Music
Royalty
Intelligence
Modernized Music
Licensing and Administration
Performance insights in minutes for free.
Trqk ingests your PRO statements and track catalog so you can:
Gain valuable new insights with performance royalty visuals
Discover public performances that PROs might have missed
Get the most out of sync deals with cross-industry royalty intelligence
… and so much more
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Who is this for?
TrqkIQ
Through a sleek, tech-forward approach, Trqk gives you the power to explore royalty data in a new and powerful way. Whether you’re a publisher, composer, or music-user, this module provides you the big picture of your performance royalties in a new and powerful way.
Gain valuable new insights with performance royalty visuals
No more clunky pdfs or spreadsheets to analyze
Quick and easy trend analysis
Full breakdown of what/where/when/who for all of your performance royalties
Discover public performances that PROs might have missed
Modern music information retrieval (MIR) techniques used to find on-air works
Gap analysis of on-air performances vs. reported performances
Root cause analysis -- missed registrations, missing cue-sheets, etc.
Get the most out of sync deals with cross-industry royalties intelligence
Cross-industry performance royalty estimator, powered by TrqkIQ Insights Index™
Quickly and easily understand up-front license vs. royalty tradeoffs for any given transaction
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“Trqk has an exciting and unique approach to simplify and modernize the music performance royalty eco-system, removing intermediaries between songwriters and consumers, lowering costs and bringing more money to the songwriters that deserve it.”
—Steven Lubin, former VP at ASCAP
About
Mission: Our mission is to help elevate the music industry’s royalty IQ in order to empower a more modern approach to licensing and administration.
Our premise is a simple one:
Music royalties are difficult for most to understand
Music licensing is outdated and can often be complicated and inconvenient
An imbalance of information often hurts licensing negotiations
The transition from broadcast to digital is threatening the incomes of composers across the globe… and we want to help
Who we are
As musicians and technologists, we’re passionate about the advancement and welfare of the music economy because it’s our lives. Our platform delivers clarity and valuable insights to performance royalty data through a modernized approach. We’re committed to empowering the music industry by automating the licensing process and bringing transparency and control to the forefront.
David Della Santa
Co-Founder, CCO
20+ years in music synchronization. Deep working knowledge of music royalties ecosystem. Founder of Volume.ms, exec music producer, music supervisor, and composer.
Sathvik Krishnamurthy
Co-Founder, Exec Chair
Silicon Valley guide with several successful exits, including two IPOs, and CEO of Voltage Security acquired by HP. Founder of SLC, a new seed stage venture firm/incubator.
Eric Peterson
Chief Technology Officer
Veteran solutions architect + DevOps engineer. Blockchain developer, music session engineer.
Formal education in tech + music (UT + Berklee).
Steven Lubin
Advisor
20+ year music / media executive. Previously VP of Business Development at ASCAP and CEO, co-founder at MediaGuide a broadcast detection company acquired by iHeart Radio.
Nik Kalyani
Technology Advisor
Seasoned blockchain architect, co-founder, CTO WhenHub, 12-year Microsoft MVP.
Nan Wilson
Advisor
Performance royalties Oracle. Founder Manage Ad Music, one of the largest US advertising royalty admins.
Stephen Rhodes
Advisor
20+ year music / media executive. Previously VP, New Business and Technology Integration at The Harry Fox Agency, Senior Technologist at Universal Music Group.
Stephen Pope
MIR Engineer
Music Information Retrieval expert. Over 100 publications in multimedia data processing.
Formal education in tech + music (Cornell + Vienna Music Academy)
Alex Nitta
Front-end Architect
Experienced web engineer with a focus on UI/UX and developer workflow. Previously with Loudr (acquired by Spotify). Formal education in music recording (UCSC).
Data Scientist
Data analysis / wrangling expert. Professor of Music Technology. Formal education in tech + music (Stanford + UCSD)
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our pet’s names, philosophies on life, what we had for breakfast.
