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Grey Ventures

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.32
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Advertising
  • Marketing
  • Software
  • TV
  • Developer Platform
Summary

Grey Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The company was established in North America in United States. Grey Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Expression Engines, Hiwire, Visible World The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer Electronics, TV.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Grey Ventures, startups are often financed by Reuters Venture Capital, Winfield Capital Corp, WPP Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Flatiron Partners, Comcast Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, iHeartMedia, Zone Ventures.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this Grey Ventures performs on 14 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$25M14 Apr 2008 New York, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$8M17 Nov 2003 New York, New York, United States

Bigfoot Interactive

Advertising
Computer
Consulting
Consumer Electronics
CRM
Electronics
Email Marketing
Information Services (B2C)
Information Technology
Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Social/Platform Software
Software
$6M23 Jan 2002 New York, New York, United States

Hiwire

Advertising
Developer Platform
Media and Entertainment
$9M16 Nov 2001 Los Angeles, California, United States

Expression Engines

Business Development
Marketing
Online Auctions
$8M12 Apr 2000 New York, New York, United States

Veridiem Inc

Enterprise Software
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$25M21 Mar 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Advertising
Developer Platform
Media and Entertainment
$17M08 Mar 2000 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.32
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$25M14 Apr 2008 New York, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$8M17 Nov 2003 New York, New York, United States

Bigfoot Interactive

Advertising
Computer
Consulting
Consumer Electronics
CRM
Electronics
Email Marketing
Information Services (B2C)
Information Technology
Marketing
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Social/Platform Software
Software
$6M23 Jan 2002 New York, New York, United States

Hiwire

Advertising
Developer Platform
Media and Entertainment
$9M16 Nov 2001 Los Angeles, California, United States

Expression Engines

Business Development
Marketing
Online Auctions
$8M12 Apr 2000 New York, New York, United States

Veridiem Inc

Enterprise Software
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$25M21 Mar 2000 Massachusetts, United States

Advertising
Developer Platform
Media and Entertainment
$17M08 Mar 2000 Los Angeles, California, United States
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