Big data, blockchain, and AI, digital platforms, and social media - technological progress is driving the music industry to constantly reinvent itself. What is needed, are pioneers who see radically changed production and distribution conditions as well as various user requirements as an opportunity. We are looking for people who develop new licensing models and fan services, innovative business models, data analysis tools, and/or other technology-based innovations to lead the music industry into the future. In the face of the corona crisis, also the search for future-proof business concepts for the music industry is particularly urgent.
Do you have a business idea that can help the (live)music industry step into a digital future?

Are you interested? Then apply and take your business model to the next level in the Music WorX Accelerator!

Four teams, three months

Music WorX is one of the few accelerators worldwide that explicitly addresses start-ups and founders from the music industry. Every year, up to four young companies are financially supported in a compressed, three-month program. The teams work intensively on the further development of their business idea with the support of experts and mentors from the Hamburg music industry. Music WorX is a publicly funded accelerator. Therefore, the founders do not sell any shares of their company to us.

International Start-ups

The Music WorX Accelerator is aimed at founders from all over Europe who want to set up their start-up in Hamburg. We are looking for founders with innovative business ideas from the following areas:

• New services from the area of Direct to-Fan (D2F)
• licensing models
• business models on the basis of blockchain
• tools for analyzing music data
• and much more

During the program, the working focus will be in Hamburg. After the program, it is desirable that the company headquarters remain in Hamburg and/or that relevant business relationships are maintained and expanded in Hamburg. Music WorX is financed and organised by the public sector but cooperates very closely with a large number of companies from the music industry.

Innovation in the music industry

The music industry is a complex ecosystem. Diverse and variable producer and user interests favor the emergence of new business ideas. With the Music WorX funding program, we provide an elementary building block for the industry to actively shape its own change. We use the strengths of Hamburg's music industry, with its large labels, publishing houses, and media houses, international conferences, and festivals as well as the dynamic start-up scene, to create the best possible breeding ground for the ingenuity of the music business.

Application

The application phase for Music WorX 2020 has started - apply now using our application form. The deadline for applications is 13 July 2020.

We will inform you as soon as possible whether the accelerator will take place in an analog, digital or hybrid format. This depends on the development of the Corona situation in Europe.