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Ariadne Capital Limited

Founders Julie Meyer

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Publishing
  • Retail
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
Summary

Ariadne Capital Limited appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000.

This Ariadne Capital Limited works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Ariadne Capital Limited, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Shakil Khan, Rupert Ashe. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Launchpad LA, 37 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Smedvig Capital, Digital Currency Group, Venturra Capital.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Taggstar, Made TV, Medikidz, Inc. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Digital Marketing.

The current fund was established by Julie Meyer. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bloomy Days

Delivery
Flowers
Retail
Service Industry
27 Mar 2015 Berlin

Money Dashboard

Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
Service Industry
$3M26 Jan 2015 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Luno

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
Virtual Currency
$740K19 Aug 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Jumo Health

Education
Health Care
Medical
Publishing
$4M11 May 2014 New York, United States

GroundMetrics

Hardware
Sensor
$2M23 Apr 2014 San Diego, California, United States

Quill

Advertising
Content
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Management Information Systems
Marketplace
Product Search
Publishing
Retail
Social Media
Software
Software Engineering
$6M10 Mar 2014 England

TextPower

Information Technology
Mobile
Telecommunications
$525K17 Oct 2013 California, United States

Quill

Advertising
Content
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Management Information Systems
Marketplace
Product Search
Publishing
Retail
Social Media
Software
Software Engineering
$1M27 May 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

Clickslide

Apps
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Hardware
Software
07 Jan 2013 New York, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bloomy Days

Delivery
Flowers
Retail
Service Industry
27 Mar 2015 Berlin

Money Dashboard

Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
Service Industry
$3M26 Jan 2015 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Luno

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
Virtual Currency
$740K19 Aug 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Jumo Health

Education
Health Care
Medical
Publishing
$4M11 May 2014 New York, United States

GroundMetrics

Hardware
Sensor
$2M23 Apr 2014 San Diego, California, United States

Quill

Advertising
Content
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Management Information Systems
Marketplace
Product Search
Publishing
Retail
Social Media
Software
Software Engineering
$6M10 Mar 2014 England

TextPower

Information Technology
Mobile
Telecommunications
$525K17 Oct 2013 California, United States

Quill

Advertising
Content
Digital Marketing
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Internet
Management Information Systems
Marketplace
Product Search
Publishing
Retail
Social Media
Software
Software Engineering
$1M27 May 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

Clickslide

Apps
Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Hardware
Software
07 Jan 2013 New York, United States
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