A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting

Ex-Spotify innovation head raised a $5.5M pre-seed for A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, building non-AI music-play apps like bop.

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, founded by former Spotify head of innovation Máuhan M Zonoozy, raised a $5.5M pre-seed round from Mantis VC, SV Angel, BoxGroup and others. The startup deliberately avoids AI-driven song generation and instead ships small interactive music apps including an iOS mixer called bop. The story is consumer startup funding news with no security or AI research relevance.