Andrew Batey is Founder & Co-CEO at Beatdapp. Founder & GP at Side Door Ventures. Leadership Music 2024. C100 Member. An accomplished entertainment & technology entrepreneur and early adopter of major industry transformations across music, social media, and web3.
Over the last 15 years, Batey's raised $150M+ for his own startups and filed 40+ patents across seven countries around artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and data infrastructure. Now, as the Founder and Co-CEO of Beatdapp, the focus is on helping the music industry eliminate streaming fraud and ensure fair compensation for artists globally.
With its leading technology and team of experts, Beatdapp has revolutionized the music industry by providing accurate and transparent streaming data for the music industry that is expected to reach 1.2 billion paid consumers and generate $75 billion in revenue by 2030. Beatdapp has emerged as a leading music technology company with deep domain expertise, customer empathy, and the technical ability to solve the most challenging problems presented by the explosion of streamed music consumption worldwide.
The Vancouver, Canada-based company has been recognized as a Top 20 Music Company Globally and successfully completed prestigious programs like C100 "48hrs in the Valley", Creative Destruction Labs, 500 Startups, and Project Music. The Company was selected for "Emerging Rockets List" (2020 & 2021) and nominated for numerous music industry awards.
In the early years, Batey spent time helping launch multiple top 10 artists, lifestyle brands, and growth hacking web properties such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube before they were the marketing tools we know today. Committed to staying close to the music business, he harnessed his creative side to release a song under the artist name Urban Outlaws, which wound up charting #4 on US Country Music Singles (April 2022) and playlisted on Spotify’s Wild Country and Country Top 100. If it wasn’t obvious, Batey stays curious and has always had a knack for testing business ideas and marketing strategies.
Away from work, Batey has taught 4th-year Advertising and Marketing courses at multiple universities over eight years. He's also the founder of the venture capital firm, Side Door Ventures, deploying capital into 150+ companies with over $9 Billion dollars of enterprise value. The Fund has achieved an impressive ~61% Gross IRR across 14 vehicles with its portfolio companies successfully raising over $3 Billion dollars collectively.
