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Investco
Helping Make The Impossible, Possible.
We Help Entrepreneur’s Achieve That Which Others Deem Impossible.
Over $100 Billion in Equity, Debt and M&A Transactions.
Backing The Misfit’s, The Rebels, The Innovators. Those Who Boldly Dare To Make Their Dreams A Reality, And In The Process Make The World A Better Place.
With over 50 years of Combined Experience Our Management Team has invested and/or placed over $100 Billion Of Debt and Equity Capital, helped to oversee, one or more aspect, one dozen Unicorn plus public offerings, overseen and/or helped implement numerous unicorn transactions, from The team believes in todays fast moving world capital has become commoditized and that it must bring a 360 approach to its enterprise companies. Having been intimately involved in managing, executing and overseeing the M&A, PR, Capital Strategy and in many cases the Business Strategy of the companies its principals have been involved in— Investco believes that not all money is equal.
FROM STARTUP TO SECOND LARGEST SPORTS AGENCY IN THE WORLD
RXST EXCEEDS $2 BILLION ON NASDAQ
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Led Series E
Over $50 Million led as well as board represenattion and helped advise on growth strategy.
Build from startup to second largest sports agency in the world according to Forbes, prior to sale.
Created the SVOD Window helping Netflix Grow From $2billion In market Cap
Our Principals launched a studio and used Neftlix to replace the “PayTv Window” creating the SVOD window as a first of its kind. The deal was valued in excess of $ 2 Billion
Conceptualized, Created, Built and Executed Plan that created Marvel Studios and led to MCU
Including selecting all films to be placed into structured finance facility, from Iron Man, Captain America, Avengers, Black Panther and Thor as well as arranging $650 Million dollar film facility from Merril Lynch and negotiated output deal with Paramount.
PRIMARY INVESTMENTS
Invested $680 Million into DoorDash, board observer and helped guide strategy
Created Slate Financing which led to $1.2 Billion dollar 5 year two studio deal with Universal and Sony.
Principals executive produced over 40 Movies across both studios and slate performed over 30% better on IRR than entire studios Slate
Seed Investor in ZetaRx which became Juno
Juno largest biotech IPO of 2014 and sold for approximately $10 Billion to Celgene in 2019
EQUITY, DEBT, M&A, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, STARTUP TO LATESTAGE. OUR PRINCIPALS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE MOST PROLIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS FROM PHARMA, APPLIED SCIENCES AND BIOTECH, TO SOCIAL MEDIA, ECOMMCERCE AND ENTERTAINMENT
Over 10 Successful Spac Transactions
Our Principals have been integrally involved in over 10 successful SPAC and DEPSAC transactions with over $10 Billion Of Market Cap.
Over $100 Billion In Market Cap
Our Principals have been integrally involved in both capital raise, capital strategy and/or building companies from startups to over $100 Billion in total Market Value.
Creation Of Value
In many of our principals transactions and/or companies; shareholders realized as much as 50x returns from startup stage to Public Listing Or Sale. A number of those entities were or are fully owned by Investco’s principals.
KEY MANAGEMENT
MANAGING PARTNER
TED FIKE
Ted is a founding partner at Investco. He is also a partner at Lido Partners which is an investment firm which targets growth buyouts of VC-backed public and private companies. Our strategy focuses on two types of investment opportunities:
Resurrect the Fallen Angels: Take private fundamentally sound companies that are misunderstood by the public markets, many of which are De-SPACs in out-of-favor sectors of technology (consumer tech, prop tech, fintech, etc.)
Rehoming the VC Orphans / Zombies: Buyout and possible rollup of subscale VC-backed startups that are long-in-the-tooth with tired cap tables and founders.
Investco is led by Ted Fike. Prior to founding Lido Partners and Investco Mr. Fike was a Senior Managing Director at The Gores Group where he led the venture and growth investment team.
Prior to joining The Gores Group, Mr. Fike was a Partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund leading growth technology investments in the consumer internet, enterprise software, agtech, logistics, and eCommerce sectors. While at SoftBank, Mr. Fike helped to lead investments in Doordash, Rappi, GetYourGuide, Globality, Upside Foods, and Plenty among others.
Prior to SoftBank, Mr. Fike led M&A and strategy initiatives at Airbnb which acquired his previous fintech company, Tilt.
Before Tilt, Mr. Fike was a founding Principal of CapitalG, Google’s growth equity investment arm. While at CapitalG, Mr. Fike helped lead investments in Crowdstrike, Cloudflare, FanDuel, Lending Club, and SurveyMonkey among others. Earlier at Google, Mr. Fike was responsible for acquisitions and investments as part of the corporate development team as well as global client relationships within Google’s sales organization.
Prior to joining Google, Mr. Fike worked in strategy and operations at WebMD, credit investing at Bain Capital, and strategy consulting at The Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. Fike graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.
SELECTED PAST INVESTMENT PARTNERS
CURRENT OPERATING COMPANIES
COASTAL HELICOPTERS
Coastal Helicopters is one of the largest government subcontracting firefighting and utility rotorcraft companies in the United States. As fully self sustained pods, Coastal has active contracts with Calfire, Forestry, DOI, Oregon, Socal Edison and many others. Valued at over $50 Million Investco’s principals have built Coastal from scratch and it has been profitable for 5 years plus.
GENTV HAS ENTERED INTO A 5 PICTURE DEAL WITH PEACOCK NBC.
OUR PRINCIPALS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN almost all aspects of capital transactions from startup and building to overseeing the entire sale or take public process for in excess of $100 Billon of total company value and some of the most recognized names
Investco’s principals have been involved in helping film become an actual asset class focusing on deploying large capital in what is considered an esoteric asset class, uncorrelated to market returns with significant tax advantages. Having been involved in over 250 feature films and 30 television shows, its principals are considered to be some of the most prolific business minds to have been involved in the entertainment business. With over $25 Billion Of Box Office, 60 academy award nominations and 9 wins.
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