Music games company JoyTunes has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by Genesis Partners and with the participation of former Steinway CEO Dana Messina, Founder Collective, Kaedan Capital, Yahoo’s Creative Innovation center head Eran Shir, Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and angel investors including Zohar Gilon.
JoyTunes has developed interactive video games controlled by regular instruments, helping children and adults to learn to play real music on real instruments. Our unique patent-pending technology dramatically increases the motivation to practice and shortens the learning process for millions of music lovers.
The company also announced that it has launched Piano Mania, its new piano practice app for iOS, following on from the success of its first piano playing app, Piano Dust Buster.
Founded in 2010 by CEO Yuval Kaminka, content director Yigal Kaminka and CTO Roey Izkovsky, JoyTunes has set out to alter the way people practice piano playing, and teach the playing of musical instrument by transforming musical skills into engaging games activated by real instruments.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on May 5, 2013
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