Spotify
5
218M
5
0.31
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
Spotify appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2006. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Stockholm. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Sweden.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Music Streaming, Blockchain. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Tencent Music, Artory, Soundtrack Your Brand
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Spotify is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Spotify works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Spotify, startups are often financed by Wellington Partners, Stefan Blom, Silversmith Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wellington Partners, Telia Company AB, Northzone. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Telia Company AB, Northzone, Jorg Mohaupt.
The fund was created by Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.31
- Investments by industry
- Music (4)
- Internet (3)
- Music Streaming (2)
- Marketing (1)
- Audio (1) Show 6 more
- Investments by region
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- China (1)
- Sweden (1)
- United States (3)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 4B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.60
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soundtrack Your Brand | 23 Jun 2015 | Marketing, Music, Music Streaming | Early Stage Venture | 10M | Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden |
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