£1m · Other round · Media · London, UK
London-based Chaos, a workspace for music creators to collaborate across files, feedback and live writing sessions, has raised £1m in a pre-seed round led by Bridford Group. Digital music distributor Amuse and a group of music-industry investors and operators also participated, according to Amuse's announcement.
The company plans to use the capital to develop advanced collaboration features and the infrastructure around creators' projects, while expanding in the UK and US ahead of a public launch scheduled for 29 October. Chaos says more than 15,000 creators have joined its waitlist.
Making attribution part of the creative workflow
Founder Ruhan Verma built Chaos around a problem familiar to producers and artists: a song can move through messages, file-transfer links and separate software before release, leaving versions and contributions difficult to trace. The product brings communication, file sharing, feedback and what the company calls lossless live writing rooms into one workspace.
Its more distinctive component is a provenance layer that fingerprints contributions and preserves a record of the creative process. Amuse chief executive Giorgio D'Ambrosio said that record could support catalogue management as well as recognition of contributors. That moves Chaos beyond generic project coordination: if the record survives through release workflows, it can connect day-to-day collaboration with the attribution information that creators and distributors need later.
The commercial challenge is that this value depends on creators using Chaos throughout a project, rather than treating it as another place to copy finished files. The funding therefore has to support both reliable collaboration and the surrounding infrastructure that organises project information. Automating repetitive work may reduce coordination overhead, but the provenance layer becomes useful only when teams consistently capture contributions inside the product.
A launch will turn interest into product evidence
Chaos has grown from Verma's solo project into a six-person team across London and New York in 18 months, BusinessCloud reported. Its waitlist offers an initial distribution channel, but it is not evidence of active use or retention. The planned public launch creates the next measurable milestone: whether creators adopt the workspace for live projects and keep their collaboration records there.
Amuse's participation also gives Chaos an investor with direct exposure to independent artists and labels. The announcement does not disclose a product integration or commercial partnership, so that industry access should be read as relevant operating context, not guaranteed distribution.
