Ariadne Capital Limited

Total investments

13

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
PublishingE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologyMobileDigital MarketingHardwareService Industry

Summary

Ariadne Capital Limited appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000.

This Ariadne Capital Limited works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Ariadne Capital Limited, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Shakil Khan, Rupert Ashe. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tech Coast Angels, Launchpad LA, 37 Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Smedvig Capital, Digital Currency Group, Venturra Capital.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Taggstar, Made TV, Medikidz, Inc. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Digital Marketing.

The current fund was established by Julie Meyer. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Publishing (4)
  • Retail (4)
  • Software (4)
  • Mobile (3)
  • Information Technology (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • United States (6)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Luno 19 Aug 2014 Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency Seed 740K England, London, United Kingdom
Money Dashboard 26 Jan 2015 Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 3M Scotland, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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