ROLI, the London-based music creation startup, has acquired Blend, a rapidly growing music collaboration platform founded at New York startup studio betaworks. This announcement comes less than a year after ROLI announced its acquisition of JUCE, a C++ framework for cross-platform audio development.
Roland Lamb, Founder and CEO of ROLI, said, “At ROLI, we are passionate about delivering the best possible experiences for music creators. Many aspects of music making have remained fractured and poorly integrated, in part because few companies have been in a position to innovate across a complex chain of different disciplines and product categories. We’re tremendously excited to see Blend join ROLI and can’t wait to work together to build a fundamentally more connected music creation ecosystem.”
Blend gives music creators the ability to share their projects in source format, enabling them to collaborate, remix and engage with others in the global community. ROLI will open its first U.S. office in betaworks’s studios in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to support its global market expansion.