Yamaha Music Innovations Partners Up with Four Startup Companies
Digital Transformation and Productivity Improvements to Promote Restructuring of Business Foundation
Hamamatsu, Japan (June 18, 2025) —Yamaha Music Innovations, LLC, Yamaha’s U.S. subsidiary, has partnered up with DataFalcon, Chartmetric, SimScale, and Rightsify to promote productivity improvements in existing businesses.
“We are promoting the establishment of new businesses and the strengthening of existing businesses through both business development, partnership activities, and investments in the form of CVC,” said Yusuke “Scott” Sugino, President and CEO of Yamaha Music Innovations. “This collaboration with the four companies will contribute to strengthening existing businesses to “rebuild a strong business foundation” as stated in our new medium-term management plan, “Rebuild & Evolve,” and to improve productivity in operations such as R&D and product development. We will continue to establish a framework to deliver both short-term and medium to long-term innovation outcomes consistently and to enhance our competitiveness through a wide range of open innovation.”
“Yamaha, a global leader in the musical instrument industry, has taken an innovative approach by deploying DeepDiveAI in highly specialized departments such as Intellectual Property and Quality Assurance. By integrating our advanced AI technology into their workflows, Yamaha has realized substantial productivity improvements in complex expert tasks like patent analysis and legal research,” said Sayaka Inoue, Co-Founder & CEO of DataFalcon. “Going forward, we remain committed to advancing innovation through cutting-edge AI solutions that are both highly reliable and immediately impactful across real-world business operations.”
“Rightsify is proud to support Yamaha Music Innovations with high-quality, large-scale multimodal datasets combining audio and MIDI for their AI initiatives,” said Alex Bestall, CEO of Rightsify. “As a leader in music data, we’re excited to see our catalog power new tools that push the boundaries of creativity and innovation in sound.”
| Business Partner | DataFalcon | Chartmetric | SimScale | Rightsify |
| Start of Partnership | October 2024 | October 2024 | February 2025 | May 2025 |
| Location | California, United States | California, United States | Munich, Germany | California, United States |
| Business | Provides AI-based research support tools to assist in rapid and accurate data analysis and report creation | Provides a music analysis platform for the music industry that utilizes streaming and social media data | Provides a cloud-based platform for rapid simulation of fluid, structural, thermal analysis, etc. | Manages music licenses, and provides licensing solutions as well as synthetic and performance data for AI music models |
| Implementing Division | Intellectual Property Division |
Digital Musical Instruments Division Research & Development Division |
Digital Musical Instruments Division | Research & Development Division |
| Details of Partnership | Significantly shorten the time-consuming patent analysis and legal compliance research process through the use of DeepDiveAI | Research music trends and characteristics in regions where such investigations were previously difficult, and enhance analytical capabilities to develop new content for portable keyboards | Digitalize packaging drop tests, thereby reducing the number of days required for the test, but also aiming to reduce logistics costs by streamlining product packaging | Accelerate music technology research and product development by purchasing music data that has already undergone the licensing process |
| Anticipated Effects | Productivity improvement | Productivity improvement Analysis accuracy improvement |
Improvement of efficiency through digital transformation Logistics cost reduction |
Productivity improvement |