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Session Studio provides a comprehensive music collaboration application designed to streamline the creative process and ensure proper attribution for music creators. The platform allows users to easily collaborate on audio ideas, lyrics, and songs, while instantly organizing song credits. It offers capabilities for securely storing and sharing audio files and releases, alongside integrations with digital audio workstations to facilitate a seamless workflow from creation to credit assignment across web, desktop, and mobile devices.
The company was co-founded by industry veterans Björn Ulvaeus, Max Martin, and Niclas Molinder. Their collective insight stemmed from the pervasive issue of opaque credit attribution within the music industry, which often led to disputes and unfair compensation. They established Session Studio with a vision to cultivate a more transparent and equitable ecosystem for all contributors to musical works, leveraging their deep understanding of the creative and business sides of music.
Session Studio serves a broad spectrum of music creators, including artists, musicians, songwriters, and producers, empowering both emerging talent and established professionals. The platform's core mission is to safeguard creators' contributions by ensuring every participant is correctly credited for their work on every song release. This commitment aims to provide creators with the necessary tools to protect their intellectual property and receive the fair recognition and compensation they deserve.
Session Studio has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round.
Session Studio has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Session Studio has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Session Studio is a music technology company building a creator-first platform that streamlines collaboration, songwriting, and rights management for music creators. At its core, the company provides a free, cross-platform app that enables artists, songwriters, and producers to collaborate on audio and lyrics, assign song credits, agree on ownership splits, and share final releases with the structured metadata needed for proper registration and royalty collection.
Session Studio serves independent and professional music creators, as well as the broader music industry ecosystem including labels, publishers, digital service providers (DSPs), and collection societies. It solves a long-standing industry problem: fragmented, inaccurate, or missing song credits and ownership data, which leads to delayed or unpaid royalties. By capturing metadata at the point of creation—within the creative workflow—Session Studio ensures that contributor names, roles, shares, and rights are recorded early and formatted to industry standards (DDEX). The company has gained strong traction, with tens of thousands of creators using the app and integrations or partnerships with major players like Universal Music Group, YouTube, SoundCloud, and leading DAWs such as Avid Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and Ableton.
Session Studio was co-founded by three prominent figures in the music industry: Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA, hitmaker and producer Max Martin, and producer-songwriter Niclas Molinder. The idea emerged from their shared frustration with how difficult it is for creators to track credits and ownership in an increasingly collaborative, globalized music landscape. Too often, crucial metadata is lost or misrecorded during the creative process, leading to disputes and underpayment.
The founders envisioned a simple, free tool that would sit at the heart of the creative workflow—where songs are written and produced—and capture ownership and credit information in real time. This led to the creation of Session Studio as a mobile, desktop, and web app that lets creators collaborate, log contributions, and lock in splits from the earliest stages of a song. Early traction came quickly, with widespread adoption among songwriters and producers, and strong industry validation through partnerships with major labels, DSPs, and rights organizations, including Universal Music Group and Brazil’s collection society UBC.
Session Studio is riding a major shift in the music industry toward better data, transparency, and creator empowerment. As streaming has become the dominant revenue model, accurate metadata has become critical: without it, creators don’t get paid. At the same time, music creation has become more collaborative and decentralized, with creators working across borders and time zones, making traditional, paper-based or ad-hoc credit tracking increasingly inadequate.
The timing is ideal because the industry is finally investing in infrastructure to fix these systemic issues—platforms like Connex for A&R and rights administration, and initiatives around standardized identifiers and data formats are gaining momentum. Session Studio positions itself as the “source of truth” for song data by capturing it at the moment of creation, effectively bridging the gap between creative tools and industry operations.
By doing so, Session Studio is helping to modernize the music industry’s data backbone, enabling faster, fairer royalty flows and reducing disputes. It also strengthens the broader creator economy by giving independent artists and songwriters tools that were once only available to major-label teams.
Session Studio is poised to become a foundational layer in the modern music creation stack. As more of the industry adopts standardized metadata and automated rights management, tools that capture data early—like Session Studio—will become essential, not optional. The company’s next phase will likely involve deeper integrations with DAWs, DSPs, and rights platforms, as well as expanding into new markets and languages to support a truly global creator base.
Looking ahead, Session Studio could evolve into a central hub not just for credits and splits, but for rights management, publishing administration, and even direct monetization features. As AI and generative tools reshape music creation, the need for clear, auditable ownership records will only grow—making Session Studio’s mission more relevant than ever.
In a world where music is made faster and more collaboratively than ever, Session Studio is building the infrastructure to ensure that creators are not only heard, but also seen, credited, and paid.
Session Studio has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $2.0M Venture Round in March 2017.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2017 | $2.0M Venture Round |