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PEX is a leading provider of corporate card and spend management solutions for businesses. Its platform offers a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to simplify employee spending, vendor payments, and distribution of funds. PEX's core offerings include PEX Visa Commercial Cards, which provide instant funding and flexible payment terms, as well as PEX Visa Prepaid Cards that offer enhanced transparency and control over expenses.
The company's Virtual Vendor Cards streamline the process of paying bills and monthly invoices by enabling businesses to issue virtual cards with custom spending limits and real-time tracking capabilities. Additionally, PEX's disbursements platform, which includes PEX Disburse Visa Prepaid Cards, facilitates efficient distribution of funds for grant programs, rewards, and incentive initiatives.
PEX's solutions cater to various industries, including nonprofits, faith-based organizations, education, events and entertainment, the gig economy, and contractors. As of May 2024, the company had issued over 10 million cards, demonstrating its extensive reach and adoption across diverse sectors.
PEX prioritizes integration with popular financial software, providing seamless data integration and time-saving applications to enhance customers' financial operations. The company also offers a partner program, equipping businesses with tools and resources to create customized financial management experiences for their clients.
In addition to its core financial offerings, PEX operates a subsidiary called RME (Rights Management Enterprises), a modern rights organization focused on empowering creators and rightsholders. Through its collaboration with Cosynd, a copyright protection platform, RME enables its users to streamline copyright registration, track music usage accurately, and ensure fair compensation for their intellectual property.

R e m beauty is established to provide the resources which need to bring most vivid, unlimited, and creative aspirations to reality.

At Music Health we’re passionate about helping people live healthier, longer lives. Our digital experiences empower anyone to manage their own mental health through the power of music.  We’re a mission-driven company making music therapy easy, accessible and affordable to all.  Our first product is called Vera focused on supporting the 60 million individuals living with dementia and their almost 200 million carers by managing the impact of BPSD (behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: like aggression, agitation or depression).

PIAS is an independent music network and services company.  It offers services for licensing, distribution, sales, and marketing of music, film, and comedy.

VenewLive is a live performance streaming platform delivering on-stage magic to global music fans virtually.

Def Jam Recordings is a music company based out of 1755 Broadway, New York, New York, United States. Def Jam is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Def Jam was founded by producers Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons in 1984. The pair helped bring hip-hop into the mainstream with artists including the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J.

Pex specializes in digital rights technology. It ensures transparency and accuracy in attribution by bringing together all stakeholders and industries to license and manage content. Its advanced technology operates at unprecedented speed and scale, enabling transactions that were previously thought impossible.  By radically simplifying licensing on a global scale, Pex empowers digital platforms to make real-time decisions about content, enables creators to utilize copyrighted content without fear, and ensures rightsholders can be properly credited and compensated. Pex builds solutions and technologies that are inclusive and equitable.

With a foundation in creative instigation, Mass Appeal magazine was spawned from the tattooed walls and ink stained subways of a now bygone era.  Founded by Patrick Elasik (1979-2005) and Adrian Moeller in 1996, what began as a graffiti zine evolved into much more, a publication truly by and for opinion leaders, trendsetters, risk takers and rule breakers. With a rich heritage in culture, Mass Appeal is a nod to the past while discovering and championing what’s next.  Our content spans the worlds of music, art, and style, reflecting the cultural zeitgeist from our street view perspective. Naturally, the magazine founded by vandals went on to leave an indelible mark on culture.

Pollen specializes in the fields of events, travel, festivals, entertainment, experiences, membership, youth culture, and marketplace. The company partners with brands including Live Nation, C3 Presents, MGM Resorts, Universal Music Group, and more. It also integrates with ticketing providers such as Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Priceline, Stubhub, SeeTickets, Paylogic, and Front Gate Tickets.

ROLI is a music technology firm. Their products include hardware, software, sounds, and accessories. They make the process of learning and practicing music possible. Their team of musicians, programmers, teachers, anthropologists, engineers, and artists is reimagining music learning and music creation through hardware and software. They design, develop, and manufacture music-making devices.

Doppler Labs was founded in 2013 with the mission to make computing more immersive and human. Here Active Listening,  Doppler Lab’s first digital product, was named TIME magazine’s Best Invention of 2015. In February 2017, Doppler Labs released Here One, the evolution of Here Active Listening and the first 3-in-1 wireless smart headphone, delivering premium sound quality, Smart Noise Cancellation, and Speech Enhancement

Jelli operates as a cloud-based advertising company for the radio market in the United States. It offers SpotPlan, a Web-based programmatic buying platform for buying radio advertising; RadioSpot, a cloud-based advertising server for broadcast radio, and automating terrestrial radio advertising; and RadioDash, a campaign dashboard for radio campaigns.  Michael Dougherty and Jateen Parekh founded Jelli on September 15, 2008. Its headquarters is in San Mateo in California.

