Duetti Raises $200M in Funding for Independent Music Creators
New York has a way of teaching timing. Miss it and the room moves on without you. Catch it and suddenly the beat drops. Duetti caught the beat. Founded in June 2022 and headquartered in New York City, Duetti sits at the intersection of music, money, and math, where catalogs are not nostalgia plays but cash flowing assets. The company was built for independent creators who learned the hard way that great music does not automatically unlock great capital.
Lior Tibon did not come to this cold. After years inside TIDAL, including serving as Chief Operating Officer through its acquisition by Block, Lior Tibon left with a clear read on what the streaming era actually pays and who it leaves out. Independent artists were growing faster than anyone wanted to admit, yet institutional capital treated them like a rounding error. Christopher Nolte saw the same gap from the inside at Apple Music and earlier at TIDAL, where partnerships and content strategy exposed just how fragmented creator financing really was.
This week, Duetti announced $200 million in new capital, a blend that tells its own story. Fifty million dollars in Series C equity led by Raine Partners, with Joe Puthenveetil joining the board, layered on top of a $125 million private asset backed securitization and a $25 million expansion of an existing credit facility. That brings Duetti’s total capital raised to $635 million in three and a half years, a number that does not whisper. It plays loud.
The business underneath the capital is where it gets interesting. Duetti acquires master recordings, publishing rights, and royalty streams directly from independent artists and songwriters, offering upfront capital while applying proprietary pricing and forecasting systems to manage and grow those catalogs. Over 1,100 creators across more than 40 countries are already in the mix. More than 30 percent of 2025 deals came from outside the United States, and by January 2026, the company was signing over 80 deals a month, a 2.5x jump year over year.
This is not passive ownership. Duetti operates with 65 full time employees across New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, London, and Rio de Janeiro, running a catalog management engine that includes a 3,000 plus playlist network, millions of followers, dozens of remix releases per quarter, and hundreds of customized artist programs. It is finance with a backbeat, and the data does not blink.
What really shifted the conversation was securitization. In late 2024, Duetti completed the first asset backed transaction primarily supported by independent artist catalogs. In January 2026, they did it again, bringing the combined securitized balance to $205 million. That is not a stunt. That is capital markets saying this asset class is real.