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Custom Song Platform Songfinch Closes $5 Million Seed Round With Support From Doja Cat, The Weeknd, and Others

April 6, 2022

Songfinch investor Doja Cat. Photo Credit: Naz / CC by 3.0 Songfinch, a platform that enables fans to order personalized songs, raised over $2 million from investors including The Weeknd last summer. Now, the... Read More...

SaveLive Raises $135 Million In First Funding Round, Names Partners

Ashley King

April 5, 2022

SaveLive announces its debut round of venue partners. The platform completes its first financing run, raising $135 million for the independent live music community. The platform announced 20 venue partners,... Read More...

NFT Startup Fuel Completes $1.66 Million Raise: ‘We Expect 2022 to Be the Year of Music NFTs’

Dylan Smith

March 29, 2022

Photo Credit: Andrey Metelev Berlin-based non-fungible token (NFT) startup Fuel has closed a $1.66 million funding round and outlined its ambitious goal of “building the ‘Shopify for NFTs.’” Music- and crea... Read More...

Bored Ape Yacht Club Owner Yuga Labs Raises $450M – Reaches $4B Valuation

Ashley King

March 23, 2022

Photo Credit: Dylan Calluy Bored Ape Yacht Club owner Yuga Labs has raised $450 million in a funding round that values the blockchain-based company at $4 billion. The latest funding round was first reported ... Read More...

Metaverse Startup Oorbit Raises $5 Million From Investors Including Mark Cuban and Deadmau5

Dylan Smith

March 17, 2022

Photo Credit: Deadmau5 / CC by 3.0 Metaverse platform Oorbit, which intends to enable “players to experience high quality games, events, interactive media, marketplaces, and more,” has announced the completio... Read More...

Linktree Raises $110 Million At $1.3 Billion Valuation, Drawing Support From DistroKid Backer Insight

Dylan Smith

March 17, 2022

Linktree co-founders Nick Humphreys (also the founder of Bolster Group), Alex Zaccaria, and Anthony Zaccaria. Photo Credit: Linktree Linktree has officially announced the completion of a $110 million raise at... Read More...

PROs Are Quietly Reinventing Themselves — By Potentially Counting Every Single Song Played

Paul Resnikoff

March 14, 2022

Photo Credit: Marcus Herzberg What if performance rights organizations (PROs) counted nearly every song played – in every bar, cafe, restaurant, shopping mall, and public place? That’s a future being etched b... Read More...

100ms Secures $20M In Series A Funding for Live Video Apps

Ashley King

March 11, 2022

Photo Credit: 100ms Live video conferencing infrastructure startup 100ms has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The startup was established in 2020 after the founders were working at Disney+ Hotstar in ... Read More...

Downtown Music Bags $200 Million From Bank of America to Fuel Indie Artist Initiatives

Paul Resnikoff

March 9, 2022

Bank of America will be fueling the $200 million fund for Downtown Music (photo: Javier Haro) Announcements involving hundreds of millions of dollars are now commonplace in the music industry. But this time, ... Read More...

Kobalt Reportedly Raises Another $550 Million to Buy Catalogs Following KKR Deal

Dylan Smith

March 9, 2022

Back in October, Kobalt Capital sold its over 62,000-track KMR Music Royalties II portfolio to KKR for about $1.1 billion. Now, Kobalt Music is reportedly preparing to drop another $550 million on song rights... Read More...

AI Music Platform LifeScore Closes £11 Million Round With Support From Warner Music Group

Dylan Smith

March 7, 2022

Photo Credit: Markus Winkler AI music-tech platform LifeScore has announced the completion of a nearly $14.5 million (£11 million) funding round amid a broader music-industry embrace of artificial intelligenc... Read More...

Music-Focused NFT Marketplace Pianity Secures $6.5M in Seed Funding

Ashley King

March 4, 2022

Photo Credit: Micheile Music-focused NFT marketplace Pianity has raised $6.5 million in seed funding. Here's how the platform works. Pianity allows artists to sell their tracks as limited editions as a new w... Read More...

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PlayTreks Establishes Proof-of-Concept In the Indie Music NFT Space — Thousands of Musicians Are Now Using ‘The Playgrounds’

PlayTreks Establishes Proof-of-Concept In the Indie Music NFT Space — Thousands of Musicians Are Now Using ‘The Playgrounds’

John Legend’s Our Happy Company Raises $7.5 Million, Sets Sights on ‘Democratizing NFTs for the Masses’

Custom Song Platform Songfinch Closes $5 Million Seed Round With Support From Doja Cat, The Weeknd, and Others

SaveLive Raises $135 Million In First Funding Round, Names Partners

NFT Startup Fuel Completes $1.66 Million Raise: ‘We Expect 2022 to Be the Year of Music NFTs’

Bored Ape Yacht Club Owner Yuga Labs Raises $450M – Reaches $4B Valuation

Metaverse Startup Oorbit Raises $5 Million From Investors Including Mark Cuban and Deadmau5

Linktree Raises $110 Million At $1.3 Billion Valuation, Drawing Support From DistroKid Backer Insight

PROs Are Quietly Reinventing Themselves — By Potentially Counting Every Single Song Played

100ms Secures $20M In Series A Funding for Live Video Apps

Downtown Music Bags $200 Million From Bank of America to Fuel Indie Artist Initiatives

Kobalt Reportedly Raises Another $550 Million to Buy Catalogs Following KKR Deal

AI Music Platform LifeScore Closes £11 Million Round With Support From Warner Music Group

Music-Focused NFT Marketplace Pianity Secures $6.5M in Seed Funding