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Dubset Media Holdings, Inc. (Dubset) is a media-tech company delivering innovative rights management and distribution solutions to the music and video industries. It has successfully completed a two year trial of the world’s first commercial clearinghouse and digital distribution music platform for derivative works and has begun to sign important commercial launch and growth deals.
Dubset aggregates derivative music (initially mix and remix) collecting audio and data assets from content creators. Dubset forensically analyzes the assets using its proprietary MixSCAN® technologies to identify use of copyright protected works, sharing that information with applicable rights holders. Utilizing a unique rules-based cross-clearing platform, millions of hours of never-before cleared music can be authorized by underlying rights holders real-time for legal distribution. Dubset will now power the world’s leading music services exponentially growing the size of their libraries with legally streamable mix and remix content for the first time in music history.
The company is based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Dubset aggregates derivative music (initially mix and remix) collecting audio and data assets from content creators. Dubset forensically analyzes the assets using its proprietary MixSCAN® technologies to identify use of copyright protected works, sharing that information with applicable rights holders. Utilizing a unique rules-based cross-clearing platform, millions of hours of never-before cleared music can be authorized by underlying rights holders real-time for legal distribution. Dubset will now power the world’s leading music services exponentially growing the size of their libraries with legally streamable mix and remix content for the first time in music history.
The company is based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$4.5M
Funding Rounds 2
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| Jul 21, 2011 | Funding round | $500K |
Mentions in press and media 15
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| Dec 19, 2017 | Meet Anthony Tjan, Managing Partner at Cue Ball | An investor in 'good' entrepreneurs who bring out the best in others As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of emerging investors on hand ... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Dubset makes Sony the first major label legalized for remixing | Spotify and Apple Music could soon get the legal grey area of music like remixes and DJ sets that today live unofficially on SoundCloud. Sony Music Entertainment today became the first major record label to allow its music to be monetized t... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Dubset raises $4M to legalize remixes for Spotify and Apple Music | Record labels refuse to allow streaming of remixes and hour-long DJ sets unless copyright owners get paid for every little sample. Dubset just raised $4 million to handle that legal mess so Spotify and Apple Music can offer the type of musi... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Dubset Media Holdings Closes $4M Series A | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Company that has made the legal distribution of mix and remix music possible at scale, announced today the closing of its $4 million Series A funding round. >> Click here for more funding data on Dubset Media Hol... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Cue Ball Capital Leads Series A Round for Dubset Media | Dubset Media, the company that has made the legal distribution of mix and remix music possible at scale, announced today the closing of its $4 million Series A funding round, led by Cue Ball Capital, the respected Boston-based venture and e... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Dubset Media Closes $4M Series A Funding Round | Dubset Media, a San Francisco, CA-based legal mix and remix music distribution platform, closed $4m Series A funding round. The round was led by Cue Ball Capital with participation from MediaNet, Neoteny 3, Resolute Venture Partners, and Re... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Spotify and Apple Music get unofficial mixes, the best part of SoundCloud | SoundCloud’s big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don’t release and that isn’t on Spotify or Apple Music . Or at least they weren’t. The first unofficial single-track remixes just wen... |
| May 6, 2014 | Dubset Gets Strategic Investment From Rhapsody | Dubset Media Holdings, a developer of technology used to help DJs monetize their music, and helps identify music for music rights holders--which has offices in Beverly Hills--has scored a strategic round of funding from Rhapsody Internation... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | Raise Cache: New Yorkers strut for Silicon Alley, raise over $100K for HackNY | On Thursday November 17th, 1,300 plus New York techies descended upon the Lexington Ave Armory to raise over $100,000 for HackNY, a nonprofit organization run out of Columbia and NYU that keeps young engineers off of the “street” (i.e. Wall... |
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FAQ about Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.
How much funding has Dubset Media Holdings, Inc. raised?
Dubset Media Holdings, Inc. has raised $4.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Dubset Media Holdings, Inc. raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Dubset Media Holdings, Inc., among them a funding round of $500K on Jul 21, 2011.
What has the press written about Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.?
Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Dubset Media Holdings, Inc., among them “Meet Anthony Tjan, Managing Partner at Cue Ball” (Dec 19, 2017) and “Dubset makes Sony the first major label legalized for remixing” (Aug 22, 2017).
Is Dubset Media Holdings, Inc. still active?
Yes, Dubset Media Holdings, Inc. is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 5, 2020.