Rockbot

Media streaming for businesses

Rockbot logo
21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Music
  • Content
  • Digital Media
Downtown, Oakland, CA

Company mission

To simply and reliably stream the right media to make a guest's experience great.

Top investors

29% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Background music is almost designed not to be noticed, but it's often the difference between a beautiful ambience and a bad experience. While businesses of all types have long appreciated this, getting it right isn't easy, and music and announcements can easily become repetitive or discordant, leading to a poor brand experience. Rockbot exists to make getting the mood right easy with a tech-first music and content jukebox for businesses of all sizes.

Found in 2009, Rockbot started out in small bars and restaurants as a way for companies to monetize their sound systems, but has siunce expanded into a solution for all businesses who want to manage their brand image. With a library of 16 million songs, a system for delivering branded messaging within the music and a centralized digital signage and TV content system all controlled from a single dash, it replaces a plethora of other services such as Pandora Business and set-top box broadcasters with a cheaper and simpler alternative.

Rockbot has grown a large client base of enterprise companies such as McDonalds, Neiman Marcus and Panera Bread, and is continuing to further develop its product range. It is primarily taking aim at pay TV operators, taking advantage of the proliferation of cheap widescreen displays to disrupt their pay-per-screen charging model and capture a good chunk of their market share.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Great healthcare (100% paid for employees/30% for dependents)
  • 401k plan
  • Equity
  • Enerous paid family leave
  • National flexible office space membership
  • Unlimited vacation

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2015

$2.7m

SERIES A

Aug 2014

$1.2m

SEED

Total funding: $5.1m

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Leadership

Was previously Co-Founder & CEO of Appetyte. Was also Director of Marketing for Utopy and Marketing Manager at Rearden Commerce.

Was also Co-Founder & CTO of Fido Factor. Before that was a Software Engineeer for CNET Networks, Visual Concepts and Rotten Tomatoes.