Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Mixcloud Ltd. (commonly "Mixcloud") is a private, London-based audio-streaming company incorporated in 2008 by Nikhil Shah and Nico Perez, who met at the University of Cambridge. It remains privately held; outside funding is limited, with a $11.5M round led by US holding company WndrCo in 2018. Employee estimates vary by source — roughly 50–130 people (PitchBook lists ~129) — and no reliable public revenue figure exists; historical filings show about £2.4M in FY2018 revenue, while third-party databases estimate mid-single-digit millions more recently.
Products / services / operations. Mixcloud operates an advertising-supported streaming platform best known for hosting DJ mixes, radio shows, podcasts, and live-streamed audio, with a reported catalog of tens of millions of creator-uploaded shows. Revenue products include Mixcloud Premium (ad-free subscription) and Mixcloud Select, a fan-to-creator channel subscription that passes a direct cut to creators. The company holds licensing deals with rights holders including Merlin, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. In September 2024 it acquired Encore, a UK online marketplace for booking live musicians, which continues to operate as an independent brand; Mixcloud also runs LOUD, a brand-partnership consultancy.
Patent-litigation posture. Mixcloud is an operating company defending against an NPE suit — it has 0 tracked appearances as plaintiff and 1 as defendant. In DynaMuse LLC v. Mixcloud Ltd. (2:25-cv-01112), filed November 6, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, plaintiff DynaMuse LLC — categorized by Stanford's NPE Litigation Database as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents — alleges infringement of U.S. Patent No. 10,491,646, directed to a "playlist assistance" mechanism for finding media playlists in online music communities. The case was assigned to Judge Rodney Gilstrap and consolidated for pretrial purposes with DynaMuse's parallel suit against SoundCloud (2:25-cv-01113), also filed in E.D. Tex. the same day.
Notable context. The suit is Mixcloud's first tracked U.S. patent case and targets a core platform feature (playlist search across user-created media), filed in a plaintiff-friendly venue alongside complaints against other audio-streaming services. No merits assessment is warranted from the docket; the case remains the company's only tracked appearance in our database.
Patent infringement suit against Mixcloud; the Stanford NPE Litigation Database specifically lists US 10491646 as asserted in this case. Consolidated for pretrial under lead case 2:25-cv-01113.