Despite a damaging fallout with the White House – and ongoing lawsuits from music publishers – AI company Anthropic continues to have no problems raising huge amounts of funding from tech giants. […]
Tag: Funding
Posted inNews
OpenAI raises $122bn and says it’s now making $2bn a month
What was that about OpenAI raising a $110bn funding round valuing the company at $730bn? The AI giant has now updated those figures.
Posted inNews
Seeker Music Group bags $267m in asset-backed securitisation
A quick definition for readers outside the music-finance world: in this context, an asset-backed securitisation is when the future income streams from music catalogues are packaged into tradable financial instruments […]
Posted inNews
Bridge Conference and Jukebox Ventures launch £1m accelerator
We like to keep a keen eye on new opportunities for music-tech startups to develop and get funding. Croatian event Bridge Conference has teamed up with Jukebox Ventures to do […]
Posted inNews
Too Lost bags investment with acquisitions and advances in mind
Music distributor and tech firm Too Lost has been splashing its cash recently, making a ‘seven-figure’ investment in startup AntiFragile Equity Partners last October. Now it has some new funding of its […]
Posted inNews
Talent-discovery firm Surf Music raises $6.3m funding round
Japanese firm Surf Music emerged onto our radar in 2023 as a platform to connect musicians with labels, sync licensors and other opportunities globally. It was a finalist in our Music Ally SI:X […]
Posted inNews
Create Music Group raises $450m at a valuation of $2.2bn
Create Music Group (CMG) has been a regular acquirer of independent labels and other music companies. Now it has raised new funding.
Posted inSouth Asia
Kaafi Aalsi, Inshallah Babes have won the 2026 TFA Awards for Music
There’s a severe lack of grants for Indian independent musicians at the early stage of their careers. Bengaluru-based non-profit trust Toto Funds The Arts (TFA), which was set up in […]
Posted inNews
OpenAI raises $110bn and says it has 900m weekly ChatGPT users
Speculation about an imminent wallet-busting funding round for AI giant OpenAI has been building in recent months, but now the round has been announced – so the figures involved are finally official. […]
Posted inNews
Report: Amazon to invest up to $50bn in OpenAI’s next funding round
Money has been pouring in to the leading lights of the AI sector, but OpenAI’s next funding round could set a new bar – aided by the tech giants keen to […]
Posted inNews
Royalty-management startup Mogul raises $5m funding round
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 […]
Posted inNews
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.
