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Jay Z Is Starting a Venture Capital Fund For Startups

Daniel Sanchez
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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...

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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...
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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

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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
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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...

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

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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...
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Neil Young’s Pono Kickstarter Approaching $5.5 Million…

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

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

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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...
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SFX Entertainment Flops Badly on Wall Street…

Nina Ulloa
October 9, 2013
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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...
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DeliRadio Just Raised $9.35 Million…

Nina Ulloa
October 8, 2013
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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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