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DIRECTV

Founders Jesse Charles Jackson Ray Combs

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.15
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
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Areas of investment

  • Content
  • Video
  • Sports
  • TV
  • Software
Summary

In 1990 was created DIRECTV, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the El Segundo.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the DIRECTV, startups are often financed by Ironwood Capital, Connecticut Innovations, Advantage Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Meng Xiong Kuok, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, DTCP. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Khosla Ventures, K3 Ventures, EchoStar.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2013. This DIRECTV works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 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. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Tarana Wireless, INVIDI Technologies, LiveClips We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Video, Software.

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Total investments 5
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 0.15
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.60
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