Investor + VC Financing

Within just three months of launching, Patreon Inc. has raised $2.1 million in angel and venture financing. Investors include Freestyle Capital, Charles River Ventures, Reddit cofounders Alexis Ohanian and Tyle... Read More...

Social commerce platform Chirpify closes its series A round, the first round of venture funding, at $6 million dollars after announcing today that it has added an additional $4 million. The additional funding c... Read More...

Consider this sudden shift: in late May, year-to-date financing of music startups and companies was more than double the same level in 2012.  By the end of June, it was suddenly 10.3 percent below last year's m... Read More...

It's not Spotify level funding, but it's pretty damn big — especially for a music play.  Or, mostly a music play: enter Shazam, who just scored a monstrous, $40 million funding round from Carlos Slim-headed Ame... Read More...

That's right: financing for music-related startups and companies is absolutely, positively booming.  Which means despite all the past carnage, there's still lots of 'blue sky' hope. As of today, year-2013 fi... Read More...

The first quarter numbers are in, and they're dripping with hope.  According to Digital Music News first quarter tallies, music financing topped an impressive $129.7 million during the first three months of thi... Read More...

The music industry: it's either a casino rife with debaucherous gambling, a field teeming with fertile growth possibilities, or just a really weird place to be right now.  The early-2013 tally was bumped by Mus... Read More...

Is this a simple case of dumb money, or the beginnings of a totally new industry? Because for all the collapse and total devaluation being experienced by the music industry, there are still plenty of people wil... Read More...

Anyone who thinks investment in music is 'drying up' clearly hasn't looked at the numbers.  Because with less than two weeks left in 2012, investment in music-related startups and companies has reached $619.3 m... Read More...