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Ardian

Founders Dominique Senequier

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Total investments 126
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$71M
Portfolio companies 109
Rounds per year 4.50
Lead investments 46
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 33
Key employees 96
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Consulting
  • Manufacturing
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neotys

Apps
Internet
Software
Software Development Applications
Test and Measurement
$3M22 Sep 2014 Ile-de-France

GLADD

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
$13M30 Jan 2010 Chiyoda

YETI Group

Advertising
Information Services
Mobile
Search Engine
$12M19 Nov 2008 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

ulike

Art
Content
Music
Social Media
09 Feb 2008 Ile-de-France

TxCell

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$12M01 Feb 2008 France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Streamezzo

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Mobile
Telecommunications
$22M17 Dec 2007 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Sparus Software

Mobile Devices
Security
Software
Technical Support
$3M16 Apr 2007 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$30M25 Oct 2006 France, Ile-de-France

Oxxius

Electrical Distribution
Electronics
Manufacturing
$10M11 Sep 2006 France, Brittany, France
News
Translated Receives $25M Investment From Ardian

– Translated, an Italy and US-based company that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to support professional translators, announces that the world-leading private investment house Ardian has invested $25 million, leading a $30 million investment round.
– Translated is an end-to-end translation platform that combines its renowned proprietary adaptive neural machine translation software ModernMT with its network of 200 000 engaged linguists.
– Over the last several years, the company has experienced a consistent 30 percent organic growth rate year-on-year.
– Thanks to this human-machine symbiosis, Translated offerings have been constantly improving. Today Translated can serve global tech platforms including Airbnb, Google and Uber as well as small and medium-sized businesses.

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Total investments 126
Average round size 71M
Rounds per year 4.50
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 46
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 33
Group Appearance index 0.34

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Neotys

Apps
Internet
Software
Software Development Applications
Test and Measurement
$3M22 Sep 2014 Ile-de-France

GLADD

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Retail
$13M30 Jan 2010 Chiyoda

YETI Group

Advertising
Information Services
Mobile
Search Engine
$12M19 Nov 2008 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

ulike

Art
Content
Music
Social Media
09 Feb 2008 Ile-de-France

TxCell

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$12M01 Feb 2008 France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Streamezzo

Broadcasting
Digital Media
Mobile
Telecommunications
$22M17 Dec 2007 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Sparus Software

Mobile Devices
Security
Software
Technical Support
$3M16 Apr 2007 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$30M25 Oct 2006 France, Ile-de-France

Oxxius

Electrical Distribution
Electronics
Manufacturing
$10M11 Sep 2006 France, Brittany, France
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