Eric Okechukwu started InterSpace as a music publishing company in 2021. Five years later, it is a distribution technology group with staff across five countries, over 15,000 artists, more than 100 label clients, and a newly launched enterprise white-label platform called ToneGrid that already has 24 partners running on its backend. The InterSpace Group, announced today, is the holding structure that formalizes what the company quietly became along the way.
The timing matters. Independent music distribution is in the middle of a painful consolidation. Downtown Music Holdings is restructuring CD Baby and reportedly shopping itself to private equity. DistroKid cut half its unionized staff. UMG and Warner have each shed hundreds of roles. The majors are pulling infrastructure inward. The aggregator layer is thinning. And into that landscape steps a company that took none of the usual routes to get here: no venture capital, no acquisition roll-up, no executive team imported from a major label.
What InterSpace actually built
The InterSpace Group is a Port Harcourt-based holding company sitting over five entities: InterSpace Distribution, the direct-to-artist distribution platform; ToneGrid, the white-label distribution backend; InterSpace Sound System, an online radio and DJ curation platform; InterSpace Daily, a music business editorial arm; and InterSpace SmartLinks, a smart-link product acquired in April 2026.
