London-based CHAOS, which builds a shared workspace for music creators, has raised £1M in a pre-seed round led by Bridford Group.
Making a record is rarely a solo job. A single song can move between artists, producers, songwriters and engineers in different cities, and the tooling around that process has barely moved on. Conversations sit in group chats, stems travel by file transfer, lyrics live in phone notes, and the record of who contributed what is often the first thing to go missing. That gap matters more as credits and catalogue data increasingly shape how music is released and paid for.
CHAOS pulls those threads into one place. Projects, version history, messaging, feedback, share links and lossless live writing rooms sit side by side, on iPhone and the web. The distinctive piece is a provenance layer that fingerprints each contribution and keeps a running record of how a track came together, so collaborators can see attribution from first idea to finished master. Founder Ruhan Verma, a self-taught producer, pitches it as a single source of truth for the industry and compares the ambition to what Notion has become for businesses.
Verma founded the company around 18 months ago. It has since grown from a solo project into a six-person team across London and New York, all of them working musicians or producers, and opened a London office with its own recording studio. CHAOS says more than 15,000 creators have joined its waitlist ahead of a public launch on 29 October. No earlier funding has been disclosed.
Amuse, the distributor for independent artists and labels, joined the round alongside angels and operators from across the music industry. Bridford Group invests its own capital in founder-led businesses across technology, music, life sciences and sustainability. The money will go on deeper collaboration features, tools that organise project information and take on repetitive admin while leaving the music-making to people, and expansion across the UK and US. Amuse CEO Giorgio D'Ambrosio called provenance "something the industry increasingly needs".
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