TuneUp Announces Series C Round of Funding Led by IDG Ventures

TuneUp Media, the #1 plug-in for iTunes, today announced the company has raised a $4.3 million Series C round of funding, led by IDG Ventures with strong participation from original seed-funder KPG Ventures.

To date TuneUp has amassed over 1.5 million registered users internationally and has Automagically™ cleaned over 1.2 billion mislabeled music tracks. Beyond correcting music metadata, TuneUp fills in missing album art and offers a suite of “infotainment” features for users’ rapidly growing music collections. These features include personalized concert notifications, Facebook and Twitter integration, and Tuniverse™, which instantly provides the most up-to-date music related content from the web, right within the media player ecosystem.

“This round of funding is a great vote of confidence in TuneUp and supports our vision of providing the best possible music management tools and discovery resources for music collections worldwide,” said Gabriel Adiv, Founder and CEO of TuneUp Media. “We are very excited to expand our product-line and to bring these new innovations to music lovers everywhere.”

“TuneUp goes beyond simply cleaning up a music library; it provides a unique service for users to access the information they want about their favorite artists and songs directly within their music player,” said Phil Sanderson, Managing Director of IDG Ventures in San Francisco. “They are a valued addition to the IDG portfolio in their driving force to satisfy a previously ignored need for music fans everywhere.”

Selected to present at DEMO Fall 2010 on September 15th, TuneUp Media will preview the latest features and sharing capabilities within Tuniverse™, plus a hint at the exciting products in development for Q4 2010. TuneUp is available for download for both iTunes and Windows Media Player atwww.tuneupmedia.com.