Epidemic Sound

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Epidemic Sound AB
Company type Private
Industry Music
FoundedJune 18, 2009;15 years ago (2009-06-18)
FoundersPeer Åström
David Stenmarck
Oscar Höglund
Jan Zachrisson
Hjalmar Winbladh
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Revenue78,496,922 euro (2021)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Number of employees
439 (2021)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website epidemicsound.com
Footnotes /references
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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.