Explorer1 Music buys crowdfunding platform Music Benefactors

Los Angeles-based Explorer1 Music Group (EX1) has acquired SEC-registered crowdfunding platform Music Benefactors.

EX1 plans to relaunch Music Benefactors as a brand new expertise and advertising platform.

Music Benefactors was based by President, Matt Lutz, who was a Managing Companion for greater than 5 years at Allegheny Change, an internet market for different investments, and for 11 years at Tarpon Bay Co.

The latter firm, which he additionally established, targeted on offering everlasting financing for single-family rental properties, and offering capital to municipalities and college districts within the Larger Pittsburgh Space, in accordance with his LinkedIn web page.

Lutz informed media outlet V13 in an interview final yr mentioned the purpose of Music Benefactors is “to show common music followers into music traders”.

“The music business is dominated by the key labels… We would like the artists to keep up possession of their grasp recordings and copyrights.”

Matt Lutz, Music Benefactors

Music Benefactors is a platform for investing in artists’ careers, excursions, albums, or new initiatives. This fashion, followers can develop into an element proprietor of the belongings and content material that artists create.

“By collaborating on this asset class music followers can change the music business. The music business is dominated by the key labels… We would like the artists to keep up possession of their grasp recordings and copyrights. Followers and traders present the capital wanted to make and market music,” Lutz informed V13.

Since its founding, Music Benefactors has offered crowdsourcing platforms for acts similar to The Latin Dead, and Californian songwriter Khalil.

The corporate is at present working crowdsourcing for all-female violin rock band The Violution, and nation performer, Karen Waldrup, whose newest album, Kendall County Highway, was launched on September 9.

By backing performers on the platform, traders obtain a share of the royalties each time the artists’ music is performed and a portion of earnings and income from artists’ excursions and albums.

Talking in regards to the acquisition, Lutz mentioned: “I’m so proud that EX1 acknowledged the worth on this enterprise and platform I spent years growing… Their visionary strategy to vetting and advertising every of the choices I imagine is a breathe of contemporary air within the crowdfunding house, and can give Music Benefactors the sting on the subject of delivering monetary success for artists and musical initiatives.”

EX1 says that partnering with Music Benefactors will permit it so as to add a crowdfunding platform to its portfolio of companies and create a brand new pipeline of potential artists for its Grammy-nominated file label EX1 Information.

The label is behind acts similar to American rock band Mammoth WVH, fronted by Wolfgang Van Halen, the son of famed guitarist Eddie Van Halen; KK’s Priest, British Lion, The Raven Age, Voodoo Six and English singer-songwriter Matt Goss.

“With Music Benefactors, we will now present them a platform to lift the funds they should take their profession to the subsequent stage, whereas opening the door to a deeper relationship that will see them work with EX1 sooner or later.”

Paul Woolnough, Explorer1 Music Group

EX1 founder and CEO Paul Woolnough, added: “Since launching EX1’s artist partnership mannequin in 2019, we’re continuously approached by amazingly gifted songwriters, performers and artists that we wish to help, however aren’t fiscally or creatively a match for our full partnership mannequin,” mentioned Paul Woolnough, founder and CEO of the Explorer1 Music Group.

“With Music Benefactors, we will now present them a platform to lift the funds they should take their profession to the subsequent stage, whereas opening the door to a deeper relationship that will see them work with EX1 sooner or later.”Music Enterprise Worldwide