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ZDNet

Founders Michael E. Kolowich

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.32
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 5
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Finance
Summary

ZDNet is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1991. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the ZDNet, startups are often financed by The Yucaipa Companies, Michael Ovitz, Innovacom. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are CNET Networks, WR Hambrecht, Vector Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Guillemot Corporation, Gameloft, EMC.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2003. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2000. This ZDNet works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Flash Storage, Web Development. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kelkoo, IDrive Inc., Attenza The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GameSpy

Gaming
Internet
Video Games
$5M30 May 2000 Irvine, California, United States

Attenza

Customer Service
Enterprise Software
Internet
Software
$18M16 Mar 2000 Dallas, Texas, United States

techies.com

Career Planning
Information Technology
Web Hosting
$22M01 Feb 2000 Costa Mesa, California, United States

GameSpy

Gaming
Internet
Video Games
$3M29 Jul 1999 Irvine, California, United States

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Total investments 10
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.32
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GameSpy

Gaming
Internet
Video Games
$5M30 May 2000 Irvine, California, United States

Attenza

Customer Service
Enterprise Software
Internet
Software
$18M16 Mar 2000 Dallas, Texas, United States

techies.com

Career Planning
Information Technology
Web Hosting
$22M01 Feb 2000 Costa Mesa, California, United States

GameSpy

Gaming
Internet
Video Games
$3M29 Jul 1999 Irvine, California, United States
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