Plus Eight Equity Fund LP

Plus Eight Equity Fund LP, established in 2014 and based in Miami, Florida, is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on investing in innovative music technology companies. The firm collaborates closely with leaders in the electronic music industry, leveraging over a century of combined experience in both electronic music and music technology. Plus Eight Equity Partners excels in identifying proprietary investment opportunities and enhancing portfolio value through targeted organizational development and growth strategies. The firm utilizes its extensive network across music, technology, finance, operations, and manufacturing to drive momentum in its investments, positioning itself as a significant player in the intersection of entertainment and technology.

John Acquaviva

Founder

Rishi Patel

Managing Partner

16 past transactions

VersusGame

Series A in 2022
VersusGame is a global mobile gaming platform that enables users to engage with mainstream culture through interactive content. The platform allows participants to test their knowledge by predicting outcomes related to brands, celebrities, and cultural events, fostering an environment of competition and entertainment. Through the VersusGame app, mobile website, and social media channels like Snapchat and Instagram, users can compete in 1v1 matches for cash and prizes. The company also provides a business-to-business model, allowing creators and brands to incorporate gamified content into their own sites, apps, TV shows, and podcasts. By leveraging artificial intelligence, VersusGame enhances content interactivity, ensuring a fun and fair experience for all participants while creating value for both users and content creators.

Overplay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Overplay is a venture-backed startup that provides a platform enabling users to create, share, and play casual mobile games quickly and without any coding experience. The company's innovative game engine utilizes artificial intelligence to transform passive video content into interactive experiences, allowing users to engage with videos in a more dynamic way. Overplay's technology supports the development of various game types, including racing, jumping, and drone piloting, offering brands the ability to create playable game advertisements based on their video content. This approach significantly reduces the cost and time needed to produce interactive media, making content more entertaining and engaging for users.

VersusGame

Seed Round in 2021
VersusGame is a global mobile gaming platform that enables users to engage with mainstream culture through interactive content. The platform allows participants to test their knowledge by predicting outcomes related to brands, celebrities, and cultural events, fostering an environment of competition and entertainment. Through the VersusGame app, mobile website, and social media channels like Snapchat and Instagram, users can compete in 1v1 matches for cash and prizes. The company also provides a business-to-business model, allowing creators and brands to incorporate gamified content into their own sites, apps, TV shows, and podcasts. By leveraging artificial intelligence, VersusGame enhances content interactivity, ensuring a fun and fair experience for all participants while creating value for both users and content creators.

Endel

Series A in 2020
Endel is a cross-platform audio ecosystem that specializes in creating personalized, sound-based adaptive environments aimed at enhancing focus and relaxation. The company employs a core algorithm that incorporates elements such as circadian rhythms, pentatonic scales, and sound masking. By adapting to various inputs like time, weather, heart rate, and location, Endel's platform generates tailored soundscapes that help users improve their productivity and cognitive functions. Founded by a small team of artists, developers, and scientists, Endel has built on a foundation of previous digital projects, including the award-winning children's app series, BUBL. Established in 2018, Endel emerged from the Techstars Music Accelerator program.

Lynq

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2014, Lynq specializes in manufacturing handheld personal location devices. These devices operate on a decentralized peer-to-peer network, using radio frequencies to transmit low-bandwidth data over long distances without cellular networks or infrastructure. Lynq's products are designed for secure connectivity and are used by first responders, government agencies, and enterprises where reliable communication is critical.

Rap Tech

Venture Round in 2019
Rap Tech Studios, founded in 2018 and based in London, England, is a company that focuses on empowering individuals to pursue their musical passions through its innovative mobile application. The app is designed to revolutionize the rap music experience by providing users with a built-in recording studio that allows them to create, produce, and mix music seamlessly. It features tools for laying down beats and smacking tracks, enabling users to share their musical creations with friends and family. By combining user-friendly technology with creative capabilities, Rap Tech Studios aims to enhance the way aspiring musicians engage with rap music.

LANDR

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2013, LANDR is a comprehensive online platform tailored for music creators, offering services for music creation, mastering, and distribution. The company leverages machine learning technologies to provide an instant audio mastering solution that enhances and refines stereo mixes. This innovative platform empowers musicians to produce high-quality tracks independently, eliminating the need for a dedicated sound engineer. By combining a wide array of tools and services in one accessible location, LANDR supports both emerging and professional artists in their creative processes, enabling them to learn, collaborate, master, and release music online. With a team of engineers, producers, and musicians, LANDR stands at the forefront of the intersection between music and technology.

