Walk into a chicken hatchery that hums like a data center. Engineers aren’t checking feed—they’re tuning frequencies that tilt hatch rates toward hens and save billions in waste. A few kilometers away, a stadium tech lets people with hearing loss sit anywhere and hear perfectly through their own phones. In a care home, adaptive music calms dementia patients enough to reduce medication.
That’s not sci-fi. It’s the world David Fridman is helping build.
David grew up in Chile, moved to Israel, helped launch the country’s first carrier-backed ISP, and co-founded a cyber-intelligence company that later IPO’d in London. After a post-COVID reset, he returned to a first love—music—but treated it like infrastructure. He began teaching musicians to ship products, not just songs, then co-founded MusicTech Innovation Lab to connect artists, researchers, and builders.
Fast-forward: he’s mapping 300+ Israeli music-tech startups, ran MusicTech Tel Aviv with 500+ operators and investors in the room, and his accelerator’s nominees won at Music Ally’s global awards. The thesis is simple and powerful: sound isn’t just entertainment—it’s a toolbox for health, accessibility, education, safety, and new kinds of creativity.
In this episode:
* Why “music tech” now means health, safety, accessibility, and education—not just streaming
* Inside Israel’s surge: 300+ startups, an accelerator, and global recognition
* The discovery crisis: how to find (and fund) artists when 100,000+ tracks drop daily
* AI, ownership, and ethics—and how founders can build useful, defensible products
* Operator tactics: selling to venues, hospitals, and brands; what investors actually back
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