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Testcode funding, valuation and investors
Social audio incubator — deepcut.fm shared listening rooms from Turntable.fm founder Billy Chasen.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series A
$7.5M · May 2021
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$7.5M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series a
Overview
Testcode (testco.de) is a social audio incubator founded by Billy Chasen, creator of the original Turntable.fm (2011–2013). The company's flagship product deepcut.fm (formerly Turntable.fm) lets users join shared listening rooms where participants DJ tracks collaboratively — reviving the social music format for a pandemic-era audience. Testcode raised $7.5M in May 2021 led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Slow Ventures, Chris Sacca, Scott Belsky, and Seth Goldstein (Turntable.fm's original co-founder). The company rebranded from Turntable to Deepcut in 2024 to resolve trademark litigation and position Testcode as an incubator for audio-social experiments.
Why Testcode is interesting
Chasen resurrected Turntable.fm a decade after shutdown, crowdfunded it through the pandemic, then raised a16z-led Series A — a rare second act for a cult social-music product in a category that cooled after Clubhouse.
Product & use cases
Deepcut.fm provides collaborative social listening rooms where users take turns DJing tracks to a shared audience — a revival of the Turntable.fm format with SoundCloud integration and ongoing product experiments from Testcode's incubator model.
- Music discovery through community DJ sessions and shared listening rooms
- Social hangout spaces combining audio and chat during remote-work and gaming contexts
- Nostalgia-driven re-engagement for Turntable.fm's original 2010s community
Key facts
- Series A (May 2021): $7.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz (TechCrunch, Medium)
- Founder Billy Chasen built original Turntable.fm (2011–2013); relaunched March 2021 (The Verge)
- Community crowdfunded via Patreon/Venmo before VC round; Patreon shut off after raise (Medium)
- Rebranded Turntable.fm → Deepcut.fm in 2024 after trademark dispute (Deepcut Substack)
Funding history (newest first)
Series A
2021-05 $7.5M- Andreessen Horowitz (lead)
- Slow Ventures (participant)
- Chris Sacca (participant)
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/call-it-a-comeback-turntable-fm-raises-7-5m/
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Founder-led revival of a cult product with an existing passionate community — Chasen proved demand by bootstrapping via Patreon before institutional capital, a rare organic signal in social audio.
Social music listening has failed to sustain venture-scale businesses twice (Turntable.fm 2013, Clubhouse 2022). Testcode's incubator approach and community funding de-risk the core product, but the category needs a durable monetization model beyond nostalgia.
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Spotify incumbent
Dominant music streaming; Jam sessions offer shared listening but lack collaborative DJ mechanics.
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Discord adjacent
Voice and music-bot communities overlap on social listening; not purpose-built for DJ rooms.
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Hangout (social music) direct
Newer social listening platform with avatars; raised seed funding in 2025 targeting mobile-first experience.
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Clubhouse adjacent
Social audio rooms peaked in 2021; different format (talk, not music DJ) but competed for same user attention.
Notable stories
- Billy Chasen relaunched Turntable.fm in March 2021 after the community kept it alive via Patreon and Venmo crowdfunding — only then raising $7.5M from a16z (Medium, May 2021).
- Testcode spent two years in expensive trademark litigation with a separate Turntable.org operator before rebranding to Deepcut.fm in 2024 (Deepcut Substack).
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