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Ternwheel funding, valuation and investors

Touring operations platform helping artists plan profitable live tours.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Not publicly disclosed

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

Not publicly disclosed

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed · United States

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Ternwheel is a software platform for artists and managers to run tours more efficiently and profitably. CEO Ashanti Abdullah built it after decades managing major acts and seeing fragmented, unpredictable tour economics. The company participated in Andreessen Horowitz's Talent x Opportunity Spring 2025 cohort; no traditional equity Series A has been publicly disclosed.

Why Ternwheel is interesting

Founded by a 20-year artist manager (Rhymesayers alum), Ternwheel addresses tour economics — still the primary revenue stream for most musicians — via a16z Talent x Opportunity Spring 2025.

Product & use cases

Ternwheel centralizes tour planning logistics and financial modeling — routing, budgeting, settlement tracking, and profitability analysis for live music tours.

  • Tour routing and schedule optimization
  • Budget and settlement tracking across tour dates
  • Profitability forecasting for live shows
  • Centralizing fragmented tour management spreadsheets and tools

Key facts

  • a16z Talent x Opportunity Spring 2025 cohort
  • Founded by Ashanti Abdullah — 20-year artist manager, Rhymesayers alum
  • Thesis: touring is primary artist income but planning tools are ad hoc

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Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Founder Ashanti Abdullah's 20-year artist management career (Rhymesayers Entertainment alum) provides domain credibility rare in music-tech startups.

Music touring software is a niche market. Most artists still use spreadsheets. Ternwheel's bet is that streaming-era artists depend on touring income and need better financial tooling. TxO backing provides network; scale requires adoption by managers beyond founder's network.

  • Sp spreadsheets / manual tools incumbent

    Default tour management for most artists.

  • Eventric / Master Tour adjacent

    Tour management software for larger productions.

  • Venue and promoter systems incumbent

    Fragmented booking infrastructure.

Notable stories

  • CEO Ashanti Abdullah spent 20 years managing artists at Rhymesayers Entertainment before building Ternwheel to fix tour economics she lived daily.
  • Ternwheel joined a16z TxO Spring 2025 — backing underrepresented founders in music technology.

Industries

Media & Entertainment Enterprise SaaS

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Software platform helping artists and managers plan and run live tours more efficiently and profitably.
a16z (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) Talent x Opportunity Spring 2025 cohort — not a disclosed equity round.
Ashanti Abdullah — 20-year artist manager, Rhymesayers Entertainment alum.
Touring is primary income for most musicians; planning tools remain ad hoc spreadsheets.
Early-stage — TxO program participation; no public Series A.
Ternwheel targets financial planning and profitability; Eventric focuses on larger tour logistics.
No — private early-stage company.
Talent x Opportunity — a16z program backing underrepresented founders.
Artists, tour managers, and booking agents.
TxO program support — traditional round size not publicly disclosed.
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