The Dallas firm behind the "Invisible Wallet" is quietly converting patents, pop songs, and NFC tags into assets you can trade - and betting most people will never notice the blockchain underneath.
Sony Music Publishing does not sell listeners a subscription. It makes the machinery behind a song work - registering ownership, collecting royalties and finding the next screen, stream or market where a composition belongs.
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.