The panorama of various funding choices for indie artists, labels, and distributors is hotting up.
Simply yesterday (January 20), a brand new financing platform made itself identified, with ambitions to develop into the “largest funder of unbiased music globally”.
That new firm, Pipeline, backed by Matt Spetzler’s funding agency Jamen Capital, stated it has raised over USD $200 million in capital and goals to assist unbiased music firms “unlock the worth of their mental property, in an effort to drive development and scale”.
Elsewhere within the house, distinguished music financing platform beatBread has deployed over $100 million throughout 1,700 funding agreements since its founding in 2020. The corporate raised $124 million in recent funding final 12 months from backers together with fairness capital from Citi, Deciens Capital, Mucker Capital, and Benefit Capital.
Now, music funding firm Duetti has raised $200 million in new funding.
Duetti’s funding consists of a $50 million Sequence C fairness spherical led by Raine Companions, a $125 million non-public securitization, and a $25 million enlargement of an current credit score line.
Following the deal, Joe Puthenveetil, Companion at The Raine Group, will be part of Duetti’s board.
Since its founding in 2022, Duetti has raised over $635 million, together with greater than $100 million in fairness. The corporate has labored with greater than 1,100 artists, songwriters, and different music creators throughout over 40 nations, buying parts of their music catalogs whereas offering advertising and marketing and administration companies.
The most recent funding spherical comes lower than a 12 months after Duetti raised $200 million in a debt financing composed of a $150 million financial institution facility and a $50 million aspect facility from Viola Credit score.
Duetti stated that it’s signing over 80 offers monthly on the again of its enlargement into publishing rights, along with its acquisitions of grasp recording rights. It additionally presents advertising and marketing and catalog administration companies resembling playlisting by way of a community of greater than 3,000 playlists with over 5 million followers throughout DSPs.
“The normal music trade and the financially pushed catalog buyout funds should not capable of maintain tempo and adapt their infrastructure to the explosive development of the unbiased music sector.”
Lior Tibon, Duetti
The corporate operates with a 65-person crew throughout New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, London and Rio de Janeiro. Over 30% of its offers in 2025 got here from outdoors the US, with exercise in France, the UK, Germany, Brazil and Mexico.
Lior Tibon, CEO and Co-Founding father of Duetti, stated: “The normal music trade and the financially pushed catalog buyout funds should not capable of maintain tempo and adapt their infrastructure to the explosive development of the unbiased music sector.”
The brand new fairness funding will go towards increasing Duetti’s know-how infrastructure, enhancing advertising and marketing companies, and rising its worldwide operations. Tibon says the corporate is constructing proprietary databases and methods to determine and consider unbiased music catalogs.
Added Tibon: “This new funding permits us to proceed constructing proprietary databases and methods to determine, predict, and successfully handle and assist music catalogs of unbiased creators, the quickest rising and most enjoyable phase of the trade.”
“Duetti has democratized the trade by enabling artists at each stage of their careers to monetize their rights and entry the advertising and marketing and development sources supplied by a contemporary label and writer.”
Joe Puthenveetil and Fred Davis, The Raine Group
Joe Puthenveetil and Fred Davis, companions at The Raine Group, stated: “We’re excited to associate with Lior and crew as they develop a next-generation music firm that empowers unbiased creators. Duetti has democratized the trade by enabling artists at each stage of their careers to monetize their rights and entry the advertising and marketing and development sources supplied by a contemporary label and writer.”
The $125 million securitization marks Duetti’s second such transaction, which, in accordance with the platform, brings “its grasp belief whole to $205 million”. The corporate accomplished what it calls the primary asset-backed securitization (ABS) transaction primarily backed by unbiased artists’ catalogs in October 2024. Duetti says it plans to proceed utilizing the securitization market as a financing supply.
Duetti presents what it describes as versatile deal buildings, shopping for a portion of artists’ catalogs fairly than buying full possession.
Duetti’s backers now embrace The Raine Group, Flexpoint Ford, Nyca Companions, Viola Ventures, and Roc Nation. The corporate was based by Tibon, who previously served as Tidal’s COO, alongside Christopher Nolte, a former Enterprise Improvement govt at Apple Music.
Duetti is amongst a number of music firms which have dipped their toes in asset-backed securitization. The latest ones embrace Recognition Music Group with its three-times oversubscribed $372 million ABS providing, Harmony’s $1.77 billion transaction and SESAC Music’s $889 million entire enterprise securitization.
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