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had a big presence at the renowned music conference, showcasing many of their music focused members.<\/p>\nIn the final article in my highlights from MIDEM series, I talk to Elisabeth Racine of Cap Digital, \u00a0the French non-profit business cluster for digital content and services, about their work with some of France’s biggest up-and-coming music startups. \u00a0This year, Cap Digital in conjunction with La French Tech had a big presence at the renowned music conference, showcasing many of their music focused members.<\/p>\n
Tell me a bit about Cap Digital’s participation at this year’s event and how this has evolved over time?<\/strong><\/p>\n We’ve participated at MIDEM since 2010, kindly hosted at the Ministry of Culture’s stand.\u00a0This year was our turn to host at our own stand 10 french startups, who are also our members, and give them the opportunity to put on display their digital innovations and disruptive business models.\u00a0These companies offer a range of different services : recommendation, diffusion, creation and\u00a0music learning.<\/p>\n Our goal at Cap Digital is to help startups in their development through support, advice and networking.<\/p>\n We have seen MIDEM evolve through the years, focusing increasingly on music technology, and we are glad to see that France’s tech music ecosystem come out in force for this year’s edition.<\/p>\n Can you give us a look at the startups who exhibited with Cap Digital this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n BLITZR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The idea of Blitzr, finalist in the Midemlab Competition, is to gather information from\u00a0databases, social networks, streaming services and marketplaces in one place. \u00a0The goal of Blitzr is to become the place where music lovers find information about the artists they like and their music as well as discover new\u00a0ones.<\/p>\n Their name represents several themes : Flashing into something, the speed of discovery, as well as various other\u00a0references including : David Bowie, the Ramones, videogames, even football (as a \u201cblizzer\u201d is a player who\u00a0runs very fast\u201d).<\/p>\n Their marketing campaign is very original, going beyond the typical marketing tactics. So everything from creating mobile apps focusing on features like price comparison services to\u00a0cartographies by place or genre or even funny ones like \u201cdiscover an artist’s real name\u201d.<\/p>\n FINDSPIRE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Findspire is a platform about discovery and artistic inspiration.\u00a0The user can navigate the site and search for information by general topics like image,\u00a0music, video, lifestyle and alternative future.<\/p>\n Based on these topics “communities”, which are in turn linked, are created, which allows people from different art forms can connect and even upload\u00a0content for each other.\u00a0The business model is mostly based on adverting, but also on premium content and\u00a0advanced features.<\/p>\n The founders are working on other models to monetize content, including developing a music platform enabling\u00a0artists and distributors to generate revenues.<\/p>\n KIZYM<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n In a context where creation needs support and artists need to receive fair royalties, Kizym.com offers\u00a0artists and fans the freedom to share their music by allowing them to choose audio formats and rate\u00a0themselves.<\/p>\n Kizym aims to become a major European player in the years to come in the discovery, sharing and\u00a0support of music creation.<\/p>\n MELUDIA<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Meludia is a game that allows everyone to understand music.\u00a0The co-founder is a composer who searched about this topic for around 25 years.Their ultimate goal is to multiply the number of musicians in the world, to help people\u00a0being in touch with the music.<\/p>\n Their business model is based on subscriptions and freemium accounts.\u00a0In the second quarter of 2014 they’ll be raising a seed round via convertible debt.<\/p>\n NILAND<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Niland develops music search and recommendation engines. They are based on music signal processing so that\u00a0they can handle any kind of music…famous or unknown, and non-western music such as Indian or Chinese.<\/p>\n Their first product, Siilar, is a \u201cmusic search environment\u201d designed for catalog owners (publishers and libraries).\u00a0It\u2019s a new tool for music licensing projects, allowing its users to \u201cuse music to find music\u201d.\u00a0For instance, it enables you to find automatically all the songs that sound similar to a musical reference.<\/p>\n Signal processing technology can be the next revolution in music discovery, beyond the metadata capabilities.<\/p>\n PHONOTONIC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Phonotonic develops musical connected objects (Internet of Things) that radically change our experience of music.<\/p>\n Their product Music Battle is a consumer musical game that transforms movement into music in a unique way. Based on latest sensors and sound interaction design technologies, this game opens up the way for a new generation of digital games, without screen, that reintroduce physical into digital music.<\/p>\n Phonotonic is a spin-off of world leading lab in music and sound technology IRCAM, gets support from business incubator AGORANOV as well as from the french cultural center Le CENTQUATRE.<\/p>\n TRAXAIR<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Traxair is a global solution to monitor broadcast in public places.\u00a0It has been created to help in allocating distribution rights to the right artists.<\/p>\n This tool, based on a music identification software, can represent an important change for independent artists and labels.<\/p>\n SNOWITE\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Snowite is a digital mediation platform that helps publishers and majors use their catalogs\u00a0for new business opportunities, such as premium deals and B2B partnerships. The “backend\u00a0as a service” platform creates music APIs to build entire frontends on web, mobile and IPTV.<\/p>\n