More fintech funding! (@btv_vc edition, again) @NotesRoyalties announced it has raised a $5M seed round Notes offers a royalty collection platform for independent musicians. You give it an artist name + list of songs & it scans streaming services, collection societies & registries like the MLC & SoundExchange to find missing royalties, fix the registration issues, & claim what's owed They also just launched Releases, which folds distribution + publishing admin + money mgmt into one release flow (w/ a Stripe partnership behind it) Some stats on the biz: - $10M+ in previously unclaimed royalties identified since the Oct '25 public launch - Catalogs include James Blake, Zach Bryan, Mt. Joy & Girl In Red - Credits . fm, their free open credits database, has indexed 150M+ song codes Round was made up almost entirely of artists, managers & industry execs (Zach Bryan, Benny Blanco, Tainy, Ari Emanuel, Julie Greenwald, Sam Hendel & others) and us @btv_vc