Viacom

Total investments

10

Average round size

121M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.19

Lead investments

2

Exits

4

Areas of investment
InternetInformation TechnologyMarketingDigital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentDigital MediaFilmVideo on DemandVideo StreamingTV

Summary

Viacom is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1971. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

This Viacom works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Viacom is 5-10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Viacom, startups are often financed by UTA Ventures, Third Wave Digital, Robert Downey Jr.. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Warner Bros., UTA Ventures, Sony Pictures Entertainment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UTA Ventures, MTV, Greycroftu2019s Tracker Fund.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Roku, Inc., pocket.watch, pocket.watch. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media, Information Technology.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
2
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Media and Entertainment (5)
  • Digital Media (3)
  • TV (3)
  • Digital Entertainment (3)
  • Internet (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • Italy (2)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
100M
Group Appearance index
0.70
Avg. company exit year
13
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Rock The Bells 17 Apr 2023 E-Commerce, Sales, Fashion Early Stage Venture 15M United States, California, Los Angeles
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