Spotify

Overview

Acquisitions: 8 Acquisitions
Total Equity Funding: $ 1.56B in 8 Rounds from 28 Investors
Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
Description: Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that control restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists.
Founders: Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon
Categories: Cloud Computing, Video Streaming, Music
Website: http://www.spotify.com

Company Details

Established: July 14, 2006
Contact: press@spotify.com | +442032879990
Employees: 1k – 5k | 71 in Crunchbase

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that control restricted digital content from a range of recorded labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.

It can also create individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users wants recommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that loaded music recommendations based on listening history. Playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists.

Social media integration is a popular feature that enables users to connect their Spotify accounts to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. This enables them to access their friends’ favorite music and playlists and share their choices with others as well. Spotify users can purchase their preferred content Through partner retailers.
Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.