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Hearst Communications

Founders William Randolph Hearst

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 8
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Lifestyle
  • E-Commerce
  • Fashion
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Inrupt

Information Services
Information Technology
Open Source
Web Development
01 Jan 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

TRENCH

Fashion
Lifestyle
Mobile Apps
Virtual Currency
$1M01 Jan 2018 New York, United States

iflix

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

Beauty
Fashion
Lifestyle
$9M20 Mar 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

strongDM

Database
Security
Software
$250K22 Jun 2016 California, United States

Beauty
Fashion
Lifestyle
$2M17 Sep 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Dering Hall

E-Commerce
Furniture
Marketplace
Online Portals
$1M30 May 2013 New York, United States

Refinery29

Beauty
Digital Media
Fashion
Internet
Lifestyle
Media and Entertainment
News
Social
Video
$5M12 Jan 2013 New York, New York, United States

Diversion

Apps
Gaming
Social
22 Jul 2011 Los Angeles, California, United States

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Total investments 21
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Inrupt

Information Services
Information Technology
Open Source
Web Development
01 Jan 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

TRENCH

Fashion
Lifestyle
Mobile Apps
Virtual Currency
$1M01 Jan 2018 New York, United States

iflix

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

Beauty
Fashion
Lifestyle
$9M20 Mar 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

strongDM

Database
Security
Software
$250K22 Jun 2016 California, United States

Beauty
Fashion
Lifestyle
$2M17 Sep 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

Dering Hall

E-Commerce
Furniture
Marketplace
Online Portals
$1M30 May 2013 New York, United States

Refinery29

Beauty
Digital Media
Fashion
Internet
Lifestyle
Media and Entertainment
News
Social
Video
$5M12 Jan 2013 New York, New York, United States

Diversion

Apps
Gaming
Social
22 Jul 2011 Los Angeles, California, United States
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