Ableton

Ableton AG is a Berlin music-software company founded in 1999, registered at Schönhauser Allee 6-7 with the Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under HRB 72838. Its licence agreement names the German entity and is governed by German law, with Berlin as the place of performance and exclusive jurisdiction. The agreement carries a separate section applying New York law to copies bought outside Europe — a customer-side carve-out, not a change of contracting entity.

The company is held by Ableton Holding GmbH in Hamburg, whose registered purpose is the management of its participation in Ableton AG and whose managing directors are the founders Gerhard Behles, Jan Bohl and Bernd Roggendorf. Nothing sits above it; a US sales subsidiary, Ableton Inc., is downstream. Ableton has taken no venture capital, and a Minnesota investor recorded in 2007 was gone by 2008.

It sells Live in three editions plus the Push hardware instrument, and reported revenue of EUR 72.8 million in its last published figures.