Epidemic Sound

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Epidemic Sound AB
Company type Private
Industry Music
FoundedJune 18, 2009;14 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
Parent EQT Partners (2017)
Website epidemicsound.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Epidemic Sound is a global royalty-free soundtrack providing 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]

It has a library of over 40,000 soundtrack music and 90,000 sound effects. All Epidemic Sound tracks come in stems, which lets users remove certain layers of a track, like drums, bass, or the melody. Epidemic Sound music is also played in public spaces like restaurants, hotels, shopping malls and car parks. [2] [5] Epidemic Sound’s tracks are produced by a roster of music creators who get paid upfront for each track and half of the track’s streaming revenue. [6]

Epidemic Sound has partnered with many different major brands, including Adobe, Getty Images, iStock, Pinterest, and Canva. The company has raised a total of over $500M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest equity round raised $450M from Blackstone Group and EQT Growth, which values Epidemic Sound at $1.4 billion. [7] Both SVT and TV4 buy music from Epidemic Sound. [8] [9]

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