Evolution Media
38
29M
29
2.71
9
0.21
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2008 was created Evolution Media, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Los Angeles. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Epic!, Swrve, Tonal The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Digital Media, Publishing. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The top activity for fund was in 2016. When the investment is from Evolution Media the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This Evolution Media works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The fund was created by Bob Stanley, Rick Hess. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Evolution Media, startups are often financed by Advancit Capital, Sky, The Chernin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Chernin Group, Sky, TPG Growth. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sky, Y Combinator, Sands Capital Ventures.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 38
- Lead investments
- 9
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 2.71
- Follow on index
- 0.21
- Investments by industry
- Software (12)
- News (10)
- Music (7)
- Sports (7)
- Video Streaming (6) Show 65 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (31)
- Malaysia (3)
- China (1)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Germany (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 328M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.11
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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