Moises founders

Market position

Positions itself as a creative suite for musicians spanning practice, performance and production. Recognition cited includes Apple's iPad App of the Year (2024), finalist status in the 2025 Apple Design Awards, a Google Play Best App of the Year award for Personal Growth, and a 2025 Microsoft Store Award for Best Music App [0].

Combines analysis and practice tools (separation, chord finder, speed changer, lyric transcription) with generative stem and vocal creation in a single cross-platform suite, and states a licensing-only training policy under which user-uploaded material is never used for model training [0].

Technology

AI models for source separation and music information retrieval, covering stem isolation, pitch and chord detection, tempo detection and change, lyric transcription and mastering. Generative components produce context-aware stems and synthetic vocal performances modeled from real singers. The initial separation model was built on a 2020 research paper published by Deezer describing a user-friendly approach to splitting tracks; the company states models are trained only on licensed materials [0][1][2].

Go-to-market

Direct-to-consumer distribution through the web app and the Apple App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store and a desktop download, supported by artist endorsements and creator/social content. The product originally reached users through a Product Hunt launch, which placed it in the site's top five and drove more than 50,000 users within roughly a month [0][1].

Musicians and music learners — practicing and performing instrumentalists, vocalists and producers — as well as educational institutions; the company cites use by Grammy-winning artists and by Berklee College of Music, and describes use cases spanning practice, study, teaching and playing [0][2].

Geography

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a globally distributed user base and applications distributed through international app stores; the founder's earlier ventures were based in Brazil [1][2].

History

Ramos was born in Recife, Brazil and raised in Joao Pessoa, learning to program as a child. At 16 he co-founded a web hosting company with a high school friend; it grew to 15-20 employees over about ten years before being sold in 2007. He then ran a development shop building projects for third parties, including internal products for IBM and Brazilian newspapers, while pursuing internal products such as Twitcast.me, a live-streaming competitor to Twitter's TweetCam that reached close to one million users before shutting down for lack of capital and market saturation. After relocating to New York, he founded Hackhands, a marketplace connecting developers with other developers for real-time help; it raised a seed round from a San Francisco firm, moved the team to California, raised additional capital, and was acquired by Pluralsight in 2015, after which the team relocated to Salt Lake City. Moises followed as his next startup. Secondary-market data lists the company as founded in 2019 [1][2].