Project Music

Project Music

Project Music is a Nashville-based single-family office that deploys capital at the intersection of music, technology, and intellectual property. The office was established to manage and grow wealth generated from the music industry, though the founding principal and precise origin year are not publicly disclosed. The firm's geographic anchor in Nashville — a global hub for songwriting and music publishing — positions it closer to creative deal flow than a coastal generalist office could achieve. The office runs a bifurcated strategy. One track targets early-stage technology companies that serve the music ecosystem — past accelerator cohorts under the "Project Music" banner included platform businesses in ticketing, royalty accounting, and fan engagement, backed alongside partners such as the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The second track focuses on acquiring and administering music publishing catalogs and royalty streams, an asset class that generates uncorrelated cash flows from streaming and sync licensing. The firm does not publicly disclose a fundraising structure or outside limited partners, suggesting it operates as a proprietary capital vehicle. Team size and total deployment are not publicly reported. The office originally included an accelerator program — Project Music & Entertainment — launched in partnership with industry operators and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, which ran multiple cohorts through 2019. Alumni portfolio companies include Jammber, a workflow platform for music credits and payments, and Soundstripe, a royalty-free production-music startup that raised a Series B from institutional investors. In 2020, the accelerator program was restructured and moved under a broader entrepreneurship initiative, marking a shift toward more direct investing activity rather than cohort-based incubation. The office now maintains a smaller, leaner footprint consistent with a pure family-office posture. The structural differentiator is proximity — not just geographically, but commercially. Very few family offices combine operating experience in music publishing with early-stage tech investing from a Nashville base. This combination gives the office access to deal flow in music-rights acquisitions and creator-tool startups that mainstream venture firms struggle to source without embedded industry relationships. The succession and governance structure remain private.