Stockholm, Sweden
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming company founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, with its operational headquarters in Stockholm. Launched publicly in 2008 as a legal alternative to music piracy, Spotify has grown into one of the world's largest audio platforms, offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks to several hundred million users across more than 180 markets. The company describes its mission as unlocking the potential of human creativity by giving artists the opportunity to live off their work and listeners the opportunity to discover and enjoy it.