Modern Times Group (MTG)

Total investments

21

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.58

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

2

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareGamingDeveloper ToolsDeveloper PlatformComputerVideoOnline GamesVideo GamesData Visualization

Summary

In 1987 was created Modern Times Group (MTG), which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Stockholm.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Modern Times Group (MTG), startups are often financed by Troy Capital Partners, Slow Ventures, Project 11 Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Troy Capital Partners, Runa Capital, Korea Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MTGx, Everblue Management, Y Combinator.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Gaming, Audio. For fund there is no 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 Sviper, Playfull, Boom.tv. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The average startup value when the investment from Modern Times Group (MTG) is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This Modern Times Group (MTG) works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
4
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.58
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Gaming (12)
  • Software (6)
  • Online Games (6)
  • Computer (5)
  • Video Games (4)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (5)
  • United States (12)
  • Finland (1)
  • Canada (2)
Peak activity year
2018

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
9

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