Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

Time Warner

Founders Chris Rust

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 27
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$286M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 0.71
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 14
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Gaming
  • Video
  • Wireless
  • Content
  • Software
Summary

In 1985 was created Time Warner, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. 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 typical startup value when the investment from Time Warner is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2008. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Time Warner works on 23 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

This organization was formed by Chris Rust. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Time Warner, startups are often financed by Time Warner Investments, Intel Capital, Venrock. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Comcast, Sprint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Time Warner Investments, Intel Capital, Sprint.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Hulu, Clearwire, Discord. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Content. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of Time Warner:
Typical Co-investors
Time Warner is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after Time Warner:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
AMS INDUSTRIES France, Ile-de-France, Paris
AVIA Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chain Capital China, Shanghai
Changsha Lugu Hi-Tech Mobile Internet Venture Capital Changsha, China, Jiangsu
Chengdu Guoxin Guanghua Touzi Guanli Co., Ltd. Chengdu, China, Sichuan
Evertz Burlington, Canada, Ontario
First Derivatives Newry, Newry and Mourne, United Kingdom
Grid110 -
Gunderson Dettmer California, Redwood City, United States
Huarong Securities Shanghai Yanggao South Road Sales Department China, Shanghai
Huayangxing Packaging Products Beijing, Beijing, China
J Coffey Construction England, London, United Kingdom
PJC Capital Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Point Sur Investors -
PrivateBancorp Chicago, Illinois, United States
Prudence Holdings New York, New York, United States
Rivers Capital Partners Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, United Kingdom
Startup Spaze Central, Central Region, Singapore
Subvenio Invest -
Vigo Activo Galicia, Nigrán, Spain

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kamcord

Gaming
Mobile
Social Media
Social Network
Video Streaming
$10M25 Apr 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Communities
Messaging
Social Network
Software
Video Chat
$8M21 Nov 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

AdaptiveBlue

Gaming
Media and Entertainment
Semantic Web
Social Media
Sports
$6M05 Dec 2010 New York, New York, United States

OnLive

Cloud Computing
Gaming
Video Games
30 Sep 2009 Mountain View, California, United States

ScanScout

Ad Network
Advertising
Video
$4M30 Jun 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Gaia Online

Gaming
MMO Games
Online Games
01 Jan 2008 San Jose, California, United States

OnLive

Cloud Computing
Gaming
Video Games
$16M01 Oct 2007 Mountain View, California, United States

Veoh

Application Software
Content
Internet
Other Media
Video
$12M01 Apr 2006 San Diego, California, United States

Magis Networks

Communication Hardware
Semiconductor
Wireless
$45M30 Jan 2003 San Diego, California, United States

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent Time Warner?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 27
Average round size 286M
Rounds per year 0.71
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kamcord

Gaming
Mobile
Social Media
Social Network
Video Streaming
$10M25 Apr 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Communities
Messaging
Social Network
Software
Video Chat
$8M21 Nov 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

AdaptiveBlue

Gaming
Media and Entertainment
Semantic Web
Social Media
Sports
$6M05 Dec 2010 New York, New York, United States

OnLive

Cloud Computing
Gaming
Video Games
30 Sep 2009 Mountain View, California, United States

ScanScout

Ad Network
Advertising
Video
$4M30 Jun 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Gaia Online

Gaming
MMO Games
Online Games
01 Jan 2008 San Jose, California, United States

OnLive

Cloud Computing
Gaming
Video Games
$16M01 Oct 2007 Mountain View, California, United States

Veoh

Application Software
Content
Internet
Other Media
Video
$12M01 Apr 2006 San Diego, California, United States

Magis Networks

Communication Hardware
Semiconductor
Wireless
$45M30 Jan 2003 San Diego, California, United States
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: