Lior Tibon is the co-founder and CEO of Duetti, a New York-based music financing platform that lets independent artists and songwriters sell their catalogs, individual tracks, or fractions of them for upfront cash. Before Duetti, he spent more than seven years as COO of TIDAL, the artist-owned streaming service launched under JAY-Z, and started his career as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in London. Duetti has raised over $623M to fund the independent music community, backed by The Raine Group, Flexpoint Ford, Nyca Partners, Viola Ventures and Roc Nation.
Shav Garg is the co-founder and CEO of indify, a New York music-tech company that uses a predictive algorithm to spot emerging artists before they break and connect them with investors, managers and partners on artist-friendly terms. Founded in 2015 in the basement of his family home with two childhood friends from Scarsdale, indify flagged Khalid, Billie Eilish and Post Malone early and has reshaped how independent musicians fund careers while keeping their masters. Garg is also a working singer-songwriter who records as prettyboyshav.