BDMI - Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

209

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

132

Rounds per year

11.61

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

30

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceSaaSMarketingVideoAdvertisingDigital Media

Summary

BDMI appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The company was established in North America in United States. BDMI appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BDMI, startups are often financed by Advancit Capital, Active Venture Partners, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DCM Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Mesa Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Advancit Capital, Active Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau.

The top activity for fund was in 2019. This BDMI works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from BDMI is 50-100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Trion Worlds, Victorious, Sliver.tv. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Advertising, Digital Media. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/ContentBlockchain/Crypto/Web3B2B/EnterpriseFintech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 40 more
Check size
500K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
209
Lead investments
25
Exits
30
Rounds per year
11.61
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (60)
  • Advertising (46)
  • Internet (38)
  • E-Commerce (36)
  • Digital Media (31)
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Investments by region
  • United States (156)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • Spain (10)
  • Canada (6)
  • Germany (18)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
32M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.10
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hark 18 Jun 2024 Software, Customer Service Seed 3M United States, New York, New York
Spectrm 06 Jun 2023 Artificial Intelligence, Marketing Automation, Messaging, SaaS, Enterprise Software, CRM, Natural Language Processing Early Stage Venture 6M United States, New York, New York
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