Yamaha Music Innovations Partners Up with Four Startup Companies

HAMAMATSU, Japan--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Yamaha Music Innovations, LLC , Yamaha’s U.S. subsidiary, has partnered up with DataFalcon, Chartmetric, SimScale, and Rightsify to promote productivity improvements in existing businesses.

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Yamaha Music Innovations partners up with four startups to accelerate digital transformation and enhance productivity.

“We are promoting the establishment of new businesses and the strengthening of existing businesses through both business development, partnership activities, and investments in the form of CVC,” said Yusuke “Scott” Sugino, President and CEO of Yamaha Music Innovations. “This collaboration with the four companies will contribute to strengthening existing businesses to 'rebuild a strong business foundation' as stated in our new medium-term management plan, 'Rebuild & Evolve,' and to improve productivity in operations such as R&D and product development. We will continue to establish a framework to deliver both short-term and medium to long-term innovation outcomes consistently and to enhance our competitiveness through a wide range of open innovation.”

“Yamaha, a global leader in the musical instrument industry, has taken an innovative approach by deploying DeepDiveAI in highly specialized departments such as Intellectual Property and Quality Assurance. By integrating our advanced AI technology into their workflows, Yamaha has realized substantial productivity improvements in complex expert tasks like patent analysis and legal research,” said Sayaka Inoue, Co-Founder & CEO of DataFalcon. “Going forward, we remain committed to advancing innovation through cutting-edge AI solutions that are both highly reliable and immediately impactful across real-world business operations.”

“Rightsify is proud to support Yamaha Music Innovations with high-quality, large-scale multimodal datasets combining audio and MIDI for their AI initiatives,” said Alex Bestall, CEO of Rightsify. “As a leader in music data, we’re excited to see our catalog power new tools that push the boundaries of creativity and innovation in sound.”

About Yamaha Corporation
Founded in 1887, the Yamaha Group has established itself as a global leader in manufacturing musical instruments and audio products while continuing to engage in various business activities to grow services related to sound and music. Yamaha operates over 60 subsidiaries worldwide, dedicated to serving millions of customers across six continents, focusing on delivering excellence in quality and innovation, prioritizing our sustainability efforts and contributing to people’s “ well-being ”. To learn more, visit https://www.yamaha.com/en/ .

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