Stefan Schulz

Co-Founder and CEO Bitfury Surround/ Former EVP at Universal Music and Vivendi / Intellectual Property, Commerce and Technology Strategist / Blockchain and AI Economist

๐Ÿ“ Berlin, Berlin, Germany๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 1 investments๐Ÿ“… 7 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Oct 2019
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"The First Music Rights Marketplace"โ€‹ Vezt is the first mobile app where music fans can acquire rights in their favorite songs and recordings. We exist to improve the music industry by providing artists, songwriters and producers with funding sourced directly from their fans on a global basis. In exchange, fans get the right to receive royalties earned by their favorite songs and recordings. Vezt collects these royalties on behalf of fans from performing rights organizations, publishers and record labels and tracks such royalties through proprietary blockchain technology.
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2019
Board Member
Oct 2019
"The First Music Rights Marketplace"โ€‹ Vezt is the first mobile app where music fans can acquire rights in their favorite songs and recordings. We exist to improve the music industry by providing artists, songwriters and producers with funding sourced directly from their fans on a global basis. In exchange, fans get the right to receive royalties earned by their favorite songs and recordings. Vezt collects these royalties on behalf of fans from performing rights organizations, publishers and record labels and tracks such royalties through proprietary blockchain technology.
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2016
Founder and CEO Europe
Jan 2016
WHO WE ARE We are a leading strategy, consulting, and design firm that specializes in solving consumer engagement problems for companies by using behavioral science and game design principles across all digital platforms. WHAT WE DO A.R.M. โ€” Acquiring, Retaining, and Monetizing audiences at scale. HOW DO WE DO IT We leverage behavioral science, data science and game design principles to attract, addict, and ultimately forge direct, loyal relationships with people.
2015
Founder and CEO
Jan 2015
Digital Media Strategy and Audience Engagement Enterprise acting in Germany and the US. Specialized in Brand Value Optimization through digital as well as Direct to Consumer Businesses Relationships. Media and Communications are rapidly becoming an individualized business, predominantly based on 1:1 relationships and causality (i.e. Voice, IoT, machine learning) as opposed to correlations and extrapolations (i.e. traditional Media, Retail, Market Research). Value distribution throughout the entire chain will be determined by the ability to leverage brands, content and experiences WITH individuals at scale. We help brands, organizations, artists and talents to create deeper, more meaningful relationships with their audience and secure/extend the value of their assets through technology, design and commercial alliances. Know-Work (Data Science), Interactive skills (Content & Experiences) as well as solid Digital Marketing Strategies need to be at the core of any entity today. Effective content and experience management and the ability to scale individual relationships are vital to build, secure and extend market-share on a global basis. ConvertMedia is a Business to Business Enterprise that supports its partners in building strong customer propositions as well as powerful alliances to maximize growth, sustainability and profits in an increasingly complex and aggressive global market place. Our Senior Management and Partners are pioneers in the digital space working at Board Level in Multinational Media Corporations such as Universal Music, Warner Bros., Vivendi and WME. We have built and lead mobile, online and interactive consumer businesses and alliances around brands (entertainment as well as industrial) based on data for almost 20 years, interacting with hundreds of millions consumers in Europe and the US. Our network consists of leading global organizations in Media, Technology, Data, Artists, Talent, Brands, Telecoms and Finance.
2001
Executive Vice President Digital
Sep 2001
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
1994
USIA GmbH
Managing Director
Feb 1994