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Discovery

Founders John Hendricks

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Total investments 25
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 0.68
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 4
Key employees 10

Areas of investment

  • Media and Entertainment
  • Digital Media
  • Video
  • Advertising
  • Video Streaming
Summary

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

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GB News

Content
News
Social News
$82M06 Jan 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$47M03 Jun 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Philo

Digital Media
Information Technology
TV
$41M03 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Here Be Dragons

Film Production
Video Editing
Virtual Reality
$10M08 Aug 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

WinView Games

Advertising
Apps
Sports
TV
$12M14 May 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

Curiosity

Digital Media
Education
Media and Entertainment
$3M06 Feb 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

New Form Digital

Content Creators
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Predictive Analytics
Sports
Video Streaming
$18M08 Dec 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

DivvyCloud

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Security
$1M29 Nov 2016 Arlington, Virginia, United States

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$21M15 Aug 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

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Total investments 25
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 0.68
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GB News

Content
News
Social News
$82M06 Jan 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$47M03 Jun 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Philo

Digital Media
Information Technology
TV
$41M03 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Here Be Dragons

Film Production
Video Editing
Virtual Reality
$10M08 Aug 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

WinView Games

Advertising
Apps
Sports
TV
$12M14 May 2017 Redwood City, California, United States

Curiosity

Digital Media
Education
Media and Entertainment
$3M06 Feb 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

New Form Digital

Content Creators
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Predictive Analytics
Sports
Video Streaming
$18M08 Dec 2016 Los Angeles, California, United States

DivvyCloud

Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Security
$1M29 Nov 2016 Arlington, Virginia, United States

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$21M15 Aug 2016 Austin, Texas, United States
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