October 2025: Cynthia Katz, partner at Fox Rothschild. Acquisition position: Cynthia Katz is a partner at major US law firm Fox Rothschild where she specialises in mergers and acquisitions, as […]
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All Def Digital raises $10m funding round
Russell Simmons’ online video firm All Def Digital has raised a $10m Series B funding round. The round was led by Third Wave Digital Partners, with VC firms WPP Ventures, Greycroft Partners and Andreessen Horowitz chipping in, among other investors, taking the company’s funding total to $18m since its launch.
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Beatport gets new boss as investors question SFX plans
Dance-focused site Beatport has a new boss, Greg Consiglio, who has moved across from a role as president and COO of its parent company SFX Entertainment. “The moves underway at […]
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InternetQ spins off music streaming service Akazoo
Akazoo? Bless you! No, sorry, Akazoo is one of the lesser-reported streaming music services, although it has 1.1m paying subscribers in south-east Asia and eastern Europe according to the Financial […]
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GiggedIn raises $500k in new funding
Australian live music crowdfunding and ticketing platform GiggedIn has secured $500k in seed funding from a range of investors including BlueChilli Venture Fund, Blacksheep Capital, QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, Dominet […]
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Snapchat is raising $650m from investors including Alibaba
Messaging app Snapchat has grown like a weed to 100 million daily active users, while striking a series of video licensing deals to launch its Discover section. How is it […]
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Vidmind raises $30m for white label video streaming service
Israeli startup Vidmind has raised $30m in new funding from Russian retail chain Trellas for its white label video streaming service. This gives Trellas a majority stake in the company […]
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Universal invests in ROLI for keyboard and music software development
Universal Music is among a group of strategic investors in the Seaboard Grand, a new type of keyboard where its rubber leys allow players to bend notes much like a […]
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Investor Dan Gilbert excited about Genius’ future beyond rap annotations
Finance and sports mogul Dan Gilbert chipped in to the recent $40m funding round for Genius (the company formerly known as Rap Genius), and now he’s been blogging about how […]
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Twitter raises $200m at a valuation of $3.7bn
Is Twitter worth $3.7 billion? That’s what investors think. The company has taken a new round of financing with Kleiner Perkins as the lead, for a rumoured $200 million injection. […]
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Napster revenues up 5.7%, but investors are revolting
Napster has announced first-quarter revenues of $30.7 million, up 5.7% from the same period last year. The company’s losses from continuing operations fell, meanwhile, from $7.5 million in the first […]
