# Peter Gabriel

> Peter Gabriel is a seed investor at CueSongs (London) backing Music, TV and Video. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CueSongs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cuesongs)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/itspetergabriel
- Website: http://petergabriel.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeterGabriel

Peter Gabriel is a seed investor at CueSongs in London focused on Music and TV. Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $5M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 3 | 25% |
| TV | 1 | 8% |
| Video | 1 | 8% |
| Content | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 33% |
| Belgium | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Openwater | Openwater is developing a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications | $54M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Provenance | The trusted data layer for agentic commerce. Provenance powers enriched product attributes for 300+ brands and retailers, including L’Oreal, Holland & Barrett, THG, Nestle, Unilever, LVMH, Diageo and Ocado, positioning it as a trusted infrastructure layer for AI discovery and values-driven commerce.With AI-driven commerce projected to reach$3–5 trillion by 2030, brands and retailers face a structural challenge: product claims are largely unstructured, unverifiable and lacking trust signals for AI systems. Provenance converts complex product data - certifications, sustainability, health and efficacy claims - into verified, machine-readable claims that AI systems can reliably interpret and cite, building on over a decade of domain expertise in the integrity, validation and compliance of CPG product claims. | $5.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Tumelo | Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 19, 2019 |  |
| Openwater | Openwater is developing a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications | $22M | Series A | Dec 10, 2018 |  |
| Provenance | The trusted data layer for agentic commerce. Provenance powers enriched product attributes for 300+ brands and retailers, including L’Oreal, Holland & Barrett, THG, Nestle, Unilever, LVMH, Diageo and Ocado, positioning it as a trusted infrastructure layer for AI discovery and values-driven commerce.With AI-driven commerce projected to reach$3–5 trillion by 2030, brands and retailers face a structural challenge: product claims are largely unstructured, unverifiable and lacking trust signals for AI systems. Provenance converts complex product data - certifications, sustainability, health and efficacy claims - into verified, machine-readable claims that AI systems can reliably interpret and cite, building on over a decade of domain expertise in the integrity, validation and compliance of CPG product claims. |  |  | Jul 18, 2018 |  |
| Openwater | Openwater is developing a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2018 |  |
| blinkbox music | blinkbox music is an ad-supported music streaming service and an integrated MP3 store providing an easy way to listen to music. Its listeners can choose from thousands of stations based around themes such as Top 40 Songs, Ultimate 80s Pop, Dinner Party, or create their own by starting with a song, artist, or genre.Its listeners have theability to listen to blinkbox music for free on the web, as well as through its mobile and tablet apps on both Android and iOS. Its listeners can even save their favorite stations to their mobile or tablet to listen when they don't have an internet connection.blinkbox music was launched in 2007 and is based in Oxford. |  |  | Jul 26, 2011 |  |
| WE7 | WE7 is a free music app that allows users create a personalized radio station on their mobile phones, by choosing which artists they would like to hear, before the station chooses other similar artists. |  |  | Jun 21, 2011 |  |
| The Filter | Founded in 2004, The Filter is the global leader in recommendation and relevance tools. The vision of music legend and technology pioneer Peter Gabriel, The Filter is delivering proven, measurable results and value to some of the world's largest TV companies.Through a scalable SaaS offering, The Filter supplies clients in the UK, Europe, USAand Australia with a powerful and effective personalisation platform.By applying machine learning, The Filter enables TV companies to recommend the right content to the right consumer at the right time, resulting in measurable uplifts in loyalty, retention and revenue. | $1.2M | Series B | Feb 18, 2009 |  |
| blinkbox music | blinkbox music is an ad-supported music streaming service and an integrated MP3 store providing an easy way to listen to music. Its listeners can choose from thousands of stations based around themes such as Top 40 Songs, Ultimate 80s Pop, Dinner Party, or create their own by starting with a song, artist, or genre.Its listeners have theability to listen to blinkbox music for free on the web, as well as through its mobile and tablet apps on both Android and iOS. Its listeners can even save their favorite stations to their mobile or tablet to listen when they don't have an internet connection.blinkbox music was launched in 2007 and is based in Oxford. | $6M | Series A | Jan 01, 2008 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Excel Venture Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/excel-venture-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pentech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pentech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Working Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/working-capital-0d76) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About CueSongs

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

CueSongs simplifies the process of licensing music for small usages - no hassle, prolonged negotiation or excessive fees.

2 contacts available at CueSongs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Gabriel | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-gabriel |
| Ed Averdieck | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-averdieck |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Gabriel invest in?

Peter Gabriel invests primarily in Music, TV and Video startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Peter Gabriel's check size?

Peter Gabriel typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$3.5M at Seed and $5M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Peter Gabriel participates in.

### When did Peter Gabriel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter Gabriel closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 12 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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