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Music Tech Startup Fair

Hackatune 2026 Startup Fair

A showcase of music tech startups that exhibited at Hackatune 2026. Meet the teams building the tools behind modern music.

Date
Jun 28, 2026
Time
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Location
Audimax, TUM Main Campus, Munich

The Music Tech Startup Fair brought the people behind the tools into the room. Across the final day of Hackatune 2026, a selection of music tech companies set up shop to demo their products, share what they were building, and talk with participants and visitors.

Whether deep into a hackathon project, curious about the state of music technology, or looking to connect with founders and teams, visitors got the chance to see working products up close and ask the questions that matter.

Who Exhibited

This year’s exhibitors spanned the breadth of modern music tech: stem separation and audio cleanup, AI-driven music video generation, artist management and booking, consent-based training data for music AI, catalogue tagging and search, automatic transcription, and real-time audio design. Each team was on-site throughout the fair to demo their work and chat.

Open to Everyone

The Music Tech Startup Fair was part of Hackatune 2026 and ran on Demo Day, alongside the jury evaluations and closing ceremony. Entry was free and open to everyone, hackathon participant or not, with no registration needed.

Participating Startups

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LALAL.AI

AI stem separation and audio cleanup for musicians, producers, and engineers.

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LALAL.AI

An AI-powered audio processing platform for musicians, producers, and audio engineers. Its core technology splits any track into clean individual stems (vocals, drums, bass, and more), powering workflows from remixing and sampling to post-production and music education. Beyond stem separation it offers voice cleaning, noise reduction, and a growing toolkit of creative audio tools, available via the web, VST/AU plugins for major DAWs, and a developer API.

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connactz

An AI manager that handles gigs, contracts, and tour planning for live artists.

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connactz

An AI manager for live performing artists. Musicians simply tell their AI agent what they need, and it scouts gigs, drafts contracts and invoices, plans tours, writes social posts, emails venues, and coordinates band members over WhatsApp. Hosted in Germany and co-funded by the EU, connactz takes care of the paperwork so artists can focus on what matters most: the music.

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CORPUS by Sofilab

A consent-based AI music ecosystem where artists keep their rights and earn from every model trained on their work.

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CORPUS by Sofilab

CORPUS is building a consent-based AI music ecosystem in which artists keep their rights and earn an ongoing share of whatever their music helps create. Musicians contribute tracks to a shared library scored for quality, originality, and diversity, and that score determines their cut of revenue from every AI product trained on it. Developed by the Munich sound-design and AI lab Sofilab and co-financed by Creative Europe, CORPUS runs entirely on its own servers under EU law, producing adaptive, licensed music ready to integrate into vehicles, games, and interactive environments.

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Cyanite

AI tagging and search that turns large music catalogues into instantly searchable assets.

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Cyanite

Cyanite is an AI music tagging and search company that helps music businesses make sense of their catalogues. Its platform automatically tags tracks by genre, mood, instrument, lyrical theme, and tempo, and powers similarity search and natural-language (free text) search so teams can find the right song in seconds. Founded in 2019 and trusted by publishers, production libraries, and distributors such as BMG and APM Music, Cyanite turns large music catalogues into searchable, recommendable assets.

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Neural Frames

Turn audio and lyrics into cinematic, AI-generated music videos in minutes.

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Neural Frames

A Berlin-based applied AI company building the next generation of music video creation. Its technology turns audio and lyrics into cinematic, style-controlled visuals, letting artists produce professional-quality music videos and social content in minutes rather than weeks. Founded in 2023, the company is bootstrapped, profitable, and generating over $5M in annual recurring revenue.

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Klangio

AI transcription that turns any recording into sheet music, MIDI, and tabs in seconds.

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Klangio

Klangio is a research-driven AI music transcription company that turns audio into notes. Within seconds it converts recordings, uploads, or YouTube links into sheet music, MIDI, guitar tabs, MusicXML, and GuitarPro files, using instrument-specific models that capture melody, chords, rhythm, and timing, including a Transcription Studio that handles multiple instruments at once. Based in Karlsruhe, Germany, Klangio offers dedicated tools such as Piano2Notes, Guitar2Tabs, and Sing2Notes for musicians, educators, and learners.

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Impulse Audio Lab

Custom real-time audio: plugins, apps, and automotive sound design from a Munich studio.

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Impulse Audio Lab

Impulse Audio Lab is a Munich-based studio that blends sound designers and software developers to create algorithms, plug-ins, and applications for real-time audio analysis, processing, and synthesis. The team is best known for its work in automotive sound design, including EV driving sounds and AVAS systems through its EVx platform, and also builds DSP-driven mobile apps, audio plugins, and cross-platform music tools for clients. Its focus is on tailor-made audio solutions wrapped in intuitive, design-led interfaces.

Location

Audimax, TUM Main Campus, Munich