Revelator raises $2.5M to build a business platform for digital music
Bruno Guez has spent decades in the music business — he hosted a show on public radio, founded Quango Music Group and even worked as the creative director of music at Cirque de Soleil.
Bruno Guez has spent decades in the music business — he hosted a show on public radio, founded Quango Music Group and even worked as the creative director of music at Cirque de Soleil. Over that time, he said he’s watched as changes in the music industry outpaced the tools available to artists and labels.
“There were no modern platforms for the B2B segment of the market,” Guez told me. “It was really very antiquated, with record labels and distributors … not integrating with cloud services to manage their assets.”
Revelator says that customers simply upload their music to the system, then Revelator allows them to make their songs available on digital stores and via services like Spotify and Apple Music. It also offers tools for marketing and analytics — Guez argued that one of the product’s main advantages lies in the data.
For example, he said that thanks to Revelator, Boston radio station WBUR can now track each time music gets played in a podcast and then compensate the musicians and labels fairly.