Arena Ventures
Active
New York, United States
41
5M
31
5.12
4
0.22
6
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Arena Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main office of represented VC is situated in the West Hollywood. The venture was found in North America in United States.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clover Health, Andela, Atrium LTS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Lifestyle, Health Care. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Arena Ventures, startups are often financed by Switch Ventures, Y Combinator, Structure Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Switch Ventures, Brady Brim-DeForest, Wavemaker Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spark Capital, GV, Switch Ventures.
The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. This Arena Ventures works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Arena Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars.
The current fund was established by Jeff Lo, Paige Craig. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 41
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 6
- Rounds per year
- 5.12
- Follow on index
- 0.22
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (8)
- Apps (6)
- Internet (6)
- Application Software (6)
- Payments (6) Show 80 more
- Investments by region
- United States (38)
- China (1)
- Australia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 268M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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HONK | 26 Mar 2015 | Automotive, Apps, Mobile Apps | Early Stage Venture | 12M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
Purple Squirrel | 21 Mar 2017 | Internet, Human Resources, Recruiting, Marketplace, Employment | Seed | 2M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
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