FanLabel, LLC — The world’s leader in music prediction markets and gamification.
Fan Label is a music gamification and predictive entertainment company that turns real-world music performance data into interactive fan experiences. Built around the question, “Can you pick a hit?,” Fan Label operates at the intersection of music, gaming, data, and fan engagement, and its platforms connect labels, artists, and music fans through licensed content, streaming and chart data, and skill-based competition. The company’s ecosystem is supported by direct music licensing relationships, industry data and infrastructure partners, and a growing portfolio of issued U.S. patents covering music gamification and music-based contract formats.
Fan Label’s consumer products are led by FanLabel Classic, a free-to-play, fantasy-sports-style, music-challenge app where fans compete for points, prizes, and status by predicting music outcomes. In addition, the company recently released SongPicks, a paid-entry, skill-based, music-contest app where players rank songs, predict streaming trends, and compete for cash prizes based on their music knowledge. Through FanLabel MusicMarkets, the company is also developing a music-centric layer for CFTC-regulated prediction markets, designed to help regulated exchanges responsibly offer music-oriented event contracts tied to objective, third-party metrics such as streams and chart rankings.
Jeff Sloan
Founder & CEO
Jeff Sloan is the founder and CEO of FanLabel and the architect of the FanLabel ecosystem. A serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience and multiple successful exits — including Clarity Technologies, Rubicon Genomics, and Genego — Jeff has spent his career taking startups from concept through launch, growth, and exit. He is also the founder of Aria Ventures, the Birmingham, Michigan-based venture studio that incubated FanLabel and continues to support its growth.
Jeff is also the founder and CEO of StartupNation, the multimedia entrepreneurship platform he created with his brother Rich, and co-author of the Doubleday-published book StartupNation: Open for Business. He hosts the daily WJR-AM (760) Business Beat segment and the StartupNation Radio show, which has aired since 2004 in more than 85 markets nationally.
Jeff has been recognized as one of DBusiness Magazine‘s Detroit 500 — the 500 most powerful business leaders in metro Detroit — named Small Business Journalist of the Year for the Midwest Region, and listed among Detroit’s top “Dynamic Duos” in business with his brother Rich.
Dan Bober
Working Member, Board of Directors
Dan Bober is a working member of FanLabel’s Board of Directors. A serial founder and angel investor, Dan founded e-Cognita Technologies (Chairman), Bloomfield Acceptance Company (President), and Bloomfield Servicing Company (Managing Member), served on the board of Bingham Financial Services, and spent 18 years as Executive Vice-President at Wells Fargo Bank. He is a former Board and Executive Committee Member, Treasurer, and Chair of the Audit Committee at the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, and a member of the Michigan Venture Capital Association.
Dan brings deep music-industry roots to the FanLabel boardroom as a record label founder, concert promoter, and self-described enthusiastic hack musician.