{"id":2402969,"date":"2026-05-05T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2402969"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:16:08","slug":"suno-reportedly-looking-to-raise-1-4-billion-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/suno-reportedly-looking-to-raise-1-4-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Suno reportedly looking to raise $1\/4 billion+ in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Only six months ago, GenAI music platform Suno\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2025\/11\/19\/genai-music-firm-suno-raises-250m-at-2-45bn-valuation\/\">announced a $250m Series-C<\/a>\u00a0funding round. That valued the company at $2.45bn and took its total funding (post seed and Series A rounds) to $375M. Now, Billboard reports, Suno is looking for\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/suno-series-d-funding-round-following-250m-raise-november\/\">another round of funding<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 that\u2019s Series-D for those of you keeping track \u2013 and is looking to raise even more money than last time. That new round would\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NazMoV7otlE\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparently value it<\/a>\u00a0at over $5bn:\u00a0for a very rough comparison point, WMG\u2019s market capitalisation is\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/WMG\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just over\u00a0$14.5B<\/a>.\n\n\n<aside>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n<\/p><p>One possibly juicy detail in the Billboard piece is the suggestion that \u201cmultiple\u201d music industry investors have been investing in Suno in each round so far, and will be involved in the new one too \u2013\u00a0whilst publicly keeping their support of the platform a secret. Who are they? Well, some are not so secretive: we already know that Hallwood Media, which counts Neil Jacobson (ex-President of Geffen Records) Chuck Ciongoli (former CFO of Universal Music Group) and Mike Biggane (former EVP at Universal and ex-head of global curation at Spotify) amongst its team, is a key investor, and one that is bullish on the future of AI music, having signed AI artists like\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2025\/09\/18\/hallwood-media-sees-chart-success-with-ai-artist-xania-monet\/\">Xania Monet<\/a>.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>Nearly 50% of the hundreds of millions hoped to be raised are earmarked for keeping the operation functional: 30% would go on computing power (that\u2019s new processors and servers) and 15% would be spent on data (presumably the music and metadata used to train the models in the first place.) That latter figure of 15% (plus a further 5% slated for \u201cpartnerships\u201d) will be of interest to the music industry \u2013\u00a0because assuming Suno raises at least the same amount of money as the last Series-C round, that 15% would mean that Suno values the data it needs to keep growing its music-making model at around $40m. The question is: is that a lot of money, or not very much in the scheme of things?\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago, Deezer revealed\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/04\/21\/deezer-says-that-ai-generated-tracks-are-now-44-of-its-uploads\/\">that 75,000 AI generated tracks<\/a>\u00a0are uploaded to its platform (and, likely, other DSPs) each day. That\u2019s 44% of all tracks. The 50% barrier \u2013\u00a0the one that makes human music uploads a minority\u00a0\u2013 is looming large.\u00a0 So, here\u2019s a snapshot of streaming in 2026: tracks generated by AI are flooding the platforms that hundreds of millions pay to listen to music \u2013 and that the music industry relies on for income.\u00a0\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>Some of the key questions, as ever, are: who wants this AI generated music, in which ways do they want it delivered to listeners, and why do they want it to exist? From a traditional music industry perspective, these answers are knotty, multi-dimensional, and existentially philosophical \u2013 although it it\u2019s clear that some in the music biz are feeding money into the very AI machine that poses those questions. It\u2019s easier to answer them from a Suno perspective, though:\u00a0the platform has over\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/02\/27\/suno-ceo-reveals-that-his-company-has-2m-paying-subscribers\/\">2m paying subscribers<\/a>, giving the platform $300m in annual recurring revenues.\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section><\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only six months ago, GenAI music platform Suno\u00a0announced a $250m Series-C\u00a0funding round. That valued the company at $2.45bn and took its total funding (post seed and Series A rounds) to $375M. Now, Billboard reports, Suno is looking for\u00a0another round of funding\u00a0\u2013 that\u2019s Series-D for those of you keeping track \u2013 and is looking to raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[344480,315362,369532,324888,379419,21737,25423],"class_list":["post-2402969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-funding","tag-music-streaming-economy","tag-startups","tag-suno","tag-top-stories","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Suno-reportedly-looking-to-raise-14-billion-in-latest-funding.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402971,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402969\/revisions\/2402971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}