Audius's mission is to create a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend the world's music.
Audius is a company that has developed a platform designed for musicians that are both signed or unsigned to labels. The company was founded by Forrest Browning, Ranidu Lankage, and Roneil Rumburg in 2018 in 2018, in San Francisco, California, United States.
Audius was founded in 2018 Audius was founded in 2018 by Roneil Rumburg and Forrest Browning, two California-based entrepreneurs. Roneil Rumburg is a Stanford University alumnus who co-founded Kleiner Perkins, an early-stage seed fund investing in blockchain and AI companies. Forrest Browning, also a Stanford alumnus, is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and a co-founder of StacksWare, an enterprise data center management platform. The team is complemented by 21 other employees and backed by a host of other illustrious names, such as deadmau5, a popular electronic music producer, Adam Goldberg, co-founder and MD of Stanford Crypto, and Bing Gordon, co-founder of EA Games.