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PrivateFor profitEntertainmentLondon, United Kingdom
Shazam Entertainment
Shazam Entertainment is an app that identify any music playing around you.
- Founded
- 2000 26 years ago
- Staff
- 101-250 241 on LinkedIn
- Followers
- 42k on LinkedIn
- Funding
- $144M as listed, USD
Shazam is one of the most popular apps of all time, downloaded over a billion times and used by hundreds of millions of people each month to connect to the world around them.
Set against six million companies
Size
101-250 people: larger than 85% of companies with a size listed. 241 people list it on LinkedIn.
Age
26 years old.
Reach
Website ranked #2,913 in the world for traffic, about 23.3M visits a month. 41,825 followers on LinkedIn.
What it does
AppsDigital EntertainmentMusicmusic recognitionmusic discoveryTV companion appinteractive advertising
Funding, as listed
$144M raised in total
- Rounds14
- LatestSeries f, Feb 2015
- Latest amountUSD 30,000,000
- Investors15, 6 leading
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Every detail we hold
Everything the source datasets list about Shazam Entertainment, field by field. Contact details are held but never shown.
The company
- Name
- Shazam Entertainment
- Type
- For profit
- Status
- Private
- Founded
- 2000
- Founders
- Avery Wang, Chris Barton, Dhiraj Mukherjee, Philip Inghelbrecht
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Categories
- Apps, Digital Entertainment, Music
- Specialities
- music recognition, music discovery, TV companion app, interactive advertising
Where
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Markets
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
Size and reach
- Staff band
- 101-250
- People on LinkedIn
- 241
- LinkedIn followers
- 41,825
- Web traffic rank
- #2,913
- Monthly web visits
- 23,253,962
- Apps
- 2
Funding, as listed
- Total
- $143,500,000 USD
- Rounds
- 14
- Latest round
- Series f
- Latest round date
- Feb 2015
- Latest amount
- 30,000,000 USD
- Investors
- 15
- Lead investors
- 6
- Listing status
- private
Corporate family
- Acquisitions made
- 1
About this record
- Sources
- Crunchbase, LinkedIn
- Last imported
- Sept 2026
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