HuffPost
9
4M
6
0.50
0.33
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- Areas of investment
Summary
HuffPost is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2005. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Buzzfeed, Rewarder, Enboarder Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Social Media.
This organization was formed by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Jonah Peretti, Ken Lerer.
Comparing to the other companies, this HuffPost performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the HuffPost, startups are often financed by SoftBank Capital, Matthew Luckett, Kohlberg Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SoftBank Capital, SV Angel, RRE Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RRE Ventures, SoftBank Capital, New Enterprise Associates.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.50
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Publishing (5)
- News (5)
- Internet (4)
- Social (3)
- Digital Media (3) Show 15 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (7)
- Australia (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 252M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.26
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enboarder | 20 Nov 2018 | Internet, Software, Information Technology, Human Resources, SaaS, Employee Benefits | Seed | 2M | New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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