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Argus Capital

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.50
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Shopping
Summary

Argus Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SquareTrade, BarterTrust.com, CentrPort We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as CRM, Stock Exchanges.

The high activity for fund was in 2000. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Argus Capital performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Argus Capital, startups are often financed by Draper Richards, Thomas Layton, Sutter Hill Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Richards, Thomas Layton, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Weston Presidio Capital, Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, Thomas Layton.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pivia Software Inc

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$11M19 Sep 2001 Cupertino, California, United States

Brand Marketing
CRM
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Software
$27M22 Jan 2001 Connecticut, United States

Vendio

E-Commerce
Internet
SaaS
Software
$27M23 Jun 2000 California, United States

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Hardware
Shopping
$9M10 Apr 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

BarterTrust.com

B2B
Banking
E-Commerce
Finance
Financial Services
Internet
Stock Exchanges
$55M21 Mar 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

SquareTrade

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Hardware
Shopping
$300K01 Jan 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Vendio

E-Commerce
Internet
SaaS
Software
$9M10 Aug 1999 California, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 0.50
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pivia Software Inc

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Software
$11M19 Sep 2001 Cupertino, California, United States

Brand Marketing
CRM
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Software
$27M22 Jan 2001 Connecticut, United States

Vendio

E-Commerce
Internet
SaaS
Software
$27M23 Jun 2000 California, United States

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Hardware
Shopping
$9M10 Apr 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

BarterTrust.com

B2B
Banking
E-Commerce
Finance
Financial Services
Internet
Stock Exchanges
$55M21 Mar 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

SquareTrade

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Hardware
Shopping
$300K01 Jan 2000 San Francisco, California, United States

Vendio

E-Commerce
Internet
SaaS
Software
$9M10 Aug 1999 California, United States
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