# Napster: Digital Media, United States

> Napster: Napster enables users to discover, listen, and share music files with others. Based in United States. Founded 1999.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/napster (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Napster

Napster enables users to discover, listen, and share music files with others.

Funding reported Last round: Undisclosed round

Digital Media United States

Company summary

- **Founded:** 1999 27 years old
- **Team:** 101 51 to 200 people
- **Funding reported:** $46M in dollars
- **Last round:** Undisclosed round May 2022

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

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## What company datasets say Napster raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **$46M** in dollars

Rounds **4**

Last round **Undisclosed round**

Last round date **May 2022**

Investors listed **6**

## How it ended, so far

Exit

Exit Buyer Price When

Acquired [Best Buy](https://millionrounds.com/fund/best-buy) $121M Sept 2008

## The book about them

Reading

- All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster Joseph Menn · 2003 3.72 from 267 ratings on Goodreads About the book At age seventeen, Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that transformed the Internet into an unlimited library of free music. Tens of millions of young people quickly signed on, Time magazine put Fanning on its cover, and his company, Napster, became a household name. It… On AmazonListen on Audible
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