Music Tech Investments to Date
As a follow-up to my post from last week, below are music tech related investments, acquisitions and M&A deals to date. If you know of others, you can add them by commenting to this post:
Third Quarter 2009:
- HMV buys 50 percent of 7Digital for €7.7 million Euros (about $11 million USD; September 3, 2009)
- MOG raises $5 million (August 27, 2009)
- ShowClix secures series A (terms not disclosed; August 27, 2009)
- RightsFlow raises $1.5 million (August 26, 2009)
- Audible Magic raises $1.3 million (August 21, 2009)
- MySpace acquires iLike for $20 million (August 19, 2009)
- Thumbplay gets $2 million (August 19, 2009)
- Qtrax announces investment from partners in Asia (terms not disclosed; August 18, 2009)
- FanSnap raises $5 million (August 17, 2009)
- OurStage raises $3 million (August 11, 2209)
- Ustream raises $2 million (August 11, 2009)
- RadioTime raises $900K (August 7, 2009)
- Bandsintown closes $200 thousand as a result of LaunchBox (August 05, 2009)
- Spotify raises $50 million (August 04, 2009)
- Melodis developer of Midomi raises $4 million (August 04, 2009)
- EMI receives an infusion of $492 million (July 30, 2009)
- Pandora raises $35 million (July 10, 2009)
- Bertelsmann and KKR form music rights joint venture valued around $347 million (July 08, 2009)
- Sony invests in IODA (terms not disclosed; July 02, 2009)
- The Pirate Bay acquired for $7.7 million (June 30, 2009)
- Terra Firma invests an additional $45 million in new financing for EMI (May 29, 2009)
- MXP4 raises $2.7 million (May 15, 2009)
- Slacker raises $10 million (May 14, 2009)
- Imeem receives last minute funding (terms not disclosed; May 07, 2009)
- Goom Radio receives a $16 million first round of funding (April 14, 2009)
- SoundCloud raises €2.5 million Euros (about $3.3 USD; April 14, 2009)
- Radionomy raises $775K (March 25, 2009)
- Buzz Media raises $12.5 million (March 20, 2009)
- Nimbit raises $1 million (March 06, 2009)
- M3X Media raises $10.5 million (February 26, 2009)
- Slicethepie lands $1.4 million in additional capital (February 19, 2009)
- TicketMaster and Live Nation agree to $2.5 Billion merger (February 10, 2009)
- Slacker raises $5 million (January 28, 2009)
- Audium raises $8.5 million (January 19, 2009)
- MixMatchMusic Acquires Mix2r (terms not disclosed; January 13, 2009)
- MyMajorCompany receives $4.1 million (January 08, 2009)
