Snapwave
increases engagement in music streaming for consumers, artists, and advertisers.
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Media and Entertainment
- Location San Francisco, CA, US
- Currency USD
- Employees 3
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website snapwave.co
Company Summary
Snapwave is an artful technology company, inspiring & enabling people everywhere to engage, create, and connect at the intersection of music and photography.
B2C2B business model:
1.) Content Marketing targeted at music consumers.
2.) Audiovisual Analytics for brands and agencies on connections between music, images, & audiences.
Team
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Co-founder & CEOSerial music entrepreneur since 2004. Built and launched an image-driven music discovery service; managed and developed recording artists; built profitable concert set list apps for Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews Band, and Phish. Founding organizer of Boston Music-Tech, and co-organizer of Nashville Music-Tech. MBA from Babson College, focused in entrepreneurship; B.A in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Co-founder & Chief Design OfficerDesigner and entrepreneur. Lead design at Spinlet, the biggest music streaming service in Africa, where he had a pivotal role designing and launching the product with customer growth from 0 to over 1M over the course of 3 years. Executed Spinlet partnership campaigns with Coke, Uber, Samsung and Nokia. Lead design at Ice House Corp, designing mobile apps for various Silicon Valley start-ups.
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Co-founder & Technology ArchitectA full-stack senior developer and entrepreneur, Akshay has engineering experience at InfoSys, is a financial specialist, and a Babson MBA. In addition to architecting Snapwave's entire back-end, Akshay runs ETLOK Solutions, where he manages a team of 8 developers who provide scalable end-to-end software development, business and technology consulting across US and Canada.
Advisors
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Mike FabioUnconfirmed
Shawn GlinterUnconfirmed -
Andrew StessUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Herb BlutenthalUnconfirmed
Brian GelberUnconfirmed
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