BIME Start Up!
The space for innovation and entrepreneurship where you can discover all the technological innovations related to music. The ideal place to foster new business opportunities and generate synergies with other entrepreneurs, corporates and investors.
In this context, we have the StartUp Village, an exhibition area to show a selection of 16 projects to all the professionals attending BIME and 8 of these proposals are selected as finalists for the STARTUP! COMPETITION, a key meeting for the promotion and internationalisation of startups in the creative, music and digital industries. In this competition, the best national and international startups compete to present the most disruptive project.
Thanks to the high participation of investors, corporates and the development of startups, BIME START UP! has become one of the leading international events in Europe and Latin America.
Entrepreneurial and creative ecosystem
An enabling environment for entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries
Conferences
Conferences with renowned entrepreneurs and creators, investors and key players in the industry
Networking
Meetings in different formats: online speedmeetings, cocktails, dinners…
Startup competition and exhibition
A selection of the best international startups that will compete to present the most disruptive project and make a place for themselves in the Startup Village.
Investors and corporates
Connections with investors, corporations and key players in the sector in the same entrepreneurial and creative ecosystem.
Alliances
Alliances and parallel actions in collaboration with the most relevant events, accelerators and incubators.
STARTUP VILLAGE
An exhibition space where the finalist projects will be able to showcase their functionality and services, in order to promote new business opportunities and generate synergies with other entrepreneurs and investors in attendance.
EXHALE AT THE STARTUP VILLAGE
Of all the proposals received, 16 will form part of the Startup Village, an exhibition space where the pre-selected projects will be able to showcase their functionality and services, with a view to promoting new business opportunities and generating synergies with other entrepreneurs and investors in attendance. In this way, all projects that are not finalists will also be able to benefit from the tools and networking offered by the competition at an international level.
HISTORY OF WINNERS
2014 – BLACKBINDER (SPAIN)
«Since BIME we have managed to raise 2M€ in investment rounds»
Its main creation is its real automatic scrolling sheet music application. They are present in Europe, the United States and China, and in prestigious institutions such as the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Liceu in Barcelona.
2015 – SOUNDSGOOD (FRANCE)
«90.000 active playlists followed by 210 million fans in streaming services»
SoundsGood managed to have more than 35,000 playlist curators on Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, Deezer, Soundcloud, Napster, Qobuz and late Radio. After their time at BIME and after winning the MIdem Lav Contest, they focused on B2B services for music labels, which led to their acquisition by Believe in 2020.
2016 – URBAN ROOSTER (SPAIN)
«875 million views on YouTube, a social media community with more than 20 million users in five countries»
International platform that brings together the largest community of freestylers on the net. They have more than 875K views on YouTube, in addition to a cumulative audience in 2021 of 84.4 million.
2017 – MONKINGME (SPAIN)
«After our participation in BIME we have multiplied by 10 the number of active users per month. We have more than 4.5M accumulated downloads of our APP»
Platform for singers to present their music and promote it through the App.
2018 – ACQUSTIC (SPAIN)
«After winning the Startup Competition we managed to reach €650,000 raised»
One of the largest independent music communities. After his time at BIME, he has signed agreements with companies such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, Deezer and Tidal Spain, among others. It currently has an annual turnover of more than 8 billion euros.
2019 – ANOTE MUSIC (LUXENBURG)
«So shortly after our participation at BIME PRO, ANote Music announced closing the first investment round for 505.000€»
European primary and secondary market platforms for music rights, through which anyone can invest in songs and buy the rights that labels, musicians and publishers offer for sale. To date, it has more than 5,000 registered accounts to whom more than 30,000 euros in profits have been distributed.
2020 – UTTOPION (SPAIN)
«After our participation in BIME, we closed an investment round of 500.000€»
Uttopion (formerly MusicHood) is a virtual space (metaverse) for streaming music, among other things. After its participation in the BIME StartUp Competition, it obtained an investment round of 500,000€. With almost 200 channels of artists and creators, 5,000 registered users and more than 70 collaborating brands.
2021 – ODISEI MUSIC
“Winning at BIME opened the doors to the Latin American market and the project generated more interest and attraction to investors.”
They manufacture and sell the world’s lightest and smallest electronic saxophone: Travel Sax. To date, they have more than 1,000 customers in 50 countries around the world.
2022 BOGOTÁ – MAVITY
«Mavity is the end-to-end collaboration tool and payouts platform for remote creative teams»
They connect the best creative teams with entrepreneurs, companies and startups through AI-powered tools that save 65% in costs and time.
2022 BILBAO – VACKSTAGE (SPAIN)
«We offer the best audio-visual quality so you can enjoy your favourite artists via streaming from anywhere»
Music streaming platform. Currently, the platform has more than 5,000 users, some 200 exclusive digital contents and agreements with studios and concert halls in different parts of the country.
2023 BOGOTÁ – REVMUSIC (COLOMBIA)
“We are committed to revolutionising the process of exchanging music rights, a new model of simple, transparent and independent management”.
Music industry rights management. The bet to revolutionize the process of exchanging music rights, a new model of simple, transparent and independent management.
2023 BILBAO – MOTMO PRO (SPAIN)
Motmo.pro is a platform where you can learn to play your favorite songs directly from the artists who created them.
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