Tribune Ventures

Summary

Tribune Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1995. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The company was established in North America in United States. Tribune Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Video Streaming, News. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Food.com, Nimble TV, Teach.com.

The fund was created by Donn Davis.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Tribune Ventures performs on 24 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2000. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2001.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Tribune Ventures, startups are often financed by St. Paul Venture Capital, Primedia Ventures, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tribeca Venture Partners, Talk City, St. Paul Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Circle T Partners, Warburg Pincus, Ridgewood Capital.