Created by [John Shahidi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/john-shahidi) and [Sam Shahidi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sam-shahidi), Shots Podcast Network is backed by Justin Bieber, Floyd Mayweather, WI Harper, and DCM Ventures.

Vulcun offers the largest prize pools in Fantasy eSports today, allowing gamers to support their favorite pro players and win hundreds of thousands in real money each season. The service is trusted by dozens of Pro players such as Voyboy, Imaqtpie, MandatoryCloud, Westrice and others.

Houseparty is an internet company that features an online platform that serves as a social network that brings empathy to online communication. The company specializes in the fields of internet, social network, and video chat. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Merchbar is an operator of an online marketplace used to be used for selling music band merchandise. It provides an easy way for fans to discover and buy merchandise from their favorite artists that enables fans to buy their desired accessories and merchandise at a reasonable price range. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pluto TV is a free streaming television service in America, offering over 100 live and original channels along with thousands of on-demand movies. The service collaborates with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. It is used by millions of viewers each month for news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle content, and digital series. Pluto TV, headquartered in Los Angeles, is accessible on mobile devices, web browsers, and connected TV streaming devices.

VIDA is an e-commerce platform that takes advantage of direct-to-fabric technology resulting in the large scale production of unique apparel from designers around the world. With this process, any submitted design can go from sketch to completion in a week with any of VIDA's ten manufacturers. With this process, any submitted design can go from sketch to completion in a week with any of VIDA's ten manufacturers. By carefully selecting its partnerships, VIDA is bridging the gap between artists and consumers while promoting socially responsible fashion. By carefully selecting its partnerships, VIDA is bridging the gap between artists and consumers while promoting socially responsible fashion.

Since 2009, Rockbot has been the pioneer in the media-for-business industry. Offering Music, TV, Digital Signage, and Advertising through an acclaimed single-platform solution, Rockbot enables the world's largest companies, franchises, and thousands of SMBs, to deliver the best in-location customer experiences. Backed by Google and trusted by nearly 50,000 businesses across North America, Rockbot’s clients include Planet Fitness, Walmart, Shake Shack, and Ashley Furniture.  Learn more at www.rockbot.com.

Pogoseat is an enterprise solution for sports teams and concert venues that enables their fans to purchase last-minute tickets, subscription passes, upgrade seats and purchase unique VIP experiences. Their mission is to provide fans with the ability to optimize their live entertainment experience and teams and venues a platform to increase fan engagement, monetize unused inventory and gather data to improve the fan experience.

Bellabeat, top 5 Y-COMBINATOR  company in the W14  class,  is a data-centered wellness femtech company behind some of the most fashionably designed tech-powered wellness products and one of the fastest-growing wellness subscription services for women. Throughout the years, Bellabeat built the go-to wellness brand with a compelling ecosystem of solutions and services focused on women’s health. The success of the Leaf and Ivy wearables enabled the brand to expand to international markets and kickstart industry discussions on the importance of innovating in the design and development of tech products. Today, Bellabeat is leading the market shift with hyper-personalized holistic wellness offerings aligned with a women’s menstrual cycle.

Shazam Entertainment provides an application for connecting artists and fans through music discovery. It offers Shazam, a mobile application for iOS, Android, and Windows phones that enables people to discover, explore, and share their favorite music and TV.  Shazam Entertainment also provides application for MAC and Windows PC platforms. It has a strategic alliance with iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Entercom, Cox, and Sun Broadcast Group.  Avery Wang, Chris Barton, Dhiraj Mukherjee, and Philip Inghelbrecht founded Shazam Entertainment on May 22, 2000, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom. It has additional offices in New York City, Redwood City, Los Angeles, and San Diego in California, Chicago in Illinois, and North Sydney in Australia.

Stance is a designer and manufacturer of socks for men, women, and kids. It also manufactures anklets, thigh highs, knee highs, snow, sports, and adventure socks, and a variety of underwear that helps athletes, performers, and iconic cultural influencers to express themselves and are sold exclusively through their retail partnerships.

WillCall curates a list of the best shows happening in your city and makes it easy to buy tickets with just a few taps — no waiting in line or dealing with the box office required. It’s the music discovery and ticketing app for people who want to have fun. A lot of love is put into the shows featured on the WillCall list, so you'll have no excuse to stay home.

Wool and the Gang is a global fashion brand that believes in exceptional design that’s Made Unique. Never factory made, each Wool and the Gang item is handcrafted or knitted by the Gang – the team of artisans and makers around the world. Their designs can also be bought as easy-to-follow Knit Kits, which allows you to knit your own customized Wool and the Gang designs at home.

