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Tag: Acquisitions

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AI music firm DAACI acquires fellow startups MXX and WiSL

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UK-based AI music firm DAACI has made its first two acquisitions, of fellow AI startups MXX and WiSL, for undisclosed amounts.

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Turntable Live acquires fellow social-music startup JQBX

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Turntable Live has acquired JQBX. No, NOT fractionalised royalties startup JKBX with a K. This is social music app JQBX with a Q.

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Utopia Music sells Sentric to Believe – but what happens next?

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Distributor Believe is buying publishing-tech firm Sentric from Utopia Music, in what has been a tough time for the latter company.

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Royalty-processing firm Salt buys music-credits startup Session

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Session is the music credits startup founded by superstar Swedish songwriters Björn Ulvaeus, Max Martin and Niclas Molinder.

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Kakao wants to buy a bigger stake in K-Pop firm SM Entertainment

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Things are moving fast in South Korean tech company Kakao’s efforts to buy a stake in K-Pop firm SM Entertainment.

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Tuned Global hits the dancefloor with Pacemaker acquisition

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Last year, we wrote about how music-tech firm Pacemaker – best known for its innovative DJ apps – was up for sale.

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Music credits firm Jaxsta buys music biz social network Vampr

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Say what you like about whether the music industry really needs its own ‘LinkedIn of the music biz’, but these companies are acquirable.

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SourceAudio sues Utopia Music over alleged acquisition collapse

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Utopia Music bought a lot of companies during its rise to prominence in 2021 and 2022, but a firm that it *didn’t* buy is now a headache.

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Napster’s first web3 acquisition is music NFTs startup Mint Songs

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Napster is buying Mint Songs, a startup that had raised $4.3m of funding to build its music NFTs marketplace.

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Now Hybe moves to take a stake in K-Pop firm SM Entertainment

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We wrote about tech firm Kakao buying a stake in Korean music company SM Entertainment earlier this week, but now it’s been joined by Hybe.

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Hybe makes a move into hip-hop with Quality Control acquisition

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge February 9, 2023May 11, 2023

It’s been clear for some time that Hybe’s global ambitions stretch well beyond the K-Pop that built the company in South Korea.

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Songtradr agrees acquisition deal for B2B music firm 7digital

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge February 9, 2023May 11, 2023

Music licensing firm Songtradr has long had an eye for an acquisition: Big Sync Music in 2019, CueSongs in 2020, Pretzel in 2021…

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