Chaos raises £1M pre-seed to build an operating system for music
What's the deal? London-based ChaosDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a collaboration platform for music creators, has raised £1 million in pre-seed funding led by Bridford GroupDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Music distributor Amuse and a group of angel investors from across the music industry also participated.
What's the endgame? Chaos combines communication, files, feedback, sharing, and lossless live writing rooms into a single space for musicians. At its core is a provenance layer that fingerprints contributions and records the creative process, so every input is attributed to its author.
Why now? The round comes days ahead of Chaos's public launch on October 29, 2026. Founder Ruhan Verma started the company 18 months ago; it now runs as a hybrid UK/US operation with a six-person team across London and New York and a waitlist exceeding 15,000 creators.
What's the expansion? Chaos plans to accelerate its growth across the UK and the US, and has opened a new London office with an in-house recording studio. The funding will go toward deepening its infrastructure and adding intelligence to automate repetitive work while keeping music-making in human hands.
Verma, a self-taught producer, built Chaos after years of watching creative work fragment across messaging threads, disconnected files, and siloed software. "This investment will support our growth and ambition to be the single source of truth in the industry, just like Notion is for businesses," he said. While music is the starting point, the company says the long-term thesis is broader, with collaboration as its core.
The signal: UK investors remain active at the earliest stages, with recent pre-seed rounds for startups such as OriginalVoicesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and an AntlerDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → programme backing ten companies. Chaos's £1 million raise is a modest early-stage bet whose significance will hinge on traction after launch.
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