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wahwah.fm is a location based music app that allows you to broadcast music and listen in real time to what other users are listening to.
wahwah.fm was founded in 2010 by Philipp Eibach. It has seven employees and is based in Berlin-Neukoelln, Germany.
Berlin, Germany. Award winning music start-up wahwah.fm has today released its iPhone app to the American market, allowing everyone to become a live, broadcasting radio station. The app is now available in both the USA and Germany and is planned to become available in additional European countries in the near future.
After a successful release to the German market, wahwah.fm is now also available for music lovers from the United States for free download. The revolutionary app gives users, artists and brands the ability to set up their own radio stations, put together playlists and broadcast them in real time to others, creating a unique shared listening experience and a new way of interacting around music. Everyone has the freedom to set up a channel, choose their songs and go on air.
wahwah.fm has excited industry experts and the media across the globe since arriving on the scene in June 2011. Featured in media titles such as the BBC and leading publications The New York Times and Germany's Spiegel Online, it has already been described as a "Foursquare for sound" by TechCrunch Europe and "an exciting tool" on ARTE.
Reaching the iTunes App Store recommendation page within 4 days only from its German release date, wahwah.fm was also voted recently as one of the top ten most promising start-ups in Germany by both Zehn.de and Computerbild.de. The young start-up has already been through a successful pre-version phase that allowed people to source music from their SoundCloud accounts.
The full version now enables music fans to source tunes from their own local iPhone libraries and share their broadcast with their Facebook friends. This is the first exciting step in creating a perfect, seamless experience – incomparable to any other music service.
wahwah.fm is a unique and challenging project and as such it involves the permission of different and varied music interests to ensure its legality. The company is proud of the agreements it has reached with numerous labels and collection societies such as the German GEMA and the American Sound Exchange amongst others. wahwah.fm is now in the process of finalizing agreements with a few remaining labels and is on the way to creating the most comprehensive music catalogue possible for the user.
With the backing of venture capital firm Hasso Plattner Ventures, wahwah.fm is planning on expanding into further territories in 2012. "We are thrilled to release now wahwah.fm to the very important USA market and greet all the new fans." says CEO & Founder of wahwah.fm Philipp Eibach. "Afterward we will continue to France and Great Britain where we already have a solid and loyal fan base awaiting the release. This is a very exciting time for us."
About wahwah.fm
CEO and founder Philipp Eibach founded wahwah.fm in July 2010. wahwah.fm ONE was initially released in July of 2011, it was then followed up with top honors at the Next Elevator Awards. The only start-up based in Neukoelln, is now a small group namely 9 music lovers all working together to reshape the way people broadcast, share and connect.
About Hasso Plattner Ventures
Founded on July 1st 2005 in the German city of Potsdam, Hasso Plattner Ventures has set out to support young entrepreneurs with the successful transformation of their ideas into marketable products. Hasso Plattner Ventures' aim is not only to finance but also to coach top entrepreneurs in designing and executing successful business models. SAP co-founder Prof. Hasso Plattner provided the lion share of this investment capital and along with Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg, CMEA Capital and investors Shai Agassi and Arnon Katz has created the two HPV Europe funds.
To date Hasso Plattner Ventures has invested in 25 companies in the field of IT, at early or expansion stage, within Germany, throughout Europe and Israel and successfully exited three (including one IPO).
Berlin, Germany. Award winning music start-up wahwah.fm has today released its iPhone app, allowing everyone to become a live, broadcasting radio station. The app is now available in Germany and is planned to become available in the US in the following weeks.
After a successful closed beta testing period wahwah.fm is now available for music lovers from across the globe for free download. The revolutionary app gives artists, private users and brands the ability to set up their own playlists and share them in real time with others, creating a unique listening experience and a new way of interacting around music. Everyone has the freedom to set up a channel, choose their songs and go on air.
wahwah.fm has excited industry experts and the media across the globe since arriving on the scene in June 2011. Featured in media titles such as the BBC and leading publications The New York Times and Germany's Spiegel Online, it has already been described as a "Foursquare for sound" by TechCrunch and "an exciting tool" by ARTE.
Recently announced as one of the top ten most promising start-ups in the country by both Zehn.de and Computerbild.de, wahwah.fm has already been through a successful pre-version phase that allowed people to source music from their SoundCloud accounts.
The full version now enables music fans to source tunes from their own local iPhone libraries and share their broadcast with their Facebook friends. This is the first exciting step in creating a perfect, seamless experience – unique to wahwah.fm.
With the backing of venture capital firm Hasso Plattner Ventures, wahwah.fm is planning on expanding into further territories in 2012. "The next step on our roadmap is the very important US market, which will coincide with us previewing wahwah.fm at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin this March" says CEO & Founder of wahwah.fm Philipp Eibach. "Afterward we will continue with France and Great Britain where we already have a solid and loyal fan base awaiting its release. This is a very exciting time for us."
About wahwah.fm
wahwah.fm was founded in October 2010 by Philipp Eibach. A pre-version called wahwah.fm ONE was released in June 2011, and was immediately crowned with top honours at the 2011 Next Elevator Awards. Based at the heart of the new start-up capital Berlin, wahwah.fm is made of a small group of seven music lovers, all working together to reshape the way people connect through music.
About Hasso Plattner Ventures
Founded on July 1st 2005 in the German city of Potsdam, Hasso Plattner Ventures has set out to support young entrepreneurs with the successful transformation of their ideas into marketable products. Hasso Plattner Ventures' aim is not only to finance but also to coach top entrepreneurs in designing and executing successful business models. SAP co-founder Prof. Hasso Plattner provided the lion share of this investment capital and along with Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg, CMEA Capital and investors Shai Agassi and Arnon Katz has created the two HPV Europe funds.
