Ardian

Summary

Ardian is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris. The venture was found in Europe in France.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Ardian, startups are often financed by Sofinnova Partners, Societe Generale, Qualcomm Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sofinnova Partners, Auriga Partners, Omnes Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Auriga Partners, Sofinnova Partners, Omnes Capital.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Streamezzo, HR Path, Clever Age The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 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 - France. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Manufacturing.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Ardian is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013. Opposing the other organizations, this Ardian works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Dominique Senequier. Besides them, we counted 95 critical employees of this fund in our database.