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Tribune Ventures

Founders Donn Davis

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.58
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 7
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • TV
  • Enterprise Software
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Communications Infrastructure
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nimble TV

Enterprise Software
Media and Entertainment
Software
TV
$4M14 Sep 2012 New York, New York, United States

Nimble TV

Enterprise Software
Media and Entertainment
Software
TV
$1M27 Oct 2011 New York, New York, United States

CenterPost Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Email
Enterprise Software
Outsourcing
Wireless
$12M25 Sep 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Public Relations
Video Conferencing
Video Streaming
$30M22 Aug 2000 New York, New York, United States

Eppraisals.com

Collectibles
Identity Management
Internet
$12M18 May 2000 United States, Chicago

iExplore

Tourism
Travel
Web Hosting
$12M27 Apr 2000 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SocialNet.com

Internet
Social Media
$17M11 Jan 2000 Mountain View, California, United States

iExplore

Tourism
Travel
Web Hosting
02 Nov 1999 Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Total investments 15
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.58
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nimble TV

Enterprise Software
Media and Entertainment
Software
TV
$4M14 Sep 2012 New York, New York, United States

Nimble TV

Enterprise Software
Media and Entertainment
Software
TV
$1M27 Oct 2011 New York, New York, United States

CenterPost Communications

Communications Infrastructure
Email
Enterprise Software
Outsourcing
Wireless
$12M25 Sep 2001 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Public Relations
Video Conferencing
Video Streaming
$30M22 Aug 2000 New York, New York, United States

Eppraisals.com

Collectibles
Identity Management
Internet
$12M18 May 2000 United States, Chicago

iExplore

Tourism
Travel
Web Hosting
$12M27 Apr 2000 Chicago, Illinois, United States

SocialNet.com

Internet
Social Media
$17M11 Jan 2000 Mountain View, California, United States

iExplore

Tourism
Travel
Web Hosting
02 Nov 1999 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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