Skype
3
8M
3
0.17
3
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2003 was created Skype, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in Luxembourg. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Esch-sur-alzette.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Entertainment, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TrialPay, Fon, Rdio. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.
The current fund was established by Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis, Niklas Zennstru00f6m.
This Skype works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, Google, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Atomico, Google.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Internet (2)
- Media and Entertainment (1)
- Music (1)
- Digital Entertainment (1)
- E-Commerce (1) Show 4 more
- Investments by region
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- Spain (1)
- United States (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2009
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 14
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 25M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.21
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fon | 06 Feb 2006 | Internet, Information Technology, Wireless | Early Stage Venture | 21M | Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
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