What Duetti does

Duetti is a New York-headquartered music financing platform founded in 2022 by Lior Tibon (ex-TIDAL COO) and Chris Nolte (ex-Apple Music) that purchases music rights — masters, publishing shares, and royalty shares — directly from independent music creators. The company targets the underserved long tail of indie artists earning as little as $2,000 annually from streaming, offering a no-debt, no-recoupment, no-creative-control deal structure with payouts in as little as 30 days. Qualifying creators can sell full or partial catalogs while retaining up to 50% of master income. The platform has signed over 80 deals per month as of late 2025/early 2026, reaching more than 1,100 artists across 40+ countries.

Underlying the acquisition business is a proprietary data and analytics stack that aggregates streaming and royalty data across the catalog to power pricing, decay-curve analysis, catalog-durability scoring, and trend-activation marketing. Duetti pairs acquisition with a full-service stack: top-tier distribution, a 1,000+ playlist Spotify network (6M+ followers) used to amplify streaming, sync placement, rights administration, and a Remix Program that has released 200+ tracks with 100+ producers. Research outputs — including the annual Music Economics Report (6M+ tracks analyzed), the Billboard Music Finance Index, and the Duetti x Chartmetric Corridos Report — function as both thought leadership and top-of-funnel demand generation.

Duetti monetizes acquired catalogs through ongoing streaming, sync, licensing, and advertising revenue, and has built a programmatic capital stack around those cash flows: $635M+ raised cumulatively since 2022, including a $200M January 2026 raise comprising a $50M Series C led by The Raine Group, a $125M private asset-backed securitization, and a $25M credit facility increase. Total securitized debt under a master trust stands at $205M, positioning asset-backed financing as a recurring channel. The company operates from offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, London, and Rio de Janeiro.

Name

Duetti

Legal name

Duetti, Inc.

Website

https://duetti.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Duetti is a New York-based music financing platform, founded in 2022, that purchases masters, publishing, and royalty rights from independent music creators and bundles deals with distribution, marketing, and proprietary data-driven pricing and trend activation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Catalog Financing

NAICS

Music Publishers (51223)

akta.pro primary industry

Performance Rights Administration (PRO Affiliation, Cue Sheet/Setlist Processing) (MPAIABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Music Rights Administration & Royalty Processing (Admin, Accounting, Statements) (MPAIAKAD), Neighboring Rights (Master Performance Rights) Administration (MPAIAAAH)

Keywords

• Music catalog acquisition
• Music royalty financing
• Independent artist funding
• Music rights purchasing
• Music catalog management

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Music catalog acquisitions (masters, publishing, royalties): Duetti purchases music rights outright from independent music creators — including masters (with artists retaining up to 50% of income), publishing shares, and royalty shares — paying a one-time lump sum that gives Duetti long-term ownership of the underlying cash flows.
2. Catalog monetization (streaming, sync, licensing): Ongoing exploitation of acquired music rights across digital streaming platforms, sync placements in film/TV/video games, advertising, and physical/digital paid advertising placements.
3. Asset-backed securitization of music catalogs: Duetti packages its music catalog cash flows into asset-backed securities (ABS) issued through a master trust. Its second ABS closed at $125M, bringing total securitized debt under the master trust to $205M, positioning securitization as a recurring financing channel.
4. Remix Program upfront fees: Non-recoupable upfront flat fees of $1,000–$5,000 per remix paid to producers/artists participating in the Remix Program, with optional master share ownership.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Duetti buys music rights — including masters, publishing shares, and royalty shares — directly from independent music creators, offering one-time lump-sum payouts within as little as 30 days. Alongside the acquisition, Duetti provides bundled catalog management, top-tier distribution, and high-impact marketing (including its own 1,000+ Spotify playlist network, sync, and trend activation), with no debt, no interest, and no recoupment obligations for the seller.

Product overview

Duetti operates a single integrated music financing platform anchored by its core Catalog Acquisition Service (buying masters, publishing, and royalties from independent music creators), augmented by three service modules — Catalog Management and Distribution, Marketing Services, and The Remix Program — plus a recently launched Young Tracks sub-program for newer releases. The platform's research and benchmarking arm publishes three annual/semi-annual branded products: the Music Economics Report, the Billboard-co-produced Music Finance Index, and the Chartmetric-co-produced Corridos & The Independent Artist Report, all powered by Duetti's proprietary data infrastructure for catalog valuation and trend analysis.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Young Tracks: Newly launched program referenced on the Duetti website for acquiring music from independent creators.
• The Remix Program

Products and services

• Catalog Acquisition Service Outright purchase of music rights — masters, publishing shares, and royalty shares — from independent music creators. Provides upfront lump-sum payouts in as little as 30 days, with no debt, no interest, and no recoupment obligations. Artists can sell as much or as little of their catalog as they wish and retain up to 50% of master income. Designed for independent artists, songwriters, and bands earning at least $2,000 annually from music rights.
• Catalog Management and Distribution Full-service rights tracking and claiming, royalty administration, and top-tier distribution for music catalogs, including tracks Duetti does not acquire. Provides active catalog management and expert royalty navigation for independent artists.
• Marketing Services High-impact marketing bundle for acquired catalogs and partner artists, including Catalog Monitoring & Trend Activation (TikTok, sync, playlist momentum), access to 1,000+ Duetti-owned Spotify playlists with 6M+ followers, sync placements, digital and physical paid advertising, and UGC campaigns.
• The Remix Program End-to-end remix production infrastructure that pairs independent producers (200K+ monthly listeners) with tracks from Duetti's catalog. Handles clearances, provides creative feedback, distribution, and marketing support. Pays non-recoupable upfront flat fees of $1,000–$5,000 per remix plus optional master share ownership, with zero distribution fees.
• Young Tracks Program Specialty catalog acquisition sub-program that lowers the catalog-age threshold, allowing Duetti to acquire music from independent creators whose tracks are as young as six months old, provided they earn at least $2,000 annually from music rights.

Quantifiable outcome

• Signed 80+ catalog deals per month as of late 2025/early 2026, approximately 2.5x the prior-year pace.
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship data/research co-publisher for genre-level industry reports. and flagship media co-publisher for the music finance index..

• Chartmetricflagship data/research co-publisher for genre-level industry reports.Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2026Co-published a joint study titled 'Duetti x Chartmetric: Corridos & The Independent Artist' analyzing 19,655 corridos artists and the genre's streaming economics, released May 2026. Chartmetric supplied career-stage and audience data while Duetti contributed proprietary revenue and royalty data.
• Billboardflagship media co-publisher for the music finance index.GTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026Co-publisher with Duetti of the Music Finance Index, a semiannual survey of music catalog valuations and investor sentiment, first published January 12, 2026. The Index is positioned as an industry-first recurring benchmark centered on the perspectives of managers, lawyers, artists, and funds.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Create Music Group: Independent music company that acquires, distributes, and markets catalogs from independent artists and labels. Direct competitor to Duetti in indie catalog acquisitions and also a Flexpoint Ford portfolio company, explicitly referenced alongside Duetti in source materials.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/duetti
• Instagraminstagram.com/duetti.co
• Xx.com/Duetti_Music
• Facebookfacebook.com/duettimusic

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors13 records

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M&A

Investments

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