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Evolution Media

Founders Bob Stanley Rick Hess

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 2.71
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 6
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • News
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Video Streaming
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mux

Analytics
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Software
Video
Video Streaming
$20M14 Aug 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Clutch

Communities
Gaming
Video Games
$2M30 Jun 2019 California, United States

Tonal

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Machine Learning
Personal Health
$45M04 Apr 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$40M30 Oct 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$20M05 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Broadcasting
Mobile Apps
Software
Sports
Virtual Reality
$9M16 Feb 2018 New York, New York, United States

iflix

Broadcasting, Radio and Television
Digital Entertainment
Internet
Movies, Music and Entertainment
Video Streaming
$133M07 Aug 2017 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Stem Disintermedia

Accounting
FinTech
Internet
Music
Software
Video
$8M07 Jun 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

iflix

Broadcasting, Radio and Television
Digital Entertainment
Internet
Movies, Music and Entertainment
Video Streaming
$90M07 Mar 2017 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Total investments 38
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 2.71
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mux

Analytics
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Enterprise Software
Software
Video
Video Streaming
$20M14 Aug 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Clutch

Communities
Gaming
Video Games
$2M30 Jun 2019 California, United States

Tonal

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Electronics
Fitness
Machine Learning
Personal Health
$45M04 Apr 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$40M30 Oct 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

The Athletic

Journalism
News
Sports
$20M05 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Broadcasting
Mobile Apps
Software
Sports
Virtual Reality
$9M16 Feb 2018 New York, New York, United States

iflix

Broadcasting, Radio and Television
Digital Entertainment
Internet
Movies, Music and Entertainment
Video Streaming
$133M07 Aug 2017 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Stem Disintermedia

Accounting
FinTech
Internet
Music
Software
Video
$8M07 Jun 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

iflix

Broadcasting, Radio and Television
Digital Entertainment
Internet
Movies, Music and Entertainment
Video Streaming
$90M07 Mar 2017 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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