
Asaii is an automated machine learning A&R and music management platform. The company builds tools that make it easier to discover and develop talent. By aggregating and generating insights on the digital footprints of content and talent on the internet, Asaii contextualizes and creates structures for music business folks. Asaii has built a recommendation engine to quickly identify future and budding hits. Asaii offers two products: a music management dashboard for A&Rs to quickly scout and manage talent and an API for services to integrate a recommendation engine into their platforms. Asaii was founded in August 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. Asaii was acquired by Apple in October 2018 for under $100 million.

Asaii is an automated machine learning A&R and music management platform. The company builds tools that make it easier to discover and develop talent. By aggregating and generating insights on the digital footprints of content and talent on the internet, Asaii contextualizes and creates structures for music business folks. Asaii has built a recommendation engine to quickly identify future and budding hits. Asaii offers two products: a music management dashboard for A&Rs to quickly scout and manage talent and an API for services to integrate a recommendation engine into their platforms. Asaii was founded in August 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. Asaii was acquired by Apple in October 2018 for under $100 million.
What they do: Machine-learning music analytics and A&R tools (discovery, recommendation engine, management dashboard, API)
Founded: August 2016 (San Francisco, CA)
Outcome: Founders hired by Apple in October 2018
Funding: One disclosed pre-seed round (announced Jan 7, 2017)
Music analytics, A&R discovery, talent management
2016
Music technology
Amount not publicly disclosed in available records; some reports reference accelerator support from SkyDeck.