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Your work with beatBread makes you a useful person to ask whether that data could eventually support financing or underwriting. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to test that idea?", "thesis_question": "Can artist and song performance data become a financing or underwriting advantage?", "feedback": { "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "jaime-marconette", "name": "Jaime Marconette", "company": "Luminate", "role": "VP, Music Insights & Industry Relations", "category": "Market data / Thesis validation", "contact_route": "LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimemarconette", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://luminatedata.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 36, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 37, "label": "Luminate 2026 midyear", "url": "https://luminatedata.com/blog/luminate-2026-midyear-report-trends-in-music-television-film/", "note": "Spanish-language and independent-artist data.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 38, "label": "Jaime Marconette LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimemarconette", "note": "Current role.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 88, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Market data + thesis validation", "why": "Luminate can tell us which parts of the Latin-music and independent-artist thesis are supported by market data.", "why_now": "Luminate’s 2026 midyear report says Spanish-language music is approaching one in ten U.S. streams; it also shows independent artists gaining share in middle and lower streaming tiers.", "objective": "Identify the strongest data points for our market story and the metrics we should track ourselves.", "opener": "We have a clear thesis around Spanish-language music and independent talent. 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We expect more than 300 songs by the time we begin sponsor outreach, and we want the publishing and royalty structure right from the start. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to review how you would set this up?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "jason-sklar", "name": "Jason Sklar", "company": "Shamrock Capital", "role": "Partner, Executive Committee", "category": "Investor / Music rights", "contact_route": "Shamrock website / conference introduction.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-sklar-985771/", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://shamrockcap.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 59, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 60, "label": "Shamrock team", "url": "https://shamrockcap.com/team/", "note": "Current partner and executive committee role.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 61, "label": "Shamrock 2026 fund activity", "url": "https://shamrockcap.com/media/", "note": "$813M fourth content strategy fund closed in 2026.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Investor", "score": 82, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Long-term music IP value", "why": "Shamrock is a sophisticated buyer and investor in entertainment IP. Sklar can explain what makes music rights valuable at scale.", "why_now": "Shamrock closed an $813M fourth content strategy fund in May 2026 and Sklar continues to lead music-rights investing.", "objective": "Understand the long-term value of a catalog we start building today.", "opener": "We are creating original music from day one and want to treat the catalog as an asset, not an accounting afterthought.", "ask": "If you looked at this catalog ten years from now, what would you wish we had owned and tracked from the first release?", "next_action": "Pursue as a long-term IP strategy conversation.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Jason, Cuéntamelo Cantando is creating original music from the start and we want to make the right ownership and data decisions while the catalog is still young. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss what makes a catalog valuable to a sophisticated buyer ten years later?", "thesis_question": "What should we own and track today if we want the catalog to be valuable in ten years?", "feedback": { "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "jason-yeh", "name": "Jason Yeh", "company": "Patron Fund", "role": "Co-Founder & General Partner", "category": "Investor / Consumer", "contact_route": "LinkedIn; public fund email info@patron.fund.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonoliveryeh/", "x_url": "https://x.com/jasonoliver", "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/jasonoliver/", "company_url": "https://patron.fund/", "public_email": "info@patron.fund", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 17, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 18, "label": "Patron", "url": "https://patron.fund/", "note": "Current consumer seed thesis and team.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Investor", "score": 93, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Consumer fandom + community", "why": "Patron is a seed fund for consumer companies, and Yeh brings direct experience around Riot Games, 88rising and culture-driven products.", "why_now": "Patron is explicitly focused on early consumer products that are taste-driven, personal and culturally defining.", "objective": "Test the consumer-network and fandom side of Cuéntamelo.", "opener": "We are testing whether discovering an artist early can become a repeat, participatory consumer behavior.", "ask": "What would have to be true for that behavior to support a large consumer network?", "next_action": "Send a short note focused on fandom and participation.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Jason, I run Cuéntamelo Cantando, a platform for discovering original Latin singer-songwriters. We are testing whether discovering an artist early can become a repeat consumer behavior built around participation and fandom. