Arena Ventures

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

41

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

31

Rounds per year

5.12

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
Application SoftwareInternetMobileOnline PortalsPaymentsFitnessHealth CareAppsLifestyleHome Services

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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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)
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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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Quantitative data

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
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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