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 recognized, with ambitions to develop into the “largest funder of impartial 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 impartial music corporations “unlock the worth of their mental property, with a purpose to drive development and scale”.
Elsewhere within the house, outstanding 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 contemporary 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 secured $200 million in contemporary financing.
The financing is led by a $50 million Sequence C fairness funding by Raine Companions, the flagship development fairness fund of The Raine Group, alongside a second $125 million personal securitization and a $25 million improve of an current credit score facility.
In reference to the fairness financing, Joe Puthenveetil, Companion at The Raine Group, will be part of the Duetti Board of Administrators.
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 providers.
The newest 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 per thirty days 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 providers akin to playlisting by a community of greater than 3,000 playlists with over 5 million followers throughout DSPs.
“The standard music trade and the financially pushed catalog buyout funds usually are not in a position to preserve tempo and adapt their infrastructure to the explosive development of the impartial music sector.”
Lior Tibon, Duetti
The corporate operates with a 65-person group 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 standard music trade and the financially pushed catalog buyout funds usually are not in a position to preserve tempo and adapt their infrastructure to the explosive development of the impartial music sector.”
The brand new fairness funding will go towards increasing Duetti’s know-how infrastructure, enhancing advertising and marketing providers, and rising its worldwide operations. Tibon says the corporate is constructing proprietary databases and methods to establish and consider impartial music catalogs.
Added Tibon: “This new funding permits us to proceed constructing proprietary databases and methods to establish, predict, and successfully handle and assist music catalogs of impartial 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 assets provided 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 group as they develop a next-generation music firm that empowers impartial 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 assets provided by a contemporary label and writer.”
The $125 million securitization marks Duetti’s second such transaction, which, in keeping 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 impartial 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 Growth govt at Apple Music.
Duetti is amongst a couple of music corporations which have dipped their toes in asset-backed securitization. The newest 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 complete enterprise securitization.
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