Somerville, MA, United States |
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Key people
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Tristan Jehan (co-Founder & CTO), Brian Whitman (co-Founder & CTO), Jim Lucchese (CEO) |
| Products | Music intelligence platform |
| Owner | Spotify |
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Number of employees
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65 |
| Website | the.echonest.com |
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence and data platform for developers and media companies. Based in Somerville, MA, the Echo Nest was a research spin-off from the MIT Media Lab to understand the audio and textual content of recorded music. Its creators intended it to perform music identification, recommendation, playlist creation, audio fingerprinting, and analysis for consumers and developers.
On March 6, 2014 Spotify announced that they had acquired The Echo Nest.
The Echo Nest was founded in 2005 from the dissertation work of Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman at the MIT Media Lab.
In October 2010, The Echo Nest received a $7 million venture financing from Matrix Partners and Commonwealth Capital Ventures.
In July 2012 The Echo Nest received a $17.3 million Series D venture financing from Norwest Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Jim Pallotta.
In March 2014, The Echo Nest was acquired by Spotify for an undisclosed amount.
The Echo Nest's product line was based on their automatically-derived database of data about 30 million songs aggregated from web crawling, data mining, and digital signal processing techniques. The company also made its data available to developers via an API used by over 7,000 developers to build independent music applications. The API was shut down on May 31, 2016 and developers were encouraged to use the Spotify API instead.
The Echo Nest released data on 1 million songs for research purposes. The company was a co-organizer of Music Hack Day.
In June 2011, the company released Echoprint, an open source and open data acoustic fingerprinting library.
The data powered music solutions for customers such as MTV,Island Def Jam,BBC,MOG, Warner Music Group, eMusic,Spotify, Rdio, Clear Channel, VEVO, Nokia and Thumbplay.
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