AudioShake

Award-winning sound separation. Make audio interactive, editable, and customizable. AudioShake is a powerful AI that can take a recording from any point in time and deconstruct it into its component parts--from music instrument stems through to separate dialogue, music, and effect tracks. Creating stems opens up creative opportunities to make music and other audio more interactive, accessible, and profitable. - Winner of TIME Best Inventions - Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge - Winner of the Music Tectonics and Wallifornia Startup Pitch Contests - Named by Business Insider as one of 14 Innovative Music Tech Startups

audioshake.ai

AudioShake

audioshake.ai

HQUS

Team Size22

Open Jobs1

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: AI-powered sound separation that splits recordings into stems (vocals, instruments, dialogue, effects).

Key product: Real-time Sound Separation SDK for iOS/macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux.

Funding: $14M Series A (Oct 1, 2025); $2.7M seed (May 9, 2023).

Founders: Jessica Powell (co-founder, former Google VP) and Luke Miner (co-founder, former head of data science at Plaid).

Notable recognition: TIME Best Inventions; winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge; Music Tectonics and Wallifornia pitch contest wins.

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Audio separation and editing: extracting clean stems and isolating overlapping voices for creative, broadcast, and media workflows.

Industry

Software Development

Tech Stack

AI / machine learning for audio separation

Real-time audio processing

Platform SDKs (iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, Linux)

Voice and music separation models

Funding Track Record

Seed- 2023-05-09

$2.7M

Seed included participation from Precursor Ventures, Side Door Ventures, and a group of music-industry and operator angels.

Series A- 2025-10-01

$14M

Series A included participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, returning investors Indicator Ventures and Precursor Ventures; angels named include Bradley Horowitz and Charlie Songhurst.

Investor Signal

“Series A led by Shine Capital with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, Indicator Ventures, and Precursor Ventures; seed led by Indicator Ventures with participation from Precursor Ventures, Side Door Ventures and music-industry angels.”

Founders

What we do

TL;DR

Company Overview

Funding Track Record

Founders

What we do

AudioShake

audioshake.ai

AudioShake

audioshake.ai

HQUS

Team Size22

Open Jobs1

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: AI-powered sound separation that splits recordings into stems (vocals, instruments, dialogue, effects).

Key product: Real-time Sound Separation SDK for iOS/macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux.

Funding: $14M Series A (Oct 1, 2025); $2.7M seed (May 9, 2023).

Founders: Jessica Powell (co-founder, former Google VP) and Luke Miner (co-founder, former head of data science at Plaid).

Notable recognition: TIME Best Inventions; winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge; Music Tectonics and Wallifornia pitch contest wins.

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