{
  "id": 14972801,
  "title": "DJ Reinier Zonneveld launches AI music startup GasLab with $1M pre-seed funding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/dj-reinier-zonneveld-launches-ai-music-startup-gaslab-with-1m-pre",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-16T14:23:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech.eu",
    "slug": "tech-eu",
    "url": "https://tech.eu/2026/10/16/dj-reinier-zonneveld-launches-ai-music-startup-gaslab-with-1m-pre-seed-funding/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "DJ and producer Reinier Zonneveld has launched a new AI music startup called GasLab, backed by $1 million in pre-seed funding. The platform aims to protect the future of the creative industry and ensure artists are recognized, credited, and compensated for their music used in AI-generated tracks. Investors in the round include Eric Demuth, co-founder and executive Chairman of Bitpanda, and Bas Beerens, founder of WeTransfer. GasLab offers a comprehensive end-to-end system for AI music generation, with a proprietary technology called the Digital Notary that attributes each AI-generated track and provides transparency and fairness to the process. Artists and labels can see exactly how their work shaped each generated track and will be paid for their contribution. The company's core team includes Zonneveld, Cas Luuring, and former VC partner Thijs Emondts. Zonneveld believes that current generative AI tools fail to give artists a fair stake in the value created by their music, and he set out to solve this issue with GasLab. The platform allows users to generate AI music based on the participating artists' and labels' catalogues, and the Digital Notary provides a permanent ID and watermark for each track, ensuring creators receive economic rights and revenue sharing.",
  "summary": "GasLab (Generative AI Solutions Lab), a GenAI music platform created by DJ and producer Reinier Zonneveld, is launched this week, backed by $1 million in pre-seed funding. GasLab is on a mission to k...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}