Mogul (usemogul.com), the unified royalty management platform, has raised $5M in a round led by the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund. Other investors include the Urban Innovation Fund, as well as Mindset Ventures and EU-based Fairway Capital Partners. Amplify LA and Wonder Ventures have renewed their commitment. This funding will be used to expand Mogul’s ability to serve artists, managers, and business managers of all kinds.
 

Mogul has processed more than $1.5B in royalties on behalf of major artists including household-name stars. With this most recent round of funding, along with the newly launched Catalog Valuation Center, Mogul continues its mission to be the royalty source of truth for the music industry. 
 

Mogul helps artists audit and fix their royalties. After identifying issues, it helps artists submit registrations via their existing portals or ask Mogul to collect on their behalf, with no rev share involved. It also now provides a full-fledged valuation center that gives artists and managers insight into their catalogs’ value, and then connects them with financing partners.
 

“A universal source of truth for music royalties has long been the industry’s holy grail,” explains Mogul founder and CEO Jeff Ponchick. “Instead of forcing a top-down solution, trying to wrangle Labels, Publishers, CMOs, and others, Mogul starts at the data itself by bringing together the fragmented metadata that determines payouts and turning it into a clear, actionable view of an artist’s income, with tools to surface and resolve issues fast.”
 

“Mogul is addressing one of the largest structural inefficiencies in the creator economy: fragmented data across royalties, revenues, and payments,” said Andrew Kahn, Managing Partner at Yamaha. “By aggregating hundreds of sources into a unified platform, they’re shrinking the tech stack for creators while unlocking faster, more accurate compensation. This combination of broad applicability and deep product execution creates defensibility, and while music is the most visible entry point, the opportunity extends well beyond it.”
 

The Catalog Valuation Center will help artists better understand not only the total value of their catalog, but also top-end tracks and a breakdown between publishing and sound recording totals, in order to better navigate their advances and catalog sales. 
 

Ponchick says this new product, which was made possible due to the resources from the funding round, helps Mogul continue to lead the charge on financial empowerment in the music industry, especially during a time there is heightened interest in catalog acquisitions in the music business yet very few tools are available to artists who need to know their catalogs’ worth. “We are committed to building tools that empower musicians to get the best deal possible should they choose to take this path with their career,” Ponchick said.    
 

About Mogul
 

At Mogul, our mission is to help artists understand their business and achieve their financial goals. We recognize that artists and their teams navigate a complex landscape of content and royalties, often missing out on their rightful earnings, a challenge we're determined to address.
 

We're crafting the ultimate platform for income transparency in the music industry, designed to demystify the music business and champion a new era of self-reliance and confidence for artists. Join us as we pave the way for a future where every artist has the clarity and support to thrive financially and creatively.

Mogul, the music industry's newest top layer for tracking your royalties across all rights types, has surpassed $100 million in tracked royalties across all the artists signed up for the service. This remarkable milestone is a testament to Mogul's commitment to helping artists and their teams understand their business through the centralization of many different royalty sources into an actionable hub.

Launched publicly in the beginning of February, Mogul (usemogul.com) has swiftly emerged as the go-to platform for artists seeking to simplify their finances and ensure they receive every penny they earn. This achievement underscores Mogul's rapid growth, solidifying its position as a transformative force in artist finance, for emerging and mid-tier artists as well as household names.

"We are thrilled to reach this incredible milestone in just three months of launching," said Jeff Ponchick, CEO of Mogul. "Surpassing 100MM in tracked royalties so quickly is a clear sign that the industry's opaque and fragmented nature needs to be remedied. Artists and their teams receive an ocean of data from each royalty source and have little to no tools at the ready to make sense of how their business is actually working. We're thrilled Mogul is filling that need for new artists every day so that they can understand their business and generate more income."

Singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc, one of Mogul's most visible early adopters, has seen firsthand the transformative impact of Mogul's services. Blacc commented, "I'm excited about what Mogul can do for artists at all levels of the industry. To have a system to synthesize all sources of income in a transparent way is transformative tech we all need."

One of Mogul’s more powerful features is its ability to value an artist’s sound recording and/or publishing catalog. To advance these features, Mogul has entered partnerships with beatBread/Chordcash to help musicians receive advances or inquire as to selling their catalogs. 

“We are very excited to partner with Mogul, not only because of the platform’s innovative technology, but because our companies share a vision of artist empowerment.  We look forward to providing flexible funding to artists on the Mogul platform, no matter which distribution, publishing or marketing partners they choose,” said Peter Sinclair, CEO of beatBread.

