RR Donnelley & Sons

Total investments

7

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.04

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

2

Areas of investment
PublishingE-CommerceInternetB2BEnterprise SoftwareCommunitiesWeb DesignAdvertisingAd NetworkJournalism

Summary

In 1864 was created RR Donnelley & Sons, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the RR Donnelley & Sons, startups are often financed by Rho Capital Partners, DFJ, USFreightways. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), IndustryClick, IDG Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), IDG Ventures, Convergence Partners.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Publishing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight B2BWorks, Helium Network, Newgistics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This RR Donnelley & Sons works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.04
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Advertising (3)
  • Internet (3)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Web Design (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
Peak activity year
2000

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
96M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
8.12

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
B2BWorks 18 Oct 1999 Internet, B2B, Advertising, Ad Network Early Stage Venture 2M United States, Illinois, Chicago
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