Johan Lagerlöf
Johan Lagerlöf is the Managing Partner and Head of Investments at Pophouse Entertainment Group, a Stockholm-based music rights investment firm founded by Conni Jonsson and ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus. He brings roughly 30 years of music industry experience, including co-founding and serving as CEO of X5 Music Group (sold to Warner Music in 2016) and serving as Global Head of Catalogue at Spotify before joining Pophouse. He is best known for leading the close of Pophouse's inaugural fund, which raised over €1.2 billion — one of the largest first-time private equity fund raises in Europe in the past decade — focused on acquiring music catalogues and intellectual property.
“Swedish music investment firm Pophouse held a final close of its inaugural fund on €1 billion, reaching its hard cap and making it one of the largest first-time fundraises in Europe in the past decade.”
Source→“"Revenues are transparent as they come from streaming services; it opened up the market for investors." — Johan Lagerlöf, Pophouse”
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