ARM

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Total investments

18

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

2

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingContentHardware

Summary

In 1994 was created ARM, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Lagos. The company was established in Africa in Nigeria.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Content, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ambow Education, Centrillion Technologies, Picsel Technologies.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the ARM, startups are often financed by SAIC Venture Capital, JAFCO Asia, Cordova Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Dublin Business Innovation Centre, Deutsche Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mayfield Fund, Deutsche Bank, Capital-E.

The important activity for fund was in 2005. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This ARM works on 27 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from ARM is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
2
Exits
9
Rounds per year
0.62
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • Manufacturing (3)
  • Financial Services (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • China (1)
  • Ireland (2)
  • Austria (1)
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Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
29M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.75

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ambow Education 01 Apr 2006 Career Planning, EdTech, Education, Customer Service Early Stage Venture 10M Beijing, Dongcheng District, China
Movidius 17 Oct 2008 Software, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Product Design, Semiconductor Early Stage Venture 14M United States, California

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