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Izotope producers club
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izotope producers club

IZotope I think stands out in that they cover multiple markets and for multiple skills sectors and have some serious engineering competencies. Why would investors add iZotope to their scopes after Native Instruments? (The usage number is interesting, too – so people really did use that lockdown to not just buy some stuff with the hopes of spending time with it, but actually did spend time with it.) How much growth? iZotope saw a 72% increase in product usage and an 82% increase in new customers. But the pandemic clearly hit the gas on that trend, like so many things in our world right now. And even as we see again and again that selling music consumption isn’t a great business, we also see time and time again that music creation is something a lot of people are into. I don’t think it’s fair to view that exclusively as a side-effect of the pandemic – investors had to have their eye on this segment to even notice that it exploded over the last year. And in the midst of an unprecedented global economic catastrophe, it seems one of the markets that is expanding is people buying plug-ins and whatnot. So you may need to adjust your expectations – the industry is growing, fast. I think that says something about some of the players in our industry – having watched events like retailer Guitar Center regularly flaming out (most recently at least with a pandemic to blame) or online giant SoundCloud getting emergency funding in 2017 to avoid (reportedly) actually pulling the plug. It’s funny how many people in the music tech business see private investment and assume that means the company is in some kind of trouble. But for the “parent group” (whatever it will be called) arrangement to work, it’s a safe bet that iZotope also got a major investment from Francisco Partners. In a conversation with CDM, they declined to discuss further details of the funding side of the arrangement. It seems iZotope now has a mirror arrangement. That news was probably overshadowed by the management shakeup – Daniel Haver and Mate Galic out, Constantin in.ĮMH retains a minority share in NI, and is listed as a backer for the new parent group.

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In 2020, EMH invested more and got a controlling stake in the company NI shareholders retained their minority stake but NI ceased to be independently-owned. I made fun of their bright blue suits and commented that words in business press releases seem not to mean anything, the sort of behavior that may explain why I’m not a highly sought-after business journalist. In 2017, EMH made a major investment in Native Instruments. That majority stake it acquired in January from Munich-based EMH Partners, an investment firm. The USA firm Francisco Partners has a majority stake in Native Instruments. But that is an umbrella company, formed by Francisco Partners. They’re calling it the “music and audio creator group,” all lowercase. Group what now? So, this is funny, in that the group seems to not really have a name yet. They will now be “co-presidents of the group.” Mark Ethier, co-founder of iZotope, continues as their CEO. Constantin Koehncke continues as CEO at NI (a role he entered on 1 October). There’s a new parent, but the two companies operate independently. You can read the corporatespeak if you really want to, but let me boil it down for you into actual human terms.

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Just weeks after announcing it was acquiring a majority stake in Native Instruments, Francisco Partners now will create a parent company for both NI and iZotope, making two of the largest names in audio software “sister companies.” Make no mistake – music production is attracting investors.












Izotope producers club