Cox Enterprises

Summary

Cox Enterprises is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1898. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Atlanta.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Cox Enterprises, startups are often financed by WP Global Partners, Techstars, NGEN Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Atlanta, in partnership with Cox Enterprises, Techstars, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Trinity Ventures, Time Warner Investments.

The fund was created by James Cox. The overall number of key employees were 16.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Mobile Apps. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Udacity, Clearcover, PointServe 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from Cox Enterprises the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Cox Enterprises works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.