Ares Capital Corporation
20
26M
16
0.77
4
0.20
8
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Ares Capital Corporation is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The main department of described VC is located in the Los Angeles. The company was established in North America in United States.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sonian, Brandtone, Faction Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Advertising. The fund has exact preference 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.
The overall number of key employees were 19.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ares Capital Corporation, startups are often financed by Chrysalis Ventures, Summerhill Venture Partners, Prism Venture Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Carlyle Group, Texas Instruments, Chrysalis Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by River Cities Capital Funds, Meritage Funds, Charterhouse Strategic Partners.
Comparing to the other companies, this Ares Capital Corporation performs on 7 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 20
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 0.77
- Follow on index
- 0.20
- Investments by industry
- Software (8)
- Information Technology (5)
- Apps (3)
- SaaS (3)
- Sports (3) Show 37 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (18)
- Germany (1)
- Ireland (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 18
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 65M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.55
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.02
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowlark Media | 01 Apr 2021 | Content, Sports, Media and Entertainment | Early Stage Venture | 12M | United States, New York, New York |
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