ARC Financial

Total investments

14

Average round size

35M

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

0.40

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.29

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
ManufacturingCleanTechEnergyRenewable EnergyNatural ResourcesSolarClean EnergyOil and GasFuelRecycling

Summary

ARC Financial is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1989. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Calgary. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2011.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the ARC Financial, startups are often financed by Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Innovation Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trestle Ventures, Tandem Expansion, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tandem Expansion, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Business Development Bank of Canada.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 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 - Canada. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Clean Energy, Solar. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BluEarth Renewables, Nexterra. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The fund was created by Mac Van Wielingen.

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Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
4
Rounds per year
0.40
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Energy (10)
  • Renewable Energy (7)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Solar (5)
  • Fuel (4)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (12)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2022

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Westgen Technologies 13 Jun 2022 Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Early Stage Venture 15M Alberta, Calgary, Canada

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