Firebird Music Holdings has a new $750m fund for acquiring music catalogues, following its investments in management firms and labels.
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Live-focused superfans startup Swsh raises $4m funding round
Swsh is the latest superfan-focused music startup, but its focus is on a specific aspect of fandom: live experiences.
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Francisco Partners exits its investment in Muse Group
Muse Group is the parent firm of brands and companies including Ultimate Guitar, Hal Leonard, MuseScore and Audacity among others: a key company in the music-education and tech space. Its […]
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Curated music-streaming service Cantilever raises £250k from independent labels
UK-based startup Cantilever has raised £250k of pre-seed funding from a group of 20 independent labels and individuals from those companies.
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Suno raises $400m funding and teases its first licensed model
Speculation about a monster funding round for AI-music firm Suno has been running rife in recent months, but yesterday the official announcement came: a $400m Series D round which Suno […]
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Bank of America is ‘Side by Side’ with Tomorrow’s Warriors
The 35th-birthday-year festivities continue for UK talent-development organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors – and now it has some big financial muscle joining the party: Bank of America. The latter is the partner […]
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MTUK report warns of big decline in UK music-tech funding
It’s SXSW London this week, with all manner of talks and events focusing on music and tech in the UK’s capital. But a report released as it kicks off has […]
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LabelWorx launches $10m fund for indie electronic-music labels
LabelWorx has been building its distribution and label-services business for 15 years, focusing on clients in the electronic-music world. Now it wants to provide some of them with funding too. […]
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Shamrock Capital closes new fund with $813m to spend on rights
The last time investment firm Shamrock Capital was making headlines, it was because it had sold the recordings rights to Taylor Swift’s first six albums back to the artist in 2025, winning […]
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Anthropic’s new funding round sees valuation approaching $1tn
Its tangle with music publishers continues to show no sign of impeding Anthropic’s ability to raise absolutely tons of money from investors and tech giants. The AI firm is reportedly […]
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Scavenger-hunt platform PassPass raises ‘seven-figure’ funding
Earlier this year, we wrote about scavenger-hunts startup PassPass’s drive to get music artists to use its platform in their marketing campaigns. Perhaps news of its latest funding round will persuade them. […]
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Suno reportedly looking to raise $1/4 billion+ in latest funding round
Only six months ago, GenAI music platform Suno announced a $250m Series-C funding round. That valued the company at $2.45bn and took its total funding (post seed and Series A rounds) to […]
