We’re excited to bring you another episode with MUSIC FRONTIERS 2026🎵 partnership on Sound of Startups, featuring Nicole de Beer, CEO & Founder at Gigevate.

What does it take to leave everything familiar behind and build a music tech startup from scratch in a new country?

In this episode of Sound of Startups, we speak with Nicole de Beer, founder of Gigavate, a digital booking and events management platform built for the electronic music industry.

Gigavate is working to bring artists, organizers, and other parts of the electronic music ecosystem into one connected platform, creating more structure around bookings, communication, payments, and opportunities.

We explore what it means to build as an immigrant founder, enter a new market without an established network, raise funding at the pre-seed stage, and keep moving forward with a very small team. Nicole also shares why transparency and better infrastructure matter for emerging artists, and how accelerators, community, and the right environment can help founders think bigger.

A grounded conversation about persistence, building from zero, and creating opportunity in the electronic music industry.

If you want to learn more about Gigevate:

• Website: https://gigevate.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gigevate/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gigevate

Hosted by Taj & Produced by Amplitude Ventures AS.