Seth Schachner

Managing Director, Strat Americas | “Breaking Down the Biz” Podcast | TV Commentary | Ex- Sony Music, Microsoft

📍 Santa Monica, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
VC🌍 United States
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Investor, Advisor to CEO
Mar 2022
Overtune empowers independent artists by making music creation accessible to all. Our mission is to simplify the songwriting process with intuitive tools and a supportive community. Key features include a user-friendly platform for arranging beats, and the innovative LoopGen AI feature for generating custom loops. With Overtune, artists can focus on their creativity while easily sharing their music with the world.
early stageMusic
Investor, Consultant
Sep 2019
Advisor, Investor
Jan 2019
Gigmor is a global music discovery and booking platform connecting musicians, venues and fans. Actively raising on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/gigmor
Investor
Aug 2015
BACCH Labs software enables devices, content providers, and content makers with spatially accurate 3D Sound. Our flagship technology, BACCH, is a highly-acclaimed, state-of-the-art digital audio process that allows the listener to experience spatially accurate 3D sound from a pair of stereo loudspeakers. The world’s toughest audio critics recognize BACCH Labs technology as the next generation of sound for consumer and pro products.
Investor
Jan 2015
DanceOn is an entertainment focused digital media company connecting music and pop culture through the universal language of dance. Through multi-platform storytelling and diverse, influencer-driven programming, DanceOn reaches engaged millennials seeking on-demand music content everywhere.    The network's 4B+ views, 30M+ subscribers and 50M+ fans across platforms showcase the influence of dance around music's viral moments. Watch acclaimed shows like The Edge, a docu-series showcasing the World's iconic music videos, tours and performances, the most successful dance show online, Dance Showdown with 75MM+ views over 3 seasons, and the new music video - influencer and fan driven, viral dance hits.    DanceOn was co-founded by CEO Amanda Taylor, Madonna, Guy Oseary and Machinima chairman Allen DeBevoise. DanceOn empowers the creators - musicians and artists in the digital era. 
Experience · 11 entries
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2025
Founder, Host
Dec 2025
"Breaking Down the Biz" is a business podcast, published bi-weekly, which simplifies the business of entertainment and technology for general audiences. We have guests who have "walked the walk" in the entertainment industry as well as news discussions "Breaking Down" big business topics in media and entertainment industry news.
early stageBusiness Content
2023
Business Development Consultant, Advisor
Apr 2023
IDPartner helps people prove their identity in seconds using a verification from their financial institution.
2022
Investor, Advisor to CEO
Mar 2022
Overtune empowers independent artists by making music creation accessible to all. Our mission is to simplify the songwriting process with intuitive tools and a supportive community. Key features include a user-friendly platform for arranging beats, and the innovative LoopGen AI feature for generating custom loops. With Overtune, artists can focus on their creativity while easily sharing their music with the world.
early stageMusic
2021
Executive in Residence
Apr 2021
Progress Partners is a Boston and New York-based corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of emerging growth companies to complete M&A or private placement transactions. Our deep industry experience, extensive network, and entrepreneurial backgrounds give us the ability to help our clients build and realize superior value. We specialize in four key sectors in the technology ecosystem. Within each of them, our expertise is derived from years of work as entrepreneurs, operators, investors, and mentors. As licensed investment bankers, that background has led us to approach our role as an intimate extension of our client’s management team. In that effort, we become stronger together. We are proud of our ability to recognize and execute upon the right transaction for a given client, rather than simply to be in pursuit of any deal that can be done. Every client engagement has different functional objectives and requires critical thought, but most often Progress Partners is pursuing one or more of the following missions: 1. Develop and implement strategic plans 2. Grow through acquisition of new customers 3. Obtain investment capital to accelerate growth 4. Realize returns through appropriate exit strategies Across our sector coverage, our impact as advisors originates in our ability to recognize characteristics that are inherent to the strongest companies in the market; products and services built from true market demand that solve critical problems, and are supported by fundamental business models. We succeed when our clients succeed. In order to realize this success we operate with full transparency, ready and willing to deliver frank feedback toward the essence of getting it right every time. Opportunities for Professionals: Please visit https://progresspartners.com/careers/ to learn more.
2019
Investor, Consultant
Sep 2019
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