Endel

Seed Round in 2018
Endel is a cross-platform audio ecosystem that specializes in creating personalized, sound-based adaptive environments aimed at enhancing focus and relaxation. The company employs a core algorithm that incorporates elements such as circadian rhythms, pentatonic scales, and sound masking. By adapting to various inputs like time, weather, heart rate, and location, Endel's platform generates tailored soundscapes that help users improve their productivity and cognitive functions. Founded by a small team of artists, developers, and scientists, Endel has built on a foundation of previous digital projects, including the award-winning children's app series, BUBL. Established in 2018, Endel emerged from the Techstars Music Accelerator program.

Subpac

Corporate Round in 2018
Subpac is a leader in high-fidelity tactile audio technology, specializing in the transfer of low-frequency sound vibrations to the body, enhancing the auditory experience across various entertainment mediums, including music, gaming, virtual reality, and cinema. The company's innovative hardware and software platform enables creators and licensing partners to harness the power of bass frequencies, fostering deeper connections with audiences. With a presence in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, and London, Subpac aims to support independent music and art by providing tools that enable music producers to capture and optimize the physical dimensions of sound.

Lynq

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2014, Lynq specializes in manufacturing handheld personal location devices. These devices operate on a decentralized peer-to-peer network, using radio frequencies to transmit low-bandwidth data over long distances without cellular networks or infrastructure. Lynq's products are designed for secure connectivity and are used by first responders, government agencies, and enterprises where reliable communication is critical.

Esports Engine

Venture Round in 2017
Esports Engine is an esports design and management company that focuses on competition operations, production, live broadcasting, and ecosystem design. The company provides a comprehensive range of services, including live event production administration, logistics management, event creative design, and program management. Additionally, Esports Engine offers live broadcast production both on-site and online, enabling clients to successfully execute their programs from concept to completion while optimizing costs. Through its expertise, Esports Engine supports various stakeholders in the esports industry by ensuring seamless event experiences and operational efficiency.

Pacemaker

Seed Round in 2016
Pacemaker Music AB is a Stockholm-based company that specializes in developing applications for music mix creation. Founded in 2012, Pacemaker utilizes artificial intelligence technology to simplify the process of creating DJ mixes and mixtapes. Its applications allow users to seamlessly blend tracks from licensed streaming services like Spotify and iTunes, offering features such as beat synchronization, customizable music effects, and matching mixes with tracks. Additionally, Pacemaker's proprietary metadata format, known as the Recipe, integrates DJ mixes into revenue-generating music services, enabling users to monetize their creative efforts. Through its innovative approach, the company enhances the music mixing experience while fostering user engagement and creativity.

VNTANA

Seed Round in 2016
VNTANA specializes in interactive hologram systems, creating engaging holographic experiences for fans, artists, and brands. They offer live streamed hologram shows, branded displays, and system rental services. Additionally, VNTANA develops a 3D Collaboration Platform that optimizes and converts 3D assets for various platforms, enhancing customer engagement and streamlining collaboration.

Merchbar

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2013, Merchbar operates an online marketplace for music band merchandise. It offers apparel, posters, vinyl records, CDs, jackets, hats, and accessories from various artists, providing fans with a convenient way to discover and purchase items at reasonable prices.

LANDR

Series A in 2015
Founded in 2013, LANDR is a comprehensive online platform tailored for music creators, offering services for music creation, mastering, and distribution. The company leverages machine learning technologies to provide an instant audio mastering solution that enhances and refines stereo mixes. This innovative platform empowers musicians to produce high-quality tracks independently, eliminating the need for a dedicated sound engineer. By combining a wide array of tools and services in one accessible location, LANDR supports both emerging and professional artists in their creative processes, enabling them to learn, collaborate, master, and release music online. With a team of engineers, producers, and musicians, LANDR stands at the forefront of the intersection between music and technology.

Splice

Series A in 2014
Splice is a New York-based platform for music creators that combines a large catalog of licensed samples with AI-powered tools to accelerate sound discovery and inspiration. It enables music creation, collaboration, and cloud-based storage of project files, and offers a rent-to-own marketplace for plugins and digital audio workstations. Splice provides content used by broadcasters, independent films, and commercials, helping musicians produce and share music efficiently. Through its combination of samples, AI-assisted features, and collaboration capabilities, the company aims to empower creators by making professional-grade tools and resources more accessible.
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