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Universal Music Group

Founders David Gould

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 0.40
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 10
Key employees 5

Areas of investment

  • Music
  • Mobile
  • Video
  • Internet
  • Media and Entertainment
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Def Jam Recordings

Internet
Music
Publishing
Video
$10K01 Jun 2018 New York, New York, United States

Pex

Digital Entertainment
Legal
Music
Photography
Video
$7M09 Oct 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Mass Appeal

Digital Media
Film
Music
News
$6M06 Mar 2017 New York, New York, United States

Pollen

Adventure Travel
Customer Service
Events
Marketing
Marketplace
Ticketing
Travel
$10M10 Oct 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

ROLI

Hardware
Music
Musical Instruments
Software
$27M04 May 2016 United Kingdom, England

Doppler Labs

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Wearables
$17M07 Jul 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Jelli

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Broadcasting
Enterprise Software
$21M23 Jun 2015 California, United States

Shots Studios

Media and Entertainment
Music
Teenagers
Video
Video Streaming
$8M21 Apr 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

VULCUN

eSports
Fantasy Sports
Gaming
Video Games
$12M09 Apr 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 36
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.40
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Def Jam Recordings

Internet
Music
Publishing
Video
$10K01 Jun 2018 New York, New York, United States

Pex

Digital Entertainment
Legal
Music
Photography
Video
$7M09 Oct 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Mass Appeal

Digital Media
Film
Music
News
$6M06 Mar 2017 New York, New York, United States

Pollen

Adventure Travel
Customer Service
Events
Marketing
Marketplace
Ticketing
Travel
$10M10 Oct 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

ROLI

Hardware
Music
Musical Instruments
Software
$27M04 May 2016 United Kingdom, England

Doppler Labs

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Wearables
$17M07 Jul 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Jelli

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Broadcasting
Enterprise Software
$21M23 Jun 2015 California, United States

Shots Studios

Media and Entertainment
Music
Teenagers
Video
Video Streaming
$8M21 Apr 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

VULCUN

eSports
Fantasy Sports
Gaming
Video Games
$12M09 Apr 2015 San Francisco, California, United States
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