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Ahead of Rock Band 4 release, Harmonix raises $15M to innovate in music gaming

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Harmonix Music Systems, the maker of the upcoming Rock Band 4 music video game, has raised $15 million in equity funding. The funding is unusual since Harmonix was founded way back in 1995, and because investments in music games are going through a kind of revival.

Steve Janiak, CEO of Harmonix Music Systems
Steve Janiak, CEO of Harmonix Music Systems

The money from the Foundry Group and Spark Capital will go toward innovating in music video games, said Steve Janiak, CEO of Boston-based Harmonix, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.