Comcast Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

363

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

234

Rounds per year

14.52

Lead investments

64

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

81

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareVideo

Summary

Comcast Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States. Comcast Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

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 Slack Technologies, Instacart, DocuSign. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Advertising.

We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Comcast Ventures, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Intel Capital, Genacast Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Intel Capital, Cisco. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Opposing the other organizations, this Comcast Ventures works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Comcast Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareEnergyFintechFuture of WorkProptech/Real Estate
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
363
Lead investments
64
Exits
81
Rounds per year
14.52
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (104)
  • Internet (46)
  • Artificial Intelligence (43)
  • Information Technology (40)
  • Enterprise Software (40)
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Investments by region
  • United States (339)
  • Israel (5)
  • Canada (8)
  • Germany (2)
  • Singapore (1)
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Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
15
Number of Decacorns
18
Number of Minotaurs
6

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
528M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
5.90
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Players' Lounge 28 Jul 2022 Gaming, eSports, Video Games Early Stage Venture 10M United States, New York, New York
SafeBase 30 Apr 2024 SaaS, Cyber Security, Network Security, Cloud Security, Sales Automation Early Stage Venture 33M United States, California, San Francisco

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