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Auribus Music
Techstars '24Oakland, US · Founded 2021 · 1 known investors
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Auribus builds ethical voice technology for music production that uses licensed vocal recordings and compensates artists. It serves producers, composers, and content teams requiring high-quality voice outcomes with clear licensing terms and artist rights protection.
Also known as Auribus · Auribus Music Corp. · Voice by Auribus
Founders & leadership
Auribus Music was founded in 2021 by Juan Elias.
Investors · 1
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Auribus Music Corp. (operating as Auribus) is a music technology company headquartered in Oakland, California. It develops two products for audio professionals. Voice is an AI vocal transformation tool, distributed in part as a DAW plugin, that lets producers convert or generate vocal lines using a catalog of voice models built from recordings of real singers; the company states that every artist in the catalog is licensed, credited and compensated, and that it trains its own base models on data sourced and licensed directly from artists with support from open-source speech datasets such as the CSTR VCTK Corpus and a Hi-Fi Multi-Speaker English TTS dataset.
The second product, Notes, is a collaborative review and approval system for audio work. It replaces unstructured written or emailed feedback with sample-accurate timestamped comments anchored to a waveform, version and revision history, approval receipts, a Kanban board, task sessions and one-click feedback addressing, and is available on desktop and mobile. The company positions the two tools as addressing the vocal-sourcing and the review/sign-off stages of an audio workflow.
A private-market data profile classifies the company under media, entertainment and gaming, with verticals spanning content creation, the creator economy, conversational AI/NLP and subscription commerce, and characterises it as an application-layer AI business selling primarily to individual creators.
Business model
Auribus sells access to its tools on a subscription basis, with free trials for both Voice and Notes and bundled plans combining the two: Creator at $15 per month (Voice Standard plus Notes Standard) and Pro at $25 per month (upgrading Voice to Premium). Voice subscribers receive a fixed allotment of monthly "upload minutes" that can be redeemed for downloads of vocals; previewing and saving vocals without downloading generally does not consume credits, and redeemed vocals can be re-downloaded without additional credits while a subscription remains active. Vocals are licensed rather than sold, with a non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual right to use them in combination with other sounds in new recordings. Third-party categorisation describes the model as B2C subscription SaaS with freemium, usage-based and revenue-share elements.
Recurring subscription revenue from individual and team plans for Voice and Notes, including bundled tiers at $15 and $25 per month, with usage metered through monthly upload minutes/credits; artists whose voice models are used are compensated, described elsewhere as a royalty-based revenue share.
Traction
A private-market data provider recorded monthly website visitors growing to approximately 2,400 in July 2025 (reported as a 3,329% month-over-month increase) and headcount doubling from three to six employees quarter-over-quarter as of May 2025. The company publishes numerous named testimonials from professional producers, mixers, engineers and composers.
Latest developments
The company's site, carrying a 2026 copyright, markets Voice alongside a second product, Notes, an audio review and approval tool with timestamped comments, version history and approval receipts, offered in combined Creator and Pro subscription bundles.
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Market position
Auribus operates in the AI vocal tools and creator-tools segment of music technology; comparables identified by a private-market data provider include Voice-Swap, Myvox and Revocalize AI. Public testimonials on the company's site come from producers, mixers and engineers with major-label and broadcast credits, including Andrew Huang, James Reynolds, Alan Branch, Pete Martin and a studio manager at Atlantic Records, indicating early adoption among professional practitioners.
The company frames licensing and artist compensation as a founding design constraint rather than an add-on: every voice model is drawn from a licensed singer who is credited and paid for use, and the user-facing terms set out explicit ownership and licensing conditions for generated vocals. Combining an ethically licensed vocal generation tool with a structured audio review and approval product in a single subscription is the company's stated positioning, contrasted with unstructured feedback workflows and with voice tools that do not license their source recordings.
Technology
The Voice product performs AI voice conversion and generation, offering selectable singers, octaves and harmonies and drag-and-drop operation inside a plugin workflow. The company states it creates its own custom base models using data sourced and licensed directly from artists, supplemented by open-source datasets including the CSTR VCTK Corpus (University of Edinburgh) and a Hi-Fi Multi-Speaker English TTS dataset. Notes provides sample-accurate timestamped commenting against a waveform, version history, approval receipts, Kanban-style task management and desktop and mobile clients. The service uses standard web infrastructure components such as AWS Cognito for authentication.
Go-to-market
Distribution is direct through the company's website with free trials for both products, self-serve subscription sign-up and tiered bundle pricing, supported by a plugin that fits into existing DAW sessions. Marketing leans on endorsements from working producers, mixers and composers, an artist roster page, a blog and a YouTube channel.
Music producers, engineers, songwriters and composers who need vocals during a session, plus podcast editors, sound designers and audio post-production houses managing multiple clients, deliverables and revision rounds.
Geography
Headquartered in Oakland, California, United States, with products delivered online; the user terms specify New York law and a US-based corporate entity, Auribus Music Corp.
History
The company was founded in 2021. Its terms of use carry an effective date of August 22, 2023 and a last-updated date of August 22, 2024, indicating the service was operating publicly by 2023. A market-data profile records an accelerator-stage funding event on September 8, 2024 associated with Techstars and JPMorgan Chase & Co. By 2025 the company reported growth from three to six employees, and by 2026 its website presented two products, Voice and Notes, sold individually and in bundles.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsThe company website presents Voice, an ethical AI vocal tool connecting producers to licensed singers, and Notes, an audio review system with timestamped comments, version history and approval receipts, available together in Creator ($15/mo) and Pro ($25/mo) bundles.
A market-data profile records an accelerator-stage funding event dated September 8, 2024, associating Techstars and JPMorgan Chase & Co. with the company, and lists total funding raised of $20,000.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Auribus Music do?
- Auribus Music builds licensed AI vocal tools and a timestamped audio review system for music and audio production teams.
- Who founded Auribus Music?
- Auribus Music was founded by Juan Elias in 2021.
- Who are Auribus Music's investors?
- Auribus Music's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Auribus Music headquartered?
- Auribus Music is headquartered in Oakland, US.