VENTURES
At Milk & Honey, we believe that the modern songwriter, producer, artist and athlete deserve an important seat at the table, and should be respected as entrepreneurs. We work with our clients to go beyond traditional representation, partnering with them to build intellectual property in addition to their primary careers. Milk & Honey Ventures is a separate business from our service company with separate employees. The modern entertainment industry calls for a new standard where the talent can build businesses and intellectual property of the same scale as major record companies, or sports leagues. The power of celebrity and access in the new era is stronger than ever, and afford music and sports clients access to unique deals. Milk & Honey Ventures partners with and advises our clients on how to create brands from inception to sale. Additionally, in partnership with our client’s financial advisors, Milk & Honey Ventures brings access to deals and interesting investments for our clients. In just under a decade, the company has already helped clients sell businesses north of 15X that were created in the time the company has existed.
From music publishing catalogs, production companies and live touring properties on the music side to apps and tech, apparel brands and beyond – Milk & Honey gets involved in the early stages of introductions to concept, help raise money, build, operate and sell. Milk & Honey has a variety of global relationships with private equity, hedge funds, family offices, pension funds and foreign wealth. These future brands and companies cement our belief in clients that can also be business men / women and entrepreneurs, with bigger ambitions & stories to tell beyond their day job. Milk & Honey Ventures are not licensed investment bankers or broker dealers and do not participate in any such activity without partnering with or introducing team members to the clients. Milk & Honey Ventures is also hired as consultants by early stage brands who wants access to music, sports and the wider world of entertainment.
PUBLISHING
From the inception of the company, we’ve believed that our clients act as tremendous mentors to nascent developing talent. One of our top artists / songwriters / producers can help young talent in many ways more than the major institutional record companies or publishers can. To support this belief, we’ve partnered with our clients to launch a variety of publishing companies, some of which have sold for high multiples.
To have access to the mentorship of a top brand name producer / writer, to be able to jump the line on great sessions with real artists and to have a partner in one of the major publishers anyway – we see these companies as the most valuable proposition for a young writer or producer. Milk & Honey leverages our in house 14 person global creative staff 0to build these companies into successful catalogs and frontline businesses.
Companies like Top 5 (Kobalt), Deep Cuts (Warner Chappell), Third And Verse (Kobalt), The Orphanage Music Publishing (Reservoir), More Hits Music Publishing (Downtown), Rom Drops (Reservoir) and more call Milk & Honey home as equity partners and operators. Milk & Honey’s core business offers management services but it is very important to the leadership of the firm to create opportunities for our top clients to leverage their name and access to create long-term asset value.