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Viacom

Founders Sumner Redstone

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$121M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.19
Lead investments 2
Exits 4
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Media and Entertainment
  • Digital Media
  • TV
  • Digital Entertainment
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rock The Bells

E-Commerce
Fashion
Sales
$15M17 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

pocket.watch

Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video Streaming
Web Design
$15M18 Jul 2018 California, United States

Philo

Digital Media
Information Technology
TV
$41M03 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Joost

Internet
TV
Video
$45M09 May 2007 New York, New York, United States

Social Project

Media and Entertainment
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Multimedia and Design Software
Social Content
Social Media
Social Network
Social/Platform Software
$40M01 Dec 2006 Santa Monica, California, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 121M
Rounds per year 0.19
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rock The Bells

E-Commerce
Fashion
Sales
$15M17 Apr 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

pocket.watch

Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Video Streaming
Web Design
$15M18 Jul 2018 California, United States

Philo

Digital Media
Information Technology
TV
$41M03 Jul 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Joost

Internet
TV
Video
$45M09 May 2007 New York, New York, United States

Social Project

Media and Entertainment
Media and Information Services (B2B)
Multimedia and Design Software
Social Content
Social Media
Social Network
Social/Platform Software
$40M01 Dec 2006 Santa Monica, California, United States
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