Finnish startup Pibox raises funding for remote collaboration solution for audio content
Pibox is a centralized/all-in-one remote collaboration solution developed for working with creative collaboration. It is used daily by the head of a production, music producers, managers and sound engineers. Now, Pibox has raised € 150,000 in funding from the Pitchdrive fund and several angel investors.
Pibox was launched in 2018. The solution first raised interest among music producers, sound technicians and recording studios, after which major media technology companies (Universal Music and Epidemic Sound) partnered with Pibox. Currently, it is still geared towards audio content collaboration, but Pibox has also sparked interest among video content creators. Pibox have now raised € 150,000 in funding, of which € 100,000 comes from the Pitchdrive fund developed by the founders of the Rydoo app. Other members of the financing round are angel investors and include Kaspar Hanni (angel investor, Ballpark Ventures (member), Estonian Business Angels Network, Ekspress Grupp AS (board member)), Roman Nováček: (angel Investor, Presto Ventures (partner)) and Oleksandr Sazonov (angel Investor, Competera Pricing Platform (Founder / CFO))
Pibox transforms creative collaboration
Pibox is changing the way of collaboration creatively by combining the most popular communication features with creative technology. The solution is user-friendly, as it combines a professional workflow with the ease of use of everyday and popular applications. When an audio track is loaded into the Pibox, its visualized waveform can be commented on, highlighted, and marked with problems in mixing, for example. Pibox stores mix version history that can be utilized in projects that require multiple versions. Comments appear in the to-do lists of team members. All in all, the Pibox software includes team chat, cloud storage, project management and rich content collaboration.
Watch the video “Pibox – smart way to organize audio collaboration” to understand all the possibilities of Pibox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Finnish and Ukrainian roots
Pibox is a Finnish company with teams located in Helsinki and Ukraine. The founders of the company are brothers Ivan (musician) and Pavlo (designer, creative art director). The CEO Ivan Talaychuk has previously worked as a music producer when he noticed challenges in online collaboration processes. The Talaychuk brothers then visited Nashville recording studios and record companies to map out their customers ‘problems. Previously, Pibox was involved in the Startup Wise Guys and Accelerace Soundtech acceleration programs.
