Universal Music Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Santa Monica, United States

Total investments

37

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

0.41

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

10

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileMusicHardwareVideoMedia and EntertainmentDigital MediaVideo Streaming

Summary

Universal Music Group is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1898. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Santa Monica.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Universal Music Group, startups are often financed by Entru00e9e Capital, Redpoint, Peter Chernin. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Shasta Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Universal Music Group performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Wearables. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 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 Doppler Labs, Houseparty, Magex

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/Content
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female People of color LGBTQ

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
37
Lead investments
3
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.41
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Music (16)
  • Mobile (7)
  • Video (6)
  • Internet (6)
  • Media and Entertainment (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (28)
  • United Kingdom (9)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
43M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
1.22
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bellabeat 23 May 2014 Software, Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Hardware, Wearables Seed 4M United States, California, San Francisco
DoraHacks 18 May 2022 Information Technology, Information Services, Communities Early Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco
R.e.m. Beauty 23 May 2023 Beauty Seed United States, California, Los Angeles
Todacell 01 Aug 2007 Advertising, Ad Network Seed 350K Israel, North District
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