# Sony Music Entertainment

> Sony Music Entertainment is a VC fund in New York backing Music and Software. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/company/sony-music-entertainment
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SonyMusicGlobal
- Website: http://www.sonymusic.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sonymusic

Sony Music Entertainment is a VC fund in New York focused on Music and Software. Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is a global music company with a roster of current artists that includes both local and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordingsin history.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Sony Music Entertainment. Shizune tracks 11 team members at Sony Music Entertainment. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/sony-music-entertainment?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$14M |
| Series A | $1M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 12 | 40% |
| Software | 6 | 20% |
| Digital Media | 5 | 17% |
| Digital Entertainment | 5 | 17% |
| Media and Entertainment | 5 | 17% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 27% |
| Series A | 7 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 20% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 13% |
| Japan | 2 | 7% |
| Germany | 2 | 7% |
| China | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Becky G | Singer/songwriter | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/becky-g |
| Dennis Kooker | President, Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-kooker |
| Tandy Cheng | Director \| Strategy & Investments | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tandy-cheng |
| David Lee | Technologist,Emerging Technology | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-lee-14 |
| Fadzi Makanda | Digital Strategy & Investments | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fadzi-makanda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vermillio | Vermillio is an AI platform that allows content creators to style, own, and tracks their digital creations. The company's tools generate content that is authenticated using its proprietary blockchain technology which determines ownership. Vermillio was founded by Dan Neely and is based in Chicago, Illinois. | $16M | Series A | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| SymphoMe | SymphoMe is an innovative music education platform designed to revolutionise the way music is taught and learned. Utilising advanced AI-driven multimodal music teaching technology, SymphoMe provides a personalised, engaging, and effective learning experience for music students and teachers alike. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Turne Solucoes Artisticas | The Turne business model combines the functionality of a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform with a marketplace, focusing on meeting the needs of musicians in managing their concert schedules and generating new revenue streams. Here's a more detailed description:1. SaaS - Concert Management Turne offers a digital tool that allows musiciansand bands to manage all aspects related to organizing and planning their live performances. This includes:Schedule Management: The platform centralizes all information about dates, times, and venues, making it easier to control the performance calendar. The schedule can be synced with other devices and apps.Logistics Organization: Musicians can manage details such as hiring auxiliary services (sound technicians, transportation, etc.), planning travel and stage setup, as well as receiving automated reminders about deadlines and specific needs for each show.Contracts and Payments: The platform also facilitates the generation and signing of contracts, and it allows users to manage payments through integration with digital payment systems. This reduces bureaucracy and provides better financial control.2. Marketplace - Expanding Revenue Streams In addition to being a management tool, Turne stands out by acting as a marketplace, directly connecting musicians to new gig opportunities, partners, and products. The main components of this part of the model include:Gig Opportunities: The marketplace serves as a digital showcase where event promoters, venues, bars, and other organizers can find and book musicians directly through the platform. This creates a continuous source of new opportunities for registered artists.3. Monetization Turne monetizes through two main streams:SaaS Subscription: Musicians pay a monthly or annual subscription to use the concert management platform, with different service levels and premium features available depending on the selected plan. The subscription model ensures recurring revenue.4. Benefits for Musicians Information Centralization: The SaaS allows musicians to keep all essential data for their live career organized in one place, saving time and reducing errors.New Revenue Opportunities: The marketplace increases visibility and business possibilities, enabling musicians to diversify their income streams beyond traditional shows.Scalability: Turne enables musicians of all levels, from beginners to established artists, to find opportunities for growth.This hybrid business model, combining SaaS and marketplace, allows Turne to create a comprehensive and robust platform, capable of offering practical management solutions while fostering new business opportunities and increasing revenue generation for musicians. | $1M | Series A | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| Fave | Fave is a social platform dedicated to superfans enabling them to create immersive video content, connect and bond with like-minded fans, compete in fun challenges, exchange both physical and virtual goods in a fan-driven marketplace, and rack up points throughout it all to prove their top fan status, gain recognition in the fandom, and earnexclusive rewards around the artists and creators they love. They also partner with the creators to finally allow them to monetize their fans' activity directly. | $2M | Seed | Oct 12, 2023 |  |
| Komi | Komi is a personalized website page builder tool that connects influencers and celebrities. It provides a central hub or "home on the internet" for content creators, musicians, athletes, celebrities, and other creative talent and personalities to customize a landing page that promotes their latest podcast episode, YouTube video, musicalbum, merch drops, tour dates, meet-and-greet opportunities, social media accounts, and so on. A Komi-powered landing page enables creators of all levels to natively consolidate all of their offerings into a beautiful, fully-personalized hub. | $12M | Series A | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| Slip.stream | Slip.stream is a royalty-free music library built for creators. Our library contains professional music from independent artists, composers, and producers that are cleared for use on any digital platform without the risk of copyright strikes ever. | $7.5M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |
| MakersPlace | MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $30M | Series A | Aug 04, 2021 |  |
| Laylo | Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M |  | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Laylo | Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Tiger Media | Tigermedia makes and distributes films. It concentrates on producing and distributing movies. It sells items including the tigerbox touch, tigerbooks, tigerbuddies, tigercards, wildcards, and tigerones. |  | Series A | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Moment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moment-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Universal Music Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/universal-music-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Warner Music Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/warner-music-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [C3 Presents](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c3-presents) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Concord Music Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concord-music-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eldridge Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eldridge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sony Music Entertainment invest in?

Sony Music Entertainment invests primarily in Music, Software and Digital Media startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sony Music Entertainment's check size?

Sony Music Entertainment typically joins rounds of $1M–$14M at Seed and $1M–$30M 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 Sony Music Entertainment participates in.

### How do I contact Sony Music Entertainment?

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### Who are the partners at Sony Music Entertainment?

The team at Sony Music Entertainment includes Becky G (Singer/songwriter), Dennis Kooker (President, Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales) and Tandy Cheng (Director | Strategy & Investments), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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