NBCUniversal

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

New York City, United States

Total investments

96

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

88

Rounds per year

0.86

Lead investments

62

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

14

Areas of investment
PublishingInternetSoftwareHealth CareEducationVideoAdvertisingMedia and EntertainmentNon ProfitService Industry

Summary

NBCUniversal is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2004. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the NBCUniversal, startups are often financed by Lerer Hippeau, SoftBank Capital, Menlo Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Wellington Management, Venrock. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TCV, Sequoia Capital, Peacock Equity.

This organization was formed by Josh Grotstein, Paul Lee. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Publishing, Video Streaming. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Buzzfeed, Peloton Interactive, Vox Media

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The average startup value when the investment from NBCUniversal is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this NBCUniversal works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
96
Lead investments
62
Exits
14
Rounds per year
0.86
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Non Profit (47)
  • Education (16)
  • Service Industry (15)
  • Health Care (13)
  • Advertising (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (90)
  • Israel (2)
  • El Salvador (1)
  • Czechia (1)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
99M
Group Appearance index
0.35
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.64
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Anzu.io 27 Jun 2023 eSports, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Advertising, Brand Marketing, Video Games, Advertising Platforms Early Stage Venture 28M Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
CIONIC 18 Oct 2023 Software, Information Technology Early Stage Venture 12M United States, California, San Francisco
iStreamPlanet 20 Mar 2013 Cloud Computing, Events, Video Streaming Early Stage Venture 6M United States, Nevada, Las Vegas
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