Fairphonic
Entrepreneur First '19Singapore, SG · Founded 2019 · 2 known investors
AI-powered music digital copyright detection and management platform.
Founders & leadership
Fairphonic was founded in 2019 by Tang Heng Yang and Majdi Rabia.
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Fairphonic (fairphonic.com) is a music technology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore. It develops an AI-based platform for detecting and managing digital music copyright, using audio fingerprinting to identify rights holders and to track where and how recordings are used across streaming and other music platforms. The output of that detection is intended to be validated royalty reporting that platforms can act on directly.
No public source documents retrieved for this profile discuss Fairphonic. The three documents fetched today cover unrelated subjects — post-acquisition startup shutdowns in software, telehealth, biotech, insurtech, freight and e-commerce; the collapse of audio hardware and music-software brands such as Native Instruments, Drop, Empire Ears and AURALiC; and Sony's PlayStation studio acquisitions. None of them mention Fairphonic, so no funding rounds, metrics, events, headcount, competitor set or third-party validation could be sourced. All substantive information in this profile therefore derives from internally held records rather than from the public web material supplied.
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- Startups That Got Acquired—Then Shut Down - Startup Wiredstartupwired.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Fairphonic do?
- Fairphonic is a Singapore-based company building AI audio-fingerprinting technology for music copyright detection and royalty tracking.
- Who founded Fairphonic?
- Fairphonic was founded by Tang Heng Yang, Majdi Rabia in 2019.
- Who are Fairphonic's investors?
- Fairphonic's investors include AVA Angels, Entrepreneur First.
- Where is Fairphonic headquartered?
- Fairphonic is headquartered in Singapore, SG.

