Dash Radio, founded by Scott Keeney (DJ Skee), is a curated, personality-driven live-radio platform that emphasizes "lean back" programming over on-demand streaming. It programs more than 400 shows across 75 stations and recently reached 10 million monthly listeners. The lineup includes high-profile hosts such as Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne and Ice Cube, and the platform highlights new artists and emerging DJs. Dash minimizes traditional insertion-based advertising while pursuing sponsorships and branded partnerships, including a Build-A-Bear kids' station, and operates studios in Los Angeles and a newly opened studio in the Empire State Building. The company has said it may introduce a paid premium plan with on-demand show archives in the future. Financially, Dash announced an $8.8M seed round to support growth as it scales its curated live-radio offering and talent pipeline. Dash Radio operates a technology platform of roughly 60 curated stations delivered via web and mobile apps, with programming chosen by human DJs rather than algorithms or playlists. Streams function like traditional terrestrial radio—one-to-many broadcasts where listeners hear what the DJ plays and cannot skip tracks. The service features live DJ breaks and on-demand playback of prior broadcasts; high-profile DJs include founder and CEO DJ Skee (Scott Keeney) and Snoop Dogg. Dash emerged from beta with more than one million users and is available on the Web, iOS, Android and Apple CarPlay, with planned Sonos and AT&T Drive integrations. The company is ad-free for now and is experimenting with future monetization ideas such as DJ sponsor mentions and in-app ticket sales. Financially, Dash has taken $2 million in seed funding to date and says it is "funded enough" to continue building while planning a Series A.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Oct 2018