RUN co-founders Christoffer Mård (left) and Diego Farias. Photograph Credit score: RUN
Major Wave has formally invested in RUN, a three-year-old music financing platform that claims it’s already “deployed tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in capital to tons of of artists.”
New York Metropolis-based Major Wave formally unveiled the “strategic funding” in the present day. Based in early 2023 by Diego Farias (previously Amuse’s CEO) and Christoffer Mård (beforehand Amuse’s chief label officer), RUN payments itself as “an information pushed funding firm supporting the creator technology.”
With workplaces in LA in addition to Stockholm, the platform offers in advances and straight catalog acquisitions alike, with transactions clocking in at as much as $25 million a pop, in keeping with the suitable web site.
Now, geared up with its “single largest and first institutional funding” up to now, RUN intends to speed up “sourcing, execution, and scale.” And Major Wave’s monetary help and IP know-how will assist the platform with this effort to kick its dealmaking into excessive gear, Farias mentioned in additional phrases.
“The partnership with Major Wave—who’ve invested billions in music’s best catalogs over a long time—opens infinite alternatives via their deep business experience,” Farias added partially.
“Our purpose is easy: to be THE funding accomplice within the music business and, with the entry to capital that this deal presents, we’re prepared to satisfy any funding wants artists might have,” the RUN co-founder continued.
On Major Wave’s finish, company growth head Agnes Kacicki highlighted the broader significance of RUN’s tech from the value-creation perspective.
“RUN provides us early publicity to a technology-enabled platform on the intersection of music, knowledge, and rights administration, and this funding aligns immediately with our give attention to innovation and long-term worth creation,” Kacicki mentioned.
Additionally value noting is RUN’s emphasis on shortly analyzing IP with synthetic intelligence versus performing weeks-long guide opinions.
“Now we have created the final word funding software for music rights,” Farias summed up. “Constructed on a state-of-the-art AI platform, we’re capable of routinely break down advanced statements and offers within the matter of minutes somewhat than weeks after which flip round financing presents that we’re able to shake arms on.”
(Likewise primarily based in Stockholm, Chapter Two, previously Anotherblock, says its Baltazar analytics product turns “fragmented royalty knowledge into actionable insights for valuation and funding choices.”)
Elsewhere within the more and more crowded financing enviornment, established gamers corresponding to beatBread (which in October 2025 launched a $100 million fund with main indie orgs), Sound Royalties, and RoyFi are persevering with to make noise. Holding the give attention to advances, so are upstarts together with Kahuna and most not too long ago Pipeline, to call a pair.
