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ROLI is a London music technology company founded in 2009 that designs expressive electronic instruments. Its Seaboard keyboards replace discrete keys with a continuous pressure-sensitive surface, and it maintains the widely used JUCE audio software framework. The company also builds learning products that teach piano through connected hardware.

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News Engadget 2 years ago
The Roli Airwave is a high-tech keyboard teaching tool inspired by the theremin
The Roli Airwave is both a high-tech piano teacher and a theremin. The system costs $300 and officially releases in February.
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News New Atlas 2 years ago
Roli Airwave brings piano learning to the third dimension
Learning to play piano is a hard slog, and many people - myself included - tend to start well, and then lose momentum before giving up entirely. Roli is hoping to keeping students engaged with a gesture-tracking AI teacher called the Airwave.
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News Dialectical Systems 4 years ago
New paper: A. Roli, J. Jaeger, S. Kauffman (2022), How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on Artificial General Intelligence
Published open access in Frontiers in Physiology Abstract: Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assistin
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News verge 4 years ago
Roli says it's not done trying to re-invent the keyboard, announces Seaboard Rise 2
UK music startup Roli has announced the Seaboard Rise 2 - the latest addition to its range of squishy keyboards. The company says it's not given up on the Seaboard range despite reports last year it was focusing on educational products.
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News verge 5 years ago
Music startup Roli has filed for administration and is reforming as beginner-focused Luminary
UK music startup Roli has filed for administration. The company failed to turn a profit with its squishy keyboards. It's reforming as Luminary with a renewed focus on its light-up Lumi keyboard and paired app for amateur pianists.
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News WIRED 5 years ago
Roli's Lumi Keys Taught Me How to Play Piano ... Sort Of
The Bluetooth-connected keyboard is the modern-day Lite-Brite of musical instruments. Just don't expect to master Chopin.
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News musictech.com 6 years ago
Why should you care that ROLI sold JUCE to PACE?
Seaboard creator ROLI sells the app development framework used to build Korg Gadget to PACE, the makers of iLok.
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London United Kingdom
HQ
326/327 Stean Street, London, E8 4ED, United Kingdom
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Financials

Total raised
$40.2M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2018 $295k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $27M Details
Grant 2015 $135k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2014 $12.8M Details