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Liberty Media

Founders Brian Matthews

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$71M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 1.10
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 13
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Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • News
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Music
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Overwolf

Apps
Digital Media
eSports
Gaming
PC Games
Software
Video Games
$52M16 Mar 2021 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Katai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Video
$3M12 Dec 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Fresco News

Crowdsourcing
Events
News
$5M18 Apr 2017 New York, United States

Drone Racing League

Drones
Racing
Robotics
Sports
Virtual Reality
$20M15 Mar 2017 New York, New York, United States

JioSaavn

Internet
Mobile
Music
Music Streaming
Video Streaming
$100M07 Jul 2015 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Brit + Co

Digital Media
Events
Internet
Retail
$20M09 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Acorns

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Wealth Management
$23M15 Feb 2015 Irvine, California, United States

Content
Cooking
Food Delivery
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video Editing
$25M26 Jun 2014 Santa Monica, California, United States

ADOR

E-Commerce
Fashion
Home Decor
Internet
News
Social Media
$36M03 Aug 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States

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Total investments 32
Average round size 71M
Rounds per year 1.10
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Overwolf

Apps
Digital Media
eSports
Gaming
PC Games
Software
Video Games
$52M16 Mar 2021 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Katai

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Video
$3M12 Dec 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Fresco News

Crowdsourcing
Events
News
$5M18 Apr 2017 New York, United States

Drone Racing League

Drones
Racing
Robotics
Sports
Virtual Reality
$20M15 Mar 2017 New York, New York, United States

JioSaavn

Internet
Mobile
Music
Music Streaming
Video Streaming
$100M07 Jul 2015 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Brit + Co

Digital Media
Events
Internet
Retail
$20M09 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Acorns

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Wealth Management
$23M15 Feb 2015 Irvine, California, United States

Content
Cooking
Food Delivery
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video Editing
$25M26 Jun 2014 Santa Monica, California, United States

ADOR

E-Commerce
Fashion
Home Decor
Internet
News
Social Media
$36M03 Aug 2011 Seattle, Washington, United States
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