Rostrum Pacific Launches $150 Million Catalog Fund With Crayhill

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Does the song-rights arena have room for another investor? Rostrum Pacific believes so, as it’s scored a cool $150 million “to pursue catalog opportunities of any scale.”

The Rostrum Records and Fat Beats parent confirmed that sizable raise – as well as its aggressive IP purchase plans – today. Per the involved parties, New York-headquartered Crayhill Capital Management put up the $150 million tranche under a partnership led by Rostrum Pacific CFO Scott Margolin.

“Securing this funding reflects confidence in our value-creation strategy—one that leverages strategic partnerships and collaborative frameworks to drive high-value returns,” added Margolin.

“With this backing, we’re expanding our reach and deepening our commitment to ensure that music under our care gets heard. We’re focused on catalog we can actively grow—whether it’s assets we acquire or the catalog we’ve been building for more than 20 years,” the former Warner Music finance exec concluded.

While the music company’s IP transactions remain to be seen, Rostrum Pacific also highlighted a goal of capitalizing on its brands portfolio to monetize acquisitions.

Besides the divisions mentioned above, said portfolio includes Cantora Records and SpaceHeater, billed as a “music distribution and analytics platform that employs AI-powered attribution technology.”

And ultimately, song-rights plays closed with the funding will help Rostrum Pacific advance “its mission to be the preeminent independent music company,” according to the business.

On the other side of the tie-up, Crayhill, having wrapped a $1.3 billion third fund back in April, framed today’s pact as a meaningful expansion for “media rights investments within its asset-based portfolio.”  

“Rostrum has built a compelling in house model that drives value creation and strategic growth, and we’re proud to back their expansion,” indicated Jihane Hassad, a director with Crayhill’s TMT Investment Group.

“As the music industry landscape evolves, Crayhill is well positioned to provide tailored capital solutions that enable Rostrum to pursue catalog opportunities of any scale and integrate them into its robust, fully independent, and already-established ecosystem,” Hassad finished.

In the bigger funding picture, the $150 million partnership has put an exclamation point on a decidedly capital-heavy 2025 – including north of $1 billion in core music industry raises during the ongoing fourth quarter alone.

DMN Pro is set to provide an in-depth look at this funding landscape in its forthcoming year-end investment review.

But as things stand, massive number of existing catalog deals aside, it seems safe to say that 2026 is poised to bring with it a steady stream of sales; Warner Music/Bain, Xposure Music, GoldState, Circuit/Create, and many others have earmarked billions for as-yet-undisclosed IP buyouts.