Top 22 Music Education startups

These startups offer interactive apps for learning instruments, gamified ear training programs, dance classes and online platforms that connect students with qualified teachers for remote lessons.
1
Country: Singapore | Funding: $180M
LingoAce is a service offering Chinese, English and math tutoring for children aged 3 to 15. Classes are held online (individually or in small groups) with live certified teachers. The curriculum aligns with international standards (HSK for Chinese, CEFR for English). Their game-based lessons, storylines, and characters are specifically designed to meet the psychological needs of children. Each lesson follows a continuous storyline to ensure maximum progress. Topics are deepened and expanded through a special spiral structure, creating a cohesive learning process. The service has achieved extensive international coverage - over 100 countries. The company also opened offline learning centers in Singapore, United States and Australia in addition to its online courses. LingoAce partners with international organizations to train teachers.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $136.8M
Skillshare is an ed-tech platform offering online learning for creative fields.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $130M
Domestika is a creative community where creative experts share their knowledge and skills through professionally produced online courses.
4
Country: Israel | Funding: $92M
Simply is a global subscription service reinventing the way people all over the world discover, learn and share creative hobbies.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $58.3M
CreativeLive is the world’s leading live, online classroom for creative entrepreneurs.
6
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $4.8M
Tomplay is a digitised music company that allows to play along with real recordings by professional musicians.
7
Country: Germany | Funding: €4.2M
Skoove is a platform to learn the art of playing piano.
8
Country: USA | Funding: $4.3M
Kadenze provides online courses from the world's leading universities, brands, and institutions in creative education.
9
Country: UK
Electronic music learning platform for beginners to advanced. Changing the way you learn to make music.
10
Country: USA | Funding: $250K
Superba Vox is a Top Online Music Academy offering affordable, private, virtual classes to students of any age and ability.
Editor: Nadia Neveu
Nadia Neveu is a senior editor for EdTechStartups. She is a writer covering early childhood education, K-12, higher education and edtech business, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice. Nadia holds a degree in mass communication from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Nadia is also a student in the Master of Science in Data Analytics program at the University of Houston-Downtown. Nadia seeks to uplift all teachers in the work that they do and support them as leaders and agents of change. You can contact Nadia at neveu(at)edtechstartups(dot)com