Our partners and investors
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world's leading music company and is comprised of two core businesses: recorded music and music publishing. The company discovers, develops, markets and distributes recorded music through a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees in 77 countries, representing 98% of the music market.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp. is the world's only publicly-traded major music company and comprises an array of businesses aimed at helping artists achieve long-term creative and financial success while providing consumers with the highest-quality music content available.
WMG is engaged in the recorded music business (including artist services) and the music publishing business.
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history.
Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
finetunes
For more than four years, finetunes has been a pioneer in creating opportunities for independent labels in the digital music markets. Initially focused on providing digital solutions for the German independent labels, the Hamburg-based company now represents more than 1,000 record labels from around the world and has a network of satellite offices in London, Paris, Montreal, Tokyo and Barcelona.
Merlin Network
Merlin is a non-profit organisation charged with representing independent music companies in enhancing the commercial exploitation of their copyrights on a global basis.
With members in over 25 countries, Merlin is the first rights body focusing purely on the interests of the global independent music sector, which collectively represents 30% of all music sales.
The Orchard
Headquartered in New York and London with operations in 25 markets around the world, The Orchard is a full service media company specializing in the distribution of music and video entertainment. Founded in 1997, the company is a global leader in digital marketing and distribution, driving sales across more than 730 digital storefronts and mobile carriers in 69 countries.
GEMA
The acronym GEMA is the abbreviation for: Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte or Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights.
GEMA represents the rights of 60,000 members - composers, lyricists, music publishers - in Germany and over 1 million international rights owners.
DuMont Venture
DuMont Venture Holding GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of the publishing group M. DuMont Schauberg (Cologne, Germany). DuMont Venture invests in growth companies in the fields of digital media and IT and provides capital for their development, market entry and internationalisation.
Earlybird
Earlybird Venture Capital is one of the most successful European venture investors. Currently, Earlybird manages over 430 million Euros of assets for an international investor base. Earlybird invests in innovative, fast growing companies with outstanding management teams and high growth potential in international markets.
NRW.BANK
As the state development bank of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW.BANK has implemented a wide range of financial development tools. Promoting technology and innovation is one of the main tasks of NRW.BANK.
Klaus Wecken
Klaus Wecken has been a co-founder, partner and CEO of various companies in Germany and Switzerland, especially the KHK Software AG in Main, which he sold to the English Sage Group in 1997. From 1999 to 2009 he was founder and principal shareholder of Switzerland's leading property development company Tivona AG, which was integrated into Jelmoli Holding AG and then in the Swiss Prime Site AG (PLC) in 2009.