Music Tech India Expert Sessions: Fundraising for music-tech startups
Mansoor Rahimat Khan is the Founder and CEO of Beatoven.ai. He is a Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in consumer tech. He comes from a family of musicians that has pioneered sitar music for 7 generations and shaped the modern day sitar (Gwalior-Indore-Dharwad Gharana of Sitar).
Mansoor is a professional sitar player & music tech entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the live music and recording industry, and an alumni of the Georgia Tech Centre for music technology, one of the most reputed music tech labs in the world. He has worked extensively across startups in product and tech roles. His last stint was a senior product manager at a startup which was acquired for $600M. Mansoor has experience building across early stage and late stage and is currently leading Beatoven.ai and has been able to scale the product to 1.5 million users with US and Europe being primary markets. He has several publications and patents in deep learning for audio applications to his credit. Mansoor also has an extensive network of artists across the world that aids towards the efforts of building the company.
Beatoven.ai is an AI music generator for content creators to compose original royalty free background music. Users can input prompts in the form of text, audio or video and generate original music and can further edit their output. The company is backed by marquee investors from Asia and Europe and is amongst the top 5 AI music players in the world. The company is also amongst the top 200 AI tools in the world as per Generative AI. Beatoven.ai has pioneered ethical AI by training their models on artists data through consent and licensing music from hundreds of artists and has been certified by Fairly Trained and AI4Music.
Fundraising for music-tech startups is the second edition of Expert Sessions, a series of monthly online workshops from Music Tech India (of which Mansoor is a founding member).