Investor Who Helped Lead Kobalt Acquisition Launches Artist Advance Platform

Investor Who Helped Lead Kobalt Acquisition Launches Artist Advance Platform

Veteran music investor and former Francisco Partners private equity executive Matt Spetzler unveiled a new financing platform for artist advances called Pipeline, backed by his investment fund Jamen Capital. Launching with more than $200 million in fundraising, Pipeline is a business-to-business lender aiming to offer “simpler, more flexible and advantageous deal terms” than competitors by lending against the performance, release schedules, ca…

Pipeline raises over $200m to fund independent music firms

While we await the European regulators’ verdict on UMG’s Downtown deal, there’s some potentially-good news for independent-music firms who want to stay independent – but are likely to need funding to thrive. Pipeline is a new ‘financing platform’ launching today after raising more than $200m of capital to invest in the sector.  It’s an offshoot from […] The post is from Music Ally.

Matt Spetzler’s Jamen Capital launches $200M-backed independent music financing platform, Pipeline

The Jamen Capital-backed firm says that its launch comes at a "pivotal moment for the global music industry" Source