Graham Holdings

Total investments

16

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

0.21

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

3

Areas of investment
PublishingInternetAppsEducationContentAdvertisingMedia and EntertainmentDigital MediaAudioPodcast

Summary

Graham Holdings is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1947. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Arlington.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight D2L, Intersection, Intersection. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Comparing to the other companies, this Graham Holdings performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The typical startup value when the investment from Graham Holdings is 10-50 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Graham Holdings, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, Revolution. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NewSpring Capital, ArrowMark Partners, The New York Times. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WPP, The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Techstars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
5
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.21
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Media and Entertainment (5)
  • Podcast (4)
  • Advertising (4)
  • Publishing (3)
  • Apps (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
4M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
4

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