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Arafura Ventures

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.73
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • Developer Tools
  • SaaS
Summary

Arafura Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Arafura Ventures, startups are often financed by Founder Collective, Tandem Capital, Baseline Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Toba Capital, New Enterprise Associates, TiE LaunchPad. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toba Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Panos Papadopoulos.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Transifex, Qvivr, PacketZoom. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Android, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. When the investment is from Arafura Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Arafura Ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pattern Group LLC.

Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Product Design
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
01 Nov 2018 New York, New York, United States

PacketZoom

Android
Apps
Developer Tools
iOS
Mobile
Software
$5M21 Nov 2017 California, United States

Transifex

Crowdsourcing
Developer Tools
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$4M07 Jul 2015 California, United States

Transifex

Crowdsourcing
Developer Tools
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M24 Jun 2014 California, United States

Cloudstaff

Accounting
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Real Estate
$500K21 Nov 2013 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Gridium

Analytics
Big Data
Database
Energy
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$750K12 Mar 2013 California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.73
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pattern Group LLC.

Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Product Design
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
01 Nov 2018 New York, New York, United States

PacketZoom

Android
Apps
Developer Tools
iOS
Mobile
Software
$5M21 Nov 2017 California, United States

Transifex

Crowdsourcing
Developer Tools
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$4M07 Jul 2015 California, United States

Transifex

Crowdsourcing
Developer Tools
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$2M24 Jun 2014 California, United States

Cloudstaff

Accounting
Information Technology
Outsourcing
Real Estate
$500K21 Nov 2013 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Gridium

Analytics
Big Data
Database
Energy
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$750K12 Mar 2013 California, United States
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