Aera VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Singapore, Singapore

Total investments

35

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

5.00

Follow on index

0.26

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFood and BeverageFood ProcessingHealth CareAerospaceManufacturingMedicalPharmaceuticalSpace Travel

Summary

In 2015 was created Aera VC, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Derek Handley, Keenan Kwok, Nick Winstone.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Andela, Solugen, For Days. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Aera VC, startups are often financed by CRE Venture Capital, Spark Capital, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, TLcom Capital Partners, Spark Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Refactor Capital, Founders Fund, Y Combinator.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techAerospaceHealthcare
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
Up to 500K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
5.00
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (7)
  • Food and Beverage (5)
  • Health Care (4)
  • Manufacturing (3)
  • Food Processing (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • Australia (3)
  • Canada (2)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • New Zealand (2)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
81M
Group Appearance index
0.60
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Allium Engineering 13 Mar 2024 Seed 3M United States, Massachusetts, Peabody
Robigo 15 Feb 2023 Biotechnology Seed 6M

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