Uncharted Labs
A New York generative AI startup that builds Udio, a text-to-music platform for making, discovering and sharing songs.
Uncharted Labs was founded by former Google DeepMind researchers; sources name David Ding, Conor Durkan, Charlie Nash, Yaroslav Ganin and Andrew Sanchez, and disagree on how many founders there were and who is chief executive. Wikipedia reports that the company was created in December 2023 and lists Andreessen Horowitz, UnitedMasters, will.i.am, Tay Keith, Common, Mike Krieger and Oriol Vinyals among its backers, with a $10 million seed round on top of an earlier $8.5 million.
In June 2024 the RIAA, on behalf of major labels, sued Uncharted Labs (Udio's developer) in New York and Suno in Boston over alleged use of copyrighted recordings for training. In October 2025 Universal Music Group settled with Udio under licensing agreements, and Udio agreed to launch a platform trained only on authorized and licensed music. The company is named in coverage of Suno's October 2026 motion to compel the Mechanical Licensing Collective to produce streaming data, as the other AI music company in the label litigation; that coverage reports no Udio-specific subpoena.
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