Startup Mogul has processed more than $1.5bn of royalties since its launch last year. Now it has raised some more money of its own: a $5m funding round led by the Yamaha […]
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Social music-remixing startup Hook raises $10m funding round
Social music-remixing startup Hook has announced a $10m Series A funding round led by VC firm Khosla Ventures.
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Sound Royalties broke its ‘funded contracts’ record last year
Providing financing for independent musicians is increasingly-big business, and Sound Royalties is one of the most prominent companies dishing out the DIY dollars. The company says it broke its own […]
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Wax Poetics raises $1m to help musicians sell rare items
How much would you pay for Mariah Carey’s 1988 demo cassette? It’s a moot question because someone has already bought it – paying just over $54k on the Wax Poetics auction site last […]
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UK music startups raised £14m of public funding since 2020
In a busy day for announcements about music-related funding of different kinds, industry body Music Technology UK has published its latest report: focusing on government investment in music-tech startups. It calculates […]
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Connect Music raises $80m funding for catalogue acquisitions
New entrants are still emerging in the music catalogue-buying sector, while established players have been swelling their wallets with new funding. The latest example is Memphis-based Connect Music, with $80m of […]
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ElevenLabs raises $500m funding round at an $11bn valuation
We’ve been writing about AI company ElevenLabs increasingly regularly in the past year, including its first licensing deals with Kobalt and Merlin and its recent humans-meet-AI album featuring Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel. […]
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Liverpool City Council launches grant programme for grassroots venues
Liverpool’s council is introducing a new support scheme for grassroots venues, delivered in partnership with charity the Music Venue Trust.
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Gaming growth fuels $2.5m seed-funding round for Levellr
We’ve written regularly about Levellr, the startup that helps artists and other brands build and understand their communities on Discord and other similar platforms. That includes several rounds of funding: a […]
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Music-finance roundup: Sony Music x GIC, Primary Wave x Run
The global majors are as hungry to snap up interesting catalogues as investment firms are, but they can’t do it all alone.
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AI-video firm Higgsfield is attracting artists and investors alike
More than 15 million people are creating GenAI videos on the service of startup Higgsfield, which recently raised $130m in a Series A round.
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Merlin CEO talks AI, funding and TikTok: ‘It’s about independence and agency’
Charlie Lexton became CEO Merlin at the start of this year, but has worked for the independent licensing agency since its earliest days.
