Investor Type | Firm |
Type of Fund | Corporate VC |
Industries | Future Of Work |
Stages | Seed, Series A, Series B |
Investing | United States • Canada • India • Mexico • Singapore • Brazil |
Investment Range | $2,000,000 - $10,000,000 |
Investment Sweet Spot | $6,000,000 |
Thomson Reuters Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with a $100 million capital commitment, focused on driving innovation in enterprise technology. With headquarters at 3 Times Square, New York, New York 10036, they concentrate on investing in the future of work among other industries. The fund typically invests between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000, with a preference for deals around the $6,000,000 'sweet spot.' Its investment stages include Seed, Series A, and occasionally Series B rounds. When Thomson Reuters Ventures invests, they aim to leverage Thomson Reuters's assets and expertise to expedite the growth of the companies within their portfolio. The fund has a keen interest in companies that are entrenched in the markets Thomson Reuters operates in or in adjacent markets, with a focus on those with a central data component and solutions based on machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), prediction, and task/process automation. They are particularly enthusiastic about startups that align with their vision for streamlining and innovating work through technology. Thomson Reuters Ventures bills themselves as long-term growth partners committed to supporting technologies that promise to shape the future of professional workspaces. The investments target the domains of tax, legal, fraud, risk, compliance, news, media, data, finance, and insurance. Their approach emphasizes not just the financial investment but strategic support as well, including market access and expert insights in an attempt to forge robust relationships with founders and to bring innovative technology solutions to the enterprise arena more swiftly.
We invest in data startups. - We are a $100M enterprise technology fund with the backing and resources of Thomson Reuters at our disposal. When we invest, we are seeking to accelerate the growth of the companies we invest in by enabling access to TR’s assets and expertise. - We are focused on investments in Series A companies. We will do some opportunistic Seed and/or Series B investments, but the majority with be Series A. - Any company that is verticalized in the markets we operate in or adjacencies, has a core data element, and is building an interesting ML, NLP, prediction, or task/process automation based solution is going to be a sweet spot for TR Ventures