21st Century Fox

Total investments

16

Average round size

111M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.18

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

2

Areas of investment
PublishingInformation TechnologyAugmented RealityVirtual RealityFashionSportsNewsDigital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentSubscription Service

Summary

21st Century Fox appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2013. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the 21st Century Fox, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Homebrew, Atlas Venture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Warner Bros., Sky, MGM Studios. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sky, Scripps Networks, Northzone.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Vice Media, DraftKings, fuboTV The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Sports, Augmented Reality. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The fund was created by Rupert Murdoch.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2016. When the investment is from 21st Century Fox the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
6
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.18
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Digital Entertainment (5)
  • Sports (4)
  • Virtual Reality (4)
  • Publishing (3)
  • News (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Mexico (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
767M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
4.33
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
fuboTV 19 Jun 2017 Sports, Digital Entertainment, Subscription Service Late Stage Venture 55M United States, New York, New York
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