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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Music |
Founded | June 18, 2009 |
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 |
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]