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Jay Z Set to Launch Venture Capital Fund For Startups

Jay Z Is Starting a Venture Capital Fund For Startups

February 21, 2017

InvestmentTotal.com (CC by 2.0) First, an investment in Uber. Then, outright purchasing TIDAL. Now, a VC fund. What’s next for rapper and music mogul Jay Z? Always one to invest his hard-earned fortune, Jay ... Read More...

Vadio Calls It Quits After Burning Through $11.8 Million In 4 Years

Paul Resnikoff

February 15, 2017

4 years. $11.8 million in funding. 1 dead company: Vadio. Vadio was a promising start-up focusing on streaming music video monetization. So WTF happened? Early this morning, the death knell rang loudly... Read More...

Want to Fund Someone? Fund an Emerging Artist

Daniel Sanchez

August 5, 2016

There’s apparently a new way to invest in the music industry: finance concerts and recordings by emerging artists. Instead of having go through major record labels in order to secure gains, The Unison Fund, ... Read More...

Breaking: Twitter Makes A Massive $70 Million Investment In SoundCloud

Charlotte Hassan

June 14, 2016

Is one broke platform investing in another? According to reports, Twitter has invested $70 million in SoundCloud's music streaming service as part of a funding round that could top $100 million. That follow... Read More...

Snapchat Raises $1.8B In Funding Round, Predicts $1 Billion In Revenue by 2017

Charlotte Hassan

May 26, 2016

Snapchat is growing at an unprecedented rate... Snapchat has raised over $1.8 billion in its latest funding round. And yes, that's with a 'B': SEC filings published today (Thursday, May 26th) reveal Snapcha... Read More...

Guess Which Streaming Service Is Planning a $600 Million IPO?

Charlotte Hassan

May 11, 2016

China wants their share of the music streaming market... According to a report by the WSJ, a China-based music streaming service backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd, plans an IPO in the U.S. Goldman Sachs Grou... Read More...

The Future Sucks Very Badly for Pandora, Morgan Stanley Says…

Paul Resnikoff

April 20, 2015

Pandora is extremely unlikely to reach profitability any time soon, and may need hundreds of millions of dollars just to survive the next few years, according to a just-released Morgan Stanley assessment. ... Read More...

Neil Young’s Pono Kickstarter Approaching $5.5 Million…

Nina Ulloa

April 3, 2014

Neil Young's Pono Music Kickstarter campaign went live on March 11th. By March 18th the campaign had already raised over $4 million. As of 4:33 PM PST April 3rd, 2014 Pono had raised roughly $5.4 million.... Read More...

F*&k Bill Clinton! Justin Bieber Invests $1.1 Million In a New Social Network…

Nina Ulloa

November 5, 2013

Justin Bieber is the solution to teenagers' severe lack of social media resources... according to RockLive. RockLive previously built games that had social aspects to them, but now they have their sights o... Read More...

DanceOn, the YouTube Channel that Just Raised $4 Million…

Nina Ulloa

October 10, 2013

New media investors are now setting their sights on… YouTube channels? Indeed: this is part of a growing trend that includes companies like DreamWorks and Comcast. The latest entrant is AMC Networks , which ... Read More...

SFX Entertainment Flops Badly on Wall Street…

Nina Ulloa

October 9, 2013

Maybe Wall Street likes coke better than molly. Which brings us to SFX Entertainment, which is now the latest music-related IPO to crash-and-burn on day one. SFX was hoping to cash in on the current popularit... Read More...

DeliRadio Just Raised $9.35 Million…

Nina Ulloa

October 8, 2013

And after all that, the future of music may still be relatively lean-back. Which brings us to DeliRadio, which just raised $9.35 million in funding. DeliRadio is a web-based radio service that plays artists w... Read More...

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Jay Z Is Starting a Venture Capital Fund For Startups

Vadio Calls It Quits After Burning Through $11.8 Million In 4 Years

Want to Fund Someone? Fund an Emerging Artist

Breaking: Twitter Makes A Massive $70 Million Investment In SoundCloud

Snapchat Raises $1.8B In Funding Round, Predicts $1 Billion In Revenue by 2017

Guess Which Streaming Service Is Planning a $600 Million IPO?

The Future Sucks Very Badly for Pandora, Morgan Stanley Says…

Neil Young’s Pono Kickstarter Approaching $5.5 Million…

F*&k Bill Clinton! Justin Bieber Invests $1.1 Million In a New Social Network…

DanceOn, the YouTube Channel that Just Raised $4 Million…

SFX Entertainment Flops Badly on Wall Street…

DeliRadio Just Raised $9.35 Million…