It’s been a long time coming. I first started out in the music industry in 1995, as a drummer in an alt rock band in Chicago. After stints in other bands and numerous session gigs through the rest of the 90’s, I fell in love with production, then started a commercial recording studio and realized I knew nothing about business. Some hard lessons learned followed, I fell in love with the lessons, and began my career as an entrepreneur.
As an entrepreneur and investor, I spent more than 20 years starting, growing, acquiring, and investing in businesses. Myriad industries like real estate, tech, events & entertainment, transportation, hospitality, media and more.
But music was always there, my first love. Pulling at me to return, as it does for many of us who’ve had the pleasure to spend our youth in its arms. Recently, as I spent more time working with several of our portfolio company CEOs (all of which were musicians), I began to get the itch to marry the lessons and experience as an artist and producer with the business side.
Our family office PermaVentures is a place where we combine the resources leaders need (like capital, tech development, coaching and business services) with an ecosystem of support. It’s this same ethos and resources we bring to our re-entry into the music industry as Patchbay Ventures.
Just as a patchbay performs the duty of connecting your creativity to the tools that maximize it, we will do the same for music industry founders, investors, producers and artists.
We’ve already begun to support dynamic people in music through recent years, and Patchbay becomes our vehicle to focus our efforts and get some shit done.
If you’re a music industry founder with an idea or burgeoning business, or an investor seeking to enter the space, or an industry vet looking to make your career more permanent, reach out. We’re happy to strategize next steps with you, and hopefully find some serendipity together.
LFG,
DK
