This press release entered the mailbox of our editorial room when we discussed internally with the team that the production of high quality video content could go beyond our capacities at the moment. Even if people download more and more videos on their Instagram, Facebook, YouTubes or Tiktoks, we still hear strange echoes in vlogs and watch videos of crowdfunding campaign that sounds like home recordings of the 90s. .. While we read this news, we somehow understand why accusus has collected a series of $ 3.3 million has to solve this problem. The Greek startup is developing tools that help consumers and video professionals instantly repair audio in their videos, which makes them ring as if they have been recorded in a professional studio environment.
“The creation of high -quality audio or video content should not be a privilege only for very rare who can pay professional recording services or invest in expensive and complex software and hardware,” explains Alexandros Tsilfidis, Unconvenient“Co-founder and CEO.
Let everyone do good quality content
“Our patented technology democratizes the creation of audio content. The inventory of new algorithms and a meticulous adjustment of the product user experience allowed us to create audio tools which: can offer an ease of use to entry -level users and accelerate the workflows of professionals of Audio and video, ”explains Tsifidis.
Launched in 2013 with tools for sound professionals, the company has developed several products (see below) and the most recent – the improvement and repair of audio tools (ERA) are targeted on rather inexperienced users, which wish to create videos. The era plugins can easily clean audio recordings and are compatible with all the main video and audio platforms, entry-level publishers (such as Audacity and Garageband) with high-end offers, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut, etc.
In order to accelerate the growth of their audio repair tools and further extend their offer on the content creation market, accusus collected $ 3.3 million in A series financing. The Tour was led by Athens Based on Athens Venture of friendsWith the participation of Big Pi, Iqability, PJ Tech and an investor union based in the United States led by Michael Tzannes, co-founder of the batteries and former CEO of Aware, Inc.
The two musicians and AI
Alex Tsilfidis and Elias Kokkinis, both passionate about sound and music technology, began accuses in Greece in 2013. Elias was a drummer in certain local metal and punk groups and worked as sound engineer. Alex was an electronic musician, mainly making up soundtracks for plays and films. After obtaining their computer engineering diplomas, they continued the doctorate in the processing of the audio signal and worked as audio researchers in the same university laboratory.
Accuss was one of the first companies to develop automatic learning products on the audio software market. The 2014 version of Drumatom introduced the world’s leading world tool which allows engineers to control microphones leaks in drum recordings. Microphones bleeding is a well -known problem in sound engineering that manifests when microphones capture the involuntary sounds of musical instruments nearby. Two years later, the company raised a series of seeds of $ 600,000. Then, in 2017, accusus published Regroover, a software instrument that mixes with audio loops in stems and created new workflows to create rhythms. The audio repair tool was introduced in 2018. Currently, the company has users of more than 100 countries – professional audio engineers, universities, podcastors, small studios, marketing specialists, amateurs. “For the moment, we are selling perpetual licenses with annual upgrades. We plan to offer a subscription option soon, “said the co-founder of us Alexandros Tsifidis, adding that the main business markets are the United States, Theuk, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan and France.
The Greek company, which has offices in Athens and Patras, is now formed in Boston. The funds of the series will feed the additional hiring of the 30 team to increase its engineering and marketing capacities. The founders say that new products are also part of the roadmap.