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About eight months after closing a $90 million spherical, indie-focused catalog investor Duetti has introduced $114 million in recent funding.
Duetti reached out right this moment with phrase of its newest capital inflow, stemming largely from an $80 million asset-backed securitization. Touted by representatives as “the primary occasion of unbiased music rights being securitized with institutional Wall Road traders,” this Barclays-structured securitization arrived on the heels of Concord’s own ABS.
In the meantime, the remaining $34 million resulted from fairness financing attributable to Flexpoint Ford in addition to current backers Nyca Companions and Viola Ventures, based on Duetti. Unsurprisingly, the corporate, which says it offers in tracks which might be a minimum of two years outdated with north of 500,000 annual streams apiece, intends to make use of the newly obtained capital to bankroll extra IP purchases.
However Duetti additionally touched on plans to “broaden its proprietary forecasting, pricing, sourcing, and advertising expertise” with the just-secured $114 million. These tech enhancements will gas “even higher data-driven offers with quick turnarounds,” based on the enterprise, which is eyeing quite a lot of advertising and sync alternatives as well.
Plus, reps pointed to New York Metropolis-based Duetti’s goal of increasing in cities together with Los Angeles and Miami. All advised, the corporate has raised north of $235 million since launch – “greater than every other music startup up to now three years,” per the identical reps.
“We consider we’re main the best way in educating the capital markets on the numerous long-term worth of the unbiased music sector,” weighed in Duetti co-founder and CEO Lior Tibon. “The variety of unbiased artists is rising at an unprecedented price, and Duetti is right here to make sure they’ve entry to differentiated financing options.
“Duetti will now have the ability to make the most of extra various and environment friendly financing sources, enabling us to considerably broaden and supply extra funding choices for unbiased artists, exterior of the main label ecosystem,” concluded the previous Deutsche Financial institution affiliate and Tidal COO Tibon.
Shifting the main target to the broader catalog panorama, October of 2024, in step with well-documented traits, has delivered fewer purchases than its 2023 counterpart. (DMN Professional’s one-stop Music Industry Funding Tracker has compiled these and different offers together with dates, valuation info, the precise rights at hand, and extra.)
Nonetheless, the present month has introduced a number of notably high-value transactions – amongst them Sony Music’s reportedly $400 million deal for Pink Floyd’s recordings and NIL, Litmus Music’s pact with Randy Newman, and Harmony’s $217.3 million play for a set of Daddy Yankee property.
