Hoopr appoints Abhinav Singh as Head of Operations and Strategy

tenth March 2023, Mumbai: India’s main music licensing platform Hoopr, has appointed Abhinav Singh as the Head of Operations and Strategy. In his new position, Abhinav shall be in cost of driving operations throughout divisions such as gross sales, advertising, music manufacturing and acquisition whereas working with the founders on progress methods and constructing strategic relationships with different platforms and key gamers throughout the globe.

Prior to becoming a member of Hoopr, Abhinav Singh was Director of Strategy at Toothsi and has labored beforehand at Unitus Capital, IndigoEdge, and at Tata Power. He brings with him greater than a decade price of expertise in finance, technique and operations, and can be a musician.

Gaurav Dagaonkar, CEO and Co-founder of Hoopr, stated, “Absolutely delighted to welcome Abhinav onboard as we start the subsequent part of progress for Hoopr. Since our launch in July 2022, we’ve acquired nice response from content material creators, manufacturers, broadcasters, and musicians throughout India, with nearly 100,000 creators on board. We are centered on increasing globally and plan to launch extra choices throughout music, AI, and tech. Abhinav shall be a pivotal half of the staff that shall be bringing these concepts to fruition.”

Abhinav started his profession as an funding banker from Unitus Capital, a social impact-focused boutique funding financial institution, the place he focused on a range of industries, together with microfinance, edtech, renewable vitality, and healthtech. He then labored for Indigoedge, an funding financial institution with a give attention to tech. After that, he spent two years working for Tata Power within the EV charging vertical. His newest position with Director of Strategy at Toothsi, a Series C startup, the place he was in cost of the general enterprise technique and collaborated instantly with the CEO.

Abhinav additionally has a eager curiosity in music, having launched his first EP in 2019 known as Miles Ahead, adopted by two extra singles launched in 2020 and 2022, respectively.

Abhinav Singh, Head of Strategy at Hoopr, stated, “At a time when the creator financial system is seeing super progress, I’m delighted to hitch as Hoopr’s Head of Operations and Strategy working alongside Gaurav, Meghna, and all of the staff leads. We have constructed a implausible product over the previous 12 months, and I’m excited to contribute to Hoopr’s progress narrative, advance the use of expertise in music creation and licensing, whereas increasing our operations past India.”

Dagaonkar provides, “We are additionally dedicated to bringing in leaders who’ve a world imaginative and prescient, can construct nice groups whereas bringing in practical experience to make Hoopr a world-class music and creator tech firm. Abhinav, together with his expertise throughout banking, operations, blockchain and music is somebody who suits in superbly throughout the Hoopr ecosystem. We’re excited to have him with us.”

Hoopr is seeing 100% year-on-year progress within the quantity of customers since its launch, and these customers embrace content material creators, filmmakers, enterprises, and manufacturers throughout India. It competes with gamers such as Epidemic Sound (Sweden) and Artlist (Israel).

Gaurav Dagaonkar, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, and Meghna Mittal, former founding member of Hubilo and Yessworks, launched the corporate in 2021, which raised $1.5 million in its seed spherical in December 2021.