Teenage Engineering
Stockholm design house behind cult synthesizers, samplers and pocket instruments like the OP-1 and the Pocket Operators. Fiercely design-led and Swedish — a European alternative for playful, high-craft music hardware.
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Shop Teenage EngineeringWhy does it score 65?
Teenage Engineering AB is headquartered in Stockholm and legally domiciled in Sweden.
Teenage Engineering was bootstrapped for around 15 years before taking a venture round led by Seven Seven Six, with no single controlling parent.
Teenage Engineering's infrastructure is a mix of cloud providers across Sweden and the EU.
Teenage Engineering isn't open source and hasn't published independent third-party audits.
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