Epidemic Sound

Epidemic Sound AB

Company type	Private
Industry	Music
Founded	June 18, 2009;16 years ago (2009-06-18)
Founders	Peer Åström David Stenmarck Oscar Höglund Jan Zachrisson Hjalmar Winbladh
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden
Revenue	78,496,922 euro (2021)
Number of employees	439 (2021)
Website	epidemicsound.com
Footnotes /references [1]

Epidemic Sound is a royalty-free soundtrack hosting company based in Stockholm, Sweden. ^[2]

The company was established in 2009 by Peer Åström, David Stenmarck, Oscar Höglund, Hjalmar Winbladh and Jan Zachrisson. ^{[3] [4]}

Epidemic Sound has partnered with different brands including Adobe, DaVinci Resolve, iStock, Pinterest, and Canva. The company has raised around $500M in funding over 5 rounds.^{[ clarification needed ]} Their most recent equity round raised $450M from Blackstone Group and EQT Growth, which values Epidemic Sound at $1.4 billion. ^[5] Both SVT and TV4 buy music from Epidemic Sound. ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. "Företagsinformation, Epidemic Sound". hitta.se (in Swedish). 2009-04-23. Archived from the original on 28 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
2. Bradshaw, Tim (2019-07-04). "London in for wild ride as Ola takes on Uber". Financial Times.
3. "Epidemic Sound Said to Consider Options for Online Music Vault". Bloomberg. November 17, 2020 – via www.bloomberg.com.
4. "Epidemic Sound wants to soundtrack the world". Sifted. 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
5. "Epidemic Sound raises $450M at a $1.4B valuation to 'soundtrack the internet'". Techcrunch. 2021-03-11.
6. Grahn, Sindra; Josborg, Louise (2012-09-17). ""Rättigheterna är borta för alltid"". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-09-08.
7. Farran-Lee, Lydia (2012-10-04). "Avtal missgynnar kompositörer". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-09-08.