OUTSIDERS, INSIDE
We invest in community-driven businesses and industry outsiders across music and hospitality
1. WHAT WE DO
Actions over words, ideas over experience.
We power growth. Our support has helped transform grassroots fanbases into global communities, bedroom startups into vibrant businesses and local labels into international forces.
Along the way, we’ve also built our own music brands, festivals and physical spaces.
2. WHO WE ARE, WHY WE DO IT
Rebels with a cause.
100% independent since launching our first business in 1996, we’ve spent decades investing in and nurturing people and businesses.
A certified B Corporation, we strive to create a positive impact on the industries we operate in, and believe in empowering future generations through our work and investments.
3. HOW WE WORK
In it for the long haul.
Through our people, expertise, technology, connections and financing, we support businesses and founders on what’s often a lifelong journey.
We have a track record of investing in those who don’t have traditional industry experience. We bring outsiders inside, so don’t be shy about talking to us.
4. OUR VENTURES
The guide in your story, not the hero.
“You can find funding from lots of different places, but you can’t always find the mentoring and actual support and structure AEI has provided us.”
– Ricky Oscroft, The Collab
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Founder: Luke HoodA global media channel and record label focused on helping introduce the best new electronic music artists to the masses.
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Founder: Rich ParkinsonA UK record label discovering the latest in house, tech-house and deep house.
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Founder: Billy WoodfordNoCopyrightSounds is a royalty free record label dedicated to giving a platform to the next generation of electronic music artists.
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Founders: James CotterillLaunched by AEI’s co-founder in 1996 and now covering the full spectrum of D&B. Record label, TV, podcasts, awards and more.
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Founder: AEI VenturesThe home of AEI’s music operations. Label services, royalty management, events, finance, creative and much more.
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Founders: Amin Hamzianpour and Nicholas SonugaA first of its kind venue and community for creative professionals to connect and collaborate. Offering flexible and accessible recording studios in West London.
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Founder: AEI VenturesA workspace, sound studios, café and community space in Haggerston that’s open to anyone with music at their heart.
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Founders: Ricky Oscroft & Michael Heaven
The Collab specialises in creating and negotiating collaborative partnerships, activation concepts and campaigns that bring together rights holders with culturally relevant brands, to help build unforgettable live event experiences. -
Founder: Mehmet AkisA growing café brand that serves delicious Mediterranean food in Dalston, Haggerston and Broadway Market – as well as offering catering services to the city.
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Founder: Jack Burbage & Luke WolfmanA boutique music festival brought to you you by the creative minds behind Cirque Du Soul.
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Founder: SukiLet It Roll hosts several global events every year including two major annual drum and bass festivals.
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Founder: AEI VenturesAn independent music publisher specialising in electronic music in all its forms, bespoke made to brief production music and sound design.
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Founder: Olivier DutertreA YouTube channel with 5.58m followers, as well as a music promotion and events company.
5. OUR EAST LONDON CAMPUS
Positive impact, locally and globally.
The Halley is our shared workspace, recording studios, community space and startup incubator on the canal in Haggerston. It’s a melting pot of ideas and collaboration, where musicians mix with companies and creatives connect with founders.
Open to anyone with music at their heart, The Halley is a gateway to our culture. It’s a place to start and build a business, grow your contacts and find mentors. Membership can also be the first step to working with us.
6. LET'S TALK
We’re on the look out for ambitious businesses and founders to invest in.
Partnering with us means joining a community that’s committed to growth, supporting each other and ultimately, doing good in the world. So if you’ve got a startup or early stage business to tell us about, please get in touch.
