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World Wrestling Entertainment

Founders Linda McMahon Vince McMahon Vincent J. McMahon

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 0.13
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 1
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Sports
  • Video
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Advertising
  • Video Streaming
Summary

World Wrestling Entertainment is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1952. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Stamford. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the World Wrestling Entertainment, startups are often financed by Sky, Courtside Ventures, Central Texas Angel Network. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sky, RSE Ventures, Lux Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wavemaker Partners, PLDT, Ann Berry.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this World Wrestling Entertainment works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Robotics, Online Games. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Tout, Cloud9, FloSports.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jomboy Media

Advertising
Media and Entertainment
$5M05 May 2022 Bronx, New York, United States

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$47M03 Jun 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

eSports
Gaming
Online Games
Sports
$25M23 Oct 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Drone Racing League

Drones
Racing
Robotics
Sports
Virtual Reality
$20M15 Mar 2017 New York, New York, United States

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$21M15 Aug 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

Tout

News
Publishing
Video
$13M29 Jun 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 0.13
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jomboy Media

Advertising
Media and Entertainment
$5M05 May 2022 Bronx, New York, United States

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$47M03 Jun 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

eSports
Gaming
Online Games
Sports
$25M23 Oct 2017 Los Angeles, California, United States

Drone Racing League

Drones
Racing
Robotics
Sports
Virtual Reality
$20M15 Mar 2017 New York, New York, United States

Advertising
Fitness
Internet
Media and Entertainment
Product Design
Sports
Video
Video Streaming
$21M15 Aug 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

Tout

News
Publishing
Video
$13M29 Jun 2012 San Francisco, California, United States
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