Startup Roundup: Orpheus Media Research announces Myna, XIPWIRE officially launches

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along with the Startup Roundup’s dedicated RSS feed. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

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Orpheus Media Research has announced Myna, its music marketplace search engine, which lets users upload a song—beit a long orchestrated piece or a two-bar guitar hook—and find similar matches based on parameters like mood and tempo. It’s designed for music buyers who are looking to connect, sans middle-man, with commercial composers. The engine looks extremely promising and as we’ve said before, we’re excited to see this one develop. As CTO Greg Wilder puts it in a press release, “after months of hard work, it was an absolutely incredible feeling to see Myna come to life, first hand.” In addition, OMR has received seed funding from two angel investors and it is still seeking strategic partnerships.

Watch a video preview of Myna, in all its slickness, after the jump.

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Startup roundup: P’unk Ave launching Apostrophe 1.0 CMS, Clio possible “household name” backing, Proton saves BP $3.7m

Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

DEFINITE READS

P’unk Ave will launch the first version of its open-source Apostrophe content management system on Wednesday. The developer says that the CMS has been used for several of its clients, including Duke University, Kiberton Waldorf School and the Environmental Management Assistance Program. We’ve wrote about the CMS in this roundup before, and after talks with co-founder Geoff DiMasi, we think the team is playing its release pretty low-key for the quality of the product. It might be DiMasi’s punk rock roots—ask him about seeing Fugazi back in the day.

Orpheus Media Research, developer of music analysis tool Clio, says in an to Technically Philly that after reaching out to investors with its full business plan, the new company has been “aggressive in reaching out to major industry players,” and is in partnership talks with two large content partners and three “household name” corporations for technology and funding. Additionally, after reducing its funding requirements, it is now seeking private equity partnerships with angel firms as opposed to venture capital. Get on that, investors.

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Orpheus Media Research seeks funding for Clio, music analysis tool

A team of developers located in Old City’s Independents Hall is seeking an initial round of funding for their music composition search engine.

After launching an online pre-alpha beta and graduating from the Wharton Business Development Program late last year, Orpheus Media Research—which is developing Clio, a content-based music search engine—is inviting investors to review its business plan.

The investment would be used to hire developers, protect intellectual property and market and support Clio. The group made the announcement in an e-mail to Technically Philly last week, after it decided that funding was the best next step.

“For a couple weeks there, we had to press pause and figure out what was going to be the most flexible development path,” Founder and Chief Science Officer Dr. Greg Wilder said in a telephone interview.

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Shop Talk: Orpheus Media Research music analysis tool Clio

Dr. Greg Wilder says that he’s created software that can dissect and analyze music so deeply and powerfully that music copyright litigation, discovery and automated composition will experience a paradigm shift.

He’s beaten researchers at MIT and Stanford who have been researching similar technologies for years, he says. And he was able to beat them because they’re computer scientists with an interest in music.

He, on the other hand, is a classically trained musician with an interest in computer science.

Wilder, who is the co-founder and chief science officer of Orpheus Media Research, received his piano performance and composition doctorate from Eastman School of Music, a top nationally-ranked music conservatory in Rochester, New York. He says he’s been playing piano since he was three.

“I spoke music before I spoke English,” he says. “Computer stuff, at this point, is out there for the taking. The music stuff is not.”

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