Daniel Kruchkow

CMO/Partner, Crush Music + Crush Ventures

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2019
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Entertainment Board Member
Apr 2019
We are an advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty by 2030. We do this by encouraging people to learn and take action on our platform; those actions apply pressure on world leaders to make commitments around the issues associated with extreme poverty: gender equality, food security, education, the environment, global health, citizenship, and sanitation. We don't ask people for money, but to take action for the world’s poor. These actions can be as simple as a tweet, signing a petition, making a phone call, or sending an email. By taking action, these Global Citizens are rewarded with access and tickets to our music festivals and other events around the world. So far, more than 13 million actions have been taken by Global Citizens, leading to $35 billion commitments being made by world leaders, which are set to affect 1.3 billion lives by 2030.
Board Member
Dec 2015
Build, train and deploy chatbots to do almost anything imaginable - from taking food orders and accepting payments, to running customer service chats and diagnosing patients.
CMO & Early Stage Investments
Aug 2012
Headquartered in New York City and Los Angeles, CRUSH MUSIC is full service music company run by two former musicians, Jonathan Daniel and Bob McLynn. Founded in 2002, CRUSH guides the careers of global superstars like Sia, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Train, Weezer, Panic! At The Disco and others. CRUSH’s full management roster includes Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Butch Walker, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Lorde, Lykke Li, Matt Nathanson, Panic! At The Disco, Sia, Train, Travie McCoy, Weezer, and White Sea. CRUSH MUSIC also has a joint venture deal with Atlantic Records which has released Weezer’s last four albums including their recent massive Black and Teal albums, Train’s Does Led Zeppelin, and Sia’s first-ever holiday album, Everyday is Christmas. Additionally, Crush Ventures invests in early-stage founders that are transforming categories at the intersection pop culture, technology and consumers.
Experience · 5 entries
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2019
Entertainment Board Member
Apr 2019
We are an advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty by 2030. We do this by encouraging people to learn and take action on our platform; those actions apply pressure on world leaders to make commitments around the issues associated with extreme poverty: gender equality, food security, education, the environment, global health, citizenship, and sanitation. We don't ask people for money, but to take action for the world’s poor. These actions can be as simple as a tweet, signing a petition, making a phone call, or sending an email. By taking action, these Global Citizens are rewarded with access and tickets to our music festivals and other events around the world. So far, more than 13 million actions have been taken by Global Citizens, leading to $35 billion commitments being made by world leaders, which are set to affect 1.3 billion lives by 2030.
2015
Board Member
Dec 2015
Build, train and deploy chatbots to do almost anything imaginable - from taking food orders and accepting payments, to running customer service chats and diagnosing patients.
2012
CMO & Early Stage Investments
Aug 2012
Headquartered in New York City and Los Angeles, CRUSH MUSIC is full service music company run by two former musicians, Jonathan Daniel and Bob McLynn. Founded in 2002, CRUSH guides the careers of global superstars like Sia, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Train, Weezer, Panic! At The Disco and others. CRUSH’s full management roster includes Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Butch Walker, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Lorde, Lykke Li, Matt Nathanson, Panic! At The Disco, Sia, Train, Travie McCoy, Weezer, and White Sea. CRUSH MUSIC also has a joint venture deal with Atlantic Records which has released Weezer’s last four albums including their recent massive Black and Teal albums, Train’s Does Led Zeppelin, and Sia’s first-ever holiday album, Everyday is Christmas. Additionally, Crush Ventures invests in early-stage founders that are transforming categories at the intersection pop culture, technology and consumers.
2007
Senior Vice President, Global Digital Initiatives
Apr 2007
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Groups labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMGs catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industrys premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company. Find out more at: http://www.universalmusic.com. View our current career opportunities at: http://www.umusiccareers.com
1997
Rocket Records/Island Records
Label Assistant
Jan 1997
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2012–2019 · 3 investments
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