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to get your read on that thesis?", "thesis_question": "Can early artist discovery become a repeat consumer behavior and network?", "feedback": { "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "jessica-meehan", "name": "Jessica Meehan", "company": "Roblox", "role": "Head of Music Partnerships", "category": "Fandom / Gaming", "contact_route": "LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicammeehan", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://www.roblox.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 24, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 25, "label": "Jessica Meehan LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicammeehan", "note": "Current role and recent Roblox music programs.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 26, "label": "Roblox indie music expansion", "url": "https://cy.linkedin.com/company/too-lost", "note": "2026 independent music Creator Store expansion.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 91, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Fandom + interactive discovery", "why": "Roblox can turn music into an interactive discovery and participation layer instead of another passive media placement.", "why_now": "Roblox is expanding independent music in the Creator Store and ran major artist activations in 2026. Meehan is leading those music partnerships.", "objective": "Learn what makes an emerging-artist ecosystem useful to Roblox before we try to pitch a partnership.", "opener": "We are building early fandom around participation, alongside streams and views.", "ask": "What would an emerging-artist platform need to prove before it becomes interesting for Roblox?", "next_action": "Reach out after referencing the indie Creator Store expansion.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Jessica, Cuéntamelo Cantando discovers original Latin singer-songwriters and is building fan participation around them. I have been following Roblox’s work to make music usable inside creator experiences. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to understand what an emerging-artist platform would need to prove before a partnership makes sense?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "mark-mulligan", "name": "Mark Mulligan", "company": "MIDiA Research", "role": "Senior Music Analyst / Founder", "category": "Market strategy / Fan economy", "contact_route": "Conference introduction or MIDiA professional contact route.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmulligan/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mark_mulligan", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://www.midiaresearch.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 21, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 preconference", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker and September 23 keynote at 10:00 AM PT.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 22, "label": "MIDiA 2026–2033 global music forecast", "url": "https://www.midiaresearch.com/reports/midia-research-2026-2033-global-music-forecasts-diversifying-market", "note": "Current global forecast, revenue drivers and methodology.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 23, "label": "MIDiA music market shares", "url": "https://www.midiaresearch.com/music-market-shares", "note": "Current fan-economy and expanded-rights findings.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 92, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Macro thesis + fan economy", "why": "Mulligan can test where Cuéntamelo fits in the next phase of music growth, especially fan revenue, expanded rights and emerging markets.", "why_now": "MIDiA’s 2026 forecast puts global recorded-music retail revenue at $121.1B by 2033 and says the fan economy is becoming a larger growth driver. Mulligan is keynoting the September 23 Music Tectonics preconference.", "objective": "Use MIDiA’s market view to sharpen the parts of the Cuéntamelo thesis that depend on fan participation, Spanish-language growth and revenue beyond streaming.", "opener": "We are building around Spanish-language emerging artists, original IP and fan participation. I want to understand which part of that maps to the next structural growth in music.", "ask": "Which part of this model is exposed to structural growth, and which metric would you watch first?", "next_action": "Attend the September 23 keynote, capture one specific point, then use it in outreach before the in-person conference.", "owner": "", "session": "Sep 23 online preconference, 10:00 AM PT, “Future Echoes: the Music Business of Tomorrow Being Built Today”", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Mark, I run Cuéntamelo Cantando, a platform for discovering original Latin singer-songwriters and building fan participation around them. Your 2026 work on the fan economy is close to the market thesis we are testing. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss which parts of our model map to structural growth in music?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "matt-rose", "name": "Matt Rose", "company": "Kobalt", "role": "Senior Director, Global Digital Strategy & Operations", "category": "Publishing / Platforms", "contact_route": "LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrose470", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://www.kobaltmusic.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 47, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 48, "label": "Matt Rose LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrose470", "note": "Joined Kobalt in 2026 as Senior Director, Global Digital Strategy & Operations.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 86, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Publishing + platform operations", "why": "Rose works across digital rights operations and major platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Meta.", "why_now": "He joined Kobalt in 2026 to run global digital strategy and operations and is hiring around rights-management workflows.", "objective": "Understand the operational requirements for a catalog that may scale across markets and platforms quickly.", "opener": "We are designing for a catalog that can cross markets quickly, especially across Spanish-language audiences.", "ask": "What rights or metadata mistakes become expensive once a catalog is moving across platforms?", "next_action": "Reach out on LinkedIn with a catalog-operations question.