Atrium Academy raises $3 million funding

CHENNAI: Online music learning and community platform Artium Academy has raised $3 million in a round led by VC firm Chiratae Ventures. Other early-stage investors including Anicut Capital, JetSyntheses, Whiteboard Capital and entrepreneurs Madhusudhan R (co-founder M2P Fintech), Priyamvada Balaji (executive director, Lucas Indian Service), Varun Alagh (co-founder, Mamaearth), Piyush Shah (co-founder, InMobi Group), and Vikas Dosala (co-founder, Fraazo) also participated in this round.


Co-founded by Ashish Joshi, Vivek Raicha and Nithya Sudhir, Artium Academy offers music lessons and courses from celebrity musicians in the form of 1:1 live classes. These courses are designed and certified by musicians such as Sonu Nigam, K S Chithra, Shubha Mudgal, Aruna Sairam and others who’ve joined Artium as faculty heads for various courses.

Voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan has also joined as chief of pedagogy of the academy, the company said.

Artium’s AI-enabled practice studio supplements in person learning and tracks improvement followed by regular online performances within its community of learners, teachers and maestros that makes the learner feel like a star. The company recently tied up with Warner Music India and Global Music Junction to create original music content under its brand Artium Originals.

“Our vision is to make music learning more relevant, participative and engaging where a user can take the journey of a learner to a performer to a potential influencer with our music tech platform. We are building AI-based assessment and prescription tools to aide efficient learning and performing, thereby offering qualitative pedagogy to the learners globally," Ashish Joshi, Founder and CEO, Artium Academy, said.


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