Spotify USA Inc. is a Delaware corporation and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE: SPOT), the Luxembourg-incorporated parent whose executive offices are in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify was founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon; Spotify USA, the group's principal U.S. operating entity, is based at 4 World Trade Center, 150 Greenwich Street, New York. The parent is publicly traded and large: roughly 7,000–7,300 employees, FY2025 revenue of about €17.2 billion (≈$19.4bn), and a market value near $112 billion as of August 2026 (Fortune; Yahoo Finance).
Spotify operates a global audio-streaming service with two reportable segments: Premium (subscriptions, ~€15.4bn in 2025) and Ad-Supported (advertising, ~€1.8bn). Offerings include on-demand music streaming, podcasts and video podcasts, audiobooks with monthly listening allowances, a free ad-supported tier, advertising products (Spotify Ad Exchange, Ads Manager), and creator/marketplace services such as Spotify for Creators and the Spotify Partner Program. Reported scale at end-2025 was roughly 751 million monthly active users and 290 million Premium subscribers across about 184 Premium markets.
Litigation posture: pure defendant. Both tracked cases list Spotify as defendant and none as plaintiff. Both are in the Eastern District of Texas and appear to correspond to the same Marshall Division action, Many Worlds 2T Innovations LLC v. Spotify Technology S.A. et al., 2:26-cv-00303, filed April 2026 before Judge Rodney Gilstrap — a venue associated with high-volume patent filings. Spotify moved to dismiss or transfer the claims against Spotify USA Inc. and Spotify AB to the Southern District of New York.
The plaintiff, Many Worlds 2T Innovations LLC, shows no products or services and asserts acquired recommendation- and vector-search patent families; it filed a parallel EDTX suit against OpenAI in August 2026. The Spotify complaint targets the "Two Tower" recommendation engine and related content/behavior-analysis features. Separately, Spotify USA is defending a non-patent royalty dispute with the Mechanical Licensing Collective in the SDNY.