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Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund)

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$834K
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.30
Lead investments 0
Exits 3
Key employees 1
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Areas of investment

  • News
  • Digital Media
  • Advertising
  • Education
  • Information Technology
Summary

Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund) is the famous VC, which was founded in 1995. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Watchup, Mic Network 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 fund investment industries, there are Blogging Platforms, Advertising.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund), startups are often financed by e.bricks Ventures, Start-Up Chile, Napkn Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are North Base Media, NXTP Labs, Knight Enterprise Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Knight Enterprise Fund, Red Swan Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Digital News Ventures (MDIF Fund) performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Localized

College Recruiting
EdTech
Education
Human Resources
Recruiting
$2M02 Apr 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

El Cambur

Digital Media
Information Technology
News
$75K09 Sep 2014 Caracas, Venezuela

El Meme

Advertising
Blogging Platforms
Content Creators
Education
News
Social News
$75K01 Sep 2014 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

GkillCity

Audio
Content
Digital Media
$75K05 Aug 2014 Guayaquil

Versa

Advertising
Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Media
Photo Editing
$1M02 Apr 2013 New York, New York, United States

Mic Network

Media and Entertainment
Millennials
News
Young Adults
$1M01 Mar 2013 New York, New York, United States

Rock Content

Advertising
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
Enterprise Software
Freelance
Internet
Marketing
$650K15 Jan 2013 Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Watchup

Journalism
News
Video
$500K11 Nov 2012 California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 834K
Rounds per year 0.30
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Localized

College Recruiting
EdTech
Education
Human Resources
Recruiting
$2M02 Apr 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

El Cambur

Digital Media
Information Technology
News
$75K09 Sep 2014 Caracas, Venezuela

El Meme

Advertising
Blogging Platforms
Content Creators
Education
News
Social News
$75K01 Sep 2014 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

GkillCity

Audio
Content
Digital Media
$75K05 Aug 2014 Guayaquil

Versa

Advertising
Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Media
Photo Editing
$1M02 Apr 2013 New York, New York, United States

Mic Network

Media and Entertainment
Millennials
News
Young Adults
$1M01 Mar 2013 New York, New York, United States

Rock Content

Advertising
Content Marketing
Digital Marketing
Enterprise Software
Freelance
Internet
Marketing
$650K15 Jan 2013 Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Watchup

Journalism
News
Video
$500K11 Nov 2012 California, United States
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