Alex Jae Mitchell

Battle-tested brand builder & serial founder actualizing best-in-class technology products. [LinkedIn] [Instagram]

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Shameless Credentialism

Current

Founder & CEO, Boomy Corporation [Boomy]
New York Advisory Board, Little Kids Rock [Little Kids Rock]
Angel [AngelList]

2019 - Present

Boost VC Tribe 12 [Boost VC]
Launched boomy.com [Boomy] [Music Ally] [Axios]
Founded Boomy Corporation [Boomy]

2016 - 2018

Product Management Consultant at DotBC/Verifi Media
Product Management at ReverbNation [ReverbNation Corporate]
Sold Audiokite Research to ReverbNation [Forbes]

2013 - 2016

Built & co-founded Audiokite Research [Audiokite] [Wikipedia] [Crunchbase] [Passive Promotion] [Ari's Take]
Growth Marketing Consultant. Selected clients: Artiphon, Reflex Group, Shady Records / Goliath Artists, Krantz Media Group

2010 - 2013

Head of Product at Testing Mom [Testing Mom] [Wikipedia]
Built & co-founded hypetree music discovery platform [Pressparty] [Fordham Observer] [StumbleUpon for Dummies]
Graduated Fordham University

2007 - 2010

Musician (violin). Major performances: Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall [The Violin Site]

Press

The AI software that could turn you in to a music star [BBC] - January 10, 2022
Copyright power to the people: how AI music creation start-up Boomy could shake up the music industry [Screenshot Media] - August 26, 2021
AI startup Boomy looks to turn the music industry on its ear [Engadget] - August 22, 2021
ASCAP Lab highlights a quartet of early-stage music startups [TechCrunch] - July 28, 2021
Boomy's AI is making music way faster than humans, but it hasn't written any hits — yet [Protocol] - July 16, 2021
AI-made music startup Boomy launches [Axios] - May 12, 2021
No musical talent, no problem — there are now apps for that [The Conversation] - March 30, 2020
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Musicians? [Consequence of Sound] - February 17, 2020
Boomy talks AI music: ‘We want to make music that’s meaningful’ [Music Ally] - July 31, 2019
How artificial intelligence will do to music creation what Instagram did to photography [Water & Music] - July 29, 2019
Boomy will help people upload AI-made music to streaming services [Music Ally] - July 25, 2019
AI-music startup Boomy is ‘the magic instant music robot’ [Music Ally] - March 18, 2019
AI-music startup Boomy opens up its private beta [Music Ally] - March 7, 2019
Boomy is the latest startup using AI to create music [Music Ally] - January 2, 2019
ReverbNation Acquires AudioKite To Better Consumer Research For Musicians [Forbes] - November 4, 2016
ReverbNation Acquires User Review Site AudioKite [Music Business Worldwide] - November 4, 2016
2016 Taiwan Beats International Forum [Punchline Asia] - October 11, 2016
Musical Tastes Of Trump And Clinton Voters: Led Zeppelin Or Linkin Park? [Forbes] - September 6, 2016
Music Growth Talks 19: Market Research For Musicians [WeSpin] - November 7, 2014
The Dangers of Positive Thinking: Bursting the Music Industry Feedback Bubble [hypebot] - October 31, 2014

Speaking

2022 | UC Irivine
2022 | Georgia Tech
2022 | UC San Diego
2022 | Carnegie Mellon University
2022 | Stanford University
2021 | ASCAP NYC Media Lab Immersive Music Studio Challenge
2021 | WHO KNEW The Smartest People In The Room
2021 | New York University
2020 | MidemLab 2020
2020 | New York University, Guest Lecturer, Music Entrepreneurship
2020 | United States Copyright Office [Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence]
2020 | NY:LON Startup Pitch
2019 | House of Blues Music Forward Foundation
2019 | Music Tectonics LA
2019 | Music Biz Nashville
2019 | Boost VC Demo Day
2016 | New York University, Inaugural Mondo.nyc Conference
2016 | SF MusicTech Conference (winner, Innovators Challenge)
2016 | Taiwan Beats Taipei, Punchline Asia
2016 | Canadian Music Week Startup LaunchPad
2015 | General Assembly, BrandX Music Group
2015 | Startup Riot Atlanta
2014 | NY Music Tech Meetup
2014 | Georgetown University, Future Music Coalition
2014 | Digital Music NY
2014 | SXSW V2Venture
2014 | SXSW Startup Showcase

Ventures

Boomy Corporation | Founder & CEO

Boomy is the magic instant music robot.
Visit Boomy »

Audiokite Research | Co-founder & CEO

Audiokite helps music makers quantify answers to subjective questions about composition, promotion, and production by digitally surveying a panel of everyday music consumers. The platform streams songs and videos for a targeted sample of listeners and delivers feedback in a report. Audiokite reports are actively informing strategy for garage bands and major music companies alike. Audiokite was acquired by ReverbNation in 2016.

hypetree | Co-founder

hypetree, active from 2010-2013, was a new way to discover independent music and get exposure for songs and albums. The site was notable for attracting 200,000 hits in its first six days, and placed 11th in the 2013 Intel Innovators challenge.

Creative

Music

General [Show]

Introduction | 2013
Spike | 2013
Appalachia Waltz (w/ Hannah Thomas Hollands, Dan Small) | 2008
Interlude | 2011
You're Connected (w/ Guest) | 2012
'Adidas' (2011, Juilliard Scoring to Picture) | 2011