Plus Eight Equity Fund LP

Founded in 2014, Plus Eight Equity Partners is an early stage venture capital firm that has partnered with electronic music industry leaders to invest in groundbreaking music technology companies. The Principals of Plus Eight have over 100 years of combined experience in electronic music and music technology. Plus Eight possesses deep institutional knowledge and relationships within these industries. The firm specializes in sourcing propriety investment opportunities and building value through organizational development and organic growth. Plus Eight drives significant momentum in its portfolio company investments by leveraging its robust network in music, technology, finance, operations and manufacturing.

Rishi Patel

Managing Partner

16 past transactions

VersusGame

Series A in 2022
VersusGame is a global entertainment platform that offers a mobile gaming experience where users can leverage their knowledge of mainstream culture. It allows individuals, brands, and creators to engage with an interactive audience, driving excitement through gamified content. The platform enables users to participate in 1v1 games for cash and prizes, making it a popular choice for entertainment. VersusGame serves as a marketplace for interactive content, embedding its technology into various platforms such as apps, websites, TV shows, and podcasts. By utilizing artificial intelligence, it creates an engaging and fair environment for users to test their knowledge while placing bets on their favorite celebrities, brands, and events. The VersusGame app, along with its mobile website and integrations with social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, positions it as a leading prediction platform worldwide.

Overplay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Overplay is a venture-backed startup that provides a platform for users to create, share, and play casual mobile games quickly and without the need for coding. The company's patented technology transforms traditional video content into interactive experiences, allowing users to engage with videos actively. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Overplay's game engine facilitates the development of creative games, including racing, jumping, and drone piloting scenarios. Additionally, brands can utilize Overplay's platform to generate playable game ads based on their video content, significantly reducing the cost and time typically associated with game creation. This innovative approach enhances user engagement and entertainment in digital media.

VersusGame

Seed Round in 2021
VersusGame is a global entertainment platform that offers a mobile gaming experience where users can leverage their knowledge of mainstream culture. It allows individuals, brands, and creators to engage with an interactive audience, driving excitement through gamified content. The platform enables users to participate in 1v1 games for cash and prizes, making it a popular choice for entertainment. VersusGame serves as a marketplace for interactive content, embedding its technology into various platforms such as apps, websites, TV shows, and podcasts. By utilizing artificial intelligence, it creates an engaging and fair environment for users to test their knowledge while placing bets on their favorite celebrities, brands, and events. The VersusGame app, along with its mobile website and integrations with social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, positions it as a leading prediction platform worldwide.

Endel

Series A in 2020
Endel is a company that specializes in creating personalized soundscapes aimed at enhancing focus and relaxation. Their platform employs a unique algorithm that integrates various inputs, such as time, weather, heart rate, and location, to generate adaptive sound environments. The use of circadian rhythms, pentatonic scales, and sound masking techniques allows users to tailor their auditory experience to improve productivity and cognitive function. Founded by a small team of artists, developers, and scientists, Endel has previously collaborated on notable digital projects, including an award-winning app series for children. The company emerged from the 2018 Techstars Music Accelerator program, emphasizing its innovative approach to audio solutions.

Lynq

Seed Round in 2020
Lynq, founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in manufacturing handheld personal location devices that enable reliable communication in challenging environments. The company develops off-grid wearable technology designed to connect individuals and devices over long distances without the need for traditional infrastructure. Utilizing a decentralized peer-to-peer network and a combination of radio frequencies, Lynq's solutions allow users to transmit low-bandwidth data effectively, making them particularly valuable for first responders, government agencies, and enterprises that require dependable communication in critical situations. This technology ensures that teams can stay connected when seconds matter, even in areas with unreliable connectivity.

Rap Tech

Venture Round in 2019
Rap Tech Studios is a mobile app that helps the individual in pursuing their musical passions. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, England.

LANDR

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2013, LANDR is an innovative platform that empowers music creators to produce, master, and distribute their music seamlessly. The platform features an instant online audio mastering service that utilizes machine learning technologies to enhance and refine stereo mixes, allowing musicians to achieve professional-quality results without the need for an engineer. LANDR combines a comprehensive suite of tools and services tailored for both emerging and professional artists, fostering an environment where creativity can flourish. Through its user-friendly interface, LANDR enables musicians to mix, learn, collaborate, and release their music efficiently in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Endel

Seed Round in 2018
Endel is a company that specializes in creating personalized soundscapes aimed at enhancing focus and relaxation. Their platform employs a unique algorithm that integrates various inputs, such as time, weather, heart rate, and location, to generate adaptive sound environments. The use of circadian rhythms, pentatonic scales, and sound masking techniques allows users to tailor their auditory experience to improve productivity and cognitive function. Founded by a small team of artists, developers, and scientists, Endel has previously collaborated on notable digital projects, including an award-winning app series for children. The company emerged from the 2018 Techstars Music Accelerator program, emphasizing its innovative approach to audio solutions.

