AudioDraft: Garage Homeboys Go Public

One of the first Aaltoes startups, AudioDraft, is living an exciting summer at Aalto Venture Garage: the four founders just released their long-awaited Audio Sourcing service -a web-based tool that enables companies to bid on the collaborative audio projects created by AudioDraft’s users, the artists that create music with the Social Audio Sketching Tool. This application in turn is a sketching board helping artists develop their audio productions further with the help of the community

AudioDraft is essentially a win-win game for all parties:

This web service brings audio sourcing available for everyone; Any company or individual can order custom-made audio from a community consisting of artists and audio designers.

At the other end of the spectrum, for the creative community, AudioDraft offers free tools to collaborate and manage audio productions. Furthermore, sourcing contests in AudioDraft can create opportunities for artists by gaining visibility and potentially earning money.

AudioDraft’s team and product have already managed to convince the upper echelons of Aalto as well; “Finland has a long tradition of collaborative teamwork starting from the Talkoot spirit leading to the creation of well-known open source projects like Linux and MySQL. AudioDraft is applying same collaborative principles to the business of audio production” remarks Will Cardwell, the Head of Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Interestingly, the origins of AudioDraft date back to an Aalto University course on multimedia production and the idea was further developed during another course on concept building and script development. AudioDraft is thus an excellent example of the new entrepreneurial spirit waltzing thru the University. We here at Aaltoes for one are immensely proud of our resident audio geeks!

For more info visit www.audiodraft.com, become a fan on Facebook, follow them on Twitter or come and say “hi” to the boys at their Garage office.

AudioDraft's Kimmo and Teemu smiling away last week at the Garage