The McClatchy Company

Total investments

19

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.11

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareMobileInformation ServicesNewsSocial MediaLocalVideoAdvertisingLocal Advertising

Summary

In 1857 was created The McClatchy Company, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The McClatchy Company appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Sacramento.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This The McClatchy Company works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The typical startup value when the investment from The McClatchy Company is 50-100 millions dollars. 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.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Retail, News. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Wanderful Media, Stringr, Watchup. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the The McClatchy Company, startups are often financed by Mark Cuban, Gannett Co Inc, Washington Post. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gannett Co Inc, Ned Lamont, Knight Enterprise Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gannett Co Inc, Moneta Ventures, Cox Media Group.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
4
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.11
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (5)
  • News (5)
  • Video (5)
  • Local (5)
  • Information Services (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
Peak activity year
2016

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Offline Media 03 Feb 2017 Software, Mobile, Local, Local Advertising Seed United States, North Carolina, Raleigh
RadioPublic 26 Apr 2016 Mobile, Internet Radio, Audio, Podcast Seed 0 United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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