Beatoven.ai: Using AI to generate background music for content creators

When Siddharth Bhardwaj and Mansoor Rahimat Khan started working on building an AI-based music creation tool, they always thought of helping creators make original background music without getting into the hassle of licensing. “We knew about the problem, and we wanted to solve it using tech,” says Bhardwaj, who started Bengaluru-based Beatoven.ai along with Khan in 2021.

Bhardwaj, 31, always wanted to fuse music with technology and so after graduating from IIIT-Allahabad, he got a master’s degree from Music Technology Group, UPF, Barcelona, Spain. Having previously worked with startups specialising in signal processing, deep learning and music technology, Bhardwaj had an understanding of artificial intelligence and its applicability in music generation.