# Beatdapp

> Beatdapp is a Vancouver-founded enterprise software company that analyzes platform activity to identify fake streams, manipulated engagement, account takeovers and synthetic music. What began as an effort to reconcile royalty-reporting discrepancies has become a broader Trust & Safety Operating System for music, media, gaming and marketplace platforms, with modules for anomaly detection, identity checks, AI-music detection, account security and recommendations built on cleaner data.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Founders:** Morgan Hayduk (Co-Founder and Co-CEO), Andrew Batey (Co-Founder and Co-CEO), Pouria Assadipour (Co-Founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 50 employees in supplied company data; public company profiles place it in the 51-200 range.
- **Products:** Anomaly Detection, Customer Due Diligence, AI Music Detection, Account Takeover Detection, Recommendation System
- **Notable:** Analyzed more than 6 trillion streams and 65 trillion data points, according to the company website., Secured a US$17 million Series A financing in January 2024., Won public relationships across the music value chain, including UMG, SoundExchange, Napster, Beatport and The MLC.

## Products & services

- **Anomaly Detection** — Ingests platform events and combines machine learning with expert-defined rules to flag suspicious activity and produce auditable reports.
- **Customer Due Diligence** — A configurable identity-verification workflow using document checks, liveness testing and watchlist screening, powered with Arcarta.
- **AI Music Detection** — Analyzes audio characteristics to distinguish fully synthetic music from human-created recordings so platforms can apply their policies.
- **Account Takeover Detection** — Scores sessions using login behavior, device IDs, geography and velocity to detect credential theft and unauthorized account sharing.
- **Recommendation System** — Uses authentic user signals and metadata to make personalization less vulnerable to manipulated engagement.
- **Automatic Content Identification** — Uses audio fingerprinting and a policy engine to identify, attribute, block or monetize content, powered with Cleared.

## Achievements

- Analyzed more than 6 trillion streams and 65 trillion data points, according to the company website.
- Secured a US$17 million Series A financing in January 2024.
- Won public relationships across the music value chain, including UMG, SoundExchange, Napster, Beatport and The MLC.
- Expanded from royalty audit and streaming-fraud analysis into a multi-module Trust & Safety Operating System.
- Developed patented technology spanning blockchain, AI, machine learning and large-scale data infrastructure.

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Announced a US$17 million financing, new partnerships with SoundExchange and Napster, and a strategic collaboration with Universal Music Group.
- **2024-08** — The Mechanical Licensing Collective announced a collaboration using Beatdapp to supplement its existing streaming-fraud controls.
- **2026-01** — Co-founders Morgan Hayduk and Andrew Batey discussed AI-generated releases, bots, click farms, playlist manipulation and account takeovers on the Your Morning Coffee podcast.
- **2026** — Repositioned its offering as a Trust & Safety Operating System with modules for anomaly detection, customer due diligence, AI music detection, account takeover detection and recommendations.

## Links

- Website: https://beatdapp.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beatdapp
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/beatdapp
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/beatdapp
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/beatdapp/

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Last updated: 2026-08-19