To date Hasso Plattner Ventures has invested in 25 companies in the field of IT, at early or expansion stage, within Germany, throughout Europe and Israel and successfully exited three (including one IPO).
Award winning music startup wahwah.fm has announced today it completed a new round of funding led by Hasso Plattner Ventures. It will enable the Berlin based company to further improve its product and expand internationally.
wahwah.fm has excited industry spectators and the media across the globe since arriving on the scene in July 2011. The app allows for every iPhone holder to create their own radio station and broadcast their music wherever they are in the world, whilst at the same time allowing for other users to tune in, in real time.
Founded in October 2010, wahwah.fm went through a successful pre-version phase that allowed people to source music from SoundCloud. The full version coming out within the following weeks will enable music fans to source music from their own local iPhone libraries. This is a huge step forward as it allowing for a much more enhanced experience.
Recently announced as one of the top ten most promising start-ups in the country by Zehn.de wahwah.fm is intent on creating a revolutionary new way of socializing around music. The company has already secured all the necessary licensing agreements so that the user experience is legal.
"We welcome HPV and are very happy to have them on board with us," said CEO & Founder of wahwah.fm Philipp Eibach. "Their experience is invaluable and we are confident that together we could take wahwah.fm to the next level." HPV, based in the Berlin outskirts, will be hand in hand helping wahwah.fm both in terms of providing know-how and consulting in order to move forward developing the app.
"HPV highly believes in the unique value proposition of wahwah.fm in the highly competitive music start up scene, and continues to support innovative start up companies in the Berlin Brandenburg area. We are excited about collaborating with Phillip and the wahwah.fm team and will help them in becoming a global success" says Managing Partner Eran Davidson.
About wahwah.fm
CEO and founder Philipp Eibach founded wahwah.fm in July 2010. wahwah.fm ONE was initially released in July of 2011, it was then followed up with top honors at the Next Elevator Awards. The only start-up based in Neukoelln, is now a small group namely 9 music lovers all working together to reshape the way people broadcast, share and connect.
About Hasso Plattner Ventures
Founded on July 1st 2005 in the German city of Potsdam, Hasso Plattner Ventures has set out to support young entrepreneurs with the successful transformation of their ideas into marketable products. Hasso Plattner Ventures' aim is not only to finance but also to coach top entrepreneurs in designing and executing successful business models. SAP co-founder Prof. Hasso Plattner provided the lion share of this investment capital and along with Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg, CMEA Capital and investors Shai Agassi and Arnon Katz has created the two HPV Europe funds.
To date Hasso Plattner Ventures has invested in 25 companies in the field of IT, at early or expansion stage, within Germany, throughout Europe and Israel and successfully exited three (including one IPO).
For more information on wahwah.fm please contact our Head of Communication Ari Stein at ari@wahwah.fm or go to www.wahwah.fm
Innovative location based music app goes live.
Berlin based startup has announced the unveiling of its app's first version called wahwah.fm ONE. The app is now available in the Apple App Store worldwide. For this first version, wahwah.fm has decided to focus on the audio distribution platform SoundCloud as its music source. SoundCloud is an efficient tool to pick songs and make playlists from.
Founder Philipp Eibach elaborated on the release of wahwah.fm ONE: "We are genuinely excited about wahwah.fm ONE, the first step in allowing people a fully integrated mobile music experience. In our upcoming release, later this year, you will also be able to pick from other sources of music including your iPhone library." Described by TechCrunch as a "Foursquare for sound", the app has already won several awards this year, including the Next Conference Elevator prize in Berlin and top honors at this years Mobile Premier Awards in Barcelona.
About wahwah.fm
wahwah.fm is a young startup from Berlin that was founded by Philipp Eibach in December, 2010. The team at wahwah.fm is aiming to allow music lovers across the world to enjoy a connected listening experience, in real time. In turn, each person that uses wahwah.fm can become a walking radio station.
For more information on wahwah.fm please contact our Head of Communication Ari Stein at ari@wahwah.fm or go to www.wahwah.fm
High praise has followed wahwah.fm after taking top honours at this year's Next Elevator Awards in Berlin. Out of twelve start-up finalists such as the up-and-coming egoArchive & Halalati, wahwah.fm walked off stage with first prize that also includes a scholarship for one semester at the prestigious Founder Institute Berlin plus an invaluable 24-hour SEO workshop with Hanse Ventures.
With all attention aside, wahwah.fm has been working extra hard to take its first step into the public arena with wahwah.fm ONE. It's called wahwah.fm ONE as this will be the first taste-test with the public, only available for a limited time. wahwah.fm will launch its full version later on in the year. The lead up will be to our full complete version ready for a late 2011 release.
"We're really excited about the forthcoming release of wahwah.fm ONE. Just weeks away from Apple's final authorization, we will then be able to see it in the app store. Fingers crossed, this should take no more than a few weeks", Philipp Eibach, Founder.
For more information please contact:
Ari Stein
Head of Communication
ari@wahwah.fm
Facts about wahwah.fm:
Company: Disco Volante UG
Staff: 9
Date of birth: December, 2010
In development since: 10 months
Location: Neukölln, Berlin
Founder: Philipp Eibach
http://www.wahwah.fm
For press inquiries please contact:
Ari Stein, Head of Communications
ari@wahwah.fm
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