With this milestone, Mogul solidifies its position as a leader in artist finance, setting new standards for transparency, efficiency, and empowerment. As the company continues to expand its reach and impact, it remains dedicated to providing artists with the tools and resources they need to thrive in an ever-evolving music industry.

About Mogul

At Mogul, our mission is to help artists understand their business and achieve their financial goals. We recognize that artists and their teams navigate a complex landscape of content and royalties, often missing out on their rightful earnings — a challenge we're determined to address.

By leveraging technology, we're crafting the ultimate platform for income transparency in the music industry, designed to demystify the music business and champion a new era of self-reliance and confidence for artists. Join us as we pave the way for a future where every artist has the clarity and support to thrive financially and creatively.

The newly launched company has built uniquely powerful tech for finding musicians’ money, thanks to a $1.9M investment round and significant artist support.

Artists of all kinds and at all levels are haunted by the same doubt. It’s the constant nagging worry that they aren’t getting paid everything they are owed. With so many competing companies, platforms, societies, and middlemen collecting on an artist’s behalf, it can be hard to know who is doing what and if it’s being done correctly.

Mogul (usemogul.com) is here to banish this doubt once and for all. Founded by two music industry veterans with a passion for creator payments, Mogul ties together dozens of inputs and income streams to let artists see their entire career and business in one place, much as Rocket Money does with subscriptions. With successful artists already using the service, including Besomorph, Attack Attack!, Drama B, and Color Theory, Mogul has found more than $3.5MM in previously unidentified revenue while tracking more than $30MM—before the service has even launched.

Because Mogul has already proven it can solve one of the music industry’s toughest problems, the company has attracted significant investment from major music and entertainment companies. It has raised a $1.9m round from Wonder Ventures, United Talent Agency, Amplify.LA, and former SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor’s Creator Partners.

“We want to build a source of truth in the music industry, a utility where musicians can gain the confidence in whether or not their business is tight,” exclaims Mogul co-founder and CEO Jeff Ponchick. “We’re building out support for hundreds of different companies needed to connect all the statements and data across the industry, just like Mint does for personal finances or Plaid does in the finance world. Once we have the data centralized, we can cross reference it and let artists know how much money should be getting made. Then they can see if they’re collecting it.”

Every artist suspects they aren’t getting paid everything, and the complexity of payments and revenue streams sows doubt. Artists and their teams are wrangling as many as fifty different logins to track down all their income, missing an estimated 10% of their lifetime earnings according to Mogul’s findings. No one trusts what they’re seeing, either. “When we interviewed hundreds of artists and managers, we heard the same thing. No one thinks they have it all figured out and no one trusts the reports they see,” explains Ponchick, who has worked with self-managed artists for a decade, in part as Head of Creator at SoundCloud.

For mid-tier and ambitious emerging artists, this can’t be easily solved. While bigger artists may have a royalty department, lawyer, or savvy business manager on their side, others face a fragmented and tangled set of platforms, logins, payouts, and reports with little support. “What we see as a gap in the industry. If you’re an artist who makes less than $500,000 a year, there’s little tech to help you understand your income streams or whether your music is registered correctly and to see what you are doing right or wrong,” says Mogul co-founder and co-CEO Joey Mason. “You have publishers over here, labels over there, PROs and CMOs, all these pieces of the puzzle and no one who is putting it together for you in an easy-to-understand way.”

"It was so hard to keep track of my royalties as they come from so many different sources,” says Besomorph, an artist with 3.7m monthly listeners on Spotify who was an early tester of Mogul. “Mogul helped me effortlessly identify all my unclaimed royalties."

In their mission to put the puzzle together in an artist-friendly way, Mogul created the clearest terms possible. The service currently offers a free tier that allows any artist to connect their accounts and begin learning about their business, then charges a flat subscription for those needing help to claim lost royalties. All fees are presented transparently. Mogul will continue to expand its tools and offerings in the near future.

“I see such a lack of clarity and so much pain in the space,” Ponchick reflects. “But in many cases, artists are provided with a plethora of data; they just don't know what to do with it. The goal is to get as much money as possible into artists’ hands because if they thrive, so will we. With Mogul, we would love to achieve massive scale in helping artists to piece together their business and achieve their financial goals."

About Mogul

At Mogul, our mission is to help artists understand their business and achieve their financial goals. We recognize that artists and their teams navigate a complex landscape of content and royalties, often missing out on their rightful earnings — a challenge we're determined to address.

By leveraging technology, we're crafting the ultimate platform for income transparency in the music industry, designed to demystify the music business and champion a new era of self-reliance and confidence for artists. Join us as we pave the way for a future where every artist has the clarity and support to thrive financially and creatively.