Dan Demole

Dan grew up on Florida's Space Coast in the 1980s and earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida in 2001. He built flight simulation software for the AH-64D Apache helicopter at L3 Communications, then worked as a game programmer at Electronic Arts.

In 2005 he flew to Costa Rica with a surfboard and a backpack. For more than two years he traveled through Central America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia, surfing, reading, meditating, and writing a travel site that funded the trip and raised money for nonprofits along the way.

Back in the US, he co-founded Jingle Punks Music in New York in 2008. As CTO he built its cloud-based licensing platform and earned two US patents. Jingle Punks became the largest independent production music library in the US and was acquired twice: by WME/Silver Lake in 2012 and by Anthem Entertainment in 2015, where Dan became President of its Production Music division.

In 2021 he co-founded Slipstream Music, raising about $11M from Lightshed, Third Prime, and Sony Music. In 2024, with Pollen Street Capital, he bought back Jingle Punks, Cavendish Music, and 5 Alarm Music from Anthem. In 2026 he led Slipstream Music's acquisition of Megatrax Production Music, making Slipstream Music the largest independent production music company in the world.

He lives in the hills of Connecticut with his wife, two kids, and a French bulldog named Pickles.

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