About SoundBetter
SoundBetter is the world’s leading music production marketplace, helping musicians worldwide connect and hire top music pros so they can get to great-sounding release-ready songs.
With hundreds of thousands of professional Singers, Producers, Songwriters, Session Musicians and Mixing & Mastering Engineers, including dozens of Grammy award winners, SoundBetter has the most comprehensive database of vetted music production pros for direct hire in the world.
Musicians can discover and securely hire the right pro based on specialty, budget, genre, credits, reviews and sound samples.
Do you want to work with Kanye West’s Producer, Billie Eilish's Drummer, Jamiroquai’s Guitarist, Beyonce’s Songwriter, Joe Cocker’s Bass player, Morrissey’s Guitarist, or Foo Fighters’ Mixing Engineer,?
You can do that on SoundBetter.
Music production pros can join thousands of others around the world getting work from SoundBetter. SoundBetter has delivered over $80M to creative professionals on the platform thus far.
Our mission is to democratize the last mile musicians needed democratizing, while helping pros get work remotely. We aim to increase transparency through verified reviews and to help the big and growing market of self-producing musicians connect securely with the right partners from anywhere in the world.
SoundBetter was acquired by Spotify in 2019 and then acquired back by its original founders in 2021.
Founding team
Shachar Gilad
CEO
Shachar is a tech and marketing professional with a background as a musician, music producer and audio engineer. Before founding SoundBetter Shachar was Director of Product Marketing at Grammy Award winning Waves Audio where he helped conceive, develop and market software tools for hundreds of thousands of musicians and audio engineers worldwide. He worked with the Product Marketing team at Apple in Cupertino on their creative apps suite including Logic and Soundtrack Pro. His music production tutorial videos have millions of views on YouTube. He is a regular guest lecturer at MBA programs and Startup Accelerators on topics ranging from Product Marketing, Growth, Entrepreneurship and MusicTech.
Itamar Yunger
CTO
Itamar is SoundBetter's Chief Technology Officer. He's an experienced full-stack Ruby programmer, having led development at several startups. Itamar single-handedly built the SoundBetter marketplace which serves tens-of-thousands of happy users and securely enables millions of dollars in transactions. He has experience with Ruby, Rails, Database Management, Devops, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Digital Marketing, with a deep understanding of product development cycles and a practical business approach. Itamar is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The City College of New York, where he lectures and mentor students about software development, Digital Marketing, Growth and Entrepreneurship.
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