
Hook is a venture-backed social music platform that turns the songs you love into sounds you can play with. Find your favorite artists, bend the vibe with intuitive creative tools, and reimagine music through your own lens — whether you’re sharing with friends, joining communities, or keeping creations to yourself. Hook gives fans and creators expressive, remix-friendly ways to interact with music, with zero learning curve. We partner directly with artists, labels, and rightsholders to power these experiences — ensuring music is discovered, shared, and expressed in ways that respect and reward the people behind it. At Hook, music isn’t just something you listen to. It’s something you play with, make your own, and use to express who you are.

Hook is a venture-backed social music platform that turns the songs you love into sounds you can play with. Find your favorite artists, bend the vibe with intuitive creative tools, and reimagine music through your own lens — whether you’re sharing with friends, joining communities, or keeping creations to yourself. Hook gives fans and creators expressive, remix-friendly ways to interact with music, with zero learning curve. We partner directly with artists, labels, and rightsholders to power these experiences — ensuring music is discovered, shared, and expressed in ways that respect and reward the people behind it. At Hook, music isn’t just something you listen to. It’s something you play with, make your own, and use to express who you are.
What they do: AI-enabled social music platform for creating short, legal remixes and expressive music interactions
Founding / HQ: Activity described from 2021 onward; company characterized as New York, NY
Funding: $3M seed reported with participation from Point72 Ventures and Waverley Capital
Product: Mobile app and web experience for remixing short clips (~60s), attribution and rights management
Music expression and social remixing with rights management for artists and labels.
Music / Social / AI
$3M
Round includes additional participation reported from Palm Tree Crew, Khosla Ventures, Imaginary Ventures, Three Six Zero and Avex per coverage.
“Venture-backed with participation from strategic music and venture investors (Point72 Ventures, Waverley Capital, Palm Tree Crew, Khosla Ventures, Imaginary Ventures)”
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