Decksi by Creative D (Canada)

Decksi is a direct-to-fan distribution channel that turns video, music and photos into digital merchandise.  Fans collect, trade, gift and share to build a collection of digital trading cards from the artists and brands they’re passionate about.  Decksi enables a freemium business model for content and blends micro-transactions with high-value incentivized video advertising to create new revenue streams for artist content.  Decksi works with artists, labels and other content owners on a rev share or performance-based licensing fee.

evergig (France)

Through its website and iPhone app, EVERGIG's artificial intelligence allows crowdsourced concerts' videos posted on evergig.com by the public to be synchronised with the venue's desk HD sound. Then, thanks to its 100% automated process, the Artificial Intelligence, analyzing over 15 criterias every second of each footage, picks and edits the best of each sequence, offering a LEGAL, HYBRID (UGC video meets Professionnal sound), DYNAMIC and EVOLVING (if a better footage is posted it will replace the previous one in the editing) montage of the FULL SHOW, mixing UGC video and Professionnal sound. In addition to what, curators get rewarded (with new concerts' tickets and other treats) and the rightholders retributed as well. Based on a freemium economic model, EVERGIG changes the way concerts are recorded, shared and enjoyed.

Murfie (USA)

Murfie is the corner record store in the cloud: a dynamic marketplace of new and used music where all purchases and trades are instantly available digitally. Murfie’s unique secondary marketplace merges the best of iTunes (new music purchasing, unified digital access via download or streaming) and eBay (market-determined pricing, long-tail selection, real ownership, lossless audio quality).
Murfie’s process turns idle physical music collections into recurring subscription revenue shared with artists, labels and publishers. As of November 2012, the company stores over 250,000 CDs for thousands of members, with over 200,000 available for sale or trade. These browsable, member-curated collections enable music discovery that’s literally like browsing your friends’ shelves. Within this growing community of music collectors, Murfie will offer the first-ever secondary music marketplace providing a revenue stream to rights holders.
Murfie is a TechStars graduate with headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Pulselocker (USA)

Pulselocker is a platform for the next generation of DJ. Pulselocker is the first music subscription service that gives DJs access to millions of tracks, playable on the most popular mixing apps, online or off. Our unique subscription service gives DJs the unprecedented freedom to: stream full-length tracks; download tracks and DJ them out – before they decide to buy; and buy only the tracks they want to keep. We couple this revolutionary experience with a socially driven discovery engine that provides more personalized recommendations and provides DJs greater insight into the artists and labels that influence them the most. Through Pulselocker’s industry-first monetization strategy, artists and labels have three distinct ways to earn money from their current and back catalog. Pulselocker pays an escalating royalty rate each time a subscriber streams a track, stores it in their locker to play offline, or buys it outright.

Stageit (USA)

Stageit is an online video platform allowing artists to stream and monetize concert-like live performances while interacting with their fans in real time. Launched at SXSW in March 2011, Stageit has rapidly grown to become a widespread new revenue-generating platform for artists who can’t afford to tour, those who are between tours as well as those looking to complement and activate other promotional and networking tools.
Founded by CEO and music industry veteran Evan Lowenstein, Stageit is a cross between “Skype for music” and a real-life concert experience. Not only does Stageit enable artists to easily create paid live shows directly from their laptop, but it also removes the barriers involved with touring in multiple cities by allowing fans to watch from wherever they are. The online performances streamed on Stageit are not archived, so it remains a truly unique experience for the virtual attendees.

European Commission
Eyeka/Mxp4/CaptainDash (France)

Amazon.com (USA)

Prior to joining Amazon.com, Steve was the President of the Mountain View, CA based, Loopt, the leading location-based services company.
His experience also includes serving as CEO of mig33.  Under Steve’s leadership, he led the growth of the company’s mobile service to more than 30 million users in more than 200 countries worldwide. mig33 is estimated to be one of the most downloaded apps for mobile phones worldwide.
Steve also enjoyed a successful 10-year career at Yahoo! Inc. in a variety of senior management positions, including Senior Vice President of the Connected Life division, where he had global responsibility for the company’s mobile business. Under Steve’s leadership, Yahoo! aggressively established itself as an early leader in the mobile Internet with award-winning products, such as Yahoo! Go and oneSearch, and dozens of wide-ranging partnerships with mobile operators and handset OEMs around the world. Steve joined Yahoo! in London as business development director, where he was responsible for strategic alliances and new business models across Europe, including some of the industry’s first-ever mobile Internet partnerships.
Steve began his career as an attorney with Venture Law Group in Silicon Valley, where he was advised numerous Internet and software startups.
Steve holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School.

Eventbrite (USA)

Renaud Visage is the founding technical architect and CTO of leading online event management company Eventbrite.  With engineering degrees from Cornell University (USA) and Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), Renaud started his career as an environmental consultant. Fascinated by the Internet, Renaud joined, as the Director of Engineering, Internet photo-sharing pioneer, Zing Networks which was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and later acquired by Sony ImageStation.  In 2006, he joined forces with Kevin & Julia Hartz to found Eventbrite. Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any event.  With funding from Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, and Tenaya Capital, Eventbrite has been widely successful and recently announced that it has sold more than $1 billion of tickets to date.