| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.06.2026 | ContraVault, Maya Research, three others pocket funding; KV Toys inks M&A | ContraVault AI's founders (L to R) Isha Juneja, Sayan Sen and Tanmay Juneja
AI startups ContraVault, Maya Research, consumer platform Speedioo, music tech company Madverse Music and creator economy startup Influish secured funding in variou... |
| 15.06.2026 | Madverse Music Group Closes Funding | Madverse Music Group, a New Delhi, India-based music technology company raised an undisclosed amount in funding.
The round was led by Kobalt Founder Willard Ahdritz with participation from Mohnish Sani and Suraj Sani (SumoSan Ventures, USA)... |
| 17.04.2026 | Wits project pits African creators against AI music’s blind spots | Africa’s cultural contribution to global music is not reflected in the data being used to train generative AI systems, and the continent must move quickly to secure a “seat at the table” before it becomes a consumer rather than a shaper of ... |
| 27.03.2026 | Kandou AI bags $225M Series A, Kobalt is sold for €1.3B, and meet Europe's Microsoft alternative | This week, we tracked more than 55 tech funding deals worth over €850 million and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
Alongside the week’s top funding rounds, we’ve highlighted key industry ... |
| 14.08.2025 | Here are five British tech startups to look out for | A new cohort of Future Fifty tech firms is demonstrating exponential growth and attracting significant investment, reinforcing London’s position as a hub for dynamic scale-ups in this space.
These companies are making headlines across diver... |
| 19.03.2024 | Kobalt Music Group Announces Transactions to Increase Funding Capacity to More than $1 Billion | Secures ABS transaction structured by ATLAS SP Partners and refinanced credit facility from a Truist Securities-led syndicate
Builds on momentum from previously announced joint venture with Morgan Stanley
NEW YORK, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswir... |
| 04.03.2024 | Music Distribution Services Market Progressive Trends, Growth Opportunities and Revenue Forecast | WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES, March 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global Music distribution services industry size was valued at $911.87 Million in 2020, and is projected to reach $1,683.08 Million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.2% fr... |
| 06.03.2023 | Musictech startup Unhurd plugs in and counts off seven-figure raise | London-based musictech startup Unhurd has raised an undisclosed seven-figure amount in a seed investment round. According to the company, the capital will be used to further build out its self-serve marketing solution for artists, managemen... |
| 07.09.2022 | Kobalt Selects Francisco Partners to Invest In Company’s Next Phase | Investment Supports Furthering AMRA, Enriching Kobalt Technology Innovation, and Expanding Kobalt’s Footprint as the Leading Independent Global Music Publisher
LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO - SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 - Kobalt today announced that it... |
| 05.11.2020 | A New LA Company Aims to Give Fans a Way to Invest, Literally, in the Musicians They Love | AmplifyX launches next week to offer shares in musicians' future royalty income
Its first tranche is two Detroit-based musicians, each of whom are offering 20% of future royalties for $10,000 at an effective $25 share price
In the future, A... |
| 19.10.2020 | Startup HIFI Tracks Music Artists’ Royalties Revenue & Helps Put It In Their Pocket | Matt Pincus-backed HIFI, the brainchild of music tech entrepreneur Damian Manning, launches with two ... [+] products for music artists - Royalties Dashboard and Cash Flow.HIFI |
| 05.03.2019 | Music services company Kobalt is raising a big round that could exceed $100 million | Kobalt, a 19-year-old, London-based music services company that operates as both a music publisher and a service-based music company — among other things, it helps artists collect the royalties owed them — is reportedly raising a new round ... |
| 11.01.2018 | Avid Larizadeh Duggan, GV’s sole female GP, leaves to join music tech startup Kobalt | GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) has lost its one female general partner. London-based Avid Larizadeh Duggan is joining Kobalt, a New York-based music tech company that acts as a publisher and provides royalty tracking services for t... |
| 07.11.2017 | Kobalt Capital Closes Second Music Royalties Fund, at $600M | Kobalt Capital Ltd., a subsidiary of Kobalt, an independent music services company, closed its second managed fund, at $600M.
