Sony Music Entertainment
Active
26
9M
22
0.19
6
0.12
4
- Areas of investment
Summary
Sony Music Entertainment appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1888. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Artistdirect, Redland, i3 Mobile 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 location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Nightclubs, Digital Entertainment.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Sony Music Entertainment the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Sony Music Entertainment performs on 15 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
The overall number of key employees were 1.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sony Music Entertainment, startups are often financed by DN Capital, Amu00e9rica Mu00f3vil, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, VantagePoint Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kleiner Perkins, In-Q-Tel, DN Capital.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 26
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 0.19
- Follow on index
- 0.12
- Investments by industry
- Music (11)
- Digital Media (5)
- Apps (4)
- Media and Entertainment (4)
- Digital Entertainment (3) Show 39 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (15)
- United Kingdom (2)
- Japan (2)
- Germany (2)
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 45M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laylo | 07 Jun 2021 | Music | Seed | 3M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
| Redland | 10 May 2000 | Broadcasting, Internet, Digital Media | Early Stage Venture | 17M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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