The New York Times

Total investments

38

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

0.22

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

11

Areas of investment
PublishingInternetMobileMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareContentNewsSocial MediaAdvertisingDigital Media

Summary

The New York Times is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the The New York Times, startups are often financed by RRE Ventures, Homebrew, Mesa Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Comcast Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Omidyar Network, Oak Investment Partners, Hearst Ventures.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Automattic, Federated Media, Enigma Technologies.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from The New York Times the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
2
Exits
11
Rounds per year
0.22
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Publishing (15)
  • Advertising (10)
  • Content (8)
  • News (7)
  • Enterprise Software (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (36)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • The Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
167M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.46
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Atlas Obscura 02 Mar 2016 Publishing, Travel, Digital Media, Tourism, Leisure Seed 2M United States, New York, New York
Kuan Intelligence 01 Jun 2018 FinTech, Information Technology, Information Services, Small and Medium Businesses, Business Intelligence, Business Development Seed 40K United Kingdom, London, England
TheSkimm 26 Sep 2016 Publishing, Information Services, Mobile Apps, Fashion, News, Politics Early Stage Venture 500K United States, New York, New York
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