The Walt Disney Company

Total investments

55

Average round size

96M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

0.54

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

4

Areas of investment
PublishingInternetFood and BeverageNewsVideoMedia and EntertainmentDigital MediaNon ProfitVideo StreamingCharity

Summary

The Walt Disney Company is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1923. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Lake Buena Vista.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Sports, Social Media Marketing. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Hulu, Vice Media, BAMTECH Media Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the The Walt Disney Company, startups are often financed by Viola Ventures, Techstars, Sky. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Viola Ventures, Techstars, Saban Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Viola Ventures, Viola Growth, Twentieth Century Fox.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from The Walt Disney Company is more than 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This The Walt Disney Company works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
6
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.54
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Non Profit (21)
  • Food and Beverage (13)
  • Video (8)
  • Internet (7)
  • Digital Media (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (52)
  • China (1)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
28
Avg. valuation at time of investment
788M
Group Appearance index
0.33
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.14
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Generation Prime 25 May 2023 Health Care, Medical Seed Central Region, Singapore, Singapore
EX.CO 31 Mar 2016 Publishing, Internet, B2B, Content, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Digital Media, Video Advertising, Content Marketing Late Stage Venture 15M United States, New York
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