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Matt, Cuéntamelo Cantando is building a catalog of original songs from Latin singer-songwriters that may move across markets and platforms quickly. We want the rights and metadata structure right before scale creates cleanup work. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss the mistakes you would prevent from day one?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "matt-urmy", "name": "Matt Urmy", "company": "Artist Growth", "role": "Founder & CEO", "category": "Artist operations", "contact_route": "LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matturmy", "x_url": "https://x.com/matturmy", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://artistgrowth.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 62, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 63, "label": "Matt Urmy LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matturmy", "note": "Current Artist Growth product and workflow focus.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 81, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Artist management infrastructure", "why": "Artist Growth is built for labels and artist teams managing projects, events and operational workflows.", "why_now": "Artist Growth shipped a major 5.0 platform update and is pushing more customizable workflow tooling.", "objective": "Learn when a developing artist roster needs a real operating system rather than spreadsheets and chat threads.", "opener": "We are planning for the point where the artist pipeline becomes too large to run in spreadsheets.", "ask": "What breaks first when a small team starts managing a real roster?", "next_action": "Use as an operations conversation, not a partnership pitch.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Matt, Cuéntamelo Cantando is moving from a contest into an ongoing artist-development operation. We want to know when a growing roster needs real operating infrastructure for projects, releases and artist teams. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss where that threshold is?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "matthew-tilley", "name": "Matthew Tilley", "company": "beatBread", "role": "Head of Artist & Industry Development", "category": "Artist financing / Development", "contact_route": "LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-tilley", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://www.beatbread.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 52, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 53, "label": "Matthew Tilley LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-tilley", "note": "Current artist and industry development role.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 54, "label": "beatBread LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/beatbread", "note": "Current artist financing scale and programs.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 84, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Artist financing + development", "why": "Tilley is the artist-facing operator at beatBread and can give practical detail on financing thresholds and artist readiness.", "why_now": "beatBread says it has funded more than 2,000 artists and labels across 55 countries; Tilley is actively speaking about sustainable independent artist careers.", "objective": "Learn which development milestones matter before an artist should consider financing.", "opener": "We expect artists to come out of Cuéntamelo at very different stages.", "ask": "What separates an interesting emerging artist from one who is actually ready for financing?", "next_action": "Prioritize if we want concrete operating guidance over a CEO-level relationship.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Matthew, Cuéntamelo Cantando is developing emerging Latin singer-songwriters who will leave the platform at very different stages of traction. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to understand which milestones make an artist ready for financing and which are still too early?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "merck-mercuriadis", "name": "Merck Mercuriadis", "company": "Hipgnosis Artist Partnerships", "role": "Music executive", "category": "Catalog / IP", "contact_route": "Conference introduction.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/merck-mercuriadis-a7111613/", "x_url": "https://x.com/mmercuriadis", "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/merck_mercuriadis/", "company_url": "", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "Medium", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 64, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/", "note": "2026 keynote and catalog-value theme.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 80, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Catalog/IP strategy", "why": "Mercuriadis has spent years making the case that songs and catalogs are investable assets. The conversation is useful for long-term catalog strategy.", "why_now": "He is keynoting Music Tectonics 2026 on growing the value of music and has launched Hipgnosis Artist Partnerships.", "objective": "Understand what makes a young catalog compound in value over time.", "opener": "We are creating original songs as part of the platform and want to treat the catalog as an asset from the start.", "ask": "What makes a young catalog meaningfully valuable beyond a handful of breakout songs?", "next_action": "Use if access is easy; do not spend disproportionate time chasing.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Merck, I run Cuéntamelo Cantando, a platform for discovering original Latin singer-songwriters and developing selected artists after the contest. We are creating original songs from day one and want to understand what makes a young catalog compound in value over time. If you have 15 minutes at Music Tectonics, I would value your perspective on that question.", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "michael-pelczynski", "name": "Michael Pelczynski", "company": "Rostrum Pacific", "role": "EVP, Digital Strategy, Rostrum Pacific / SpaceHeater", "category": "Distribution / Digital strategy", "contact_route": "LinkedIn / SpaceHeater.