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Joe Conyers Iii

Senior Advisor at Warburg Pincus LLC

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Joe Conyers III is an executive, entrepreneur, and investor based in the New York City Metropolitan Area. With a background in alternative investments, venture capital, and cryptocurrency, he has held key roles at companies like Crypto.com and Downtown Music Holdings, showcasing expertise in areas such as user experience and digital media. Conyers has made significant contributions in the fields of venture capital and crypto, with highlights including serving as Executive Vice President at Crypto.com and Chief Strategy Officer at Downtown Music Holdings, demonstrating a strong track record in navigating the intersection of technology and finance.

Work Experience 

  • Investor, Interim Head of SuperDoc GTM

    2025 - Current

    I'm helping roll out Harbour's open source modern document editing and management software, SuperDoc. SuperDoc is the worlds best rich text editor for handling complicated .docx files,

Harbour is a software company that provides e-signature and contract management.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from The Palmer Company, Jonathan Klein and Scribble Ventures.

  • Senior Advisor

    2023

    Looking for growth venture and late stage buyout opportunities inside the music, creator and entertainment space.

Warburg Pincus is a private equity firm focused on growth investing.

Raised $38,028,202.00.

  • Executive Vice President

    2021 - 2022

    Launched new division. Generated ~$213MM in revenue in >9 months with our run rate approaching ~$1B run rate by our one year anniversary.

  • Chief Strategy Officer

    2011 - 2021

    Downtown Music Holdings is a global music-tech unicorn, with a reported $900 million and EBITDA of approximately $40 million. The company is dedicated to fostering a more equitable and innovative music ecosystem. Downtown achieved notable exits totaling $1.175 billion by selling its service businesses to the world’s largest music company, Virgin/Universal Music, for ~19x EBITDA and its IP catalog to Apollo-backed Concord Music for ~20x+. During his time at Downtown, Joe led six music/tech acquisitions totaling ~$300 million over 30 months, all of which met or exceeded management expectations. He also spearheaded global strategy and was involved in M&A, corporate venture capital, corporate development, strategic partnerships, digital licensing, technology, innovation, new product initiatives, and overseeing P&Ls while serving on internal boards. Downtown’s portfolio includes renowned brands such as Downtown Music Services, Songtrust (co-founded by Joe), Downtown Music Publishing, Fuga, CD Baby, AdRev, DashGo, Soundrop, Show.co, HearNow, Illustrated Sound, and Downtown Music Studios. The company employs over 600 people globally and operates in nearly all key markets across six continents.

Downtown Music Holdings is a modern global music company.

Raised $500,000,000.00 from Bank of America.

  • Co-Founder

    2011 - 2021

    Songtrust, the most popular music publisher in the world, helps music makers collect their royalties. We make it easy to get paid publishing royalties from places like Youtube, Spotify, Radio, Pandora, Movies, TV, and pretty much anywhere music is played. “Songtrust offers a rare proposition: getting your publishing royalty money collected, no matter how small your following, from all corners of the world.” - Rolling Stone I owned the P&L, led the day to day and grew Songtrust from $XXk to $XXMM in revenue, from ~1k clients to over 200k+ and scaled from 2 to 80+ employees before passing the reins to focus on strategy for all of its parent( Downtown Music Holdings) portfolio companies. Songtrust was named a top music startup by Billboard Magazine. We've been featured in Techcrunch, The Guardian, Billboard Biz, Hypebot, Digital Music News, Music Week, GQ, Bloomberg and other publications.

Songtrust is a digital rights management solution enabling song writers and artists to manage their music publishing and related rights.

  • Full time / night school "intern"

    2006 - 2006

    Worked as internal managment consultants providing guidance and business intelligence to division stakeholders. Doing what could losely be defined as wrangling big data before big data was really here. We reviewed aggregate trades and determined inefficiencies in their straight through processing and operations. Largely worked on prime brokerage and derivatives which had grown exponentially over that era.

Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.

  • Tech Intern

    2005 - 2005

  • Intern

    2004 - 2004

    Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory for a mid market fabless high performance ethernet integrated circuits focused semiconductor company. Vitesse was later acquired by Microsemi.

Vitesse is a supplier of ICs for ethernet-based carrier, enterprise, and IoT networks.

Raised $7,300,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Morgenthaler Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Aeneas Ventures.

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