SoundCloud
SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to distribution channels such as Twitter or Facebook. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as through the hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform. Users of SoundCloud range from musicians from major and independent labels, journalists from publications like the Economist and book publishers like Penguin Books.
Doughty Hanson Technology ventures invested €2.5m in April 2009, when the service had 100,000 users. The Company has experienced exponential growth since then and had over 9 million users as of November 2011.
Soundcloud is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.