If you have kids, you’ve probably noticed they often sing to themselves before falling asleep or while playing with their favorite toys. They make instruments out of everything they can get their hands on, from spoons to shoes to empty water bottles. My three-year-old recently draped a canvas tote over his back, pretending to play the tuba!

As adults, we don’t really do that anymore. Somewhere along the road, we lost some of the joy of making music. A few of us grow up to be Real Musicians, with the requisite training or innate skill, while the rest of us come to understand that our place is to sit quietly in the audience and enjoy the show.

We started Suno to build a future where anyone can make music. To help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration we had as kids. Technology is a means to that end, and today’s state-of-the-art creates the potential for a flourishing of new sounds, new styles, and new artists in a way we’ve always dreamt about.

We released our first product eight months ago, enabling anyone to make a song with just a simple idea. It’s very early days, but 10 million people have already made music using Suno. While GRAMMY-winning artists use Suno, our core user base consists of everyday people making music — often for the first time.

We’ve seen producers crate digging, friends exchanging memes and streamers co-creating songs with stadium-sized audiences. We’ve helped an artist who lost his voice bring his lyrics back to life again after decades on the sidelines. We’ve seen teachers ignite their students’ imaginations by transforming lessons into lyrics and stories into songs. Just this past weekend, we received heartwarming stories of mothers moved to tears by songs their loved ones created for them with a little help from Suno.

Today, we are excited to announce we’ve raised $125 million to build a future of music where technology amplifies, rather than replaces, our most precious resource: human creativity. We have an incredible group of partners, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Matrix and Founder Collective. We are working closely with a team of trusted advisors we have long admired to help us make this vision a reality, including 3LAU, Aaron Levie, Alexandr Wang, Amjad Masad, Andrej Karpathy, Aravind Srinivas, Brendan Iribe, Flosstradamus, Fred Ehrsam, Guillermo Rauch and Shane Mac.

We will use this funding to accelerate product development and grow our team of music makers, music lovers and technologists. Our community of musicians deserves the very best tools, and building the very best tools requires the very best talent — not just technological expertise, but a genuine love of music.

If you want to be part of this journey and help shape the future of music, join us.

Finally, I would like to thank our amazing community. We have been heads-down, hard at work on a number of major updates. We think you’re going to love them, and we look forward to sharing more with you over the coming weeks.


Stay tuned,

Mikey

Co-Founder & CEO, Suno