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Ares Capital Corporation

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.77
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 8
Key employees 19
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Apps
  • SaaS
  • Sports
Summary

Ares Capital Corporation is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sonian, Brandtone, Faction Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Advertising. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The overall number of key employees were 19.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ares Capital Corporation, startups are often financed by Chrysalis Ventures, Summerhill Venture Partners, Prism Venture Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Carlyle Group, Texas Instruments, Chrysalis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by River Cities Capital Funds, Meritage Funds, Charterhouse Strategic Partners.

Comparing to the other companies, this Ares Capital Corporation performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meadowlark Media

Content
Media and Entertainment
Sports
$12M01 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

Faction

IaaS
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$6M15 Dec 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

Speakeasy

Apps
Information Technology
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$8M01 Jan 2001 Seattle, Washington, United States

Speakeasy

Apps
Information Technology
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$11M01 May 2000 Seattle, Washington, United States
News
Faraday Future Announces it has Raised $100 Million in Debt Financing to Help Advance the Countdown to FF 91 Delivery, Following the Signing of the Merger Agreement with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp (PSAC)

– Faraday Future announced that it has raised approximately US$100m in debt financing commitments led by Ares.
– The new funding allows FF to build upon the momentum of a well-developed vehicle program and begin production preparation at FF’s manufacturing facility in Hanford, California and advance the countdown of the delivery of the FF 91, which is planned for approximately 12 months after the close of its previously announced merger with Property Solutions Acquisition Corp (“PSAC”).

Professional Fighters League Wins $65M Funding

– The Professional Fighters League (PFL) from New York has announced the completion of a $65m financing round.
– The round was led by Ares Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, and Knighthead Capital.
– The PFL is the first and only to present MMA in the sport-season format, where individual fighters control their own destiny, competing each year in a Regular Season, Playoffs, and Championship.
– PFL is the fastest growing sports league and the #2 MMA company worldwide.

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Total investments 20
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 0.77
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meadowlark Media

Content
Media and Entertainment
Sports
$12M01 Apr 2021 New York, New York, United States

Faction

IaaS
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$6M15 Dec 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

Speakeasy

Apps
Information Technology
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$8M01 Jan 2001 Seattle, Washington, United States

Speakeasy

Apps
Information Technology
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$11M01 May 2000 Seattle, Washington, United States
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