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Insight Communications

Founders Michael Willner Sidney Knafel

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Total investments 2
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 2
Rounds per year 0.06
Lead investments 1
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Video
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Broadcasting
  • Telecommunications
Summary

Insight Communications is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1985. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York.

The top activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Promptu Systems, Commerce.TV. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Infrastructure.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Insight Communications, startups are often financed by Westfield Capital Management, Trinity Ventures, Swander Pace Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valence Capital Management, Sandler Capital, OpenTV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Steelpoint Capital Partners, Lauder Partners, Sandler Capital.

The current fund was established by Michael Willner, Sidney Knafel.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Commerce.TV

Broadcasting
Content Delivery Network
E-Commerce
Infrastructure
Internet
News
Software
Telecommunications
Video
$19M09 May 2000 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 2
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 0.06
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Commerce.TV

Broadcasting
Content Delivery Network
E-Commerce
Infrastructure
Internet
News
Software
Telecommunications
Video
$19M09 May 2000 Massachusetts, United States
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