# Courtney Holt

> Courtney Holt is a seed investor at Spotify backing Music and Social Media. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Spotify](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spotify)
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Sep 2011
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneyholt/

Courtney Holt is a seed investor at Spotify focused on Music and Social Media. Courtney Holt served as President of MySpace Music a joint venture between MySpace, The EMI Group, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony ATV.In this role, Courtney oversaw the growth and development of the MySpace Music brand. Courtney brought extensive music industry depth and relationships to MySpaceMusic, as well as experience and focus on product, promotion, and marketing that will serve to solidify the company’s position as a global leader in the digital music space as well as the platform of choice for artists at every level.Prior to joining MySpace Music Courtney served as Executive Vice President of Digital Music for the MTV Networks Music and Logo Group where he oversaw all digital initiatives for the company’s MTV, VH1 and CMT music brands, as well as for Logo. In this role, Courtney was responsible for identifying ways to further engage audiences across a spectrum of touch points, expanding the reach of the music brands online and content syndication. He also worked closely with Integrated Marketing and Ad Sales teams to drive new business partnerships and advertising models within the MTV Networks Music & Logo Group portfolio. Courtney’s team led the way on a number of instrumental initiatives to provide the audience with the new means to interact with music including the launch of mtvmusic.com. He also helped broker the creation of Rhapsody America, a joint venture between MTV Networks and RealNetworks and worked to develop the partnership between Rhapsody America and Verizon. Prior to joining MTV Networks in 2006, Courtney was Head of New Media and Strategic Marketing at Interscope Geffen A&M. Beginning his career in the early 1990s as a freelance producer and director of music videos and commercials, Courtney was eventually appointed director of video production for Atlantic Records, where he introduced the concept of shooting live performances for electronic press kits and enhanced CDs and was responsible for some of the earliest artist broadcasts on the Internet. Aware of his accomplishments, A&M tapped Holt in 1996 to served as their VP of New Media. At A&M, Holt worked with developing CD-Roms for the label.Throughout his career and as a veteran of the recording music industry, Courtney has earned recognition for embracing technology and changing the way labels traditionally promoted artists. His strategic initiatives helped usher in a new era of music marketing. His vision is to continue shaping the way artists connect with their fans and ensuring that music lives across multiple platforms by further cultivating the sense of community that already defines and differentiates the MySpace Music experience.Courtney earned a BS degree in Film from Boston University in 1990. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 1 | 50% |
| Social Media | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| turntable.fm | Turntable.fm is a project of Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people anddiscovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify.In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform. | $7M | Series A | Sep 13, 2011 |  |
| turntable.fm | Turntable.fm is a project of Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people anddiscovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify.In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform. | $7M | Seed | Sep 13, 2011 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AFSquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afsquare) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atom Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atom-factory) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lowercase Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercase-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Polaris Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polaris-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Spotify

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. Users can browse through the interface by artist, album, genre, playlist, record label, and direct searches.It also enables individuals to create, share, and edit playlists with other users. If users wantrecommendations, they can integrate their system with Last.fm, an application that provides music recommendations based on listening history. The radio feature installed in Spotify creates random playlists for its users that are related to preferred artists.Spotify is available for mobile device platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and more.

5 contacts available at Spotify.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Björn Melinder | Senior Staff Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bj%C3%B6rn-melinder |
| Catie Edwards | Machine Learning Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catie-edwards |
| chris pinel | Global Head of Ad Sales, Commercial Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pinel |
| Christopher Wright | TPM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-wright |
| Courtney Holt | Head of Studios and Video | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-holt |

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## FAQ

### What does Courtney Holt invest in?

Courtney Holt invests primarily in Music and Social Media startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Courtney Holt last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Courtney Holt closed in Sep 2011. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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