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Deezer

Audio streaming platform

501-1000 employees
  • B2C
  • Music
  • Content
  • Entertainment
  • Mobile
  • Community
24 rue de Calais 75009 Paris, FRANCE

Company mission

Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.

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11% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

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Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.

Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.

There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.

Benefits

  • Hackathons & meetups
  • Start-up environment and philosophy
  • Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
  • A Deezer premium family account for free
  • Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
  • Meal vouchers
  • In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
  • Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
  • Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
  • A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
  • An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
  • Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2018

$174m

LATE VC

Jan 2016

$108.8m

SERIES E

$524.1m

Total funding

Founders

Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.

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