DEEZER S.A.

Company overview. Deezer S.A. (ticker: DEEZR on Euronext Paris) is a French audio-streaming company headquartered in Paris, founded in 2007 and listed via a SPAC merger in July 2022. It is publicly traded (not a subsidiary) with roughly 535 employees as of end-2025. Public filings show FY2025 revenue of about €534 million, with a market capitalization in the region of €125–150 million.

Products / services. Deezer operates one of the world's largest independent music-streaming platforms, offering on-demand access to a catalog of well over 90 million licensed tracks across 180+ countries, plus podcasts, live radio, and audiobooks. Consumer offerings include a lossless HiFi tier and Deezer's artist-centric payment system. It also runs a "Deezer for Business" segment that supplies white-label/B2B streaming to telecom operators and other partners. The company is an operating company with real products and services — not an NPE.

Patent-litigation posture. Deezer is a defendant-only participant in the tracked data: 1 case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. The case data reflects an operating company defending against a patent-assertion suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas — a venue known for heavy NPE patent litigation.

Notable case. The tracked matter is DynaMuse LLC v. DEEZER S.A. (2:25-cv-01110, E.D. Tex.), filed November 6, 2025, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap. Public records characterize DynaMuse as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents (Stanford NPE Litigation Database categorizes its cases as "acquired patents" NPE assertions). DynaMuse filed coordinated, same-day infringement complaints in the same court against multiple music-streaming services, including SoundCloud and Mixcloud, suggesting a portfolio campaign across the streaming industry. Deezer has no history in the tracked data of asserting patents itself. As of the data available, the suit is at an early stage, and no merits assessment is warranted.