Tag: investment

The dopamine hit from clickbait headlines will do for us all at some point. Nordic Business Insider has picked up on an interview with Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek on TV4 in his homeland of Sweden and suggested that, “reading...

You cannot move these days for music conferences about the blockchain. But it appears it is way, way more than a few evangelists seeing this as the solution to all the digital accounting, metadata and transparency issues...

A plastic cow sits on a desk in an Old Street office. “I press this,” said the co-founder of the biggest UK music/tech disaster in living memory, hitting the synthetic bovine’s head so it emitted a loud...

A new report from CB Insights and KPMG claims that the amount of global venture-capital investment in the second quarter of 2016 was up 3% year-on-year to $27.4bn.

Cloud-based music creation startup BandLab is on the acquisition trail. It has acquired European rival Composr, which has its own platform for music composition on iOS and web.

Funding may be reportedly hard to come by for some music startups in 2016, but in the brave (nearly) new world of virtual reality, investors are diving in with their wallets.

The next music-focused crowdfunding service may be Australian startup EthiumLive, which is planning to launch at the Web Summit conference this November.

Who said that funding for music startups was drying up? Admittedly, Festicket is one of the companies that doesn’t require licensing deals for recorded music. Instead, it’s a company that sells festival tickets and travel...

Gossip about Tidal being up for sale have been floating in the ether for at least half a year, even if the potential suitors (Samsung, Rhapsody, Google) have changed.

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...

With the first crop of streaming analytics companies acquired by bigger fish – Semetric by Apple and Next Big Sound by Pandora respectively – there’s a new wave of independent music-data startups in the industry. One...

Founded in 2010 as an indie studio in Finland, Supercell has since become one of the biggest mobile games companies in the world. Games including Clash of Clans and Hay Day made it $2.3bn of revenues and a $924m net profit...