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-pelczynski/", "x_url": "https://x.com/mikepelczynski", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://spaceheater.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 19, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 20, "label": "SpaceHeater update", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/spaceheater", "note": "2026 digital strategy role and current platform activity.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 93, "priority": "High", "status": "Ready to Contact", "angle": "Distribution + creator economics", "why": "He works at the intersection of distribution, streaming economics, creator rights and artist growth.", "why_now": "Rostrum Pacific launched SpaceHeater with direct Spotify and TikTok relationships, and Pelczynski is leading digital strategy around that platform.", "objective": "Review our post-contest distribution model and the economics of keeping a long-term artist relationship.", "opener": "We are designing the post-contest artist relationship so Cuéntamelo can keep creating value with the artists it discovers.", "ask": "What would you build into the distribution and rights model from day one?", "next_action": "Research SpaceHeater terms, then reach out.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Michael, Cuéntamelo Cantando is building a post-contest path for emerging Latin singer-songwriters, including releases, distribution and a longer artist relationship. Your work across creator economics and distribution is close to a decision we are making now. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to review the model?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "mike-walsh", "name": "Mike Walsh", "company": "Structure VC", "role": "Founding Partner", "category": "Investor / Seed", "contact_route": "Structure website / LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/themikewalsh/", "x_url": "https://x.com/mwalsh", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://structure.vc/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "Medium", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 55, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 56, "label": "Structure Capital LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/structure-capital", "note": "Current seed-stage thesis.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Investor", "score": 84, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Seed venture scale", "why": "Walsh is a seed investor who looks for large markets and underused assets. His value here is a generalist venture read on scale.", "why_now": "Structure continues to invest at seed and focuses on new markets created from underused assets and capacity.", "objective": "Get an outside venture view on whether the business can be large enough and what would make it legible to generalist investors.", "opener": "We know how music people read this. I want to know how a seed investor who is not inside the music business reads it.", "ask": "What would have to be true for you to believe this can become a very large company?", "next_action": "Use if we can get a short hallway conversation.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Mike, I run Cuéntamelo Cantando, a platform for discovering original Latin singer-songwriters and building the business around artist development, audience and original IP. I want a seed investor's read on the scale of the model. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss what would have to be true for this to become a large venture company?", "thesis_question": "What must be true for this to become a very large company?", "feedback": { "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "rob-levin", "name": "Rob Levin", "company": "Interscope Capitol", "role": "Sports & Gaming Marketing, Creative Sync", "category": "Label / Gaming / Sync", "contact_route": "LinkedIn.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-levin-25279652", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/roblevin_/", "company_url": "", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 39, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 40, "label": "Rob Levin LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-levin-25279652", "note": "Current Interscope Capitol activity.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 41, "label": "Toca Boca music strategy", "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/toca-boca-advances-its-music-strategy-featuring-songs-by-olivia-rodrigo-sienna-spiro-and-twice-in-toca-boca-world-digital-game-302768521.html", "note": "Role identified as Sports & Gaming Marketing, Creative Sync.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 88, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Major-label partnerships + gaming", "why": "Levin works on sports, gaming and creative sync at Interscope Capitol and has been directly involved in major Roblox music activations.", "why_now": "In 2026 he has worked on Roblox and Toca Boca integrations that put label music inside interactive fan experiences.", "objective": "Learn how a major label evaluates new fan channels and how an emerging-artist platform can become useful rather than just another pitch.", "opener": "We are building fan participation around emerging Latin artists before they are large enough for most major-label programs.", "ask": "What would make a platform like ours useful to a major label before the artists are already obvious?", "next_action": "Reach out after we have the Roblox conversation so the questions are sharper.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Rob, Cuéntamelo Cantando is building fan participation around emerging Latin artists before they reach major-label scale. Your work across gaming and creative sync at Interscope Capitol is close to a channel we want to understand. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss what would make a platform like ours useful to a major label?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "sun-jen-yung", "name": "Sun Jen Yung", "company": "Jakota Capital US", "role": "Managing Director, M&A & Advisory", "category": "M&A / Capital strategy", "contact_route": "LinkedIn / Jakota Capital contact.