Discovery appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1985.
The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Discovery the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Discovery, startups are often financed by Integral Capital Partners, Benchmark, Acceleprise. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are World Wrestling Entertainment, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Origin Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TomorrowVentures, RTP Ventures, MissionOG.
The fund was created by John S. Hendricks. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sharecare, FloSports, Curiosity The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.
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Notable deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
GB News | $82M | 06 Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
$47M | 03 Jun 2019 | Austin, Texas, United States | |||
Philo | $41M | 03 Jul 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Here Be Dragons | $10M | 08 Aug 2017 | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
WinView Games | $12M | 14 May 2017 | Redwood City, California, United States | ||
Curiosity | $3M | 06 Feb 2017 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
New Form Digital | $18M | 08 Dec 2016 | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
DivvyCloud | $1M | 29 Nov 2016 | Arlington, Virginia, United States | ||
$21M | 15 Aug 2016 | Austin, Texas, United States |
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Latest deals
Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
GB News | $82M | 06 Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
$47M | 03 Jun 2019 | Austin, Texas, United States | |||
Philo | $41M | 03 Jul 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Here Be Dragons | $10M | 08 Aug 2017 | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
WinView Games | $12M | 14 May 2017 | Redwood City, California, United States | ||
Curiosity | $3M | 06 Feb 2017 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | ||
New Form Digital | $18M | 08 Dec 2016 | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
DivvyCloud | $1M | 29 Nov 2016 | Arlington, Virginia, United States | ||
$21M | 15 Aug 2016 | Austin, Texas, United States |