AudioShake came out remixing. Founded in 2020 by Jessica Powell and Luke Miner, the company took what most people thought was a parlor trick, stripping vocals out of a karaoke track, and turned it into one of the most sophisticated AI platforms in media today. The idea was simple, the execution anything but: take any recording, from a Beatles master tape to an NFL Films highlight reel, and split it into clean, editable stems. Vocals. Instruments. Dialogue. Effects. Suddenly, sound is searchable, programmable, and reusable in ways that change how content gets made, remastered, and monetized.
This week AudioShake announced a $14M Series A led by Shine Capital, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures, Origin Ventures, Background Capital, and support from existing backers Indicator Ventures and Precursor Ventures. That brings total funding to $19M, adding to a roster of investors that already includes Black Squirrel Partners (yes, Metallica’s backing), Crush Ventures, AJR, Side Door Ventures, Reservoir Media, and Google’s Black Angel Group. If you thought this was a niche tool, the cap table says otherwise.
The growth has been loud. Over the past year AudioShake signed 40+ enterprise deals, grew revenue nearly 400%, and processed more than 100M minutes of audio. Universal Music, Disney Music Group, Warner Music Group, Warner Bros. Discovery, BET, NFL Films, BMG, Deluxe, and even the Mag-7 tech giants are already plugged in. What started as an engineer’s side project now sits at the core of global media production pipelines. That’s why TIME named it one of the Best Inventions of 2023. That’s why they keep walking away from competitions like AWS re:Invent and Sony’s Demixing Challenge with the hardware.
What makes AudioShake dangerous, in the best way, is its ability to handle audio the world never intended to be separated. Old archives. Grainy recordings. Live feeds. Its API and SDK let developers snap it straight into workflows, whether for music remastering, dubbing, transcription, or training multimodal AI. And with Luke Miner’s technical leadership and Jessica Powell’s product vision, the company built not just a tool but an infrastructure layer for the next wave of audio-first apps.
The Series A isn’t just fuel for growth, it’s an accelerant. AudioShake will expand engineering, sales, and research teams, double down on enterprise partnerships, and give developers broader access to its real-time SDKs and APIs. If you’re in entertainment, AI, broadcasting, or gaming, you’re not just listening to AudioShake, you’re already living in a market it’s reshaping.
