Reinier Zonneveld unveils AI music platform GasLab with US$1 million backing
Investors include Bitpanda co-founder Eric Demuth and WeTransfer founder Bas Beerens. The platform plans to share revenue with contributing music rights holders.
Musician and producer Reinier Zonneveld has unveiled GasLab, a generative AI music venture backed by US$1 million in pre-seed investment. The company says its system identifies contributions from participating artists and labels so they can receive a share of revenue.
The funding round includes Eric Demuth, Bitpanda’s co-founder and executive chairman, and Bas Beerens, who founded WeTransfer, alongside other European entrepreneurs. GasLab says the money will support its next phase of development.
According to the company, users will generate music using material supplied only by artists and labels that agree to participate. Its attribution technology, called the Digital Notary, compares generated tracks against that catalogue and records the contributing music and rights holders at both master and publishing level.
GasLab says each generated track gets a permanent identifier and a watermark connecting it to the attribution record. That record forms the basis for distributing revenue from subscriptions or releases, with attributed artists assigned an economic right in the track.
Zonneveld’s core team includes his long-term business partner Cas Luuring and Thijs Emondts, a former venture capital partner and Uber general manager. Zonneveld and Luuring began exploring machine learning eight years ago, developing an AI model called R2 trained on Zonneveld’s own catalogue.
GasLab is gathering prospective users for private testing before a later public launch.
