IAC
Corporate investor
Active
25
72M
17
0.89
4
0.32
8
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1995 was created IAC, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Starry, Convoy, Aereo. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile, Social Media. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this IAC works on 0 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from IAC the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the IAC, startups are often financed by SV Angel, Highland Capital Partners, FirstMark. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hearst Ventures, FirstMark, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Hearst Ventures, TransCosmos, Maverick Ventures.
The fund was created by Barry Diller. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 25
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 0.89
- Follow on index
- 0.32
- Investments by industry
- Mobile (6)
- Social Media (6)
- Digital Media (5)
- Internet (4)
- Video (4) Show 50 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (24)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 290M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.68
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbird | 06 Oct 2022 | Information Technology, Hospitality | Seed | 11M | United States, New York, New York |
| MerchantCircle | 01 Sep 2007 | Media and Information Services (B2B), Internet, Education, Local, Advice, Direct Marketing | Early Stage Venture | 10M | United States, California |
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