Led by UK pension fund RPMI Railpen, along with other institutional investors, the fund is comprised of $345m of e... |
| 06.11.2017 | Kobalt raises $600M to buy up (and monetize) more music copyrights | Kobalt, the music tech startup that has built a platform for rights holders to track incremental and full plays of music across a wide sea of platforms (in order to collect royalties on those plays), is announcing another big step in its bi... |
| 06.11.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, November 6 | MONDAY CATCH-UP
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. This week is already off to a busy start. Let’s dive right in.
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| 06.11.2017 | Kobalt Raises $600M | Kobalt Capital Ltd. announced it has closed its second managed fund to invest in music copyright, with a capacity of $600 million through $345 million of equity commitments plus debt. The investment fund is being led by UK pension fund, RPM... |
| 16.10.2017 | Kobalt Raises $14M in Series D Funding | Kobalt, an independent music services company built for artists, songwriters, publishers and labels, raised $14m in Series D funding.
The round, which brings total amount raised by the company to $89M, was led by Bill Maris’ Section 32. Mar... |
| 13.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, October 13 | SECRETS & MONEY
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| 13.10.2017 | Kobalt Music Names Bill Maris to Board of Directors | Kobalt, an independent music services company, built for artists, songwriters, publishers and labels as an alternative to the traditional music business model announced today that Bill Maris has joined the company’s board of directors. The ... |
| 12.10.2017 | Kobalt Music appoints Bill Maris to board of directors, Series D expands to $89M | - |
| 12.10.2017 | Music rights collection startup Kobalt adds another $14M at $789M valuation, Bill Maris joins board | When he was still at Google Ventures, Bill Maris led a round of funding into music royalty collecting startup Kobalt, to make one of the VC arms bigger bets in the world of digital music. Now that he’s moved on to start another firm, he’s t... |
| 08.05.2017 | Music royalty collector Kobalt nabs $75M led by Hearst Entertainment at $775M valuation | As music streaming continues to grow in ubiquity, a company that’s built a platform to collect royalties on music played across billions of streams is cashing in on the opportunity.
Kobalt, the European startup that has built technology and... |
| 08.05.2017 | Kobalt Music Raises $75M in Series D Funding | Kobalt, a NYC-based global music services company, raised $75m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Hearst Entertainment with participation from Balderton Capital and MSD Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to scale its platf... |
| 08.05.2017 | Kobalt Music Announces $75 Million Funding Round Led By Hearst Entertainment | Kobalt, the leading global music services company, today announced it has raised $75 million in growth capital. The Series D round was led by Hearst Entertainment with participation from Balderton Capital and MSD Capital.
Kobalt, which repr... |
| 08.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, May 8 | SWEATER VESTS AND PURSE WARS
New York startup SimpleReach has raised new funding and replaced its CEO, founder and former CEO Edward Kim tells Term Sheet. New funding for the “content data platform” startup totals $9 million, led by Spring ... |
| 08.05.2017 | Kobalt Music Announces $75M in Series D |
NEW YORK, NY, Leading global music services company, today announced it has raised $75 million in growth capital.
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| 08.05.2017 | Kobalt Music Announces $75 Million Funding Round Led By Hearst Entertainment | Kobalt, the leading global music services company, today announced it has raised $75 million in growth capital. The Series D round was led by Hearst Entertainment with participation from Balderton Capital and MSD Capital.
Kobalt, which repr... |
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| 04.08.2015 | Kobalt’s AMRA Inks Its First Licensing Deal: A Global Agreement With Apple Music | Two months ago, Kobalt — a startup whose technology tracks and collects music royalties from streaming music providers — acquired and revamped and royalty collection agency AMRA to ramp up its music licensing collection activities. Today, i... |
| 08.06.2015 | Kobalt Quietly Acquired AMRA To Launch Its Own Global Collection Group For Digital Music | Kobalt, the London-based startup that has built big-data technology to track and collect digital music royalties from across multiple streaming platforms, is turning up the volume on its business. The company has quietly acquired and redesi... |
| 27.02.2015 | Kobalt Raises $60M in Series C Funding | Kobalt, a music publishing and global music rights management services company, raised $60m in Series C funding.
