Samply.

Samply is audio file sharing for music producers. A producer's working material (samples, stems, bounces, mixes) tends to live everywhere at once, scattered across hard drives, cloud folders, email threads, and text messages. Samply gives it one home, organized and playable from any device.

The product also covers the part of production that happens between people. Producers share private links and collaborators stream the audio losslessly. Feedback arrives as time-coded comments pinned to the exact second in the track. Versions stay attached to the project instead of multiplying in a downloads folder.

What they're building

The core is a private streaming layer for audio files. Lossless matters here because compressed previews change what a producer hears, and mixing decisions ride on details that compression throws away. Samply streams the full-resolution file to whatever device the listener opens (the company ships a web app and an iOS app), so the reference everyone reacts to is the actual audio rather than an approximation of it.

Around that core sits the collaboration tooling: time-coded comments, version history, password protection and download prevention for sends that need to stay contained, and imports from the storage producers already use, including Dropbox. The product is shaped more like a working surface than a new instrument, the place a track lives from rough loop to final master.

Why we backed the founders and team

Most of our portfolio sits on the hard frontier, in defense, energy, semiconductors, and robotics. Samply is a different domain, but the principle is the same. The valuable work is rarely the demo. Music production runs on file handling (naming, versioning, sending, re-sending), and that layer has long been an afterthought, duct-taped together from generic cloud drives and chat apps.

Samply picked the unglamorous middle of a creative industry and is building it directly, from storage and streaming to comments and versions. Producers do not need another synthesizer. They need the plumbing between collaborators to hold, and that is the part Samply is building.