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sun-jen-yung-jakotacapitalus", "x_url": "https://x.com/SunJYung", "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/sjyung/", "company_url": "https://jakotacapital.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 49, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 50, "label": "Jakota Capital", "url": "https://jakotacapital.com/", "note": "Current Managing Director role.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 51, "label": "Jakota content", "url": "https://jakotacapital.com/content.html", "note": "Music-tech M&A and Series A commentary.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Investor", "score": 86, "priority": "Medium", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Music-tech capital markets + M&A", "why": "Yung has spent years advising music-tech and digital-media companies on M&A, growth capital and what strategic buyers care about.", "why_now": "She joined Jakota Capital US in 2026 to lead M&A and advisory while continuing to focus on music tech, creator economy and digital media.", "objective": "Understand what Cuéntamelo would need to build for strategic buyers or growth investors to care later.", "opener": "We are making early structural decisions about what we own, what data we keep and how the artist relationship works.", "ask": "Which of those decisions most affect strategic value later, and what do founders usually fail to build early enough?", "next_action": "Use as a capital-strategy conversation after core seed investors.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Sun, I run Cuéntamelo Cantando. We are making early decisions about what the company owns, what data it keeps and how the artist relationship works. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss which of those decisions matter most to strategic value later?", "thesis_question": "Which early structural decisions create or destroy strategic value later?", "feedback": { "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "vickie-nauman", "name": "Vickie Nauman", "company": "CrossBorderWorks", "role": "Founder & CEO", "category": "Rights / Business model", "contact_route": "Company contact form / conference introduction.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vnauman/", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "", "company_url": "https://www.crossborderworks.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 34, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 35, "label": "CrossBorderWorks", "url": "https://www.crossborderworks.com/", "note": "Current services and rights/licensing focus.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 89, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Rights + strategic architecture", "why": "Nauman has built and licensed digital music products across platforms, games and emerging technology. She can spot rights decisions that become expensive later.", "why_now": "Her 2026 work continues to focus on licensing, rights, data, AI and new music business models.", "objective": "Review our rights architecture and partner map before the catalog gets large.", "opener": "We are early enough to make the rights architecture clean. We want to know which decisions are expensive to undo later.", "ask": "What would you insist we own, license or track from day one?", "next_action": "Prepare three concrete rights questions and ask for 20 minutes.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Vickie, Cuéntamelo Cantando is early enough to make its rights architecture clean before the catalog gets large. We are deciding what to own, license and track across artists and songs. Could we get 20 minutes at Music Tectonics to review the decisions that become expensive to undo later?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] }, { "id": "xena-plat", "name": "Xena Plat", "company": "411 Music Group", "role": "COO", "category": "Sync / Rights", "contact_route": "LinkedIn; 411 licensing contact.", "warm_intro": "", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xena-plat", "x_url": "", "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/xena.plat/", "company_url": "https://www.411musicgroup.com/", "public_email": "", "research_confidence": "High", "last_verified": "2026-09-18", "created_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-18T23:00:00Z", "sources": [ { "id": 29, "label": "Music Tectonics 2026 speaker", "url": "https://www.musictectonics.com/speakers", "note": "Confirmed 2026 speaker.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 30, "label": "Xena Plat LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xena-plat", "note": "Current role and 2026 AI licensing/rights activity.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" }, { "id": 31, "label": "411 licensing page", "url": "https://quickframe.411musicgroup.com/", "note": "Current licensing model and contact structure.", "verified_at": "2026-09-18" } ], "activities": [], "campaigns": [ { "campaign_id": "music-tectonics-2026", "track": "Strategic", "score": 90, "priority": "High", "status": "Researching", "angle": "Sync + licensing", "why": "411 can help us understand how a young catalog becomes usable for sync, licensing and new forms of rights monetization.", "why_now": "Plat is speaking publicly in 2026 about AI licensing, consent, attribution and artist rights. 411 also operates a direct-source licensing catalog.", "objective": "Build a practical sync and licensing path for the Cuéntamelo catalog.", "opener": "The songs start on the platform, but we want each one to have a life beyond the contest.", "ask": "What would make a young Latin catalog useful to sync buyers, and what should we capture from day one?", "next_action": "Reach out with catalog and rights angle.", "owner": "", "session": "", "notes": "", "outreach_note": "Xena, Cuéntamelo Cantando is building a growing catalog of original songs from Latin singer-songwriters. We want the rights and metadata clean enough for sync and licensing from the first release. Could we get 15 minutes at Music Tectonics to discuss what makes a young catalog useful to buyers?", "thesis_question": "", "feedback": { "updated_at": "", "believed": "", "questioned": "", "metric": "", "milestone": "", "referral": "" } } ] } ] }