{"id":2166918,"date":"2025-11-19T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2166918"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:52:22","slug":"ai-music-company-suno-valued-at-2-45-billion-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ai-music-company-suno-valued-at-2-45-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"AI music company Suno valued at $2.45 billion in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Suno said on Wednesday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the artificial intelligence music company at $2.45 billion, as it aims to develop more sophisticated tools for song creation.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts-based company allows users to generate songs via AI prompts, but has been caught in a copyright dispute with record labels such as Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Group.<\/p>\n<p>Suno&#8217;s series C funding round also saw participation from Nvidia&#8217;s venture capital arm NVentures, Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, and Matrix.<\/p>\n<p>The music industry is seeing an increase in AI-generated songs which are hard to distinguish from human-made music. The trend was highlighted earlier this year when the AI band &#8220;The Velvet Sundown&#8221; had attracted one million Spotify listeners monthly.<\/p>\n<p>The trend could reshape how platforms monetize songs and pay artists, while raising ethical and copyright concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In just two years, we&#8217;ve seen millions of people make their ideas a reality through Suno, from first-time creators to top songwriters and producers integrating the tool into their daily workflows,&#8221; Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman said.<\/p>\n<p>Rising popularity of AI tools is drawing investor attention toward startups that can generate new content and revenue lines.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Universal Music Group settled a copyright case with another AI music company Udio. The two companies plan to launch an AI-powered music creation platform in 2026, using licensed music to train the tool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.channelnewsasia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suno said on Wednesday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the artificial intelligence music company at $2.45 billion, as it aims to develop more sophisticated tools for song creation. The Massachusetts-based company allows users to generate songs via AI prompts, but has been caught in a copyright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-music-company-Suno-valued-at-245-billion-in-latest.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166920,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166918\/revisions\/2166920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}