Hearst Communications

Total investments

21

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.16

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

8

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetBeautySoftwareInformation TechnologyOnline PortalsInformation ServicesLifestyleFashionLocal

Summary

Hearst Communications appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1887. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Hearst Communications seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Social, Broadcasting. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wanderful Media, M2Gen, strongDM. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Hearst Communications, startups are often financed by Toppan Printing, Solstice Capital, Sky. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Washington Post, Toppan Printing, The McClatchy Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toppan Printing, Scripps Networks, Intel Capital.

This Hearst Communications works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Hearst Communications is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
5
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.16
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Internet (5)
  • Lifestyle (5)
  • E-Commerce (4)
  • Fashion (4)
  • Software (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • Malaysia (2)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
53M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.62
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Inrupt 01 Jan 2021 Information Technology, Information Services, Open Source, Web Development Early Stage Venture United States, Massachusetts, Boston
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