LANDR was founded in Montreal in 2012 by Pascal Pilon, Justin Evans, Yannick Gouez and Stuart Mansbridge, commercializing research on intelligent audio mastering. It became the category-defining AI mastering service and has since expanded into a full creator platform used by millions of musicians.
Platform
LANDR's AI mastering delivers studio-quality masters in the browser or as a DAW plugin. Around it sits music distribution to 150+ streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and TikTok, a library of over 3 million royalty-free samples, 70+ plugins and production tools, stem separation and vocal enhancement, 200+ music courses, and collaboration and hiring marketplace features. The company also acquired Reason Studios, the Stockholm DAW maker, extending it into full music production software.
Funding
LANDR has raised multiple rounds, headlined by a $26M Series B in July 2019 led by Sony Innovation Fund, Shure, Investissement Québec and Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with Warner Music among participants. As one of the earliest AI creative-audio successes, it remains the benchmark that newer AI mastering and music tools are measured against.