Music Ally reports: “According to UMG’s SVP, digital innovation strategy and business development Kristen Cullen Bender, since her team was created it has evaluated more than 1,600 startups, and directly worked with 300 of them. She revealed the stats at our Music Ally Connect conference yesterday, during a panel session in which she also had a new initiative to announce. It’s called UMusicLift and is an online hub for music-related startups and their founders.”