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Ares Management

Founders Bennett Rosenthal David Kaplan

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Total investments 80
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$204M
Portfolio companies 72
Rounds per year 2.96
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 16
Key employees 54
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
Summary

Ares Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1997. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Ares Management performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ares Management, startups are often financed by IDG Capital, Bojiang Capital, The Carlyle Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tencent Holdings, SunAmerica Ventures, East River Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by J & W Seligman, Guggenheim Securities, East River Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fadada.com, Infovista, Creative Planet. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Enterprise Software.

This organization was formed by Bennett Rosenthal, David Kaplan. We also calculated 54 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Swell Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$120M22 Nov 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

Wunder Capital

Energy
Finance
Impact Investing
Solar
$1B16 Jul 2020 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Swell Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$12M27 Nov 2019 Santa Monica, California, United States

Tikin Media

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Social Media
28 Oct 2019 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Food and Beverage
Internet
$15M15 Jul 2019 China, Shanghai

Fadada.com

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$60M06 Mar 2019 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

LightPoint Financial Technology

FinTech
SaaS
26 Sep 2018 New York, United States

Chowsing Live

Consumer
$26M30 Jul 2018 Shanghai

Crazy Dog

E-Commerce
Internet
Marketing
Pet
Sales
$100M01 Mar 2018 Jiangsu
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Nuula raises $120M to build out a financial services ‘super app’ aimed at SMBs

– Canadian startup Nuula raised $120m in funding.
– The round was led by Edison Partners and Credit Group of Ares Management.
– The company plans to launch its app and first product, a line of credit for its users.
– Nuula is aiming to build a super app to provide a range of financial services to small and medium businesses.

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Total investments 80
Average round size 204M
Rounds per year 2.96
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Swell Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$120M22 Nov 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

Wunder Capital

Energy
Finance
Impact Investing
Solar
$1B16 Jul 2020 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Swell Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$12M27 Nov 2019 Santa Monica, California, United States

Tikin Media

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Marketing
Social Media
28 Oct 2019 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Food and Beverage
Internet
$15M15 Jul 2019 China, Shanghai

Fadada.com

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$60M06 Mar 2019 Futian District, Guangdong Province, China

LightPoint Financial Technology

FinTech
SaaS
26 Sep 2018 New York, United States

Chowsing Live

Consumer
$26M30 Jul 2018 Shanghai

Crazy Dog

E-Commerce
Internet
Marketing
Pet
Sales
$100M01 Mar 2018 Jiangsu
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