Disney Accelerator

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Los Angeles, United States

Total investments

64

Average round size

693K

Portfolio companies

55

Rounds per year

6.40

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceAppsEducationAugmented RealityVirtual RealitySocial MediaVideoMedia and Entertainment

Summary

In 2014 was created Disney Accelerator, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Los Angeles. The company was established in North America in United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Disney Accelerator is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Disney Accelerator performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Disney Accelerator, startups are often financed by Techstars, The Brandery, Switch Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Right Side Capital Management, Social Starts, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars, Wavemaker Partners, Third Wave Digital.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ubooly, FEM Inc., MakieLab. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Marketplace, Apps.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series CSeries DSeries E

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
64
Lead investments
9
Exits
6
Rounds per year
6.40
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (12)
  • Artificial Intelligence (11)
  • Software (10)
  • Media and Entertainment (8)
  • Virtual Reality (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (54)
  • Norway (1)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Sweden (2)
  • China (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
577M
Group Appearance index
0.52
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
12 Jul 2016 Recreational Goods, Educational and Training Services (B2C), Education and Training Services (B2B), Other Consumer Products and Services, Marketplace, Subscription Service, Collaborative Consumption, Toys Seed United States, California, San Jose
RocketBolt 11 May 2017 Internet, Software, Email Seed United States, California, San Francisco
StatMuse 03 Jun 2015 Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Media and Entertainment Seed 120K United States, California, San Francisco

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