{"id":542,"date":"2012-02-20T01:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/?p=542"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:16:01","slug":"lynn-cosgrave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/lynn-cosgrave\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Cosgrave: TrusttheDJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lynn Cosgrave<br>\nAge:<\/strong> 33<br>\n<strong>Company:<\/strong> TrusttheDJ<\/p>\n<p>Raver turned entrepreneur Lynn Cosgrave has built a business out of her passion for dance music. Following a stint at the Ministry of Sound where she started the company&rsquo;s record label, she struck out on her own with TrusttheDJ, a talent management agency, in 2000. Two years on the company has raised &pound;2m in venture capital last year, boasts super-DJ&rsquo;s Carl Cox and Jon Digweed on its books and is one of the leading global names in its market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016 update:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TrusttheDJ went into administration in 2004. Cosgrave went on to found Safehouse Management with Ian Hindmarsh &ndash; a management and booking agency for DJs that also does recordings, remixes, events, PR, tour management and sponsorship. The company has offices in London, Uruguay and Spain and manages some of the biggest names in the electronic dance music space including Ben pearce, Danny Howells and Danny Tenaglia.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn Cosgrave Age: 33 Company: TrusttheDJ Raver turned entrepreneur Lynn Cosgrave has built a business out of her passion for dance music. 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