Vampr is a location-based social and professional networking platform which facilitates music discovery, collaboration, and communication between musicians, creatives, industry professionals and fans. The platform was acquired by

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in June 2023.

History

The startup was founded in Los Angeles in 2015 by Australian musicians

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and Barry Palmer of

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. According to ''

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'', the company received seed funding from

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of British band Wang Chung.

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named the app in its "Best of 2017" list. In August 2019, the company launched an

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campaign on

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which saw the company reach their minimum fund-raising target in the first hour. In a follow-on oversubscribed crowdfunding round, the company raised the maximum permitted in a 12-month window at the time, with over 2,000 investors. Vampr would also be the first company in the world to offer investors an

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as a perk in a Reg CF funding round. The company later launched Vampr Publishing in 2020, a free music sync representation solution for all users, in addition to Vampr Distribution, a tiered music distribution solution which also comes bundled with the premium Vampr Pro

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. In September 2021, the company announced a milestone of one million users. In March 2022, with over 7 million professional connections brokered on the platform worldwide,

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inducted Vampr into their ''Most Innovative Companies'' list. Later that year

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would spotlight Vampr in their Top 150 apps in the

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. In April 2022, the company launched Vampr Academy, an

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streaming solution for artists, allowing users to watch video lessons taught by industry experts. In November 2022, the company announced a strategic investment from

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which coincided with the launch of Vampr Marketing, a promotional advertising solution which enables artists to drive traffic to their music releases on premium websites such as

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and

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. In February 2023, it was announced Vampr had been acquired by the

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-headquartered music credits database,

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, later rebranded as

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External links

* {{Official website, https://vampr.me/ Internet properties established in 2016 Geosocial networking Mobile social software

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