MOG Inc. is a next-generation music media company founded in June 2005 by David Hyman, former CEO for Gracenote. MOG has one simple goal: to perfect your music listening experience.  MOG's on-demand streaming music service provides multi-platform access to a deep library of over 14 million songs from over a million albums through its award-winning mobile apps on iPhone and Android, on the Web, desktop app for Mac and soon for Windows, streaming entertainment devices such as Roku, Sonos and internet-connected TVs, and very soon, integrations with automobile navigation devices in BMW & Mini. It surpasses all other music subscription services in its ease-of-use, discovery features and audio quality.  MOG Inc. is also the provider of The MOG Music Network (MMN), the premier destination for music content online and largest music-focused website advertising network, consisting of over 1500 music sites receiving over 60 million unique visitors a month.  Headquartered in Berkeley, California, MOG Inc. investors include Menlo Ventures, Balderton Capital, Simon Equity Partners, Universal Music Group and Sony Music. Grammy-winning record producer, Rick Rubin, named by TIME Magazine as one of the ''100 Most Influential People in the World,'' is a member of MOG's Board of Directors.

Amp'd Mobile was a so-called ''mobile virtual network operator,'' because it does not license its own spectrum, but resells services using the network of other mobile phone operators. Amp'd Mobile targeted young people, competing with brands like Disney Mobile, Helio, and Virgin Mobile.  After raising over $350m, Amp'd Mobile filed for bankruptcy in July 2007.

60HipHop.com, Inc. is an online destination for the latest news in politics, lifestyle, culture, commerce and music.

Magex is a digital commerce services company.

Listen.com is an on-demand and radio streamed and online music subscription service in the United States.   It develops and distributes RHAPSODY, a digital music subscription service which gives consumers access to a library of music on their personal computer. RHAPSODY combines collections of on-demand music, professionally programmed Internet radio, and music information and editorial recommendations in one application.   Listen.com was founded in 1998 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of RealNetworks Inc.

ARTISTdirect, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media entertainment company in the United States. The company, through its MediaDefender subsidiary, is a provider of anti-piracy solutions in the Internet-piracy-protection (IPP) industry. Segments The company operates in three segments: Internet Piracy Prevention, Media, and E-Commerce.   ARTISTdirect, Inc. was founded in 1996.

Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses such as films and advertisements; and sells artist and music branded products through multiple sales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances worldwide.

<div> Universal Music Group (UMG) (EURONEXT: UMG) is the world's leading music company. UMG exists to shape culture through the power of artistry. The company identifies and develops recording artists and songwriters, and produces, distributes and promotes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. UMG is engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content across more than 60 territories. Its broad array of businesses includes prominent labels such as Capitol, Def Jam, Interscope, Republic, Island, and Motown. UMG's key offerings include: <ul> <li> Recorded Music: Production and distribution of music recordings through digital and physical formats </li> <li> Music Publishing: Acquisition and licensing of music copyrights </li> <li> Merchandising: Artist-related products and services </li> <li> Audiovisual Content: Music-based video programming </li> </ul> The company boasts the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre. In 2023, UMG artists accounted for nine of the top 10 global recording artists according to IFPI. Top sellers that year included Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Drake and The Weeknd. UMG has been investing in high-growth music markets and emerging technologies. The company has implemented artist-centric royalty models with streaming platforms and taken a leadership position on responsible AI development in music. UMG generated revenues of EUR 11.1 billion in 2023, with adjusted EBITDA of EUR 2.37 billion. The company continues to focus on strategic growth initiatives while returning significant cash to shareholders through its dividend program. </div>

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<div>
 Universal Music Group (UMG), a global music entertainment company, has formed a partnership with Klay Vision, an AI music technology company developing a music model named "KLayMM."
 This collaboration aims to develop a morally sound basic model for AI-created music that safeguards copyright and name and likeness rights. Klay's platform will offer AI-powered experiences which accurately attribute without compete with artists' works on conventional music services.
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 ​​This partnership reflects a broader trend where major music studios are increasingly seeking to integrate GenAI in a manner that respects artistic integrity and copyright laws. For example, Warner’s Spinnin’ Records <a href="https: 
//sonomusic.co/news/warners-spinnin-records-partners-with-generative-ai-startup-endel-to-create-50-ai-generated-wellness-albums/"> partnered </a> with GenAI music creator Endel to create AI-generated wellness music and AI-enabled music creation platform <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/24618"> Boomy </a> partnered with ADA Worldwide to distribute and promote Boomy's artists and their music.

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