Spotify is getting more serious about selling enterprise software
Spotify is launching a new portal to sell its internal developer tools and enterprise software to external businesses. The company aims to monetize the infrastructure it built to support its massive streaming platform and engineering teams.
Why it matters
This marks a strategic shift for Spotify as it attempts to diversify revenue streams beyond music streaming by entering the competitive enterprise software market.
Spotify is formalizing efforts around its enterprise and developer tools business with Thursday’s launch of technology.spotify.com, a new site that will make its internal tech available to outsiders.
The company’s foray into this space is not exactly new. As Spotify points out in its announcement of the new site, it’s been offering different products to the wider tech community since 2020 when it open sourced Backstage , a platform and framework for building customizable developer portals.
It has also been selling its enterprise-focused software experimentation platform Confidence since 2023 and its enterprise software development platform Portal since 2024. Earlier this year, it began selling its developer tool for managing AI coding agents, Xirp .
While many technology companies build their own internal systems to help their developers work more efficiently, it’s somewhat unusual to see a company like Spotify sell those tools to other businesses.
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