Verve Adds $18.5 Million For Fan-To-Fan Concert Marketing

Verve has raised an additional $18.5 million to expand its fan-to-fan peer concert marketing and ticket sales platform. The UK based startup, formerly called StreetTeam, counts some of the globe's. Continue reading

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Jay Z’s Roc Nation Announces New Startup Platform ARRIVE

Jay Z is thought of as the consummate hip hop businessman; and certainly he's visible and often successful in multiple arenas. Now, he's created a vehicle to help startups dubbed. Continue reading

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Jay Z To Launch Venture Capital Fund

Jay Z has long been a player. In this case, we don't mean cheating on Beyonce. We are referring to his early stage investments in everything from Uber to JetSmarter.. Continue reading

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Music Fibre Launches A Directory Of Music Industry Resources

Here Music Fibre creator Matt Benn explains his new resource, designed in such a way as to enable artists and others in the music industry to be able to find. Continue reading

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Music Streamer CÜR On Brink Of Bankruptcy After Raising More Than $15 Million, Stock Falls 54%

CÜR Media, the parent company of unlaunched streaming service CÜR Music is on the brink of bankruptcy, despite raising millions. The CÜR collapse follows the recent $18 million failure of social music service. Continue reading

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TUE. BRIEF: Spotify, Believe VC Raises $2.5B • DJ Kahled’s Key To #1 • Whyd Exits Streaming • More

Tuesday 8.9.16 Music Business News From Around The Web STARTUPS REJOICE! One of music tech biggest investors, Technology Crossover Ventures, just raised $2.5B more. Updated continuously under our More News tab

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Obama, Meet Kafka [Chris Castle]

This piece examines how the Obama years have affected the music industry as well as how, according to Chris Castle, a suspiciously close relationship between the White House and Google. Continue reading

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Stagelink Closes 2nd Seed Round For Crowdsourced Concerts

[UPDATED] Only playing the places where your fans are is the holy grail of touring. Several startups have tried to achieve that  goal by crowdsourcing live shows.  Stagelink is the. Continue reading

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Would You Like Your Music Startup Featured On THE PITCH?

Despite rumors of a bubble and investor reluctance to touch anything that might require music licensing, promising new music and music tech startups are popping up daily.  To help find. Continue reading

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4 Top Internet Trends That Will Impact Musicians

Mary Meeker presented her 2015 Internet Trends report at the Code Conference in Cali and it’s filled with key information for artists. You can read the whole thing here but below I’ve. Continue reading

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