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Young & Rubicam

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.06
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • IT Infrastructure
  • Web Hosting
  • Cloud Data Services
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Young & Rubicam is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1923. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Young & Rubicam, startups are often financed by A. H. Belo Corporation, William Hunt, Jovan Hutton Pulitzer. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wasserstein Perella, Veritas Technologies, The Coca-Cola Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Crossbow Ventures, Constellation Technology Ventures, BDC Venture Capital.

Opposing the other organizations, this Young & Rubicam works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Young & Rubicam is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Marketing. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight eMotion, Digital:Convergence Corporation, iWeb Technologies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Digital:Convergence Corporation

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$43M08 Jun 1999 Dallas, Texas, United States

Digital:Convergence Corporation

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$50M01 Mar 1999 Dallas, Texas, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 0.06
Peak activity year 1999
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Digital:Convergence Corporation

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$43M08 Jun 1999 Dallas, Texas, United States

Digital:Convergence Corporation

E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$50M01 Mar 1999 Dallas, Texas, United States
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