NBCUniversal
Corporate investor
Active
New York City, United States
96
25M
88
0.86
62
0.08
14
- Areas of investment
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) Show 111 more
- Investments by region
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- 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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- 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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