Ardesta

Total investments

8

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.36

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyAnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingDeveloper ToolsProduct DesignSemiconductorWirelessApplication Performance ManagementSensor

Summary

Ardesta appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Ann Arbor.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Ardesta, startups are often financed by Partech, 3i Group, Topspin Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Partech, 3i Group, Topspin Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scale Venture Partners, Horizon Ventures, Technology Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Opposing the other organizations, this Ardesta works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sensaphone, Sensicore, HandyLab Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Sensor, Health Diagnostics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.36
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (4)
  • Product Design (3)
  • Semiconductor (3)
  • Analytics (2)
  • Application Performance Management (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
68M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.38

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sensicore 29 Aug 2005 Analytics, Developer Tools, Application Performance Management Late Stage Venture 12M United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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