Young & Rubicam

Total investments

6

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.06

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

2

Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyCloud Data ServicesMarketingIT InfrastructureWeb HostingOnline Auctions

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.06
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Internet (3)
  • IT Infrastructure (2)
  • Web Hosting (2)
  • Cloud Data Services (2)
  • E-Commerce (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • Canada (2)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
1999

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
261M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
2.00
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Digital:Convergence Corporation 01 Mar 1999 E-Commerce, Internet, Software, Information Technology Early Stage Venture 50M United States, Texas, Dallas
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