A+E Networks

Summary

A+E Networks appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1984. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Shane Smith, Shane Smith. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the A+E Networks, startups are often financed by Vayner/RSE, Thomas Lehrman, Third Wave Digital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viacom, Upslope Ventures, Union Grove Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Walt Disney Company, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), TCV.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This A+E Networks works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The average startup value when the investment from A+E Networks is more than 1 billion dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vice Media, Littlstar, TVPlayer. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Publishing, Media and Entertainment. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.