Liberty Media

Total investments

32

Average round size

71M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

1.10

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

13

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareMusicNewsMedia and EntertainmentDigital MediaWirelessWeb HostingVideo Streaming

Summary

Liberty Media appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1994. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Englewood. The company was established in North America in United States.

The typical startup value when the investment from Liberty Media is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Liberty Media performs on 13 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Equator Technologies, Inc., WildBlue, WildBlue. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as News, Events.

The current fund was established by Brian Matthews.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Liberty Media, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Sky, Redpoint. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs, Redpoint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, Ironside Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
4
Exits
13
Rounds per year
1.10
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Internet (14)
  • News (5)
  • Media and Entertainment (5)
  • Music (4)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • Canada (1)
  • India (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
155M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.53
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Drone Racing League 15 Mar 2017 Robotics, Virtual Reality, Sports, Drones, Racing Early Stage Venture 20M United States, New York, New York
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