Booktrack creates movie-style soundtracks for audiobooks consisting of music, soundscape audio, and sound effects.
Booktrack’s proprietary AI engine generates unique soundtracks based on the mood and emotion of the story, which can then be customized by Booktrack’s unique audiobook soundtrack tools and production team to create a cost effective premium soundtrack.
Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Weta Digital and Sparkbox Ventures, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world, equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever.
Listen now at www.booktrack.com
Booktrack’s proprietary AI engine generates unique soundtracks based on the mood and emotion of the story, which can then be customized by Booktrack’s unique audiobook soundtrack tools and production team to create a cost effective premium soundtrack.
Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Weta Digital and Sparkbox Ventures, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world, equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever.
Listen now at www.booktrack.com
Location: New Zealand, Auckland, Devonport-Takapuna
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $12.5M
Founded date: 2010
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | New Zealan... | nzgcp.co.n... |
| - | Brisbane A... | brisbanean... |
| - | REAPRA | reapra.com |
| - | Haitao Cap... | haitaocapi... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 21.07.2015 | Series B | $7.5M | - |
| 09.04.2014 | - | $3M | - |
| 17.12.2012 | - | $2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.07.2015 | Money, Mergers & Expansions For Booktrack, Other SF Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints While big tech companies like Google filed their quarterly reports this week, a number of their smaller brethren in San Francisco caught my eye as they recorded their own benc... |
| 21.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 21, 2015 | Bright.md raises $3.5M; Medallia bagged $150M; BrightBytes landed $33M Bright.md, which makes software that enables communication between doctors and patients, closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. Oregon Angel Fund led the round, w... |
| 21.07.2015 | Booktrack Closes $5M Series B Funding | Booktrack, a San Francisco, CA-based company that enriches the eBook experience by adding movie-style soundtracks and ambient audio, closed $5m Series B funding round. The round, which had previously raised $3m in Series A financing, was co... |
| 21.07.2015 | Booktrack Receives $5M | SAN FRANCISCO ,CA, Booktrack today announced it has closed a Series B investment round of $5 million with COENT Venture Partners and Sparkbox Ventures as two of the lead investors. >> Click here for more funding data on Booktrack ... |
| 21.07.2015 | Booktrack Pulls In Another $5 Million To Put Audio To E-Books | Booktrack, a startup out of New Zealand that creates soundtracks to accompany e-books, has raised another $5 million in funding to make sure that reading is no longer a quiet activity. Led by COENT Venture Partners and Sparkbox Ventures, th... |
| 11.04.2014 | Booktrack Raises US$3M Funding | Booktrack, a San Francisco, CA-based platform to synchronize soundtracks to eBooks to match the storyline as readers read, raised a US$3m funding round. The round was led by Sparkbox Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to expand ... |
| 09.04.2014 | Booktrack Raises $3M To Add Soundtracks To E-Books, Launches Classroom Version | E-book soundtrack platform Booktrack is announcing that it has raised $3 million in Series A funding, and that it’s launching an education-focused version of its platform, Booktrack Classroom. The idea may sound a little gimmicky, but co-fo... |
| 04.03.2013 | Blues Highway Blues: You can’t separate murder from music | reader comments 14 with 10 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit There is a scene in Eyre Price’s thriller Blues Highway Blues where two hired killers have pinned a young man to the floor ... |
| 17.12.2012 | Booktrack Raises $2 Million From Peter Thiel, Park Road, And Others To Add Soundtracks To E-books | New Zealand-based startup Booktrack launched last year to provide e-book readers with something that they’ve been missing: soundtracks to go along with what they’re reading. To push that idea forward, the startup has raised $2 million in Se... |
| 04.09.2011 | Booktrack: Just A Horrible Idea. Really Horrible | I was going to leave this one alone. In the interests of light and shade, I wanted my next column to be something fun and positive. Whiskers on kittens and warm woolen mittens — all that good stuff. To say, damn it, let’s take our minds off... |
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