Ark Angels Activator Fund

Status

Active

Location

Hasselt, Belgium

Total investments

20

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

2

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageHealth CareSaaSRestaurantsPaaSInternet of ThingsDigital Media

Summary

Ark Angels Activator Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The company was established in Europe in Belgium. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Hasselt.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Belgium. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Medical Device. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Accelleran, Virteo NV, PieSync.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Ark Angels Activator Fund works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ark Angels Activator Fund, startups are often financed by Thuja Capital, SoFi, Sherpa Invest. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BAN Vlaanderen, PMV, Sherpa Invest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Theodorus III, Sherpa Invest, PMV.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
2.00
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Digital Media (4)
  • Internet (4)
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Investments by region
  • Belgium (20)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Apicbase 29 Jun 2017 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage, SaaS, Restaurants, PaaS, Digital Media Seed 826K Belgium, Antwerp
waylay 13 Jun 2022 Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things Early Stage Venture East Flanders, Ghent, Belgium
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