Los Angeles · CA, USA · founded 2015 · https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/magic-instruments
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Magic Instruments — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Magic Instruments: limited disclosed financing to assess.
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AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%
operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy
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Magic Instruments makes a high-tech guitar that is easier and more…
Musical instruments that enable anyone to play instantly, and make it easier and more inspiring to learn. Magic Instruments (YC W2016 and Highway1 F2015) is the maker of the MI Guitar. We design the tools that allow anyone to express themselves by making music. Our mission is to create a world that inspires human connection through music playing. We give people all the joy of playing music. We’re developing a new class of music instruments and the ecosystem around them, starting with our first product, a new type of guitar that anyone can play using an intuitive UI on the fretboard and a mobile app to play your favorite songs, instantly. We also make it technically easier and more inspiring to learn traditional guitar technique. Can't play a guitar? We guarantee you can play this one. The MI Guitar is a new type of guitar that you can pick up and play, instantly. By reinventing the fretboard of a traditional guitar, it simplifies playing so anyone can play their favorite songs at first sight, or create their own original music. You can also play this like the traditional guitar and it gives you a fun and easy way to learn the guitar. Pre-order now at https://magicinstruments.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magicinstruments/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/magicinstrument YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/magicinstruments
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Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
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Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 8525 companies in this sector. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 96% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 96% of peers (estimate).
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
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Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Magic Instruments is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guitar Mastery Intensive LLC | Other | Pre-Seed | $5.6M | 66% |
| Ciari Guitars, Inc. | Other | Pre-Seed | $8.0M | 65% |
| Aluminati Guitar Co | Other | Pre-Seed | $925K | 65% |
| MagicWeaver Inc. | Other Technology | Pre-Seed | $25.4M | 64% |
| Culture Amp Pty Ltd | Other Technology | Series B | $608.2M | 64% |
| Katana Safety, Inc. | Other Technology | Series A | $2.5M | 64% |
| Insightful Instruments Inc. | Other | Seed | $11.3M | 63% |
| Spiral Horn | Other | Seed | $35.0M | 63% |
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