Backers included with Google Ventures, MSD Capital and MSDC Management.
The company, which has raised $66m to date, intends to ... |
| 27.02.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/27/15 | Iotera, Knowmail, Getable, Xero, Twenty20, Metamarkets, Leankor, Branch Metrics, Silent Circle,
Seed stage
Iotera, a real-time GPS tracking device that can be used to track a whole host of things, raised a $1 million round of seed funding r... |
| 26.02.2015 | Kobalt, whose tech collects royalties for music royalty, gets $60M from Google Ventures, Michael Dell | Kobalt Music, which uses a proprietary technology to speed up the collection of music royalties, has reportedly closed a $60 million series C round of financing from Google Ventures and Michael Dell.
The New York-based Kobalt built algorith... |
| 26.02.2015 | Kobalt Tunes Into $60M Led By Google Ventures For Its Music Rights Collection Platform | The rise of digital music services has had some musicians up in arms over the way (and how much) they are paid. Now a startup that has built a better way to track this is stepping up its role in the game. Kobalt — which has developed platfo... |
| 26.02.2015 | Kobalt, whose tech collects royalties for music royalty, gets $60M from Google Ventures, Michael Dell | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kobalt Music, which uses a proprietary technology... |
| 04.11.2014 | Spotify royalties have passed iTunes for European musicians, report says | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Apple may want to queue up a good blues playlist ... |
| 04.11.2014 | Spotify royalties have passed iTunes for European musicians, report says | Apple may want to queue up a good blues playlist on iTunes.
In a report released today at the Web Summit in Dublin, music publisher Kobalt said that for the first time royalties collected by its European musicians from Spotify have eclipsed... |
| 04.11.2014 | In Europe, Spotify Royalties Overtake iTunes Earnings By 13% | Spotify may be smarting from the removal of Taylor Swift’s music catalogue from its platform, and Taylor Swift may not care, since she is riding a sales blockbuster in the form of her new album 1989, but it turns out that in the bigger pict... |
| 05.06.2014 | Kobalt Music Raises $115M | Kobalt Music Group, a global music services company, announced that its investment subsidiary, Kobalt Capital Ltd., raised a further $115 million in expansion capital.
The investors were not named. Backers in previous rounds included Balder... |
| 04.06.2014 | Kobalt Music Group Raised $140M |
NEW YORK, NY, Kobalt Music Group has raised $140 million.
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| 04.06.2014 | Kobalt Raises $140M To Scale Up Its Digital Royalty Collection Business | Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a possible IPO from Spotify and a review of music licensing rules by the Justice Department are some of the big developments that have put the streaming music industry into the spotlight ... |
| 12.02.2008 | Music publishing: Kobalt banks on broadening revenue streams for artists | updated
There are five arms to the music industry: The record label, publisher (sometimes combined), managers, artists, and fans. While we’ve previously examined labels, and surveyed numerous sites that help fans in their attempt to get mus... |
| 07.02.2008 | Kobalt wins funding for web-based music royalty tracking | Kobalt, a London-based developer of online royalties collection and management services, has won £8 million of investment from Balderton Capital. As part of the deal, the firm now holds a minority stake in the publishing company, and Balder... |
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| - | Kobalt raises $140M to scale up its digital royalty collection business | Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a possible IPO from Spotify and a review of music licensing rules by the Justice Department are some of the big developments that have put the streaming music industry into the spotlight ... |
| - | Kobalt Music raises $75m in Series D | We are excited to share the news that Kobalt Music today announced it has raised $75 million in growth capital. The Series D round was led by Hearst Entertainment, and we are delighted to participate alongside MSD Capital.
We initially inv... |