Warner Music Group

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

66

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

54

Rounds per year

1.00

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

5

Areas of investment
SoftwareMobileGamingArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningMusicSocial MediaBlockchainDigital EntertainmentMedia and Entertainment

Summary

Warner Music Group appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1958. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Warner Music Group, startups are often financed by YUL Ventures, Switch Ventures, Real Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Universal Music Group, Intel Capital, YUL Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YUL Ventures, Vasudev Bailey, TechNexus Venture Collaborative.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Artistdirect, Artiphon, Hooch Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Digital Media, Music Streaming. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Warner Music Group performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Warner Music Group is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
8
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Music (24)
  • Gaming (13)
  • Software (12)
  • Digital Entertainment (11)
  • Media and Entertainment (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (40)
  • Israel (1)
  • Canada (5)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • New Zealand (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
701M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.34
Strategy success index
0.30

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