AudioShake Series A

AudioShake co-founders Luke Miner and Jessica Powell. Photo Credit: AudioShake

Now boasting north of 40 enterprise clients – including Universal Music, Warner Music, and BMG – AI-powered audio separator AudioShake has announced a $14 million Series A.

San Francisco-based AudioShake reached out with word of the raise, which follows a $2.7 million round and has elevated its total funding to about $19 million. Per the five-year-old business, [untitled] stakeholder Shine Capital, which has interests in a number of AI startups, led the Series A.

The round also drew participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures (TRV), early GrubHub backer Origin Ventures, Rafael Corrales’ Background Capital, and existing investors Indicator Ventures as well as Precursor Ventures.

(TRV set sail with a $100 million initial fund in 2021 and launched a second fund, valued this time at $150 million, in February 2025. In a statement, managing director Tamara Steffens, whose VC’s supported multiple AI developers, indicated that “AudioShake’s technology transforms audio from a static asset into actionable data.”)

Regarding its plans for the multimillion-dollar tranche, AudioShake touched on anticipated accelerations across product development, hiring, and market-expansion initiatives.

On this front, the 18-employee company took the opportunity to emphasize its scaling progress during the past year in particular.

Besides the mentioned labels, AudioShake partners include Reservoir, Disney Music, LANDR, Tuned Global, Downtown, Peermusic, and others. Unsurprisingly, several of the entities have utilized the core audio-separation tool; Reservoir and BMG “split Nina Simone and De La Soul’s albums” to power “immersive streaming releases,” for example.

However, AudioShake deals in timestamped lyric transcription as well, and its March 2025 Empire partnership encompasses both “stem and lyric separation technologies,” according to the appropriate announcement.

Meanwhile, Big Tech is said to be utilizing the products to separate audio for AI training purposes, with film studios isolating dialogue and more for dubbing as sports teams boot licensed music from highlights.

“From the beginning,” co-founder and CEO Jessica Powell added, “we’ve built AudioShake hand-in-hand with content owners—helping them unlock new creative opportunities for their work. Whether it’s reimagining classic albums, preparing films for global audiences, or giving broadcasters more flexibility, our mission is to make sound as programmable and versatile as any other creative medium.”

In the bigger funding picture, the last two months have delivered a cumulative total of over $175 million in core music industry raises. And while capital’s reached a variety of companies since 2025’s beginning, AI startups, live/ticketing businesses, and especially catalog investors have secured a substantial portion of the funding.