SUBPAC

Corporate Round in 2018
SUBPAC is a leading company in high-fidelity tactile audio technology, offering innovative solutions that enhance the audio experience across various fields, including music, gaming, virtual reality, cinema, and automotive applications. The company's unique technology transfers low sound frequencies directly to the user's body, providing a new physical dimension to sound. This capability allows creators and licensing partners to optimize their audio for deeper audience engagement. With a presence in major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, and London, SUBPAC is supported by a prominent team of investors and strategic partners, including notable figures from the music and sports industries. Their powerful hardware and software platform aims to revolutionize how sound is experienced, making it an essential tool for music producers and creators in various entertainment sectors.

Lynq

Seed Round in 2017
Lynq, founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in manufacturing handheld personal location devices that enable reliable communication in challenging environments. The company develops off-grid wearable technology designed to connect individuals and devices over long distances without the need for traditional infrastructure. Utilizing a decentralized peer-to-peer network and a combination of radio frequencies, Lynq's solutions allow users to transmit low-bandwidth data effectively, making them particularly valuable for first responders, government agencies, and enterprises that require dependable communication in critical situations. This technology ensures that teams can stay connected when seconds matter, even in areas with unreliable connectivity.

Esports Engine

Venture Round in 2017
Esports Engine is an esports design and management company that focuses on various aspects of competition operations, production, live broadcasting, and ecosystem design. The company offers a range of services including live event production administration, logistics management, event creative design, program management, and live broadcast production for both on-site and online events. By providing these comprehensive solutions, Esports Engine enables clients to successfully execute programs from initial concept to final delivery while optimizing costs.

Pacemaker

Seed Round in 2016
Powered by its AI DJ technology Pacemaker provides a simple DJ mix creation and social consumption experience. And with its proprietary metadata file format the Recipe, they make DJ mixes an integrated part of revenue generating music services.

VNTANA

Seed Round in 2016
VNTANA is a company based in Van Nuys, California, that specializes in interactive hologram technology and 3D digital asset management. Its interactive hologram system enables real-time holographic displays across various venues, enhancing engagement for fans while allowing artists, celebrities, and brands to connect with new audiences. VNTANA provides live streamed and pre-recorded hologram shows, as well as branded hologram displays for events like movie premieres and in-store promotions. Additionally, the company offers a 3D collaboration platform that automatically generates 3D web and augmented reality experiences from manufacturing design files, significantly improving online sales and reducing product returns. With smart algorithms, VNTANA optimizes and converts 3D assets for seamless integration into popular advertising and e-commerce platforms, facilitating secure collaboration and sharing of digital assets.

Merchbar

Venture Round in 2016
Merchbar is an operator of an online marketplace used to be used for selling music band merchandise. It provides an easy way for fans to discover and buy merchandise from their favorite artists that enables fans to buy their desired accessories and merchandise at a reasonable price range. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LANDR

Series A in 2015
Founded in 2013, LANDR is an innovative platform that empowers music creators to produce, master, and distribute their music seamlessly. The platform features an instant online audio mastering service that utilizes machine learning technologies to enhance and refine stereo mixes, allowing musicians to achieve professional-quality results without the need for an engineer. LANDR combines a comprehensive suite of tools and services tailored for both emerging and professional artists, fostering an environment where creativity can flourish. Through its user-friendly interface, LANDR enables musicians to mix, learn, collaborate, and release their music efficiently in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Splice

Series A in 2014
Splice is a music creation platform that enables musicians to bring their ideas to life through a comprehensive library of high-quality licensed samples and powerful AI tools. The platform facilitates deep sound discovery and inspiration, catering to the needs of music creators by providing a browsable catalog of sounds. Additionally, Splice offers affordable access to plugins and digital audio workstations (DAWs) through a rent-to-own marketplace, making it easier for users to enhance their music production capabilities. The platform supports collaboration and project management by allowing musicians to store, save, and share music project files in the cloud. Founded by Steve Martocci and Matt Aimonetti, and currently led by CEO Kakul Srivastava, Splice is dedicated to empowering music creators across various industries, including broadcasting, film, and commercial production.
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