Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk Management, and Nettwerk One Publishing.
Established in 1984, the Vancouver-based company was originally created by Nettwerk principals Terry McBride, Mark Jowett, Ric Arboit and Dan Fraser, as a record label to distribute recordings by the band Moev, but the label quickly expanded in Canada and internationally, ultimately becoming one of the largest and most influential independent record labels in the world. Initially specializing in electronic music genres such as alternative dance and industrial, the label also became a powerful player in pop and rock in the late 1980s and 1990s, with label and management clients including Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Dido and Barenaked Ladies.
Today, Nettwerk continues to achieve critical and commercial success with label, management and publishing rosters, including fun., Passenger, Father John Misty, Mike Posner, Guster, Family Of The Year, Ólafur Arnalds, and Perfume Genius.
Established in 1984, the Vancouver-based company was originally created by Nettwerk principals Terry McBride, Mark Jowett, Ric Arboit and Dan Fraser, as a record label to distribute recordings by the band Moev, but the label quickly expanded in Canada and internationally, ultimately becoming one of the largest and most influential independent record labels in the world. Initially specializing in electronic music genres such as alternative dance and industrial, the label also became a powerful player in pop and rock in the late 1980s and 1990s, with label and management clients including Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Dido and Barenaked Ladies.
Today, Nettwerk continues to achieve critical and commercial success with label, management and publishing rosters, including fun., Passenger, Father John Misty, Mike Posner, Guster, Family Of The Year, Ólafur Arnalds, and Perfume Genius.
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $10.25M
Founded date: 1984
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 07.10.2021 | Vistara Ca... | vistaracap... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 30.04.2013 | - | $10.25M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
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| 05.03.2026 | Create Music Group: $450 Million Funding At $2.2 Billion Valuation Raised For Music And Media Platform | Create Music Group announced the completion of a $450 million funding round, valuing the Los Angeles–based music and media platform at $2.2 billion. The round includes a mix of new equity and debt capital that will support the company’s con... |
| 30.04.2013 | Nettwerk Music Group Raises $10.25M in Equity Financing | Nettwerk Music Group Inc., a Vancouver, Canada-based independent music company that offers a unified suite of management, marketing and publishing services, raised $10.25m in equity growth financing. Backers included HBC Investments, existi... |
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| 05.03.2007 | Barenaked Ladies: New Album. Free. No DRM. Now. | I’ve been writing about the Amie Street music site since their launch last July. Their model has the potential to disrupt the music industry from the bottom up: Bands and labels upload music, which is downloadable in DRM-free MP3 format. Th... |
| 15.12.2006 | JamGlue Launches "Remixing for the Masses" | JamGlue, one of the YCombinator companies, publicly launched today. JamGlue is an online community, similar to SpliceMusic, where you can listen to or mix music from a library of tracks and other mixes. JamGlue was originally in private bet... |
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