Music is one of the few assets that keeps earning long after it is created.
The best catalogs rarely reach an auction. We get there first.
Mindset MusicRights acquires and operates middle-market music rights — recorded catalogs, publishing shares and royalty streams. Our dealflow is proprietary: a working production company, live sync relationships, and decades of trust with the artists and composers we buy from. Many of them will only sell to someone they know.
Proprietary dealflow
We reach rights holders through relationships — often before a catalog is formally for sale.
Insider underwriting
Track-level royalty analysis and chain-of-title diligence, run by people who have closed hundreds of millions in rights transactions.
Active ownership
We work the asset after closing — administration, royalty recovery, sync, licensing, re-recording and sweetening — rather than holding and waiting.
Capital collects at the extremes. We work the middle.
Large institutional funds cannot deploy efficiently below the trophy tier, and consumer aggregators stop well short of it. The band in between stays fragmented and relationship-driven — which is where valuations remain rational and the operational work is still undone.
Middle-market catalogs
Seasoned, non-marquee and often under-administered — timeless music that the incumbent funds have simply overlooked.
Seasoned catalogs produce recurring royalties largely uncorrelated to public equities.
Of US on-demand streams are catalog — and the share keeps rising.
Multiples have come back down from the peak of the catalog boom.
Sync, gaming, connected TV and AI licensing keep opening royalty lines that did not exist.
Value gets created after the deal closes.
Our sync and brand relationships generate upside from the same catalog that a passive buyer cannot access, and that historical earnings rarely reflect.
Administration
Clean metadata, correct registrations and clear chain of title. Unglamorous work that reliably raises what a catalog collects.
Royalty recovery
Finding income that was earned but never paid, sitting unclaimed across collection societies and platforms worldwide.
Sync & licensing
Putting the music back to work in film, television, advertising and games through a network of music supervisors and executives.
Two funds, one platform.
Mindset MusicTech backs the companies building the music industry's infrastructure — royalty tracking, music recognition, licensing and artist finance. MusicRights owns the works that infrastructure serves, and uses the portfolio to source, underwrite and operate better than a standalone buyer can.
Both funds sit inside Mindset Ventures, a global venture capital firm with a strong track record of more than ten years investing in early-stage technology companies.
A catalog attorney, a venture investor, a composer and an A&R executive.
Bradfield Biggers
Entertainment and M&A attorney with three decades in catalog transactions, advising funds, labels, banks and insurers. Former music-fintech CEO.
Daniel Ibri
Founding Partner at Mindset Ventures, with 100+ deals closed across six countries and fifteen years as an investor and M&A advisor.
Lucas Cantor Santiago
Two-time Emmy-winning composer and ARIA Platinum producer, with commissions including the Super Bowl and the World Cup. Speaks internationally on music and technology.
Drew Thurlow
Former Sony Music SVP of A&R and Berklee professor, with prior roles at Pandora and Warner. Author of a book on music and AI.
A music-tech strategist, an Emmy-winning music supervisor and a rights-society founder.
Cliff Fluet
Thirty years at the intersection of music, digital media and investment. Lecturer at Berklee and NYU Steinhardt.
Trygge Toven
Emmy-winning music supervisor behind Fallout, Westworld, Loki and Knives Out, with deep relationships across film and television.
Sean O'Malley
CEO of Regard Music and co-founder of Global Music Rights with Irving Azoff — the first new US performing rights organization in seventy years.
Get in touch.
Whether you hold a catalog, work with rights holders, or simply want to understand what we are building — the conversation starts with one of us directly.