Cox Communications

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Atlanta, United States

Total investments

13

Average round size

53M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.21

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

3

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareTelecommunicationsDigital EntertainmentSmart HomeNetwork HardwareVoIPTV Production

Summary

Cox Communications is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1984. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Atlanta.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Cox Communications works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The important activity for fund was in 2000.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Cox Communications, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Rosewood Venture Group, Rogers Communications. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Motorola Solutions, Lauder Partners, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rogers Communications, Putnam Investments, Comcast.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Network Hardware, TV Production. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline MetaTV, ActiveVideo Networks, FirstLook

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
4
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.21
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Telecommunications (4)
  • Internet (3)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • Digital Entertainment (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
23M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
2.16

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Level Home 10 Nov 2021 Information Technology, Consumer Electronics, Smart Home, Home Improvement Late Stage Venture 100M United States, California, Redwood City
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